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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…
