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Blend Your Own Pillow Mist full of natural scent to aid sweet dreams

Get a calming and refreshing nights sleep using your own blend of herbs and essential oils

Create the right sleep vibes with a pillow mist A pillow mist brings a calming freshness to your bedroom enabling you to still the day’s worries and settle into the night’s calm. What makes a good pillow mist? Naturally you’ll want your mist to be light and airy, it’s got to do its work in…

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Apple Mask – a simple and easy treat for dry skin

Apple face mask is great for dry skin and really easy to make.

Apples to look after dry skin When your skin feels dry you need look no further than a simple apple for help. Apples can help give your skin a boost when used in a nurturing face mask. It’s good to use ingredients in your mask that grow in your climate. Fruit is often a good…

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Apple of the earth – gentle chamomile is tougher than it seems

Chamomile, apple of the earth and sun on the ground Chamomile: Matricaria recutita, also known as German chamomile or simply scented mayweed. Do you know any other names for it? A sacred herb Chamomile is one of the nine sacred herbs from Anglo-Saxon times. It was also revered above all other herbs by the Egyptians who dedicated…

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Blend It Yourself simple Marshmallow hand cream

Marshmallow hand cream ingredients

Marshmallow in skincare Marshmallow is a wonderful ingredient to use in skincare, such as this Marshmallow Hand Cream recipe. You can read more about its skin-loving properties here. It’s a star ingredient in Field Fresh Skincare’s award-winning Marshmallow Dream Cream. This has a double dose of marshmallow: it starts with a marshmallow infusion which is…

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Think Marshmallow and picture soft, plump and sweet … just how your skin can be when you use marshmallow in skincare

Marshmallow sweets

Marshmallow for skincare Let’s get the picture straight right away. We don’t suggest getting a packet of fluffy sweets and pounding them into your skincare. The marshmallow we talk about is the beautiful, tall hedgerow and countryside plant. Characteristically pink, trumpety blooms. Large, rounded (slightly hairy leaves). A tall straight stem, full of the mucilage…

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Limeflower footbath – a treat for feet in the heat

Limeflower foot bath

A footbath is a lovely way to still life for ten minutes. Your feet literally take a pounding every day, so take time to rest and restore them. Healthy, happy feet help you take life in your stride. Make your footbath even more calming with lime flower. Calming lime flower Limeflower is one of the…

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Limeflower – a brief spell of calm at the peak of summer

Lime flower and bract

Limeflower – Tilia Cordata (small-leaved lime), otherwise known as the Linden tree. The lime tree (Tilia cordata) grows all over Europe. Relatively inconspicuous most of the year, despite their size, limes come into their own in July.  When their flowers open against delicate bracts, sweet fragrance fills the air and bees buzz in among their branches. The…

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Dry skin? or dehydrated? – know how to tell, and how to treat both.

Dry and dehydrated skin, know how to tell them apart and how to treat them

Know whether your skin is dry or dehydrated to know the ingredients you need in your moisturiser Dry skin and dehydrated skin are different conditions, and need a different approach to remedy. Dry skin is an indication that your skin does not have enough oil. Dehydrated skin is lacking water. To know what moisturiser, or…

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Green Parent Winner: Award for Kiss It Better Cream

Winner Kiss It Better Cream

Another Award for Field Fresh Skincare Kiss It Better Cream receives Bronze Award in the Green Parent Natural Beauty Awards.  The Green Parent Magazine blog announced winners on 13th July. All winners feature in the Natural Beauty Bible, a separate publication distributed alongside the August edition of Green Parent Magazine (on shelves now). Healing balm Kiss…

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Toilet vinegar – what is it? Let’s investigate …

Array of herbal infusions

In a traditional skincare recipe a term like ‘toilet vinegar’ can sometimes stop us in our tracks. With a little investigating we can learn a lot to bring recipes into modern use. When there weren’t preparations ready to buy off-the-shelf we were resourceful in using the ingredients we had to hand – in kitchen cupboards…

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