From Blossom to Balm:

Our skin care formulas feature organically grown ingredients from our gardens in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State.

All products are handcrafted in small batches and packaged in recyclable or home-compostable containers.

We test new items only on willing friends and family, never on animals.

Thirsty Face and Thirstier Facial Serums

handmade natural soap

The OHL Story

We grew from tinkering in a tiny home kitchen and backyard garden on the Connecticut shore

to formulating precious wild and cultivated ingredients in beautiful Naples, New York.

Here’s our story in a nutshell. We’re glad you stopped by!

onhandlotions

natural skin care + body care ::: 100% handmade from blossom to balm in Upstate New York

Sparkly lotion bar babes all lined up. Supply chai

Sparkly lotion bar babes all lined up. Supply chain challenges mean pressing baking cups into the tins instead of pleated rice paper, but it works! Still compostable, too. 🌱 The stars are back. 💫🌟✨

Weird hazard of the job: superfine biodegradable g

Weird hazard of the job: superfine biodegradable glitter. It. Gets. Everywhere. For a few days a year I clear the shop kitchen, tape off the HVAC and doorways, wear a full respirator and make our glitter products. Today is day three and I'm completely covered in it. 😆 So, um, if you happen to be at our CSA pickup tonight and see a sparkly human who looks like she could use a shower and a drink, say hi. It's me. ☺️✨

PS Bright Star bars will be back in stock by Friday 🌟

Small sample of ROY(GBIV) on deck! Ooh I wish you

Small sample of ROY(GBIV) on deck! Ooh I wish you could see the brilliant rainbows of petals and leaves in person. Not shown, but no less exciting: fresh indigo and a few cakes of finished fermented indigo powder. I've run a few test batches and so many new shades are possible this season. 💙💜💚

It's been pretty quiet here. Pails of raw ingredients like this are the core of OHL's form, function and fragrances, and summer gets busy. The kids harvest plant material each morning and I slooooowly process it into scents and natural colors. Feels good to be back at it and I seriously can't believe we get to keep doing this!!! ✨ I'm excited to share what I've been working on for you this fall and winter.

Happy midsummer, friends. Thank you always for your friendship and support. -Hayna 🏵️

More Dragon Wing, Chinotto and Imagination art soa

More Dragon Wing, Chinotto and Imagination art soaps!

Hey, so I messed up 🤦🏻‍♀️ but it could be a good thing if you missed out on these in March. A back-end code error a while ago set the quantities for the remaining OHL Kids Art Soaps, and a few other things, at zero. There are still some available!

Left to Right:

🐉 Dragon Wing / Ethereal, moody, equal parts brooding and bright. Scent is velvety, earthy and citric herbal with bergamot, vetiver and lime zest, warmed by the tiniest amount of rose.

🍊 Chinotto / With its sparkling veins and sunset ombre, this soap looks like striated sandstone. The scent reminds me of its namesake bitter citrus of Italy, Spain, Morocco: spicy and bright with grapefruit peel, kumquat, baby ginger, black pepper.

🧠 Imagination / So many superheroes, villains and random objects appear in this batch's imagery. Scent is earthy, subtle and fresh with rosemary, pine, juniper berry, bergamot and frankincense.

All are scented and colored with only natural ingredients.

Calendula and chamomile in the garden. Not shown:

Calendula and chamomile in the garden. Not shown: a 75' bed dedicated to non-OHL edible flowers planted in ROYGBIV order. I used to be all about maximized practical productivity, aka growing only food and eking as much nutrition as possible from every square foot. It took years to realize beauty and joy are a different kind of nourishment, and still every bit as crucial as potatoes and greens. Even the simplest flowers bring so much happiness. 🏵️

Also: Thirsty Face serum is back in stock, with some of this season's flowers in it. 🙌🏽

Happy July, friends. Enjoy the sun and rain alike. ☀️🌄✨

::: Doomscroll interruption ::: Happy Pride and Ha

::: Doomscroll interruption :::
Happy Pride and Happy Summer, friends. Remember to rest and nourish yourselves, especially in the midst of [all of this].

