INGREDIENTS
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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Read my blog if you'd like to hear why botanical extracts, seed oils and fruit oils are the true heroes in sun protection, why we go non-nano over nano, and what that nasty little 'inert substance' actually is they cover 'uncoated' Zinc with.
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In Spring, while the sap is rising, the resin is harvested from the side of the tree that faces the setting sun. During the Autumn season, when the life forces draw back into the roots, the resin is taken from the sunrise side of the trees. This ancient biodynamic practice simply follows the cycle of Nature and allows the trees to rest and recover between harvesting seasons.
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