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Plant potions: Autumn Box 2024

My most favorite season of the year is almost here! Autumn is a magical time of year, with transformation & change happening right before our eyes. In my opinion, no other season captures change more like fall, especially as vibrant colors sprinkle the landscape, and leaves in all shades of red, orange & yellow float to ground leaving branches bare.

As change happens all around us, it’s easy to get caught up in the movement, especially with the holidays around the corner. During this time of the year, it’s important to stay grounded, and not get swept up in all the chaos. This season, we need to do more of what brings us joy, invest in activities & rituals things that nourish and fill us up.

In anticipation of the winds kicking up and temperatures dropping, the intention of the autumn box is to offer: nourishment, balance & remind us to come back to self. With those intentions in mind, the autumn blends are formulated incorporating essential oils that embody and encourage nourishment, balance and self-love:

  • BELOVED (Blend of black pepper, clary sage, sweet marjoram & ylang ylang)

  • SOUL SELF (Blend of: blood orange, palmarosa, ylang ylang & vetiver). Although this is a new blend to the Moments of Self-Care blend family, I’ve used this blend in my personal collection for many years. I gravitate to this blend during the cooler months or when I’m feeling burnt out and need more nourishment. It’s exactly the vibe I’m going for this season ❤︎

  • CALM AF - Autumn edition (Blend of: lavender & blood orange)

Check out some of the therapeutic benefits of each oil featured in the autumn 2024 collection:

black pepper

(Piper nigrum)

  • Encourages mental stimulation, relieving sluggishness

  • Promotes emotional strength & endurance during challgening/difficult times

  • Helps eliminate negative energy

  • Enhances feelings of self-worth & promotes self-esteem

  • Analgesic: helps to sooth pain in joints & muscles


Blood Orange

(Citrus sinesis)

  • Helps to circulate stagnant energy

  • Emotionally uplifting & calming

  • More warming aroma, compared to sweet orange

  • Enlivening & encourage feelings of joy & brightness


clary sage

(Salvia sclarea)

  • Grounds your emotions

  • Promotes balance for the body, mind, spirit & emotions

  • Hormonal balancer

  • Relieves stress & anxiety


Lavender

(Lavandula angustifolia)

  • Calms the mind & promotes mental clarity

  • Comforts the heart

  • Promotes balance & harmony for the body, mind, spirit & emotions

  • Helps reduce fear & anxiety


palmarosa

(Cymopogon martinii)

  • Helps reduce stress & release mental pressure

  • Relieves anxiety

  • Soothing for those “running on empty” - calms CNS (central nervous system)

  • Encourages one to move with ease & flow - promotes adaptability


sweet marjoram

(Origanum marjorana)

  • Calms hysteria & quiets emotions

  • Helps one release worries, negative thoughts & fears

  • CNS sedative: comforting, relieves anxiety

  • Encourages us to speak our truth with love


Vetiver

(Vetiveria zizanioides)

  • Energetic grounding cord

  • Reminds us to slow down & rebalance, especially when things are moving fast & we feel out of control

  • Antispasmodic: helps to release tight muscles

  • Analgesic: helps to relieve pain

  • Encourages restful, deep sleep


ylang ylang

(Cananga odorata)

  • Balancing, especially for hormones

  • Uplifting; helps ease anxiety, depression & insomnia

  • CNS sedative & hypotensive, making this oil helpful in lowering heart rate, blood pressure & rapid breathing

  • Heart-centered oil, encouraging connection to self & helping us to remember to nourish ourselves

  • Rich, decadent - all about love

As a yearly subscriber, you are given the freedom to choose which seasonal blend(s) resonate most. Each season, choose from products like: body oil, salt scrubs, aromatic room spray, roll on aromatherapy, etc. and then select the seasonal essential oil blend for that product. Every season, you’ll receive additional gifts & goodies. Every box is unique, freshly formulated and Reiki charged with blessings & healing energy.

I cannot wait to formulate, and make some plant medicine! I encourage you to experience how empowering self-care can be, and the beauty of connecting to yourself ♥️