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Tidelands House Fine Skincare & Stillroom

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Tidelands House Fine Skincare & Stillroom

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫 · 𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
Visit our Historic Cambridge shop for
botanical skincare, books & curated home goods
𝟤𝟢 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘷𝘦 𝘚 · 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘖𝘕

Our formulas are artfully distilled and blended by herbalist, naturalist, and Master Formulator Dominique Del Col in our solar-illuminated stillroom, housed within a converted heritage stone crofters cottage erected in 1879. A dedicated grassroots green space surrounded by a lush and fecund English garden, abundant in wild medicinal herbs and heirloom flowers. We are eternally devoted to crafting the finest herbal skincare and wellness preparations in a conscious environment, using sustainable, organic, and wild foraged ingredients while advocating for biodynamic and celestially guided planting practices. Our formulations are thoughtfully concocted by hand in micro-batches with only the purest botanical essences and extracts, without artificial ingredients, and in mindful glass vessels free of unnecessary packaging. Our path is guided by intentional sourcing to navigate the environmental and social impact in every step of our makers' process. When you eat food that is in season, you lower your carbon impact. Locally grown food takes significantly fewer transportation resources, reducing your influence on emissions and greenhouse gases. Produce like herbs, flowers, grains, fruits and vegetables are also picked at the peak of their ripeness and nutrition density because they do not need to risk spoilage during transit. This means that each pear, plum, bundle of rosemary, or root vegetable is wildly more nutritious and healthful for you to enjoy. We are passionate about applying this vital principle in the formulation of our skincare. We hand-forage our bounty of wild organic botanicals when they are dripping with morning dew drops and glittering dollops of pollen, buried deep in the soil, fully functioning as a vital living ecosystem that sustains the natural world around it, nourishing bountiful crops and verdant forests and providing sustenance for diverse wildlife and landscape. Any rare essences or non-native plants used in our formulas are always wild-gathered, organic, and procured at a premium from micro-herbaries who share our values and are committed to regenerative growing and sustainable harvesting practices. As eternal earth stewards, we harvest in communion with and in reverence of this magnificent land while crafting skincare formulas that are nutritionally exceptional and magnificently effective.

12/01/2025

In the heart of Cambridge, tucked inside a nineteenth-century stone storefront, Tidelands House is the destination for mindful, beautiful gifts this season.

Step inside our botanical atelier and you’ll find fine skincare, house-crafted flower essences, fragrant herbal pantry goods, local beeswax candles, heirloom pottery and porcelain mortars, restorative gifts for winter wellbeing, thoughtful books, and other provisions gathered for slow, intentional living.

For the holidays, we’re offering heritage gift wrapping and the option to create your own gift box, a gentle, considered way to gather something meaningful for someone you love.

If you’re wandering through historic downtown, we’d love to welcome you in for a complimentary cup of herbal tea and a quiet moment among the shelves.

TIDELANDS HOUSE — CAMBRIDGE
20 Grand Avenue South
Historic Downtown Galt, steps from the Gaslight District

𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠
Wednesday 10–3
Thursday 11–5
Friday 12–6
Saturday 11–5
Sunday 12–4

Extended holiday hours begin mid-December.

11/20/2025

This week at the Cambridge Atelier, we’re gifting a full-size Tea Rose & Wild Mint Lip Crème with every in-store purchase of $40 or more.

Beloved for over twelve years, this milk-glass pot of silken rose, wild mint leaf, and fresh botanical oils softens lips with a dewy, cushiony finish — a gentle winter ritual to tuck into a pocket or keep on a bedside table.

Our doors are open, the complimentary tea station is warm with preserved elderflower, wild fennel, liquorice, and ginger, and the shop is filled with slow-crafted skincare, botanicals, and seasonally gathered goods.

Visit us at 20 Grand Ave S., Historic Downtown Cambridge — steps from the Gaslight District.

Shop Hours
Mon–Tue closed
Wed 10–3
Thu 11–5
Fri 12–6
Sat 11–5
Sun 12–4

11/15/2025

Step inside our story—where organic whole-plant infusions, slow fermentation, and small-batch distillation converge with wild coastal and regional flora, and modern plant science to create skincare that transcends the ordinary. In collaboration with local growers, herbalists, and the bioregional landscape, each formula becomes a reverent act of floral storytelling—an ode to living minerals, wild ferments, and microbiome diversity. Every creation is a profound exploration of history and nature, crafted by master formulator and herbalist Dominique Del Col.

In our 19th-century stone stillroom in Wellington County, botanical extraction begins at the source. Here, seasonal blooms, roots, and resins are slowly transformed using ancestral methods in antique copper distillers—then blended and bottled in small batches at our 1876 riverside atelier in Historic Galt.

Working in harmony with the seasons and in collaboration with local herbaries and organic allotments, every offering honours the integrity of whole plants and the land from which they come. Infused with blossom minerals, biodynamic extracts, and fresh herbal distillates, these formulas gently bolster the skin’s natural vitality and microbiome.

This is skincare as ritual—an immersive, sensorial communion between land, lineage, and luminous skin.

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Each parcel is still hand-packed with care our heritage Galt Atelier, wrapped in intention, and sent on its way with the same devotion that guides everything we do.

Thank you for being here—for championing thoughtful, conscious skincare, and for choosing to be part of something rooted in reverence, creativity, and care. Your trust sustains the quiet magic we pour into every offering.

11/09/2025

Cold Weather Sunlight: A Gentle Reminder

The sun softens, but it never truly sleeps. Even under grey skies and falling snow, UV rays persist, often magnified by their reflection on frost and ice. These invisible exposures can quietly lead to hyperpigmentation, uneven tone, and depletion of the skin’s natural lipid barrier.

