Wax and Bubbles

You can easily grow sage and use it’s benefits within your own home everyday. Some of the most common sage varieties are:

Purple Hybrid Sage (Salvia xsuperba): one of the best member of the genus thrives as a hardy perennial (up to Zone 4) and actually performs better in cooler climates. Has an abundant of colorful flowers, a compact growth habit and a reasonable adaptability to varying growing conditions.

Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans): Its leaves smell exactly like pineapple when gently rubbed with the fingers. In its native habitat of central Mexico, pineapple sage grows at altitudes of 6,000 to 9,000 feet, but you don’t need to line on a mountaintop to grow it easily in your own garden or flowerbed.

Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha): Is a standout in any garden. Every part of the plant seems designed for maximum beauty. The velvety, intensely purple flower spikes; the white, softly hairy stems; and the dark grayish-green leaves with white undersides.

Clary Sage (Salvia sclarea): A tall, impressive plant that grows its violet, blue and pinkish-white flowers on large, multi-branched stems. In early summer, when clary sage blooms, it is the dominant plant in any garden or flower bed.

Sages essential oil is more popular among body products is used in a lot of every day products we all commonly use everyday. Clary Sage is the most popular used and has antidepressant, anticonvulsive, antispasmodic, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, astringent, bactericidal, carminative, deodorant, digestive, emmenagogue, euphoric, hypotensive, nervine, sedative, stomachic, uterine and nerve cleansing properties.

Make these body products today and take advantage of sages great benefits.

• Clary Sage Sea Salt Body Scrub:

½ cup Sea Salt
4 Tbsp Grape seed Oil or Extra Virgin Olive Oil
¼ cup Baking Soda
5-6 drops of Clary Sage Essential Oil

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
Standing in bath tub, wet hands and apply mixture, (using small circular motion) starting with feet and work upwards towards the neck. Fill bath tub with warm water and add essential oils.
Relax for at least 15 minutes allowing skin to absorb ingredients.

• Clary Sage Body Salve:

4 tbs. carrier oil Jojoba, Apricot, or even Shea butter
3 to 4 tsp. of dried Clary Sage
1 tbsp Beeswax pellets
1 tsp Vitamin E oil
20 drops of Clary Sage Essential Oil

Gently heat oil on low heat until warm. Stirring constantly, do not allow to boil, Remove from heat and add herbs to oil, and stir with a wire whisk very quickly. Cover and allow to cool completely. Strain oil from herbs. Add the essential oil now and stir quickly again with the wire whisk.

Combine infused oils and beeswax together in a *double boiler until wax melts. Remove from heat when melted. Add remaining ingredients and stir. Pour into containers, allow to cool completely before use.