Body Care
We offer handmade natural body care and holistic dental health products with an emphasis on no synthetic additives, such as handmade soaps, deodorant, lotions and balms using traditional fats and essential oils.
The fresh leaves of Lemon Verbena offer an amazing fragrance – slightly sweet, as if you are smelling lemon-flavored candy. The scent is due to the high concentration of Citral, a citrus-lemon oil that is also found in Lemongrass, Lemon Balm, and even Lemons. This hydrosol captures that wonderful fragrance!
Arnica oil is a natural anti-inflammatory with anti-oxidant and anti-microbial properties.
Gathering Thyme makes their therapeutic herbal oils in-house from the finest organic herbs, infused in organic sunflower and/or olive oil. These oils are made frequently in small batches by the Gathering Thyme staff of clinical herbalists.
Ingredients: organic arnica montana flower extracted in organic sunflower oil 1:07
Note:
When applied to the skin: Arnica is possibly safe when applied to unbroken skin, short-term. However, it is likely unsafe to apply arnica to broken skin because it can be absorbed into the body. Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Don't take arnica by mouth or apply it to the skin if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
*Information provided is for the traditional use of this product and any statements made have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illness. All herbs should be used under the advice of an herbalist or other healthcare provider. When using any product, discontinue use if an adverse reaction occurs.
San Francisco Botanical Medicine Clinic is a San Francisco based organization devoted to providing affordable and effective health care through the modality of western herbal medicine as well as being an information resource for people interested in the use of botanical agents as medicine.
A top notch quality salve made of the finest wild plant material. It can be used to help heal cuts, burns, scrapes and other skin problems. A fantastic general skin moitsurizer and conditioner.
Ingredients: Organic leaf of self heal and flower of echinacea, wildcrafted leaf of yerba mansa, leaf of yerba del cancer, leaf and flower of desert lavender, olive oil and beeswax.
Herbal extracts are metabolically active. Please use responsibly and consult an herbalist if necessary.
The product description and their benefits were given by an Herbalist SFBMC specialist.