Why alcohol? While making a tea with your herbs can extract some of the medicinal compounds, alcohol is a more powerful solvent. It also preserves the medicinal compounds for 5 years or more. Don’t ...

Here’s how to save your harvest before the cold kills your herbs. Then you'll have homegrown herbs to use in soups, stews, ...

Mix beeswax with an infused herbal oil to create natural skin care products that won’t melt in your pocket or purse. Herbal oils are convenient and easy to use. These are made by extracting ground-up ...

A beauty kadha is a natural, traditional herbal drink that purifies your skin from within, giving it a healthy, radiant glow.

Learn how to make perfume from flowers, herbs, and other plants from your garden. This tutorial focuses on how to make oil based perfume. You’ll learn how to combine natural materials like herbs and ...

A few years ago, I read Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” with a propulsive vigor. Oddly, the title of that book is also how I feel about fresh herbs, in all of their ephemeral glory. I ...

Indian herbs have been used for centuries to boost health. Six potent herbs like Tulsi, Giloy, Moringa, Ashwagandha, Turmeric ...

The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan of fruit fly populations, according to a UC-Irvine study. The herbal ...