Apothecary Tinctura

02/04/2026

“A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.” -Bell Hooks

In times of so much hate, remember radical love and tender care— love for yourself and love for your community. We need people to step up and fight for those they love and for what they love.

💘Our “Heart Matters” tea blend helps you hold space for the grief you may be feeling, strengthens the heart, and soothes feelings of anxiety and panic so you can be sustained in this fight for our neighbors.

🥀The rose is a beautiful flower, gentle and loving, yet its thorns remind us of our strength and power to fight back against those who wish to do us harm. We have a sweet rose petal elixir, dried rose petals and buds, rose drinking chocolate, and rose & frankincense bath salt blend for you to connect with this power.

♥️Red represents our passion, our anger, our unabashed love, our energy and our drive for action. Light a red candle and find your inner fire.

Celebrate Galentine’s and Valentine’s Day by showing up for yourself and your community ✨✊🏽

02/01/2026

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The evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano has done groundbreaking experiments suggesting plants have the capacity to learn, remember, and make choices. That’s not all.

Gagliano, a senior research fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia, talks to plants. And they talk back.

Through psychedelic experiences, Gagliano reports plants having guided her with instructions on how to live and work.

Along with forest scientists like Suzanne Simard and Peter Wohlleben, Gagliano raises profound scientific and philosophical questions about the nature of intelligence and the possibility of “vegetal consciousness.” But what’s unusual about Gagliano is her willingness to talk about her experiences with shamans and traditional healers, along with her use of psychedelics. For someone who’d already received fierce pushback from other scientists, it was hardly a safe career move to reveal her personal experiences in otherworldly realms.

Gagliano considers her explorations in non-Western ways of seeing the world to be part of her scientific work. “Those are important doors that you need to open and you either walk through or you don’t,” she told me. “I simply decided to walk through.” Sometimes, she said, certain plants have given her precise directions on how to conduct her experiments, even telling her which plant to study. But it hasn’t been easy. “Like Alice, [I] found myself tumbling down a rather strange rabbit hole,” she wrote in a 2018 memoir, Thus Spoke the Plant. “I did doubt my own sanity many times, especially when all these odd occurrences started—and yet I know I do not suffer from psychoses.”

Steve Paulson talked with Gagliano at Dartmouth College, where she was a visiting scholar. They spoke about her experiments, the new field of plant intelligence, and her own experiences of talking with plants.

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01/30/2026

We resolutely stand in solidarity with the general strike on 1/30.

We unequivocally demand an end to the injustice, terro, and dehumanizing violence perpetrated by ICE, and those who support them, against our communities.

We believe collective action is a necessary medicine in times of harm, erasure, and systemic violence.

As a small, independent business, fully closing our doors again this week isn’t something we can sustainably do right now. That truth is part of the reality many small businesses face, especially those rooted in care and community. We are very grateful to all of the small businesses that engaged in thoughtful collaborative conversation around this topic! But we believe we can still be of service.

Instead of closing we are…

🫖 Remaining open as a safe gathering space

🌿 Offering a free cup of tea all day—no purchase required

💛 Donating 3% of all proceeds to for their work supporting immigrants and families impacted by detention and deportation

What you can do:
• Show up in ways that are sustainable for you.
• Support mutual aid and frontline organizations
• Talk with neighbors, organize locally.
• Rest. Grieve.
• Stay centered in your own heart.
• Stay connected to community.

Resources to donate time/money/support to:

Casa de Paz – community-based support for immigrants and families

RAIN - Refugee and Immigrant Network

Movimiento Cosecha – organizing for immigrant justice

Local mutual aid networks in your city or county (tag below or share in the places that feel safe)

Resistance looks like a lot of different things.
Sometimes it looks like keeping the hearth lit.
Sometimes it looks like tea, warmth, and choosing each other.

And remember to keep asking and aligning yourself with whatever it looks like for you as best you can, as often. As you can. 💚

With gratitude and resolve,
Apothecary Tinctura

12/11/2025

12/01/2025

❄️🪩 HOLIDAY SALE 🪩❄️
• We are having a Holiday Sale 12/11-12/14 on all Apothecary Tinctura Bodycare Products!! This includes our Carrier Oils, Essential Oils, Sea and Bath Salts, Hydrosols and Formulated Sprays, Pelvic Steams, Scrubs and Creams, Mix-It-Up Powders, Butters and Wax! Come on in to stock up on goodies for your self-care or grab some gifts for loved ones for this holiday season! •

11/23/2025

🍃🫖 Cold weather doesn’t have to mean cold/flu season! Come grab some of our Be Well tea blend to stay healthy this year. We’ve got some new French presses and other tea strainers to make your tea time easier! 🫖🍃

11/17/2025

• New 100% cotton blankets to snuggle up with as the nights get longer • Wrap yourself up, grab a cup of tea and become the cozy woodland creature of your dreams 🕯️🐿️🫖🌙🦔🍂

10/31/2025

• Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain to all • 🎃🕷️🕸️🔮🪦🕯️

10/28/2025

Do you smell it…that smell…a kind of smelly smell….that smells….smelly 🍃💨🪾🕯️

10/06/2025

As the days get shorter and colder, light up your space with ! Local candles “poured by humans” with cozy scents that add some warmth to your home 🕯️🍂✨

09/29/2025

🫧We just restocked ‘s botanical tarot bath salts and shower steams! With the days growing colder and rainier it’s the season for luxurious baths, come grab one of these fragrant steams and salts to soak your stresses away. 🛁🪷✨🫧

06/22/2025

We sang, drummed, celebrated, shared personal intentions, wove flower crowns, played in the sun, found respite in the shade. We were a community of friends and strangers who feasted together and spoke blessings for the collective.
It was an absolute gift.
Wishing you all a Happy Solstice on this longest day.☀️