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Handmade from blossom to balm

HANDMADE FROM BLOSSOM TO BALM

Skin care featuring Finger Lakes botanicals

Zero Waste body care solutions

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SOAP & SHAMPOO BARS

natural deodorant

NATURAL DEODORANT

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FLOWER CITY LILAC

truly natural lilac scent

HAND & BODY SCRUB

OHL first took root in NYC and coastal Connecticut, finally blossoming in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

Read more about who we are, what we make, the plants we grow, and why.

Sweet Rice Facial Cleanser

Naples Brewing Company Beer balm in tin

Thirsty Face and Thirstier Facial Serums

soap gift set with bristol woods, green tea, soap loofah, soap dish

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

Happy Equinox! We're ringing in spring with bookma

Happy Equinox! We're ringing in spring with bookmatched bars of Solstice, a new art soap with twin flame imagery, forced glycerin rivers and dots as a design element, and a richly layered scent that’s at once earthy and bright.

Scent: Soft pomelo and Bristol-grown lemongrass on a cozy bed of dark patchouli and clove

Design/Color: Twin Flame swirl with Moroccan clay, NYS-grown madder root, our calendula petals and fresh turmeric

Nerd out with me here: The saponification process naturally produces both heat and glycerin. The glycerin typically remains invisibly distributed throughout the block or slab of soap. If the nascent batch of soap reaches a high enough temperature during saponification, some of the glycerin will separate and form thin, solid, translucent trails, or glycerin rivers, that remain translucent in the soap as it cures. If temperatures are manipulated correctly, tiny dots of glycerin will also form on the exposed surface of the soap. The second and third photos show the rivers and dots.

AND! If the temperature of a newly poured soap rises too high, the center of the block will become a soap volcano and create a violent explosion of unsaponified caustic batter. Thankfully, this didn't happen. Phew.

Solstice will be ready in late May, timed to welcome summer. ☀️ Happy Spring, y'all.

First soapmaking in more than a year. 😊 Just li

First soapmaking in more than a year. 😊 Just like riding a bike, right? This body seems to be healing and I'm grateful for it. 🙏🏽💜✨💚🌿

☔ Lavender, white pine, alkanet, rose clay, Brazilian purple clay
🌿 Spearmint, peppermint, French green clay
🍁 Maple water, cedar, fir needle, balsam, vetiver, patchouli, French green clay

🧼 Art Soap Updates 🧼 Slides 1-5: Only four b

🧼 Art Soap Updates 🧼
Slides 1-5: Only four bars remain of the OHL Kids Art Soaps! This series was created one year ago as a humble fundraiser for my family after receiving many gentle requests for ways to help. I enabled "pay what you want" on this listing. All proceeds beyond the minimum price go toward healthcare expenses and the ability to build memories as a family by allowing a little time off. Tremendous thanks to all who shared or contributed to the campaign. 🙏🏽❤️

Slides 6-10: Throwback! I recently recovered several First Series art soap bars in perfect condition and would like to share them at a discount. This collaboration features the work of artist friends in Rochester and Ithaca. At least 25% of proceeds will go to The Xerxes Society, Rainforest Trust and The Trevor Project, respectively.

Over the years, we—as in you, me, our crew—have raised thousands of dollars for charities, food banks, justice organizations and community members in need through art soaps and other fundraising efforts. Thank you always for choosing to make a difference. 💛✨

Y'all it's SO GOOD to be back in the shop! How fit

Y'all it's SO GOOD to be back in the shop! How fitting to start the new making year, however belated, by hand dipping beeswax and bayberry candles?

When we lived on the shore, the kids and I began an annual tradition of making tiny candles from foraged Northern Bayberries. (Morella pensylvanica, formerly known as Myrica pensylvanica.) I'd stay up far too late simmering pails of the tiny gray fruit, painstakingly skimming the fragrant wax as it rendered and floated to the surface. We'd dip hemp string into a mason jar of the wax to create small candles to be burned on New Year's Eve.

Several incredibly kind, generous friends picked and mailed gallons of New England bayberries to me last fall. Rendering, filtering and dipping bayberry again brings back the sweetest memories. Tradition dictates burning an entire bayberry candle at once, a sentimental but considerable commitment with a ten inch candle (ten hours). These are intentionally short and sturdy for a more reasonable four to five hour burn. 😅 I am so close to sharing some of these with you. Soon, soon. 🙏🏽

This is the first batch—of anything—that I've been able to make for OHL in three months. More items are on deck including new and continued collaborations with friends at @komorebi_kombucha, @fruition_seeds, @naplesbrewco, @hollerhorndistilling and a few more TBA.

