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La Paix's products are made with all natural ingredients: West Virginia beeswax, pure essential oils and tinctures and organically grown herbs. "Comfrey Comfort" salve, "Honey Lips" lip balm and "Passionate Gardener's" hand cream are formulas created by the steward of La Paix Herb Farm.
Products: La Paix's Hydrosols,  "Honey Lips" lip balm, "Passionate Gardener's" hand cream, Lavender, Patchouli, Lemon and Exotica fragrance creams, "Comfrey Comfort" salve, "Peaceful Kitty" catnip,

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For lemon balm hydrosol, please scroll down

What's in the Bag?  Scroll Down please.

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, Rose Scented Geranium, Lavender & Roses 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.

Hydrosols are a by-product of essential oil distillation. They hold within them the entire plant life at the time of harvest.

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 )
Scroll down for specific uses of various hydrosols.

Hygiene: Disinfect your hands, make your own wet wipes - for you, your pets, your baby.

See Efficacy of Lavender in a Hospital Setting for research on lavender uses.

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.
    

Did you know lemon balm hydrosol dries up poison ivy rash within a day or two according to users?
Try it!  

 Editor's Note:  I had a rare case of poison ivy 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 pustules in a day or two!      
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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.)  Click here to order 

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 hormone like 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.  Click here to order 

            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 pustules in a day or two!       Click here to order 

What's in the Bag?

In the bag are samples of La Paix's naturally fine products:  Passionate Gardener's Hand Cream, Comfrey Comfort Salve, Honey Lips Lip Balm,
l/3 oz. Lavender Essential Oil and Bliss Fragrance Cream.  All For $25. in a lovely hand painted gauze bag.  Order Here  It's In the Bag!

La Paix Herb Farm's Passionate Gardener's Hand Cream is featured in the September  2006  Herb Companion Magazine.  (Product Page)           
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2 and 4 ounce glass jars with 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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Soothing for dry or cracked lips - without the use of petroleum by products used in commercial brands. 

3 tins $12
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New packaging for Honey Lips Lip Balm and a new choice in aroma!  Still l/2 ounce tins, but alot easier to open, just slide open from side. 

3 tins $15.
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Specify orange essential oil or
vanilla fragrance oil

Recommended for shortness of breath, depression, nervous exhaustion as well
as hysteria.  Used for treating both
anxiety and depression or a
combination of the two.  (Catty,
Hydrosols).  For fragrance or healing,
just dab a little on your wrists, neck or arms.

Lavender is an oil with good antiseptic/ bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties.  Useful for minor cuts, burns, bites and stings (researched and documented in France.).  Perhaps of the greatest value is its pronounced regulating effect on the nervous system. 

1/2 oz tin in presentation card: $10

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1/2 oz. tin with presentation card
$10.

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Used as a flavoring agent in pharmaceuticals. 
1/2 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. 

 I can state from my own experience that I accidently dropped a heavy iron bar on my foot, immediately rubbed Comfrey salve on it and the pain disappeared and none returned the next morning!  It was as if it had never happened!
2 oz. jar $10.  4 oz. jar $20.
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Ingredients include Extra Virgin olive oil, West Virginia beeswax, plantain, other wildcrafted herbs and comfrey with essential oils of eucalyptus, peppermint and Rosemary.

Numerous buyers attest that muscular aches and pains, arthritic joint pain disappear after using my green salve.   

(just take out a little and sprinkle for your cat's delight!     Sold in sets of three  $10.

La Paix Herb Farm's 
Organically Grown Catnip

1/16 ounce organically grown, naturally dried catnip in attractive boxes

Limited quantities.

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It Works - all natural and it works!
La Paix's Insect Repellent made of essential oils and hydrosols distilled at the farm.  Tested in 2008 and 2009  by a variety of individuals - keeps away flies, mosquitoes, gnats.  Order here
 

Lavender Essential Oil l/3 oz. $7.
Tea Tree Essential Oil l/3 oz.  $7.
Peppermint Essential Oil l/3 oz. $7.
3 for $20.  Order Here

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