We love our heirloom roses. Not only are they fragrant and beautiful, rose petals from our heirloom roses also have beneficial properties that we are starting to harness in our botanical soaps and skin balms.
Our soaps and skin balms are hand-made with simple, unadulterated ingredients .. like olive oil and natural beeswax. And our packaging is kept as simple as possible too.
To harness the benefits of our heirloom roses, we solar-infuse the oils we use in our products with pesticide-free rose petals grown in our gardens and field.
Historically, rose petals have been renowned for their naturally soothing and healing properties. Over the centuries roses have been used in many therapeutic, cleansing and healing treatments. In fact, rose petals were strewn on medieval floors to cleanse and purify the air!
Now we know that roses have anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, making roses very useful as a skin-care agent. So we use our pesticide free rose petals for their gently moisturising and healing benefits in our skin balms and soaps.
We also love that roses are good for the mind too. Rose fragrance has more recently been shown to have anti-depressant and memory improvement benefits. We intuitively know this by bringing a bunch of roses close to our face to sniff and breathe in their fragrance. And how disappointed we are when there is no fragrance in some of the modern roses on offer!
Of course, if we knew that most florist bought roses were dipped in pesticides and other chemicals, we might think twice about sniffing them! Our heirloom roses are free of pesticides because we allow beneficial insects like this tiny spider to do the work naturally for us.
So our soaps and balms don't have nasty unintended additives like pesticides. Which makes our roses good for the body as well as the mind.
We also like to think our roses are good for the soul, too!
So as we wait for winter to do it's work of allowing our roses to rest ..
we're looking forward to when our roses start blooming again, so we can harness even more of their goodness for our botanical soaps and balms!
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