Our Reishi Boréale Phytonutrient Sun Support Serum was created for this delicate season, when the skin needs both protection and deep replenishment.

Formulated with marshmallow root, seabuckthorn berry, and aged licorice root, it restores radiance while supporting the skin’s defense against daily environmental stress. Calendula, oat straw, and rosehip lend soothing hydration, while astragalus root and Vancouver Island kombu kelp fortify and remineralize, helping the complexion remain plump, balanced, and luminous even in winter’s dry air.

To complete your ritual, layer with a mineral zinc-based sunscreen (20–25% zinc oxide) for lasting, non-irritating protection — the ideal companion to our Reishi Boréale Serum. Together, they create a seasonless ritual of nourishment and care.

Winter sunlight asks for gentleness, not retreat. Step outside, let the cold air kiss your face, and trust your skin to be held.

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒖𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍:

1. Apply Reishi Boréale Phytonutrient Serum

2. Follow with a zinc mineral sunscreen (20–25% zinc oxide)

3. Step into the natural world, and enjoy.

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Shop our finely crafted skincare at TidelandsHouse.com or visit our atelier shop in Historic Downtown Cambridge.

11/01/2025

As the season turns, we honour the deep renewal that comes with autumn, a time to restore balance, replenish the skin, and return to what is essential.

The 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 offers one recipient a complete seasonal collection of Tidelands House skincare, including their choice of a facial serum, botanical essence, nectar concentrate balm, treatment mask, and lip crème. 𝙑𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 $𝟯𝟬𝟬.

Each formula is handcrafted in our atelier using botanicals grown, foraged, and distilled in-house, rooted in old-world methods and guided by the potency of the plants themselves.

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An offering of gratitude, for being here, for choosing slow ritual and intentional formulation, and for tending the season with us.

10/30/2025

𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐞𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐥𝐥
𝐇𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐦

𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 — 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘰𝘷 𝟣𝟩-𝟤𝟢.𝘖𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝟤𝟢% 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦.

Nearly a year after offering intimate sample vials to those closest to our work - and receiving the most heartfelt response of any formula we’ve created, our craft-distilled parfum oil is now ready for its full release.

𝐎𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

A preserved study in contrast and kinship, the brightness of Lavender crushed underfoot, softened by the shadowed warmth of Oak and Angelica Root, and stirred awake by the faint, electric spark of wild fermented Dill Seed.

This damp, resonant blend moves between garden and woodland, herb and soil, a scent shaped by the passage of time and the patience of the hand that gathers.

Our botanical fragrances are composed entirely of plant distillates, tinctures, and resins, never synthetic accords, allowing each note to unfold as it would in nature: imperfect, tender, and alive.

Lavande et Dill is an ode to land and lineage, to the quiet storytelling found in herbs, flowers, roots, and resin. It recalls the memory of places tended and remembered, of ancestral gardens, and of the earth itself, still fragrant after rain.

10/27/2025

From honeycomb and seaweed to root and resin. Each formula a continuation of old world ritual, distilled into devotional skincare.

10/16/2025

𝑄 & 𝐴: 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑙

An interview with the Toronto Guardian

Part 2:

Q: What made you want to do this work?

A: I’ve always been rooted in tactile exploration, working with natural elements and following curiosity wherever it led.

That curiosity deepened into a study of traditional herbalism, the resurrection of historic distillation practices, and the realization that so much of what we now call wellness was built on the lineage of herbal knowledge passed quietly through generations.

I love connecting with people and creating experiences that tell rich, atmospheric stories through flowers and scent. Building spaces that feel like sanctuaries has always been part of that calling, places I would crave to visit myself, time and time again, to nurture a sense of devotional self-care.

Our first shop in Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood, Rowan Homespun Market, became exactly that: a sunlit community hub where people from all walks of life came to gather, sip tea, share and learn.

It was a space that celebrated old-world herbcraft and the quiet ways it continues to merge with modern botanical science.

The Archival Atelier is a continuation of this journey, and it feels beautifully ingrained, an ouroboros, full circle - a return to the essence of why I began. A place where past and present meet in ritual, and where the work feels both entirely new and deeply remembered.

10/14/2025

𝑄 & 𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑙
An interview with the Toronto Guardian

Part 1:

Q: Who are your clientele/demographics?

A: The people who find their way to Tidelands House are seekers of ritual and story. They are drawn to experiences that carry depth, that feel chosen. There is a shared reverence for history, sustainability, and the quiet poetry of materials sourced with care.

Our patrons are looking for skincare that feels nutritive, living, and vibrant, formulations that move beyond surface care into something more sensory and soulful. They value an ethos built on thoughtfulness and slowness, where each creation holds a trace of the land it came from.

They are the kind of people who pause, who lift a vessel and feel its stillness, who crave moments of beauty that transcend the rush of modern life. For them, skincare is less about appearance and more about awareness: a daily ritual of returning to the body, honouring the skin as an extension of the natural world.

Our work speaks to those who find meaning in the old-world rhythm of botanical storytelling, in roots, resins, and petals, and who long for a connection that feels both ancient and immediate. The formulas are for everyone, created with the intention of communion and kinship, an invitation to inhabit beauty as ritual rather than routine.

For many, a visit to the atelier becomes a pilgrimage of sorts, a way to reconnect to something elemental, tactile, and profoundly restorative.

Address

20 Grand Avenue South No. 103
Cambridge, ON
N1S2L4

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 3pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Website

http://www.tidelandshouse.com/

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