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I would like to wish everyone an enjoyable Memorial Day. To me Memorial Day is a day to remember all...

We have covered this week how to make decoctions, how to use decoctions, and now I would like to cover Storing Decoctions.

You may have noticed, like I did...

I wanted to share with you some of the botanical powders that we used in a few past blogs and their curing results.

The first photo shows – Safflower...

Wow, this has been a very easy and fun process of making decoctions and adding in the fabulous extracts into our cold process soap. I have deciced to do a...

After completing the mushroom decoction I have decided to venture on and create a carrot decoction and ginger decoction. I have gathered my supplies and I’m ready to start cooking,...

Here we go using our first Wood Ear Mushroom Decoction in a batch of soap! Yea!

Yes, I did take a moment and had some lunch, cooking the mushrooms made...

In my first decoction I will be using a dried mushroom called Wood Ear; also known as mo-er, black fungus and cloud ear. This mushroom is used throughout Asia as...

Over the past couple of months I have been showing you how to use dried herbs in making Tinctures and Infusions; today I am going to introduce you to Decoctions....