Products listed in order:  La Paix's Hydrosols, Lavender & Rose Sachets, "Honey Lips" lip balm, "Passionate Gardener's" hand cream,  Lavender, Patchouli, Lemon and Exotica fragrance creams, "Comfrey Comfort" salve, "Peaceful Kitty" catnip, Hand Painted Pots and Favorite Books.

Lavender Hydrosol. 

8 oz. blue cobalt plastic bottle with spray top:  $12.              
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or call (304) 269-7681 to use your credit card.  You may also mail check to La Paix Herb Farm, 3052 Crooked Run Rd., Alum Bridge, West Virginia 25321. 

Hydrosols are a by-product of essential oil distillation.  They hold within them the entire plant life at the time of harvest. Hydrosols are much kinder to older and younger skins and to the purse - as they are much less expensive than essential oils.  .  Lavender is only one of the hydrosols distilled at La Paix Herb Farm.  Choose from Lavender,   Peppermint, Sweet Marjoram, Rose Scented Geranium, Lavender & Roses, Oregano (the herb of the year)  or lemon balm. 

Lavender & Roses Hydrosol  Combines lavender and Rose Geranium hydrosols for a blend of both a lovely aroma and healing skin tonic.

Hydrosols have a multitude of uses: spritzing, hygiene, travel,  laundry, fine dining, beauty and skin care.  We recommend that hydrosols be refrigerated for continued freshness.  Beauty and Skin Care:  Spritz on fingernails to encourage healthy growth of nails, on face to set makeup (or with lavender to clean make up from face), as an after shave, spritz on hair and scrunch to refresh and scent hairdo, add a cup to bathwater.  Spritz Yourself:  Cool a hot flash, soothe a sunburn, soothe a pet's hot spots, clean the air, freshen the bathroom, keep in the entryway to freshen the air before guests arrive.  Hygiene:  Disinfect your hands, make your own wet wipes - for you, your pets, your baby.  Keep in the car for dirty faces, hands and baby's bottom.  Use for a healing sitz bath.  Travel:  Refresh the air during travel in car, hotel room, airplane.  Cleanse that recycled air!  Hydrosols act as air-borne viricides.  I spritz lavender hydrosol whenever I go to the market - on the carrier handles, if someone sneezes or coughs (this is a bad flu season!)

Scroll down for specific uses of various hydrosols.

2 and 4 ounce glass jars with black lids which preserve the contents for at least a year.  West Virginia beeswax, apricot kernel oil and other soothing natural essential oils, aloe vera and Vitamin E. All natural formula created at La Paix.  

2 ounces - $10 
4 ounces - $20

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The owner of Granny's Place in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, writes upon her third order in six months: "Can't say enough about the Passionate Gardener's Hand Cream.  It heals my daughter-in-law's hands and feet (eczema) and my son's hands (he works with cement and is a stone mason). Keeps my husband and I from cracked fingers and I use it on my 65 year old face for wrinkles. And it smells great.  Wonderful product."

Patchouli Scent: Earthy, smoky, spicy and musky scent.  Indicated for all aspects of the skin.  One of the most important and valuable raw materials of the perfume trade. Great in skin care as it regulates cellular tissue.  Inhaled, the scent of Patchouli is a nerve sedative and antidepressant and for some, an aphrodisiac. Externally it rejuvenates, invigorates and restores skin.

1/4 oz.  tin in presentation card - $10

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Lemon Fragrance Cream~ Aromatherapy/Home Use
Skin Care; acne, anemia, brittle nails, corns, cuts; insect bites, mouth ulcers; varicose veins; circulation;  muscles and joints: arthritis, cellulitis, high blood pressure; respiratory; asthma; throat infections; bronchitis; catarrh; immune system; colds; flu; fever and infections.  Used as a flavoring agent in pharmaceuticals. 
1/4 oz tin in presentation card

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Products listed below:  Description of Hydrosols from La Paix's Distillery, "Comfrey Comfort" salve, Sleep Pillows,  "Peaceful Kitty" catnip, Hand Painted Pots and Books.

Lavender Hydrosol from La Paix Herb Farm Distillery

A floral sweet scent with an added strong honey overtone.  Recommended for external application only.  Dilute with l/2 distilled water for children under six years of age.  The pH is normally close to that of most "balanced" cosmetic products, making it ideal for every skin type on a regular basis.  Here are a few of its many uses:

1.  Regenerative effects on damaged or fragile skin.
2.  Make up remover and cleanser, applied with a cotton ball.
3.  Mist the face and neck throughout the day to combat excessively dry atmospheres.
4.  Spray skin both before and after shaving or hair removal to reduce inflammation.
5.  Use it on the plane, all over the body, including feet and legs.
6.  Calms sunburn, heat rash, sunstroke, rashes, bug bites and itching.
7.  Natural for children:  Use to cleanse cuts and scrapes; A lavender kiss really "makes it better".
8.  Use to calm cranky moods; bring an end to tearful tantrums, add to bathwater it spray it directly on the bed for a restful night's sleep.  
9.  Little girls love to have their own perfume, and this one won't cause allergies or skin reactions.
10.  Use with babies from birth, adding to bath, use to clean baby's bottom.  Refreshing room spray for home or office.
11.  Use in the car to calm, cool and refresh in traffic.  (From Catty, Susan, Hydrosols, The Next Aromatherapy).
12.  I use it when shopping in crowded stores and someone coughs or sneezes or blows their nose close by - just a spray around me protects me from getting germs from them - and this is the first winter I have not had any respiratory illnesses!  For more information, see Hydrosols, The Next Aromatherapy  by Suzanne Catty (for sale below)...

