J and L Industries Herbal Apothecary

08/26/2024

It’s been a while since we posted. Life has gotten a little crazy but we are still here. I’m jumping on today to get some info out into the universe. I personally follow a bunch of holistic influencers and today one literally threw up a huge red flag in regards to autoimmune. She recommended mushrooms like reshi and turkey tail for anyone with any autoimmune. The problem is she herself doesn’t have autoimmune and she doesn’t know the triggers intimately as I do living with sjogrens. If you suffer from lupus or sjogrens and possibly others like mcas do not jump on the mushroom trends. They contain sulfites which can greatly trigger flares. Garlic is another huge one for sulfites. If you have a known sulfa drug allergy this translates across the board to sulfites in foods and sulfates in personal care products. Processed foods also contain sulfites. The list is long and unfortunately there is not a full list available online. I’ve pieced the list together through several articles and I am thankful I did. I do not have flares constantly anymore. If the person your listening to does not have autoimmune just know they did not do the deep dive research in regards to these issues as I certainly have. All herbalists are not the same and not all of them know what they are talking about. I hope this post saves someone from feeling horrible over a trend that seems healthy and helpful but really is absolutely not. Hope everyone has a great week.

01/29/2024

We went hunting turkey tails yesterday and found some. They are air drying for later use. We also got our new herb shipment in today. We will be playing with new slaves very soon. Hormone balancing slaves. I’m pretty excited about that. We will also be restocking bone heal very soon and I’m going to make a crepey skin xl. The crepey skin is fantastic to reduce signs of aging and relieves winter skin like no other but I think we can add to that so we are going to go for it. Look for a few new posts from us this week!! Happy Monday!

01/27/2024

Getting some stuff made today. We are having a family event and we need our bar back. It was recently covered in a great deal we got on organic oranges. They have now been sliced and sent to the dehydrator for teas. We just like making our own so much better for quality. We then processed our organic ginger and turmeric for anti inflammatory fermented/infused honey. This batch contains ginger and turmeric both fresh with one slice each organic polish dehydrated orange, a couple cloves, a small cinnamon stick and 4 pepper corns to activate the curcumin in the turmeric. We personally love to sweeten our teas with these fermented honeys.

01/25/2024

Lemon juice ice cubes. 💚

Easy to make and really good for you!

Did you know the benefits of drinking lemon water include aiding in digesting, helping you lose weight, a vitamin C and potassium boost, preventing kidney stones and helps keep your body hydrated!

I use 1 cube in 32 ounces of water twice a day, 3 times a week.

01/22/2024

Some absolutely gorgeous Polish oranges from the.bensons.humble.homestead headed to the dehydrator. 💚

01/20/2024

Headed to do deliveries today. We will be dropping a few things off at the.bensons.humble.homestead like anti inflammatory tea, elder gummies, prickly lettuce tincture, cleavers tincture, elderflower tincture and anti anxiety elixir.

01/13/2024

Some amazing Meyer Lemons headed to the dehydrator!
Thank you the.bensons.humble.homestead for having amazing produce this time of year!
These will make a great addition to our herbal blends.

01/13/2024

Playing with hair growth oils today. This is batana oil and castor oil with rosemary, clove and cinnamon. We are going to let this marry for a few weeks and then test it out. Batana oil will regrow thinning hair and fix alopecia, which is more common these days due to autoimmune and laurel sulfate in your shampoos. If your hair is coming out and thinning please check your shampoo ingredients. They add in laurel sulfate to make it suds up so it’s in almost all your run of the mill brands. We recommend finding hair products that clearly say no parabens, sulfates or phthalates, mineral oil, PEGs, artificial dyes or propylene glycol.

12/30/2023

It’s been a while since we posted. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We make bone heal salve for broken bones and or severe injuries. It really speeds up healing and reduces scarring. This is the second person who has benefitted from it due to severe injury. Sorry about the somewhat graphic picture but could you imagine two weeks ago this foot was far far worse. We are super pleased that bone heal is such a champion. This is one I stock on request so if you think you need bone heal in your life let us know!!

12/29/2023

Wishing Everyone a safe and happy New Years weekend, and a healthy new year.
We will be running a new year’s special starting in January. Stay tuned for more details! 😁🎉

12/24/2023

12/08/2023

Restocked skin heal salve today too. This salve is excellent for psoriasis and eczema and safe enough to use on my 10 month old grandson. He hasn’t had bumpy skin since I made this the first time a few months ago!! $20 for 2oz tin. Shipping standard is about $5.05.