Hand cream of Dreams What does it take to make the perfect hand cream? That’s the question you ask when starting to formulate a new product. Of course, for everyone the answer may be different, but when I started to think about what a perfect hand cream should be like, the ideas started rolling. Learn…
Category: Natural skincare
What is the difference between a balm and a cream and how should you use them?
Balms and Creams Skincare products come in many forms from purely water based like a simple plant infusion to the waxy balms that need just a smear in application. Balms and creams sit at different points along this spectrum. And the defining aspect of the spectrum: water. Water content While it’s true that a whole…
Your guide to gifting blend-it-yourself skincare: Get just the right gift for the natural skincare lover in your life
The gift of natural skincare. Natural skincare is the on-trend gift for Christmas 2018. Read on to find out why and how to select the perfect gift. The ‘it’ gift. On our struggling high streets, one category stands out as a growing, buoyant market that excites its customers and sustains innovation and developing product ranges:…
Blackberry Bath Splash for brightening your skin
Blackberry leaves for brightening the skin The blackberry plant scrambles through hedgerows putting on enormous growth each season, seemingly stretching out more and more each day. All this growth is fuelled by the powerhouse of energy contained in the blackberry leaves. Use these leaves in creating your own skincare and see that plant power taking…
Blackberry and Honeysuckle Lotion
Blackberry and Honeysuckle Lotion for oily skin When your skin is oily it needs bringing back into balance. This blackberry and honeysuckle lotion makes use of dry oils and a range of emollient and humectant ingredients to bring your skin into balance. You are producing oils to lubricate your skin, but if it seems over-oily,…
Caring for our Outer Edge
An article published in Permaculture Magazine, Autumn 2017 in which Laura Pardoe, Founder of Field Fresh Skincare, explains how we can benefit from a permaculture approach to skincare. Included in the article are recipes for handmade skincare. Skin is our edge, and edge is where the action is, when thinking permaculturally. Our skin is how…
Confident skincare for your outer edge
TEMPERATE SKINCARE: Do your values show in your selfies? Permaculture teaches us to think in systems: to observe the natural flows that occur and to ensure any interventions we make enhance the symbiosis. Recognising the constant regeneration and renewal of our own skin as an intricate, well-functioning natural system offers us a good perspective on…
Houseleeks: our temperate alternative to aloe vera
Houseleeks: our temperate alternative to aloe vera in skincare A perennial feature of the garden I grew up in was the spiky little plants that ran in shallow beds along the edge of the terrace. While I’d happily pluck flowerheads from elsewhere and shred petals into jam jars to make perfumes and potions, the sharp…
Houseleek Herbal Hand Sanitiser
A herbal way to satisfy our modern desire for hand sanitising sprays, great to keep in the kit bag when out-and-about. Blitz your houseleek leaves and sieve to extract the juice. Put this in a small pan and slowly add 10ml herbal infused oil, whisking thoroughly together. As it cools, add 5ml thyme tincture and…