Untamed Alchemy engages the magic & medicine of herbs, aromatics, and botanical distillates in exceptional blends & remedies for skin care, self-care, health, and wholeness. Our creams, salves, lotions, serums, gels, and other formulas are "wild and wise, natural and intentional, pure and simple®."
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SKIN CARE
Featuring plants grown in our own medicine garden along some locally wild-crafted medicinals, our inspired formulas and remedies reflect our passion for plants, the medicine of nature, the wisdom of evidence-based science, the abundance of our farm gardens, the magic of our stills, and the wisdom of 30+ years of experience, education, relationship, and reciprocity.
Our blends are unique, time-tested, purpose-driven, and crafted by a trained, experienced natural cosmetic formulator with an absurd love of herbs, aromatics, science, artisanal crafts, and Mother Earth chemistry.
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HERBAL & AROMATIC FORMULATIONS
Curious how it all comes together?
You can explore and shop Untamed Alchemy's products by their category (cream/lotion, balm/salve, gel, hydrosol/sprays, etc.), broad application (face, hand/body, shower/bath, etc.), or featured farm flora.
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FLORA
TRAUMA OIL
(CALENDULA, ARNICA, ST. JOHN'S WORT)
HANDCRAFTED
from our own medicinal plants and beneficial botanicals
Our small-batch botanical products include medicinal plants & flowers thoughtfully grown in our medicine garden, around our farm, or, more rarely, regionally wild-crafted for hand-harvesting at their peak. After preparation via infusion, dehydration, or distillation, the resulting oils, extractions, and hydrolats are expertly blended in small batches into one or more of our inspired formulas.
AFTER MANY YEARS AS A FARMER, GARDENER, DISTILLER, HERBALIST, AROMATHERAPIST, AND NATURAL SKINCARE FORMULATOR, NOTHING HAS INFORMED OR ELEVATED MY WORK WITH MEDICINAL PLANTS & BLENDING MORE THAN BEING IN DIRECT, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MEDICINE AND PLANTS THEMSELVES AS I CULTIVATE, CELEBRATE, AND WORK WITH THEM EVERY DAY.
Because we grow, collect, prepare, and blend with our own farm-sourced ingredients in small batches, our ingredients and products are uncommonly fresh. After hand-harvesting, many of our aromatic plants are immediately distilled, infused, or otherwise prepared for the next step in their transformation. In fact, most of our featured flora travel less than 500 feet in their alchemical journey from "raw material" to finished Untamed Alchemy formula.
You can learn more about the individual botanicals and plant families we engage and the various products they inform by exploring our farm flora or shopping by featured botanical.
UNTAMED
un·tamed | \ ˌən-ˈtāmd
not made less wild or less difficult to control; not tamed, especially by imposed constraints.
ALCHEMY
al·che·my | \ ˈal-kə-mē
a seemingly magical process of transformation, transmutation, creation, dynamic connection, or combination that yields something altogether new and greater than the sum of its original parts
purpose-driven
CRAFTED with INTENTION
Our blends are time-tested, purpose-driven, and crafted by a trained, experienced natural cosmetic formulator with an absurd love of gardening, distillation, and Mother Earth chemistry. Many of Untamed Alchemy's bestselling formulas began as natural herbal/aromatic solutions to the wants and needs of our household, friends, family, and community.
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THE BOMB! was originally crafted in 2012 to soothe and heal the dry, cracked, stiff hands of an animal surgeon friend who found her hands woefully damaged by repeated use of antibacterial soap before surgery.
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SEED+FRUIT began as an antioxidant-rich love letter to my own chapped, wind-weary face after a long winter spending time outdoors in the blistering cold
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NORTH FOREST was a gift for my Oregon-born, Doug fir-loving husband who had been using OoLaLa! liquid salve to tame and moisturize his beard
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BUG OFF! was born to keep me (a veritable mosquito magnet) protected from angry bites while I went about my business outside
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S.O.S. was crafted to comfort and soothe the mosquito bites I inevitably get when I don't use BUG OFF! because I somehow think I'll be faster than a mosquito when I run out to turn off a hose or tuck the chickens in for the night
Whether you seek a sublime botanical moisturizer, a soothing herbal skin cream, a timely seasonal remedy, a restorative creative workshop, or a farm-distilled hydrosol, UNTAMED ALCHEMY® offers something wild and wise, natural and intentional, pure and simple® to empower and encourage your sense of beauty, health, and wholeness.
UNTAMED ALCHEMY is a safe space for LGBTQIA+ community members. Proud to have been a sponsor of the Sandpoint PRIDE Festival 2024.
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