Three simple handmade aromatherapy gifts made from a handful of useful home apothecary ingredients. Discover how I made Revive Foot Bath Melts, a Reset Body + Foot Polish and botanical lip balms as end-of-year gifts for my son's teachers.

Learn how to make homemade vanilla extract with just vanilla beans, alcohol and a little patience. This simple step-by-step guide shares the method I use at home, along with tips on choosing vanilla beans, selecting the best alcohol and why summer has become my favourite time to start a new bottle.

The Ancient Herbal Preparation That Deserves a Place in Every Modern Kitchen Elderflower Oxymel If you're never heard of an oxymel before, don't worry, you're certainly not alone. Despite being used for over two thousand years, oxymels remain one of the most overlooked preparations in modern herbalism. Part herbal remedy, part everyday ingredient, an oxymel is simply herbs infused into vinegar and honey. Also sometimes called a 'shrub'. What I really love about them, and wher

How to Make Rose Hydrosol at Home: A Simple Stovetop Method

Elderflower season is short, which is part of what makes it so special. Once the creamy-white flowers appear in the hedgerows, there are only a few weeks to gather them fresh, enjoy their fragrance and preserve a little of that early summer medicine for later in the year. If you've arrived here with a basket full of elderflowers and you're wondering what to do with them, you're in the right place. But before we get started, I'd encourage you to spend a little time getting to