Tranquility du Jour #485: Herbalism
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Barbara Bitondo about herbalism, making your own beauty products, the benefits of herbs over essential oils, and favorite resources.
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Guest
Barbara Bitondo reigns at Aphrodite in the Kitchen, her Apothecary Studio in Washington, DC. Barbara is an urban herbalist, and a simpler, who directs her attention to topical herbal applications using easy-to-grow, bioregional plants and flowers for wellness, beauty and sensual delight. She grows, wild-crafts, guerrilla harvests, and trades for the plants she uses. Barbara teaches workshops on making essential-oil-free bath and beauty products, designs pop-up herbal spas at events and for special occasions, and offers an exclusive quarterly "Spa-in-a-Jar" subscription service.
Barbara twines Wild Wise Woman Ways with Second-Life and Zero-Waste practices making each step in her Walk in Beauty, both a ceremony and a revolutionary act.
You can find Barbara at the Midwest Women's Herbal Conference that she has been involved in for almost a decade, and closer to home, at Rooting DC.
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Resources
Linda Conroy (Moonwise Herbs), Isla Burges (Vereditas in NZ), STEPHANIE GERBER (Hello Glow) and Marie Rayma (Humblebee and Me)
Rosa Rugosa Salve (for use on lips, cuticles, to soften hands, event to fix my hair after yoga)
Vegan Bath Fizzies (because as you say, "bathes are balm for the soul")
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 485th edition of Tranquility |
| 0:11.3 | Dejure, bringing you tranquility since 2005. |
| 0:16.5 | Today I'm chatting with Barbara Batondo about herbalism, making your own beauty products, the benefits |
| 0:23.4 | of herbs over essential oils, and her favorite resources. |
| 0:29.0 | Now, those of you heard new to Tranquility DeJure, you can learn more in the show notes at |
| 0:34.0 | Kimberlywilson.com slash 485. There's a link to start here. Also, we have something coming up |
| 0:43.6 | I'm so excited about. First of all, thank you for joining me for TDJ brunch on Saturday. |
| 0:49.0 | I loved being with you. And the replay will be over on our YouTube channel, |
| 0:53.6 | YouTube.com slash tranquility |
| 0:55.4 | de jour this week. |
| 0:57.4 | So if you missed it, no worries, you can watch it and learn. |
| 1:01.3 | Follow along, get some tips on how to stay focused right now because it is challenging. |
| 1:07.9 | Also, there was a lot of talk around how to be gentle with ourselves because, |
| 1:14.7 | you know, we may see lots of people baking bread on Instagram, and yet we may be struggling |
| 1:20.1 | to get out of bed. And so I just want to encourage everyone to be very gentle with yourself |
| 1:25.0 | right now and always, but I have a lot of tips on how to do that |
| 1:29.1 | over at the Tranquilator, TDJ Brunch, which again, you'll be able to find the replay on |
| 1:35.1 | YouTube, and there's also a blog post all about it, Kimberlywilson.com slash blog. |
| 1:41.4 | Now, those of you who are free on Saturday, May 2nd, I would love to have you join me for my |
| 1:46.8 | second virtual retreat of 2020. This is basically an opportunity to take your inner artist on a |
| 1:53.7 | three-hour date. We will be doing yoga. We'll be doing journal writing. We'll be doing some |
| 1:59.2 | creative work in our art journals. And we'll also be practicing writing. We'll be doing some creative work in art journals and we'll also be |
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