☞ St. John's wort macerates are made from plants freshly picked the same day from our medicinal plant gardens, when they are at their full potential. We use a very low heat method, thus preserving all the fragile properties of the oils but hot enough to extract the active ingredients to their maximum. We never dry our plants before, thus keeping the maximum of active ingredients.
☞ The hydrosol is distilled right here on the farm. We harvest the plants when they are at their peak, bursting with essential oils. We use a small distiller and do not separate the essential oils from the hydrosol, which gives us a fortified hydrosol, packed with active ingredients.
☞ Sunflower oil and beeswax come from small ecological farms in the region that cultivate on a small scale and create local employment, offering raw ingredients that are healthy for the environment and for us.
☞ Our shea butter is certified organic and fair trade from Ghana, Africa. You are supporting women and families who work hard to get paid adequately to continue to offer high quality ingredients, from sustainable agriculture and ancestral practices, thus generating income to support their communities.
☞ Behind every pot of lotion there is a lot of sunshine, clean and fresh air, irrigation from the sky or by human intervention as well as a passionate team of thunder who put a lot of energy from the first seed in the ground to the month of February, to the thousands of small seedlings transplanted in the greenhouse all spring, to the great harvests and the arduous weeding under the radiant sun of the summer months, until the gardens close for the cold autumn months to prepare them to spring up again next spring, reminding us that everything has a cycle.
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