These homemade bulk blends make lovely holiday gifts. And they are also appropriate for garden or herb club refreshments, for they are so easy to prepare for a large crowd. For gift giving, package instant beverage mixes in holiday tins or plastic-lined decorative cloth sacks tied closed with a cinnamon stick-adorned ribbon. Include instructions for [...]
A spicy sachet mixture: The sweet flag root has a pleasant long lasting violet scent, while the lavender and rose petals impart delicate undertones to this sachet mixture. The cinnamon, cloves and mace spices balance this mixture’s scent and are noted to deter crawling insects from entering your home. And therefore, the resulting mixture can [...]
Herbal Moth Bags—Moths dislike any pungent herbal fragrance. Herbs such as tansy and southerwood work very effectively, but lavender is perhaps the most irritating to them, and the most pleasing to us. Rather than suffer through clothes infused with the mothball fragrance to deter these pesky moths, you may wish to include these sachets in [...]
Lemongrass, Coriander and Clove Bath—If you are suffering from stiff limbs after excessive exercise, this bath will help stimulate the circulation and relieve suffering in joints and muscles. (For a relaxing, and sleep inducing bath, see “Soothing, Moisturizing and Stress Relieving Bath Oil” under the Herbal Bath Preparations Categories of this Blog.)
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