Half Acre Botanicals

The flagship tin

Confluence

A handmade botanical salve. The tin you pass to a friend.

Open Confluence 1 oz tin and lid

How to use it

  1. Warm a little between your fingers and rub it into your skin.
  2. If you notice a tingle, that’s the Acmella.
  3. A little goes far. It may mark light fabric before it sets.
  4. Adults. For external use only. Do not apply to broken or abraded skin. Do not use when nursing. Keep away from eyes. Contains plants from the daisy family (Asteraceae). If you react to ragweed or daisies, test a small patch first. Stop if irritation occurs.
Hands rubbing a small amount of salve into skin A woman sitting still at the edge of a garden Evening supper at a garden table

What it is

Six streams. One salve.

Plants in oil. Five essential oils. Magnesium. MSM. PEA. Acmella oleracea (paracress). Sunflower lecithin so the powders take to the oil. Beeswax to hold it. A mineral and two purified compounds ride with the garden.

The long infusion

Comfrey grown on the acre sits in oil for weeks in the sun, with two other botanicals. That is how the plants get into the tin — not as tea, as oil that sat with them.

After the weeks we strain the plants out and keep the oil. The other streams join that oil.

Five oils

Five essential oils, one conversation.

We stopped at five so the kettle still smells like itself.

Magnesium

Magnesium chloride, nigari-grade, from brine.

We use nigari-grade — named, from brine — because a mineral in a garden salve has to be one we can point to.

MSM

MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), distilled. This powder puts that stream in the salve.

We use MSM — distilled, named, traceable — because the powder has to be one we would put on family.

The quiet one and the tingle

PEA (palmitoylethanolamide). A manufactured powder. It does not tingle. It is the quiet stream in this pair.

Acmella is a flowering herb. If you notice a tingle, that’s the Acmella. Some people feel a strong tingle. Some barely feel it. Intensity varies, and that’s normal.

Lecithin

Sunflower lecithin. Mineral, MSM, PEA, and the plant extract do not mix into oil on their own. Lecithin is the step that lets them ride with the infusion instead of sitting as grit.

Sunflower, not soy. A step in the kettle, not a slogan. We do not call it liposomal.

Batch 01 ingredients

Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Beeswax, Dimethyl Sulfone, Lecithin, Glycerin, Palmitamide MEA, Acmella Oleracea Extract, Tanacetum Annuum Flower Oil, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Copaifera Officinalis Resin, Magnesium Chloride, Boswellia Sacra Oil, Helichrysum Italicum Flower Oil, Russian Comfrey (Symphytum × uplandicum) Leaf Extract, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Boswellia Sacra Resin Extract.

This list is for Batch 01. The next batch’s list may change.

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