Blissful Herbs - nurturing body & soul

18/12/2025

Such a lovely crop of petals this year! 🌸

So, I've made up these small packets of Pretty Petals as "freebies" to pop in with any order of bath herbs - such as:

🌿 Post Natal Bliss healing bath herbs
🌿 Pregnant Mama Bliss bath herbs
🌿 Mellow Mama bath herbs
🌿 Soothe a Fever bath herbs
🌿 Sore Muscle bath herbs
🌿 Moon Cycle Bliss bath herbs

These are just for fun, to scatter on the herb-scented bath water.

I've included Petals of Rose, Calendula, Jasmine, Azalea, Cornflower, Sweet Pea & Snap Dragon.

They smell great, & add a cute pop of colour to yoir photography.

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18/12/2025

Incredible action shots of a woman birthing in power!

I have attended a few "on the toilet" births & they've worked out just fine.

It's good to see the rawness of real birth & not only the sanitised, curated social media version.

Congratulations, beautiful mama.

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We were never meant to fear the blood of birth 🩸

This is not mess.
It’s evidence of a body opening exactly as it’s meant to 🌹

Warm. Familiar. Expected.
The colour of work done, of thresholds crossed, of life arriving ✨

Can we shift our mindset, shift the narrative in our generation?

From the push for sterility to a recognition of the sacred 🤲🏼
From danger to transition 🦋
From something to erase, to something we fully understand ❤️

A woman opens.
A body releases.
A baby arrives from blood, through blood, into breath.
Birth does not happen without blood 🩸

We’ve been taught to fear this moment.
To clean it quickly.
To look away.

But blood here is not about loss
it’s about origin, completion, return 🙏🏼

Can we meet this moment differently?
Can we accept the blood of birth?
More than that, can we revere it?

This is birth as it has always been:
earthy, alive, unapologetically human ❤️

Photography:

birthwithoutfear

18/12/2025

More lovely Cord-burning Bowls from Renee

These come with a cord tie, candles & Goldenseal Cord Care Kit so you have everything you need for your cord-burning ceremony.

Each piece is hand-crafted & totally unique - thanks to the whims of the Kiln Gods, no two pieces are ever the same - even when the same clay & glaze are used.

So, you will have a unique piece, useful for all sorts of things, to grace your home, long after baby-day has come & gone!

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17/12/2025

T H E 🌸 B L E S S I N G 🌸 O F 🌸 F L O W E R S

It's here!! 😃

Do you remember a while back, when I hand-picked early Spring Jasmine, Violets & Calendula & asked you to guess what I might be using them for?

Well, I infused the delicate blossoms in Jojoba & Grapeseed oils, then used the oil to make these! Face serum and toner!

I'm so happy with the result & I hope you love them too.

If you're after 100% natural, yet effective skin care, try The Blessing of Flowers!

My Celtic skin is super-sensitive (so is my sense of smell) and also (in true autistic super-power form), I'm naturally sceptical, so I am a tough crowd, even for the products I make myself. I wasn't expecting to be impressed. But my skin LOOOOVEEES this stuff!

I apply the serum & let my thirst skin just drink it up. Then, after a while, I apply the toner and omg it feels so good!

I had so much fun researching & formulating these to create an all-natural high-quality product with the best skin-loving ingredients. The serum includes oils of Argan, Cacay, Kakadu Plum, Pomegranate, Prickly Pear Seed, Rosehip, Sacha Inchi & Squalane of Olive. Plus, the all important BAKUCHIOL (Google it, you'll be impressed).

The toner is a darling, it smells & feels gorgeous. It contains floral waters of Calendula, Chamomile, Cucumber, Green Tea, Lavender, Orange Blossom, Rose and alcohol-free Witchhazel. And the all-important Hyaluronic Acid serum (yep, Google that one too!)

To both products, I've added a subtle hint of flower scent, using essential oils of Rose, Lavender, Jasmine Gardenia & Violet - plus the skin-healing benefits of Helichrysum & Frankincense.

All I can say is try it. You'll love it!

And yes! I need TWO TESTERS! If you're keen to be a tester, you need to be prepared to make a short video of yourself applying the products & your candid reaction, plus send me a few photos and pop a review on the website. Can you do these three things? Then, place an order, type "Flowers" in Comments at Checkout, and I'll pop a sample of each with your order.

OK I'll be watching put for the first two orders that come through with FLOWERS in Comments!

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12/12/2025

First time mama breech birth!

