INGREDIENTS
It's no secret I am in love with traditional, old school herbs that have been used by alchemists, physicians and witch doctors alike for thousands of years. Here's one of my glorious favourites:
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In Australia, the certified Demeter biodynamic Olives for the oil we are using for our sun-infused extracts are harvested between April and June, cold-pressed right there on the Yalla-Y-Poora estate down in the Euro-esque South of Australia.
After an eternity of drought, this year's wild nettle harvest looks heavenly. These days I pick them with gloves (If I can find them), or just pull my jumper sleeves over my hands, and shade-dry them hanging up in old potato sacks or vintage linen cushion covers before extracting them into Demeter biodynamic olive oil with only the warmth of Sunlight over 4-6 months.
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According to the Weed Foragers Handbook, the humble Dandelion is one the most nutritious weed known to humankind. Stem, leaf, flower, and roots, while pretty bitter tasting, are completely edible.
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Fragrant with night flowering yin energy, traditionally used for heat-regulating, cooling, moisturising and renewing, fights free radicals like a warrior, balances sebum, improves blood flow, and contains 'canangaterpene I', a terpenoid that "exhibits potent antimelanogenesis (melanoma inhibiting) activity"
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