The Medicine Cabinet

Revisit old customs by using finest herbal preparations. It used to be customary for a housewife to prepare basic medications for her family. The herbs would be selected from the garden and neighbouring fields and forests. Making healing ointments, lotions and infusions was just as natural to them as growing vegetables and fruit and bottling and preserving the harvest for use throughout the year. Knots Elementals: The Medicine Cabinet

The changes in the past years have meant that the experience and knowledge and indeed confidence to be able to heal ourselves has been lost and we have left the preparation of medicinal remedies to pharmacists and drug companies. The medicine cabinet consists of nine basic herbal preparations that form the basis of a concise range of products for first aid in the home and to tackle common minor ailments. The products are of excellent quality, sourced with integrity and where possible are organic.

They can be used to support the digestive, immune and nervous system, and are excellent aids for bruising, sores, sprains, strains, arthritic joints and rheumatism, eczema, irritant skin rashes, chickenpox and general aches and pains.

Use these preparations with ease just as they are or gain some more confidence about them by attending a half day workshop.

Barbara

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KNOTS ELEMENTALS BESPOKE SKINCARE WORKSHOP, TEDDINGTON


"As you sit arround her kitchen table, Barbara Sargent, founder of Knots Elementals, talks you through the properties of various base and essential oils. After an hour of concentrated note-talking, I attempted mixing a few drops of neroli, lemon and jojoba, and manage to create a divine-smelling shampoo. My fellow students are less smug: "Mine smells like stuffing", complains one, who has overdone the rosemary.

Indeed, home blends are fallible, but as each dose can be mixed individually, the cost of getting it wrong is tiny. Next, we are taught how to mix body moisturisers, along with all aspects of aromatherapy, such as how to create a mood or banish a skin problem. Sargent's enthusiasm is infectious, but as I trundle home with my exfoliating scrub, hand cream and few oils - all for about £21 - I wonder if I will still be mixing my own body scrub in a fortnight. However, it takes only 20 seconds to mix, so maybe I will manage.

A few weeks later, my main dilemma, apart from which oils to use, turns out to be what to do with the half-empty bottles of shop-bought products that still line my bathroom shelves.

Best bit: Sargent is a former operations director at Penhaligon's, so you are guaranteed good insider tips. And then there are the very cute glass mixing pots."

Beatrice Aidin, THE SUNDAY TIMES [JANUARY 13, 2002]


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