How to make your own fabric softener using essential oils. This simple and easy recipe involves 1 ingredient and some essential oils to make your washing smell divine. Place it in the fabric softener compartment of your machine so it goes through the wash on its final...
6 years later & mid-way through a Covid-19 pandemic, I reflected on 6 years in business and how sharing our herbal remedies with the locals of Chirstchurch has been. I always say you learn the most from your customers and clients. You are the ones who tell us what...
With cases now in New Zealand we have had a lot of requests for cold and flu remedies a lot earlier this season! So is there any evidence for Herbal Remedies treating Coronavirus? We like to keep a traditional and up-to-date evidence based approach here at the...
We are serious about bridging the gap between shopping locally & sustainably so we have partnered up with local business and taken the plunge to make refilling a viable option for you – our favourite customers. We aim to have lots more things available for...
Hell on earth – yes that’s what climate change above 4 degrees will be. I know it’s a bit doomsday and some people don’t even want to acknowledge that it’s even true but deep-breath. Leave them to their conspiracies and complacency. Closer to the year 2100 we...
We know what it’s like. You bought that supplement thinking it was going to solve your (insert XYZ problem here) and it didn’t work, or you thought it wasn’t helping, so you stopped it & its now sitting in the cupbard taking up room. But what if...
Making your own Reed Diffuser at home from reused materials and lovely essential oils is easy. Here is what you need: A jar {or reuse your original reed diffuser bottle or jar} Bamboo skewers {or reuse some original reed diffuser sticks – we also sell sticks}...
To kick 2019 off with a bang we decided to do something outrageous. Refill your little essential oil bottles. We weren’t sure how exactly to do this so we teamed up with Zurma Botanical Oils and came up with a plan, slept on it and made it happen.Throwing out...
Echinacea root has such an interesting and varied use as an immune tonic. Native Americans valued the remedy for wound healing, when there was no antibiotics, herbs were used to support the body’s immune response. Echinacea was highly valued for this and for...
Herbal remedies have been used for thousands of years in all parts of the world for many different ailments as both emergency and tonic medicine. One of the most powerful ways herbal medicine is used is in reducing nervous tension and anxiety, inducing sleep and...
At the Apothecary we are passionate about essential oils. But what are they, how do they work and what does price and quality matter? Firstly, what we call essential oils are in fact volatile oils from plants, when means that when heated – they evaporate. They...
This is a question I often ponder to myself. Why don’t pharmaceutic preparations use herbs anymore? Is it that they have forgotten about their efficacy? Is it that they find the cost too prohibitive? Is it because they believe that their compounded chemical...
