A.S Apothecary

A.S Apothecary Menopause Specialist, Skincare, Sustainable Beauty Brand of 2024. 0% ABV Wild Eve, Teas, Cacao & Tinctures and Coffee Roaster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Isle of Harris
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We are a small batch distillery. We make completely natural scents, creams and balms from flowers, bark, leaves, roots, blossom and moss that we pick in the fields, mountains and gardens that we love. Our work is a conversation with the plants. We grow, harvest and forage for our own and then distil, refine and transform their essence into singularly lovely natural scent and nourishing skincare.

I've been writing on the blog about problem solving for products and how we approach tinkering with our formulations
05/04/2026

I've been writing on the blog about problem solving for products and how we approach tinkering with our formulations

team decision making leads to good decisions for the business and for the organic products we choose to make by hand in small batches. Growing plants in Scotland for the beauty business is an exciting process especially now when spring is pretty much here.

Well hello British Summertime 😂 hasn’t quite arrived in the Outer Hebrides yet. Bright sun but bitterly cold wind and in...
05/04/2026

Well hello British Summertime 😂 hasn’t quite arrived in the Outer Hebrides yet. Bright sun but bitterly cold wind and intermittent hail on my walk today. Have returned home windswept and sand blasted ready for chocolate 😊

The latest lot of our lovely Harris Rose Shampoo is back in stock after weeks of sitting curing on the rack. It’s made f...
02/04/2026

The latest lot of our lovely Harris Rose Shampoo is back in stock after weeks of sitting curing on the rack. It’s made from the infused Rose water left in the Still after distilling our Roses and it smells wonderfully of old fashioned Roses. Every part of our work with our Roses is an absolute delight, growing, picking and making is joyful and both the Shampoo bar and the Mist are divine. https://asapoth.com/products/shampoo-bars?variant=56381415686475

01/04/2026

This month every order over £50 will receive a complimentary Lip Balm.

I have been waiting (im)patiently first for our ceremonial Cacao and then for our special blend of functional mushrooms ...
31/03/2026

I have been waiting (im)patiently first for our ceremonial Cacao and then for our special blend of functional mushrooms to arrive - the first lot went astray and so we had to wait for a second lot to brave the waves and get to our island home. It arrived today and I’m very very happy to tell you that it is back in stock online and all ready for you. https://asapoth.com/products/serene-sleep-ritual-cacao

31/03/2026
It’s all happening in the greenhouse - the moment the first scented plants come into flower I’m so happy. The Magnolia s...
28/03/2026

It’s all happening in the greenhouse - the moment the first scented plants come into flower I’m so happy. The Magnolia stellata is dreamy and its scent carries as I walk the length of the greenhouse . All the seeds are popping up and the Tulips and Daffodils are filling every space. 🌿

27/03/2026

I learnt to distil when I lived in Cyprus under the advice and guiding hand of my good friend Mariam Khan. I remember the moment I first smelled Orange Blossom Hydrosol, it was at Mariam’s house and she had recently distilled it, It was in a pink bottle with a spray top and she squished it in my direction. I had never smelt anything like it. It made every other Orange Blossom Water I had smelled over the years seem like a pale imitation.

That moment changed my working life, opening up endless new possibilities for scent, taste, therapeutics and plant work and I have never looked back.

We now have 3 mists at the apothecary the Hydrating Isle Mist, Harris Geranium & Witchazel and the Harris Rose

I’ve been writing about the Sea Effect on raised blood pressure, it’s absolutely fascinating
26/03/2026

I’ve been writing about the Sea Effect on raised blood pressure, it’s absolutely fascinating

Being near the sea improves mood, calms the nervous system, reduces fight or flight. It can balance the mind in grief and slow a racing heart, lower blood pressure and offer the peace to heal mentally and emotionally.

Winters in Harris feel really long, especially when all my work is with plants and everything is so much later here, so ...
22/03/2026

Winters in Harris feel really long, especially when all my work is with plants and everything is so much later here, so when everything springs back into life it feels so uplifting. We’ve still got the sneaky ‘sneachd beag nan uan’ or lamb’s snow to come so no outdoor planting for a while but the greenhouse is a toasty little haven.

Caroline made a fresh batch of Sleep Cream last week - it makes us so sleepy when we mix it that we have to go outside f...
21/03/2026

Caroline made a fresh batch of Sleep Cream last week - it makes us so sleepy when we mix it that we have to go outside for a blast of fresh air - not an issue I anticipated when I created it. 😴💤🥱

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We are unique in the world of skincare. We are a small batch distillery making natural scents, creams, aromatic waters and balms from flowers, bark, leaves, roots, blossom and moss that we grow or pick wild in the fields, mountains and gardens that we love in Sussex, Cyprus and Scotland. Our business has grown from a particular way of being, of gathering and noticing. It’s a slow, meditative process, a precise art that has been passed from hand-to-hand drawing on the alchemy of intuition and the wisdom of generations of healers, travellers and makers. We like to think that each small pot carries something subtly transformative - a vitality that comes from working with the seasons and harvesting by hand at just the right time; each one has the defining characteristics of a particular harvest, a singular moment. It’s important to us to really understand the language of smell and sensation. Scent is immediate, arresting, elusive and comforting. Like music, the notes of a scent, evoke memory, pull us back to particular places and speak to our emotions. We think that the best products capture the vitality and spirit of place within them. So many of us are separated from nature - our own nature and the rhythms of the natural world. For us, it’s all about the plants, community, environment and an appreciation of the inter-connectedness of us all. We hope that our products have a subtle, nurturing influence on body, mind and spirit and that everything that we make is a gentle catalyst for reconnection.