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Cold weather can do a job on your skin, making it dry, itchy, dull, chaffed, and make wrinkles more noticable. The Herbal Toad’s new Herbal Steam Cleanse is a great way to rejuvenate and cleanse your skin, while adding nutrients, rather than stripping them away. Steaming helps soften the surface of the skin, and helps detox and dilate pores to make it easier to remove blackheads, left behind makeup, and dirt when daily cleansers cannot. This is because steaming softens the surface of your …

With so many of us at home spending more time than ever on our devices, protecting our eye health becomes a priority. View Tincture maintains and supports healthy vision by combining herbs that are all around healthful for eyesight, including helping correct damage caused by too much screen time. Herbs can clean, strengthen and regenerate the eye tissues and support blood and lymph flow within the eye tissues, allowing for optimum cellular respiration & metabolism.  View Tincture a …

Charcoal has been used medicinally for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians used it as a poultice to clean wounds. The Hindus used it for water filtration. In the 18th century, pharmacists and chemists discovered the ability of charcoal to provide protection from toxins. Modern medicine uses activated charcoal in water filters and as an antidote for poison.  Activated charcoal is a powerful tool to detoxify, purify, and clean up your skincare routine, especially if you have oily, acne …

Steam inhalation is the practice of combining herbs and essential oils with hot water to create therapeutic steam.  Essential oil steams are a good way to deliver therapeutic properties directly to the airways for relieving congestion, aches, and general discomfort of colds, flu, and other virus. The soothing warmth and moisture penetrates airways to help loosen and move mucus, delivering the herbs’ antiseptic, decongestant and airway-relaxing constituents right where they&r …

Studies show that it might be a good idea to up your daily intake of herbs to boost your body's own immune system and to fight off virus.  Most herbs have amazing antiviral properties, thanks to their concentration of potent plant compounds.  Many of these properties have been relied on for centuries to help fight cold, flu, and other viruses Here are just a few of our favorites herbs for fighting viruses. Note: It is important to understand that there is no 'cure' for most viral …