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

1. Edibles, foraged and grown
2. First stage of a cattail reed weaving project by one of the kids
3. Equisetum (horsetail) growing through an old dock
4. 15' tall mother elder tree in bloom, finally flourishing after years of efforts to eliminate invasive multiflora rose from her surroundings
5. Echinacea flowering soon!

P.S. Donations from OHL are headed to @trevorproject and @abortionfunds this week. We might be outside and offline a lot these days but we're still paying attention.
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Happy Juneteenth! Today we're sending funds to Flo

Happy Juneteenth! Today we're sending funds to Flower City Noire Collective to help support their weekend-long Garden Build Block Party. Follow @fcnc585 and check the amazing work: creating a new community space, beautifying the block, and building a shared garden to nourish the people in every way. Tonya and Kristen, we love what you're doing and thank you. You pour light and joy back into hurting communities and we are all better for it. 🖤

White and fellow non-Black POC, you know what to do.

Please donate here 👉🏽
http://flowercitynoirecollective.org/donate/

Real quick Saturday night post after a week outsid

Real quick Saturday night post after a week outside because wow, summertime can be SO ITCHY! These are our standbys during camping/gardening/foraging/haying season:

🌿 Camper's Favorite soap is made with fresh jewelweed, comfrey, plantain, calendula, lavender and a tiny bit of camphor. We use it to wash off irritants after a day outdoors, and immediately after exposure to poison ivy.

🌿 Fix It Balm, a daypack staple made with calendula, chamomile and zinc oxide, is our go-to for bug bites and scrapes. Bonus: the formula is moisturizing enough to help ease dry cracked garden hands and cuticles.

Hope this helps. Gonna go scrub up now. 🧼

BERRIES!!! And friends. Peak strawberry season in

BERRIES!!! And friends. Peak strawberry season in the Finger Lakes means pies, jams, daily shortcake and some super fresh seasonal products. Stay tuned. 🍓

We're feeling incredibly lucky to live in a place rich with organic produce, amazing people and healthy soil, where we know the farmers' names and faces and they know ours. Big thanks to Malcolm at @artofthesunfarm and Jenny and Erik at @fellenzfamilyfarms for growing such abundance in both food and friendship over the years.
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When OHL first launched in 2014, we were in a rough spot and had little more than a dream, an intense work ethic and each other. Andy Fellenz gave us our public start by inviting us to set up at his CSA pickups and offering some advice that saved us from many market newbie mistakes. This built our (OK, my/Hayna's) confidence, and our in-person event presence bloomed from there. Thank you, @fellenzandy. We owed ya back then and still do now.
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TL;DR: Our existence and growth are thanks to farmers and always have been; friendship is everything; berries are delicious.

P.S. Today's the last day for code STRAWBERRY15 - get 15% off just about everything on the site including strawberry scrub. 🍓

🍓 Code STRAWBERRY15 gets you 15% off almost eve

🍓 Code STRAWBERRY15 gets you 15% off almost everything, now through Sunday. First sale code since 2019; whaaaaat? 🍓

✨ Good morning, strawberry season! Brought back a spring-summer favorite this week: Strawberry Daiquiri Scrub. Sweet dried organic local berries from @artofthesunfarm, tart lime and mandarin evaps and extracts, moisturizing oils. Love.

✨ If you've been following a while you may also know our love of good food and drink, and maybe you've seen my explorations about what it means to be Korean-American. In late winter—just for fun and with the encouragement of many friends—I launched a recipe blog, @nourishingjang. You'll find the strawberry simple syrup there along with a growing collection of food, cocktail and NA recipes. Hop on over if you'd like to check it out, and cheers to spring and strawberries!

Strawberry Daiquiri recipe:
2 oz white rum (I used Flor de Caña here)
.75 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz strawberry simple syrup
Shake vigorously with ice, strain into chilled glass. Garnish with lime and berries.

Lavender + sage + white pine = Pink Moon Soft, ca

Lavender + sage + white pine =
Pink Moon

Soft, calm, peaceful. This soap is colored with alkanet infusion and rose clay, and scented with @auroralavenderfarm lavender layered with other botanicals from our hillside in Bristol. Like everything we make, Pink Moon contains only natural fragrances and colorants. 🌿

Quick note: A few things have come up in recent months and I can no longer hold private sampling sessions or open shop hours. I'm happy to continue offering contactless local pick up in Naples NY, sharing product recommendations (DM or email are great!), and of course, shipping all over. Thank you for understanding.
☮️&💜
Hayna

In December 2012 our kids were four, two, and newl

In December 2012 our kids were four, two, and newly born. We lived in southwestern Connecticut. In the weeks before the Sandy Hook shooting we spent a day with our Newtown friends: kids laughing and running around the house; parents communing over the challenges and rewards of raising family members; all of us soaking up the assumed safety and community. Several of us had relocated from New York, reconnecting in Connecticut after years of overlap in aid and activism.

That afternoon we made soft pretzels together. The kids dipped them in mustard and jam. Not quite two weeks later our collective world shattered, our friends' much more viscerally and irreparably than ours.

Ten years later we watch in horror as other friends' family members are gunned down while grocery shopping—grocery shopping!—while Black. The next day we see Asian elders shot while attending church. This week we witnessed yet another act of terror unfold, wrought upon a predominantly Latin American elementary school in Texas. Our hearts break open again and it inevitably sends us, and many more, right back to those dystopian weeks of late 2012. These families; these children; these communities.

The violence has to stop. Hear me out: While the desperate roots of unchecked capitalism, white supremacy and toxic patriarchy are to blame and we have so much work to do to dismantle them, easy access to firearms has enabled this horrific, disgusting, specific outcome to replay over and over. H.R.8 - the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 was passed by the House in March 2021 but sits stagnant in the Senate, even though 90% of the electorate is in favor of the Act. Background checks support responsible gun ownership and neither exert undue control nor infringe upon our rights. My (legal) rifle and your pistol are fine. Your neighbors with domestic violence convictions? Not the same.

H.R.8 is not a perfect or complete solution but this is a significant step toward reducing gun violence deaths. If we continue to ignore it, and continue to defer all responsibility, we continue to add the blood of children to our wringing hands. Please support H.R.8 and ask your senators to do the same.

💜 Flower City Lilac Love 💜 Thank you, Patric

💜 Flower City Lilac Love 💜 Thank you, Patricia! Feeling humbled and grateful to receive such a glowing recommendation. 🙏🏽
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Thank you all for the kind messages and good thoughts during a rough couple weeks, and for helping our friends at Hollerhorn by sharing and contributing to their fundraiser. Y'all are the best. ✨

Image text: "If you're looking for hand-crafted, high quality soaps, scrubs, etc, I can't rave loud enough about the products from On Hand Lotions. They use organically grown ingredients from their gardens in the Finger Lakes (Lilac is my absolute fave, but they have so many amazing items). In addition to using them myself, it's also become one of my "go to" gifts for people who aren't from our area, or who are from here but find themselves far from home. Go check it out!! (I don't get a kick back, I'm just sharing because it's a phenomenal business in my hometown and feel like some of you will fall in love with it, too #SupportLocal"

🌈 Double rainbows over Naples, after the storm

🌈 Double rainbows over Naples, after the storm ✨ Thank you for your patience as we work to get orders out, customs finished and quotes sent. You are all amazing and we're grateful for your trust and support.

Our hearts have split into a thousand pieces this week as we mourn three friends lost in traumatic ways, dashed hopes and dreams for many, upsetting health news, and now, Buffalo. 🖤

I hesitated to share all of this but acknowledge that OHL is far from some giant faceless corporation. This is a small business run by real people with full, wonderful, sometimes challenging lives, and great big hearts for those we love. This means outside life occasionally takes precedence. I promise we will back in the swing of things soon.

These rainbows are for Ryan, Phil, Shireen and their families; Jordaen and Blake; our friends at @hollerhorndistilling; the entire City of Buffalo, NY; and several others who wish to remain unnamed.

Sending love and hope to you, too, as you read this. I'm thankful for you.
-Hayna

Photo by @barb_rathbun_photography 💜

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