Native Roots Apothecary

This is some days late, but I hope everyone has had an amazing start to this new year!

Crazy how fast 2025 has gone by. I hope lessons were learnt from 2025 and new beneficial approaches and beginnings are in fruition for 2026. 💖

I'm not one to be big with resolutions as I don't want to feel disappointed if one thing isn't accomplished, but I am wanting to put more energy and time into my herbal medicine work. I'd like to mainly use local, foraged plants this year with my medicinals and vend at more shows as I really do prefer in-person interactions these days rather than online communications.

I'll be working on soaps from scratch in the upcoming weeks so they will be done by Spring time, and I'm *so* looking forward to Spring time as I hope to have a bountiful foraging season.

Many blessings to y'all for this new season. 🌿

Whipped Beef Tallow! 🐮

Beef tallow is amazing for our health, in this case, our skin. Tallow contains vitamins A, D, E, and K which can be absorbed through our skin to help stimulate collagen production and cell renewal. It contains omega-3 fatty acids that help retain moisture in the skin. Tallow is also high in antioxidants and is also an anti-inflammatory.

This tallow is sourced from a nearby ranch that takes great care of their grassfed cows, good enough that I also buy their meat to nourish my family's bodies. 🐄

I like to use this tallow on all over my skin! It is very moisturizing! Helps nourish dry skin (feet, lips, arms, legs, anywhere!). I was using it on my face on a daily basis, but the skin on my face is super sensitive and *very* prone to breakouts, so I scaled back to using it a few times a week on my face.

The only ingredient is grassfed beef tallow (rendered from suet sourced from Bradley & Son Grassfed Beef by yours truly) that was whipped.

As it's only made with tallow, and me not doing anything extra or fancy to this, it does have a beef aroma similar to bacon. I mean, this is made by rendering beef fat, soooo. 😅 This soaks in rather quickly into the skin, and once it's soaked in, the aroma diminishes, so please don't worry about walking around smelling like bacon. 🥓

I have two sizes available; four ounce jars for $15 and I only have two- eight ounce jars left that are $25 each.
*Shipping will be available very soon; waiting for the weather to cool off so there's no chance of melting during transit.

Treat yourself with a Linen & Rice Heating Pad! 💆‍♀️

I used top quality linen fabric to sew the pad and added organic rice inside.

You can simply heat up the pad in the microwave 60 seconds and if you want more heat, add in 30 second intervals in microwave (just keep an eye as you don't want to burn the rice by heating too long in the microwave). And carefully place the heating pad on body where pain relief is needed. These hold heat quite well, time wise, too!

This can also be used as a cooling pad by placing in the freezer.

And as an eye pillow!

These are much more *durable* than the heating pads I made with cotton flannel. ☺️

I like to use this heating pad on my neck after a few sprays of magnesium oil on my neck. Nice, simple relaxation!

These Linen & Rice Heating Pads are $13 (plus an added fee of $5 for shipping, if applicable).

I've been wanting to implement this for a while now, but with this crazy economy, I thought I'd share I'm so down to barter and trade goods. Just let me know what you have if you're interested in any of my goods.

I'm game to make you and your family bulk of any my handcrafted goods, as well, if we come to an agreement!

I'd also be willing to exchange teachings and lessons; for example, I can teach you how to make specific medicines for your family and you can teach me how to can food or any sort of homesteading/life skill.

I'd love to see a thriving community of people that do this sort of thing at some point.

I'm going to "pin" this post and if you have any goods or services you would want to share, feel free to! Or always feel free to message me.