Lavender Hydro-sol

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Elementally Organically grown Lavender has now been processed into Lavender Hydro-sol.

Uses :

• Simply spritz yourself- face, hair, body, and clothes.
  • Cool a hot flash.
  • Soothe a sunburn.
  • Clean the air, very good when you are traveling as it acts as an air-borne viricide.
  • Freshen the bathroom
  • Make your own wet wipes- spray on tissue or damp clothe and use. Great for dirty faces, hands and bottoms.
  • Add a splash to white wine or champagne.
  • Spray in the dryer before adding clothes and then directly on the clothes.
  • Spray on clothes during ironing.
  • Spray on cloth napkins and tablecloth.
  • Place bowls of hydro-sol with flowers floating in them as a dining table center piece.
  • Spritz you face while stuck in traffic, very calming.
  • Spray on your exposed body deter mosquitoes and moths.
  • Spray onto burns, cuts, grazes.
  • Rub into temples when suffering headaches or migraine
  • Rinse hair to condition , can be very effective on Lice, Lice eggs and nits.
  • Spray on your pillow when going to sleep for a peaceful night’s rest.
  • Burn in a vaporizer to aid with high blood pressure, coughs and colds.
  • Spray onto your abdomen when having digestive problems
  • .Add a few drops to your bath in the evening to DE-stress.

  

  “Hydro-lat is Mum’s greatest helper”

• Available in  glass spray bottles.  R95-00
• Order via Paypal
• email aristonorganic@gmail.com for South African orders. Postage and packaging rates not included.

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A Jacuzzi full of worms

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Agriculture, animals, Cape Porcupine, compost, gardening, green tips, Jacuzzi, Red Wrigglers, Vermi-T, Vermicompost, worm

Two years ago my neighbour gave me her Jacuzzi.  Which  was placed in a nice shaded area to one side of my garden and turned into a worm farm.

The worm farm is covered over with black builder’s plastic. The plank is placed across it to deter the Cape Porcupine from raiding the farm.

A very tasty meal for the worms. People in the neighborhood bring their kitchen waste to re-cycle in the worm farm.

The worms are thriving and multiplying rapidly.

Bucket full of Vermi-T waiting to be harvested.

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Billbergia Pyramidalis

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Billbergia Pyramidalis, blooms, Bromeliad, Flowers, foliage, garden, organic, plants, pyramidalis

Billbergia pyramidalis is virtually indestructible and requires no care whatsoever as a landscape plant.  In heavy shade, the foliage will be a rich, dark green, while in sun the leaves are a bright yellow-green.  They are very cold-tolerant and are usually only damaged if a heavy frost settles on the leaves.  Even then, they quickly recover and bloom reliably each summer.  There will sometimes be a stray plant or two that blooms out of season, but the overwhelming majority of plants coordinate their blooms for a spectacular show!

Billbergia Pyramidalis

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Lavender Wands

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Ariston Elemental Organic Garden has been growing French Lavender and crafting for home use.

These delightful wands are available for sale. They can be placed in between your linen or hung up in your cupboard . The Lavender wands will ward of fish-moths and give your cupboard a delightful scent.

The Lavender wands can be hung in specific areas of your house that needs a little more calm.. they can be hung above your bed for encourage peace. They can also be hung from your rear-view mirror or placed on the dashboard of your car to decrease road rage… and they smell good.

Give them as gifts or tie them into Christmas bows and baskets.

R25-00 each

Pure Beeswax Candles

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Bee, beeswax, candle, organic

These candles are packaged in glass with a screw on lid. Made from only the purest Beeswax. Clean burning. For that special gift.

R60-00

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Ariston’s Gardener’s Hand Scrub

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almonds, Brown sugar, garden, green tips, hand scrub, health, Herb, home grown, honey, Kosher salt, Lavender, mint, natural recipe, olive oil, recipe, rosemary, Sea salt

After working the in the garden, one’s hands are normally really dirty. Here is an organic recipe to make your own “Gardener’s Hand Scrub”. Not only will it clean your hands perfectly, it will leave them soft, moisturized and smelling good.

Make your own Gardeners hand scrub with natural ingredients and herbs from your garden!

Adjust recipe if needed, this all natural recipe can be modified with different herbs from your garden, keeps well!

Mix together the following ingredients to form a nice, thick paste.

1) 2 – 3 tablespoons olive oil
2) handful of sugar (I use raw sugar)
3) kosher salt or sea salt
4) 1 tsp fresh chopped rosemary or mint, or both
5) 1-2 dried orange or lemon peels, grated (or zest of fresh citrus if you don’t have dried)
6) 2 – 3 tablespoons dried or fresh chopped lavender
7) grated knob of bar soap (optional)
8) smashed up handful of almonds or other nut on hand (optional)
9) 1 glob of honey

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Top Bar Bee Hive

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bar hive, Bee, Beekeeping, bees, environment, green tips, honey, honey bee, honeybee, Insects, nature, top bar bee hive, Top-bar hive

                           The most friendly way to keep bees is in a top bar hive.

