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Focus on Ingredients: Marula Oil
Mar 30, 2022
An old story says that one of the reasons why elephants seek out the marula tree is that the ripe fruit makes them drunk. Elephants have been observed behaving erratically or playfully around Marula trees and the story developed into elephants getting drunk from eating the fermented fruit. It would take thousands of fermented fruit to inebriate one elephant and they are observed to like...
Focus on Ingredients: Sunflowers Part Two
Mar 20, 2022
As we talked about in the last blog, people have had a relationship with sunflowers for thousands of years. In addition to the seeds being a tasty treat, sunflower oil has so many benefits for the body and for the skin. There are a few methods for extracting the sunflower oil from the seeds, by pressing and through chemical extraction. The sunflower oil we use...
Focus on Ingredients: Ginkgo Biloba
Mar 01, 2022
A newer addition to our ingredients repertoire happens to be one of the oldest living plants - the Ginkgo Biloba tree. Because it existed in prehistoric times, the tree is considered to be a living fossil. There is record of the tree being used and cultivated early in human history and throughout time it has been a commonly planted tree. Trees have been found that...
The Romance of Loving yourself
Feb 14, 2022
This has been a rough few years for so many of us, and it can be helpful to give yourself a loving break. Valentine's Day can cause mixed reactions. However Valentine's Day lands for you, this time of year can serve to remind us that we all deserve some care, some compassion and love. Here is an incomplete list of some ideas I use to...