Amazing

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warning: real birth sounds 🤍

My sweet girl worked so hard alongside me to enter this world of ours.

I plan to share our written birth story too. Listening to and viewing other women’s birth stories greatly helped me in my first birth preparation.

07/12/2025

Remember the story of the raccoon that ran amok in a liquor store & imbibed a little too much & was found passed out on the bathroom floor??

Well. I can sympathise! These recent hot days have been perfect for harvesting my lovely crop of Comfrey & drying it in the sun.

I then scrunched it up (I have to use my hands, I can't bear gloves - have you tried handling Comfrey? A thousand tiny prickles!) and sprayed it with ethanol per the intermediary method.

Well. I haven't done it using a proper spray bottle before!

I didn't imbibe quite as much as our raccoon friend, but certainly inhaled enough to feel a bit tipsy!

This method does yield the most awesome GREEN infused oil, which will last me for a year of salve making.

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07/12/2025

H E R B A L 🌿 F I R S T - A I D 🌿 K I T

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I get my best ideas from my customers.

This mama requested a herbal first aid kit with the essentials she needs for treating the minor health hiccups that come with caring for young children.

She especially wanted Elderberries to have on hand, to make Elderberry Syrup, jelly, & gummies whenever her little one has the sniffles.

We also have:

🌿 Marigold Miracle First Aid Spray
🌿 Marigold Miracle Antiseptic Balm
🌿 Aussie Mozzie insect repellent Balm
🌿 Chickweed Salve to soothe itchy bites
🌿 Soothing Salve to soothe... well, everything!
🌿 Sore Muscle Rub for sundry aches & pains
🌿 Calm a Cough Tea
🌿 Gastro-ease Tea
🌿 Soothe a Fever Tea & Bath Herbs
🌿Golden Ear Oil for minor earache

Reckon that will see her right?

Second slide is my daughter applying some Chickweed Salve to her new baby boy. He seems to like it! 😍

Do you think I should have a standard kit for the website?

What would you like to see in it?

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07/12/2025

P L A C E N T A 🌿 B O W L S 🌿 &

C O R D 🌿 B U R N I N G 🌿 B O W L S

Here's our newest batch from the superbly talented Renee Benner

If you're planning a slow third stage with cord-burning to sever the cord, or Lotus Birth, now is a great time to snag your chosen piece - while we have a broad selection to present to you!

Each piece is completely unique - although Renee can make something *similar*, as every authentic potter knows, no two pieces are ever quite the same!

So, long after the birth, you will have this beautiful memento of that wonderful day, to grace your home.

I'm so proud to stock these beautiful hand-crafted works of artisanship, created with love & heart by my darling friend Renee.

Each bowl comes with beeswax candles & a Goldenseal Cord Care Kit.

On the website now www.blissfulherbs.com.au

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05/12/2025

My job today:

Making up 5L of Soothing Salve.

How do we live without it?

It contains Calendula oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Comfrey Oil, Hempseed Oil, Rosehip Oil, Vitamin E Oil, natural beeswax from happy bees, and essential oils of: Lavender, Tea Tree, Helichrysum, Frankincense, Rosemary & Rose.

I originally made this salve to support healing of the perineum after childbirth. It's perfect for minor tears, grazes & "skidmarks".

But, with its moisturising, antiseptic and skin healing powers, it is truly the Salve of a Thousand Uses!

It's quite an involved process, because each jar is hand-poured by me. And then there's the sticking on of labels!

Wish me luck!

04/12/2025

Such a cute, playful exchange between mama & baby!

I've been MIA for a few days because I've been away supporting a first time couple through the adventure of having their first baby at home.

They persevered through 3 days & nights of graduation labour, and in the end, got the desire of their hearts - baby born gently in water at home, caught by the mother herself.

This was my first experience of supporting a couple having a homebirth through a hospital run programme - so, it was totally free for them. The midwives were excellent, I could see they really wanted it to work out for the couple & did their best to navigate the policies they're restricted by, to ensure the couple had every chance to complete their birth at home. It was great to see this particular birth option in practice.

She didn't tear but had a few slight grazes and I tell you - you can never have too much of the Post Natal Bliss herbs at births!

I made up peri bottles of the warm herbal liquid for her, to keep by the toilet - but you need heaps for a nice herbs bath. The first thing I did when I got home was post her more!

I'm now busy catching up on orders!

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Post Partum Herbal Baths 🥀 with cheeky little monkeys 🌿
real. blissfulherbs 🌿 .

01/12/2025