                            Showing the landing strip and inside of the hive

           The complete hive with the removable roof to gain easy access to the hive.

 

The everlasting herb Helichrysum odoratissimum – Imphepho

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ancestors, Everlasting, fumigant, gardening, Herb, home grown, insect repellant, nature, perfume, plants, South African endemic plant, trance

As is name implies this plant has a strong smell. It is widely used as a perfume, but also as a insect repellent.

Description
Helichrysum odoratissimum is a strong aromatic, much branched perennial herb with small silvery leaves and small yellow flower heads borne in groups at the tips of the branches. Woody at the base, erect or diffuse up to 50 cm high. Leaves vary from linear-oblong, lanceolate, lingulate to spathulate, markedly decurrent, apex generally obtuse, sometimes acute, mucronate, base narrow or broad, glandular and setose-scabrid above, greyish white wooly on both surfaces, sometimes without wool. Capitula in crowded, compound inflorescence at the end of a naked peduncle. Involucral bracts obtuse, outermost wooly, inner brown and the innermost bright yellow. Bracts on the receptacle pointed, tooth-like, slightly longer the ovary. Fruit dull brown, granular.

Flowers throughout the year, but mainly from August to December in SW. Cape, January to June elsewhere.

Distribution and habitat
This plant ranges from the Soutpansberg in Limpopo through the highlands of the Mpumalanga and W. Swaziland to the Midlands and Uplands of KwaZulu-Natal, the NE. Free State, Lesotho, the Cape Drakensberg, mountains and coastal areas of Eastern Cape, across the Cape folds mountains of Cedarberg, Giftberg in Vanrhynsdorp as far as Peninsula in Western-Cape.. Also on the mountains of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and further north.

It forms large clumps in grassy or rocky slopes and will colonize bare areas such as roadsides and paths.

Flowering time
Flowers throughout the year, but mainly from August to December in SW. Cape, January to June elsewhere.

Name
The genus name refers to the golden colour, like the sun of the flowers. The specific epiphet refers to the strong frabrance of this particular species. Many of the other species are also aromatic.

Helichrysum has 600 species largely in Africa, Madagascar, also in Europe, Asia and Australia. 244 species occur in southern Africa where they are widely distributed.

Uses and cultural aspects
Leaves and stems are widely used as incense to invoke the goodwill of the ancestors, the smoke is sedative and helpful for insomnia and in Eastern-Cape people inhale it as protective cleanser and is also used medicinally for coughs and colds. Some people boil the plant and use it as a facial ointment for pimples. In Lesotho they burnt this plant to fumigate sick rooms. It is also effective in repelling parasites and insects thus ensuring good night rest.

Several species of Helichrysum are used in traditional medicines, but H. odoratissimum is widely used as a perfume and to repel insects. Southern sotho women make perfume ointment from this plant.

Source :

http://www.plantzafrica.com/planthij/helichrysodor.htm

 

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Distilling Lavender – hydro-sol

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alternative, Aromatherapy, cloth napkins, condensor, coughs and colds, distallation, Essential oil, Flowers, gardening, health, home grown, Hydro-sol, Lavender, Lavender oil, lice eggs, organic, tea urn

What is hydro-sol ?
Lavender hydro-sol is a product in the distillation of lavender.

The flowers are placed in a stainless steel colander  fitted into the top of an old Tea-urn, filled to just beneath the flowers with Spring water, then the lid is sealed.

The urn is then turned on to boil. A hole in the lid is connected to a condenser. The condenser is a series of tubes which are surrounded by cold water so that the steam and the oil that are liberated from the lavender condenses into hydro-sol and essential oil.

The oil separates out and is collected  as essential oil. The remaining hydro-sol contains fully emulsified essential oil.

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Have you had your shot of GREEN today?

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appetite suppressant, health, lowers blood pressure, organic, raw, vegetarian, wheatgrass

Wheat-grass juice is a complete food with no toxic side effects. It contains all of the vitamins and most of the minerals needed for human maintenance and well-being. It is also a complete protein with about 30 enzymes and is approximately 70% crude chlorophyll. It acts as a natural appetite suppressant so usually adding wheat-grass juice to your diet will cause you to balance your weight at the optimum for you.

Wheat grass:cleanses and builds your blood,
improves skin and hair,
builds muscle and endurance
fights infections,
lowers blood pressure,
dissolves tumors,
acts as an appetite suppressant.
Trays R 45-00, (16cm x 23 cm)
Order today. Please note there is a 12 days lead time.or order your

Wheat-grass seeds

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