Rose Geranium Hydrosol from La Paix Herb Farm

Pelargonium graveolens hydrosol has a green, floral, sweet and dry odor.   It is a mild antibacterial, mild antifungal, very good tonic astringent for the skin, hemostatic and mild pancreas stimulant.  Inhaled as a relaxant and anti-inflammatory.  Indicated for all conditions of the woman's reproductive system as an inhalant and massage application.  Indicated as well for all problems of the nervous system such as anxiety, agitation, and nervous fatigue.  (from Rose, Jeanne 375 Essential Oils & Hydrosols.  Frog LTD, Berkeley California, 1999.)

Peppermint Hydrosol

Mentha x piperita hydrosol has a minty, hot, but very herbaceous, vegetative back note.  It is cooling; viricide; tonic; and stimulant, particularly to heart, brain, and pancreas; nerve tonic; somewhat anesthetic; a little decongesting for the prostate; and hormonelike to regulate ovarian hormones.  Indicated for:  Insufficient liver or pancreas juices, flatulence, belching, headache, migraine, nerve pain such as sciatica and eczema.  Uses:  Very good to disinfect air for seriously ill patients with AIDS, senility, or those with high fever.  Contraindications:  Not to be used on infants or excessively used.  Do not get near eyes! (from Rose, Jeanne, op. cit.)  Editor's Note:  Peppermint hydrosol is also useful to calm bug and bee bites, for hot weather and hot flashes.  Just spray a little around neck and pulse points for cooling effect!  Can be used when driving to keep alert. 

Lemon Balm Hydrosol

According to Suzanne Catty, author of Hydrosols, the Next Aromatherapy,  "Melissa is calming to the body more than the mind but without being overly sedative.  Use it for stress, anxiety and childhood hysterics (ed.  "Many women buy it for their husbands!").  It has shown some positive results for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  For children with ADHD, use thirty milliliters in one liter of water; consume throughout the day.  For adults, double the quantity of hydrosol:  sixty milliliters in one liter of water.  During pregnancy, lemon balm can be used to treat morning sickness, digestive upsets and water retention and as a system tonic for general well-being.  Melissa is gentle enough for use on babies; try adding a teaspoon to a night time bath.  Taken internally in the three-week protocol, lemon balm makes a good prophylactic in flu and allergy season and has both immune-stimulating and some infection-fighting properties.  People who are very hypotensive should avoid the three-week protocol, as it has further lowered already low blood pressure in some clients. Lemon balm is a gentle cholagogue and has been used in digestive drinks for centuries; the hydrosol certainly aids digestion. Editor's Note:  I had a rare case of poison oak on my hand this spring (from excessive weeding, no doubt!)  I used my usual remedy - jewelweed crushed and rubbed on the area - but it didn't do the job it usually does.  So I tried lemon balm hydrosol spritzed on the infected area and it dried up the postules in a day or two!

Dave Elliott of Braintree Mass. wrote:
"Your Comfy (sic) Comfort salve is working so well that I'm re-ordering to make sure that I don't run out!  I am a Marathon Runner with an Achilles heel and your salve is wonderful."

Ingredients include olive oil, West Virginia beeswax, plantain and comfrey with essential oils of eucalyptus and Rosemary.

Comfrey Comfort Salve is sold out again.  Please order again in late May 2008.

2 oz. jar $10.  Order Now

4 oz. jar $20.  Just place order for 2- 2 oz. jars and state you want a 4 oz. jar in the Comment part of the order.  Thanks.

"THANK YOU! I received your package and it is wonderful! I love the lavender pillow. I slept with it last night, and oh, what sweet dreams. It is everything I expected and more. Thank you also for the "bonuses." I so much appreciate them. It seemed like Christmas all over. I can't wait to try everything. I will certainly be sending friends and family your way."  (S. T., Parkersburg, W.V.)

Dream away the nightmares of war and combat.  Dream of Peace with organically grown herbs of  lavender, mugwort, sweet marjoram, hops and natural rose buds.  Slip under your pillowcase for a peaceful sleep - dream of love, joy, peace.   1/8 oz. herbs plus batting.  $15.   Peace.

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La Paix Herb Farm's 
Organically Grown Catnip

1/16 ounce organically grown, naturally dried catnip in checked bag with beguiling (to your cat)  tie.   Sold in sets of three  $10.

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Limited quantities.

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$50. each.   
All signed by artist: Myra Bonhage-Hale.

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