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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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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…
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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…
