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Embrace Autumn Wellness: Tips for a Healthy Season
We have a retail location! Not only do we offer Isola products and services, but we now carry Harmonic Arts tinctures and syrups, and Canadian Kelp Harvesters Macro Kelp!
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Nourishing the Heart and Mind: 11 Herbalist-Approved Summer Habits
Welcome to July! As an Herbalist, I tend to celebrate the seasons based on the weather rather than the calendar, but all the same, we are officially in the summer season, and half way through the year. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the early summer is the season to nourish your heart, both physically and emotionally. Summer is known for the element of heat (which is why we all love it), but heat in excess or combined with excess, deficient or imbalanced moisture can put a literal ‘damper’ on the season. I’ve chosen 11 of my favourite summer habits that benefit the heart and the mind in the summer months. These…
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We’re BLOOMING…
Have you seen the news? If you’re active on our social media, you would have seen that on February 21 – one month before the 2024 Spring Equinox – Isola Herbals as we had all grown to know went through a BIG and BEAUTIFUL change. We shed the last TEN YEARS of instagram posts, and we are blooming into the sturdy, strong blossom that the foundation of our brand has allowed us to be. What does this mean? Well, for starters, a little clarity on Isola Herbals: My name is Em, and I started Isola Herbals as a way to share what I was learning on my path to becoming…
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Its HERE! Shop Isola’s Newest: Isola Solstice: Organic Brightening Facial Oil with West Coast Cedar and Bearberry Leaf
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03: March: We’re Having A Garden Party!
Welcome to a cold and snow-filled March in Alberta! As a country girl raised in the mountains, I know that the wild plants and animals, the farmers, and my own horses really need the moisture that spring snowfalls bring, but the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence… I would prefer rain! I’ve already started my greenhouse and garden planning for 2023, and while the greenhouse is in its first stages of life this year, I’d like to invite you to join me for the very first Isola Herbals Garden Party! On Sunday, April 2, 2023, join me via zoom at 11AM MST in my greenhouse…
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New at Isola: Isola Solstice Facial Oil, plus Em is now a Clinical Herbalist!
We are finally here! The Isola Solstice Oil is ready! I truly love to share my passion for organic skincare, made with sustainably harvested, local herbs, and filled with our Isola Fountain of Youth ingredient: Pacific Coast Sea Kelp. I've been so happy that so many of you love Isola skincare as much as I do!
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Lilacs in July
Garden Season I’m certain that I’m not the only Western Canadian resident who’s been questioning the seasons of spring and summer in 2022, as we seem to have not seen either of them and its already July. Just a month ago my husband and I took a long-overdue dream trip to France and Spain, where we left a blustery Canada and entered into a European springtime full of greenery and bright summer florals. We returned home with expectations of feelings of guilt for our lack of garden and landscaping chores, only to be relieved that it wasn’t actually springtime yet here (in mid-June!?). Now I sit in my greenhouse with…
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Summer 2021: Sharing My Summertime Essentials!
I love reading newsletters from my favourite bloggers, YouTubers, ballerinas and fitness community leaders, so I thought as a change to my Isola blog, I’d share some of my summertime skincare essentials! Summertime Skincare Favorites! I always love to sample a few different suncare products! Our skin changes all the time, so we may need a different product this year than what we’ve used previously. Also, suncare products have come a long way in the last few years, so be sure to purchase one with a coral reef protection stamp on it! Here are a few of my favourite skincare and bodycare products that help me feel hydrated, glowing and…
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Champagne Sunday: Pre-Summer At Isola!
When I first started this blog portion of my online Isola Herbals store, I committed to writing Fountain of Youth Friday posts, all about what I had been learning about the youthful habits of people all over the world, and I wrote Champagne Sunday posts, about lifestyle, travel, cocktails, pescatarian recipes and other fun things I had wanted to share with you all. Its been a wild few years here at my beautiful Isola property in the prairies of Alberta, with being a newlywed, my husband moving in, and some pretty big renovations to the property. I’m very fortunate that these renovations included my incredible greenhouse, built using century-old farmhouse…
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Sharing my interview on Herbalism and Iridology!
A good friend of mine who is studying holistic healing modalities, and asked me to share a little bit about my practice with her! Here are 15 of her questions, and my answers on Herbalism, Iridology, and natural animal medicine practices!
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The Springtime Season of Skincare
Each season, our bodies adjust to the changes in the air, the earth and the corresponding elements. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, (TCM) springtime is the season where we must nourish the liver, so that it may balance our ‘heat’, or ‘fire’ as our bodies adjust from the cold of the winter. What this means for our skin is that we may experience an excessive, or new ‘heat’ in our complexion. This can present itself as redness, dryness, excessive oil or a combination or variation of these symptoms, and this needs to be corrected through managing the food we eat, the liquids that we drink, and supporting the seasonal change using…
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Our New Ballerina Collection: For Extremely Sensitive Skin
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Isola Phyto Skincare: Introducing Our Newest Dream Product!
Ready To Shop? Click Here! Introducing Isola Ballerina, our newest Phyto Skincare Oil for extremely sensitive skin! Isola Ballerina has been years in the making, as we are consistently researching, testing, learning and growing to create the most unique, proven organic skincare recipes to share with you. Isola Ballerina will hydrate and correct skin that tends to break out from sweat, pollution, SPF products, and rich organic oils like coconut oil. While all of Isola skincare products are a low comedogenic value (between 1 and 2, meaning highly unlikely to cause pore blockages), true to our Island-Inspired motto, our skincare and haircare oils contain virgin organic coconut oil with the…
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Endless Summer At Isola
Ready to shop? Head to our store now! ‘Isola’ means ‘island’ in Italian. I like to think that in every little frosted glass bottle of Isola skincare and haircare, there’s an island-inspired glow to be shared! Every Isola product shares one mandatory ingredient: Pacific coast sea kelp (macro-kelp, also known as macrocystis). Sustainably sourced from the north coastal waters of Vancouver Island, our sea kelp is full of rich, youth-infusing anti-oxidants Isola products are full of plants! We infuse our oils with herbs that we grow ourselves in our soulful greenhouse in the beautiful prairies of Alberta, Canada. We also have five perennial gardens that we carefully manage to produce…
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Island-Inspired Plant-Based Skincare & Haircare
Its nearing springtime at Isola Herbals and I’ve been busy planning the greenhouse, tidying up the office space and working on our new Vitamin C quick morning face mask! I recently did a poll on the Isola Instagram page and loved that so many of you gave your feedback on what you love and dislike about face masks. I’ve taken all of your feedback into consideration, and I think you’ll love this one! Join our VIP Newsletter to be the first to have access to our new products! Isola Product Highlight This season, I’ve been relying on my faithful Isola Lumiére du Soir: Evening Glow Facial Oil. I have extremely…
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Send a little Love around the world this February
This month, 100% of sales of Gigi’s Kiss will go to local and Australian animal rescue efforts. Isola Herbals is located out in the country where we keep our kitties and our horses, and often look after dogs. We have beautiful birds, squirrels, foxes, coyotes, moose, deer and all kinds of livestock around us. In our tiny town we have a very busy kitty rescue centre called Tales To Tell, and in our neighbouring town there is a small animal rescue centre called Pawsitive Haven Animal Rescue. (Please see below for details on our donation process) I spent much of my 20’s traveling Australia, and the heartbreaking fires having destroyed…
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Shop our newest products, and our Fountain of Youth favourites!
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The Fall Chapter
Happy Fall Equinox! And what an equinox it is! Not only do I have an incredible new space for Isola Herbals to grow, but we are building a second space that will allow for our production to be elevated to a commercial level… it gives me tingles to think that we are so close to the dream! The fall equinox is an important time of year, as the balance of the earth changes and, as they say, day turns to night. Here at Isola Herbals in Alberta, the season change means we are doing our herbal harvest: carefully preserving herbs for our early spring collection, and doing a cleanse of…
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Summer Love
This summer, Isola’s very first LUXURY COLLECTION is here! Creamy smooth lip balms, sensual hydrating skincare oils, and bath salts fit for a queen… You deserve it! This year we dove into our first luxury line of Isola products, and we’re loving every minute of it! Our labels, vials and pots have been upgraded to include delicate droppers and pretty glass pots, and the products are infused with some of the most luxurious ingredients we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with! We’ve begun working with sun protection, and we’re absolutely loving testing out our SPF products – one of them will be released this week, so be sure to…
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Traditional Thoughts on Staying Young
Its springtime! I can’t help but be excited for the coming warm weather and long, sunny days. As the winter weather was terribly aggressive, I spent much of my time indoors working on my studies in Iridology, and furthering my education as a future Clinical Herbalist. Its been humbling, learning all of the ways that our bodies work to stay in balance, and inspiring for me as Isola Herbals grows and our recipes continue to align with traditional theories on looking youthful and being healthy… (continued below) Have you signed up for our VIP newsletter yet? Register below for VIP discount codes and more in-depth information on natural skincare, haircare…
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Welcome to the Heart of Isola…The Summer Solstice
In an instant—Summer appears… These days – for me anyway – its difficult to understand the world. But it’s not that difficult to understand Mademoiselle Universe. She’s a very consistent entity, and thank goodness for that! Like every aspect of the nature of the Universe, we grow a little, face challenges, grow a little more, face some more challenges, and grow a little more. Each season that passes offers us the opportunity to either rest, as in fall and winter, or to be more active, more social, more lively, as in spring and summer. At Isola, the seasons really feel like they begin and end with the Summer Solstice, a day…
