Healing Salves - demonstration/talk
Time: 3:30 - 4:00 p.m
Date: October 26, 2003
Place: Classroom, MHS Education Building
Speaker: Julia Peterson
(Brief bio) Julia Peterson is the proprietor of Emporium Naturals, a charming retail giftshop located in quaint, North Scituate, MA (the back of the shop is devoted to her wholesale mail-order supply company for soapmakers). Ms. Peterson has been making soap for over 25 years, incorporating her love of herbs with a desire to make natural products for her family. What began as a hobby slowly grew into a thriving local business. Ms. Peterson is a member of the New England Unit of the Herb Society of America and The Soapmaker's Guild. She offers classes and workshops on soapmaking, healing salves and other topics at her shop. Contact Emporium Naturals 781-545-0567 or www.emporiumnaturals.com for more information. Note: Julia Peterson demonstrated natural soapmaking at our first Herbal Harvest Fair.
Description:
Julia Peterson will demonstrate how to make a healing salve using simple ingredients commonly found in the kitchen and the garden. She'll describe what a salve is and demonstrate the process by making a small batch. The first 25-30 people will get a free sample to take home. A handout will be provided describing the technique, a list of ingredients for making different types of salves, as well as a list of popular herbs and their properties.
* A salve is a blend of herbs macerated in oil to extract the herb's useful constituents for external application. A salve using one herb is called a 'simple' and a blend of herbs is called a 'compound'
