Half year review
I started this blog a little over half a year ago, not long before the shortest day at the Winter Solstice (Yule). The longest day at the Summer Solstice (Litha) is only a few days away. This could be a good time to reflect before the days start to shorten.
I set out to produce seasonal hand cremes for each of the eight festivals. From Yule to Litha, I’ve used the same base formula (#14) and added different blends of oils for fragrance:
The remaining three festivals are harvest festivals. My approach to these is to include seasonal products in the base formula, so there is a unique combination of base formula and oils for each one. Lughnasadh (or Lammas) will celebrate the grain harvest.
New formula
It’s a while since I created a new formula. In the last couple of weeks I worked up the recipe for #22 Rescue Hand Creme.
A number of things came together in this recipe. I wanted to produce something that combines a physical moisturiser to address the damage caused to hands by sanitizers and latex gloves, with a blend of essential oils that uses our sense of smell to soothe emotional injuries. The phrase “emotional rescue” started in the back of my mind until the image of Mick Jagger as Knight in Shining Armour took over:
So Rescue Creme was designed as a “hug in a pot”. It draws on the soothing qualities of Ylang Ylang, both physical and emotional, with Sandalwood from Mysore.
Updates to the site
As well as the additions to the recipes and fragrances, there are entries in the Blogs, Books, Suppliers and Websites pages.
Squee
Here’s Lime, aged 8 weeks, apprenticed as familiar 2 days ago:
