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HANDMADE FROM BLOSSOM TO BALM

Skin care featuring botanicals
grown in the Finger Lakes.

Amber glass bottles of Toning Mists

Toning Face Mists

Cleaner, brighter skin awaits!
Apply after cleansing and before serum, or as a hydrating midday face mist.

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FLOWER CITY LILAC:
truly natural lilac scent

HAND & BODY SCRUB

SUSTAINABLE & SMART

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zigzag style soap dishes

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RECLAIMED RAINBOW

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Chai Spice Body Scrub

Mix and Match Lotion Bar and Lip Balm Gift Set

Thirsty Face and Thirstier Facial Serums

Ginger & Grapefruit Body Scrub

Fix It Balm with Calendula and Chamomile

From Blossom to Balm: How We Got Here

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Quick! The berries are perfect this season and I c

Quick! The berries are perfect this season and I can't decide what to make. Pick your favorite:
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Strawberry Scrub
or
Berry Bath Bombs
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Vote in the comments and I'll get to work. ❤️ Thank you!

Silly confession: OHL has made thousands of pounds

Silly confession: OHL has made thousands of pounds of soap and developed a couple hundred formulas. Even so, every time I work on a new brown soap I worry it will look like something to be flushed, thanks to my kids' unfiltered observations. It's never happened but I still cut every test batch like 👀😬.

This one came out great, though, and I'm excited to share the final version in a few months. 😍

Introducing Travertine soap and shampoo bars! Herb

Introducing Travertine soap and shampoo bars! Herbaceous, clean spicy sweetness with a hint of citrus and medicinal florals. These bare bars are rustic and marbled much like their tumbled limestone namesake. Travertine is made with fermented maple sap, rich botanicals, clays and our own hardwood activated charcoal.

P.S. Yes, these are the CT scan bars from previous posts! 😂 They're finally ready. 🖤

Renewed gratitude on a sunny day: The most abundan

Renewed gratitude on a sunny day: The most abundant foraging season begins! We use several sustainably foraged ingredients in our products and even more in our kitchen and apothecary. 1,000 thanks to the friends and family who let us explore their woods and fields, and in turn allow us to cook wild edibles for them. 💚🙏🏽

Currently, pine and spruce tips are headed for cocktail bitters, compound butter, and maple cardamom biscuits. What are your favorite forages?

Other annual gifts here include tightly wound fiddleheads both sauteed and pickled; St. John's wort and plantain in salves and tinctures; second year thistle stems peeled and roasted with wild garlic and sumac; mullein flowers in oil; cattail shoots plucked from the mud and prepared like asparagus; young milkweed stripped from the pods and incorporated into silky mock cheese sauces; roots of dandelion, burdock, marshmallow, and dock used in remedies and ferments; neverending wild greens; and so much more.

This doesn't even begin to cover the fruits, berries, barks, flowers, and fungi. The abundance is delicious, stunning and humbling. 😍 What's coming into season locally for you?

"The worker must have bread, but she must have ros

"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
- Rose Schneiderman, 1912

Bread and Roses: This powerful slogan was first spoken in 1910 by Helen Todd, a trade union leader and women's suffrage activist, and represents the right to fair wages, equal rights, and dignified conditions. We stand with workers' rights groups and believe in living wages and healthy working conditions that respect the needs of the individual.

Today we're making Bread and Roses Face Wash and Mask, a clay-based cleanser made with locally grown heritage wheat and organic roses. It's perfect for sensitive, dry or combination skin. In honor of its namesake, a portion of proceeds from every jar is donated to the ACLU.

Thank you always for supporting these causes both independently and through our work. ❤️

Flower City Lilac v4 is OHL's truest lilac yet! Th

Flower City Lilac v4 is OHL's truest lilac yet! The scent is created from our own 100% natural lilac enfleurage, not a synthetic fragrance oil, and the soap and shampoo bars and coordinating body scrub smell incredible. We are IN LOVE with this version.

🌿 Over the next few days I'll share some behind-the-scenes photos and tips in case you'd like to try enfleurage. Many flower scents elude capture through tincturing, infusing, and dehydrating and this is the best fragrance extraction method I've found for delicate florals like lilac and jasmine. Stay tuned!

💜 Quick note: Our team misses you all especially as our usual spring and summer festival dates roll around. Thank you so much for understanding the need to put health and family first right now.
- Hayna

#LilacFestival #RochesterNY #FLX #lilacs #enfleurage #MadeInNY #OnHandLotions

I'm preparing lots of wedding favors these days an

I'm preparing lots of wedding favors these days and remembering this gorgeous rustic place setting by @rachaelbero! That little green bottle never dreamed of such lovely company. 💚🌿💚

Photo by the one and only @larkinandtrevor

With @hollerhorndistilling

#WeddingFavors #RusticWedding #FLXwedding #OnHandLotions

Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Today we witnessed the beg

Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Today we witnessed the beginning of accountability for a horrific murder committed by law enforcement. While I'm glad for the jury's decision and hopeful that it might set a precedent for current and future brutality cases, this is not yet the realization of justice. I hope our children will one day experience justice presented not as a single rare verdict, but as equitable systems and infrastructure coupled with the dismantling of harmful institutions. Only then will there be peace. 🌿

Tween hands holding a black and white protest sign with an olive branch illustration and text that reads "No Justice, No Peace. Black Lives Matter"

Post from home/tangent from business stuff: To pro

Post from home/tangent from business stuff: To process forsythia is to preserve spring sunshine. 😍 Forsythia is one of the first mini-harvests of the season, lending its soft floral and artichoke-vegetal notes to syrups, salads, sorbets, and oil infusions.

Related, I love asking and answering this question: "What are three beautiful, joyful, or peaceful things around you right now?" Last night my three things were simmering forsythia syrup, two comically large goose eggs bound for a spring greens frittata, and clawhammer banjo in between kitchen tasks. (I guess that's four things.) What are yours?

The world feels as rough as ever right now for many and I'm working hard to find some focus and good energy. I hope you are also surrounded by both in abundance. ☀️❤️☀️
-Hayna

We're celebrating seven years of OHL today by firs

We're celebrating seven years of OHL today by first thanking YOU! ✨ Your enthusiasm, trust, kindness, and creativity blow us away every day. So many of you have become dear friends over the years and we feel incredibly lucky to be part of this community. Thank you. ❤️

🌻 Second: big shout out to these amazing coworkers who helped build this dream and have worked tirelessly to introduce OHL to the world: Dana, Denese, Emma, Jen G, Jenn, Jill, Linda, Maggie, Megan M., Meg, Molly, Olivia, Rachel, Robin, Shanna, Stephanie, and Wren. Thank you for all the laughs, late drives, improv, and fantastic teamwork. We never would have made it without each of you. 💜👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

🎂🎂🎂 All OHL web orders through Sunday April 11 will receive one balm as a birthday present. 🍁 After many requests for extras, Sugaring Season lip balm is now available on the site AND at @hollerhorndistilling here in Naples, NY. 🍁
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Oh, and this pic: parquet lip balm happens when all your work is too loud to do during a Zoom meeting. 😅🤷🏻‍♀️🌱

Happy Birthday, OHL! This week marks seven years o

Happy Birthday, OHL! This week marks seven years of balms, blossoms, and everything in between. As a small thanks for your incredible support and friendship, we made a sweet gift for you: Sugaring Season, a buttery vanilla maple lip balm! This balm is made with super fun ingredients including organic coconut CO2, our own vanilla evap concentrate, and @hollerhorndistilling's Flamed Maple spirit. Every order placed now through Sunday, April 11 will receive a tube. One gift per customer, and they're listed on the site in case you'd like to order more. If you've ordered in the past 5 days, know that you already have one on the way. 🍁 Happy Spring, and thank you always. ❤️

Something new and fun on the way! #CascadeHops #Ma

Something new and fun on the way!
#CascadeHops
#MadeInTheFingerLakes
#FLXbeer
#OnHandLotions

Sometimes experiments don't go quite as planned, b

Sometimes experiments don't go quite as planned, but still yield fun results. These bars feature fermented maple sap, our hardwood activated charcoal, and a ton of botanical extracts and infusions, all in a new 50 pound capacity birchwood mold designed for our art soaps. I love this batch for several reasons and am so excited for it to cure. 😊

P.S. Maybe I spend too much time looking at CT and PET images but the second column looks a little like brain, clavicle, abdomen scans. 👀 Do you see it, too?

Sugar Cookie Body Creme is back! This silky whippe

Sugar Cookie Body Creme is back! This silky whipped body butter is made with fair-trade shea, organic grapeseed oil, and plant extracts including vanilla, coconut, and marshmallow. A tiny bit goes a long way.
🌱 We can ship body creme through April, but after that it gets too warm en route from us to you. If you need some, now's the time.
🌻 Body Creme also comes in Lavender Lemon and Winter Orange. Try scent layering with coordinating soaps and scrubs.
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#sugarcookies #bodybutter #scentlayering #organicbeauty #greenbeauty #sheabutter #handmadebeauty #madeinthefingerlakes #ohloftheday

Looking back at March 2020: soap, sanitizer, selfi

Looking back at March 2020: soap, sanitizer, selfies in shop isolation. We didn't know when would get back on the road or even back to our usual work. We made several amazing new friends here at home, and mourned for far too many others in our broader circles. Like you, we found ways to keep growing, creating, and connecting despite the uncertainty and losses. We are all so much more resilient than we ever thought possible.

This weekend: it's officially spring 2021. We're in a good groove even with some new challenges, and we ran a ton of batches, shipped a few carloads of orders, and had fun doing it all. Today we shared distanced drinks and soaked up the sun in honor of this past year. So much has changed but taking care of each other—and our community—is still the one constant. Happy Spring, all. We are *so close* to making it through! ❤️

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