Thank you all for bearing with me. I am so happy to be back and hope you're doing well. 💜

P.S. Spring is almost here. 🌱☀️✨

Happy February! It's wonderful and admittedly a bi

Happy February! It's wonderful and admittedly a bit surreal to welcome a new year. We've had a good, healing break and I feel energy returning with the longer days. We're starting successions of seeds, watching the maple trees for signs of running sap, testing new items and soaking up the relative rest of this odd, inconsistent winter weather.

I feel profoundly lucky to be here for another growing season. Thank you so much for your support, kindness and patience during the recent challenging months. 💛✨
Hayna

Shop update: There's more in stock, shipping costs less *and* you'll get it all faster. 🙌🏽

🌿 Happy Mail is on the way to those who subscribed last fall. 😊 💌 If you'd like to jump in for the next round, please keep an eye on our Stories. The packages will be different each time.

🌿 Our standard US shipping is now a single flat rate that's LOWER for 80% of orders than with our previous tiered system. As always, shipping's free on orders $75+ and there's free local pick up available, too.

🌿 @komorebi_shoppe is now carrying OHL! Komorebi Shoppe is a Naples kombucha and herbal boutique owned by some of the sweetest people. It's an honor to have our work on their shelves. Stop in and try their 'booch—I think their Palo Santo may be my favorite, ever.

🌿 Last, and maybe most notably, Ben is now helping with both order fulfillment and production. This shift changes everything here for the better and significantly cuts order processing time.

The best part of last week was shop time with this

The best part of last week was shop time with this sweet elf. 🥰 She's working at an 85-year-old trestle table my great grandparents had built in nearby Honeoye, NY. I really wish my grandparents could have seen OHL come to fruition, with each product we make traveling over their beloved table. I think they would have loved it. 💜

Anyway. Holiday wrap-up: (how is it already mid-December?!)

✨ Last day to order online for US delivery by Christmas is Wednesday, Dec 14. I'll still ship after that but it may arrive after the holiday.

✨If you're near Naples, NY, contactless local pick up is free and relatively fast. Order online and choose Naples pick up, and I'll be in every day until Dec 23 to make sure it's ready.

✨ Pop-up at Reservoir Creek Golf Course here in Naples:
Thursday, Dec 15: 3p-6ish (school concert night!)
Sat/Sun, Dec 17-18: 10a-5p

✨ Just added a couple more Sugar Cookie scrubs, Sparkle gift sets, Peace scrubs and Seaglass art soaps to the site.

✨ Shop break will be Dec 24 until the New Year. 🎉

To everyone reading: Thank you. We have so much gratitude for your trust and support, especially this season. 🙏🏽 My family and I appreciate every order, comment, share and review.
💛 Hayna

How cute are these?! The littles are lemon lip bal

How cute are these?! The littles are lemon lip balms and the larger tins hold a silky shea-based body balm. Both are made with Melgarejo Picual olive oil from Spain. This single varietal oil is gorgeous: deep emerald green with an herbaceous, fruity scent and flavor.

Our olive oil balms are offered exclusively through F. Oliver's. Keep a look out in the coming weeks as these Melgarejo batches are headed to their stores soon! 🫒

@f_olivers

...The perks of 42°F weather and an indoor setup

...The perks of 42°F weather and an indoor setup only two buildings over. 😂 Tons of gratitude and appreciation for the incredible @laurenhirshcustomframing for hosting this sweet sale, and for YOU for all the web orders! Thank you! 🙏🏽

I also want to send a big shout-out to these two amazing hard workers for making everything happen this weekend at OHL. Seriously, if you shop our shelves at the pop-up or have a Black Friday order headed your way, it's thanks to Evren and Kira. We've gradually become an all-family business and I love to see it. 💜🙌🏽💜

Pop-up at @reservoircreekatnaples
Reservoir Creek Golf Course
Naples, NY
Every Sat-Sun until Christmas, 10a-5p
Thursdays 3-8p

New Soap Gift Sets in five themes: Two bars of our

Here we go - annual holiday post! 10% off now thro

Here we go - annual holiday post!
10% off now through Nov. 28 with code HOLIDAY2022

What you’ll find on the site:

⭐ Five new Soap Gift Sets: two bars of our soap, a Zigzag LIFT soap dish and your choice of soap saver bag

⭐ New Sisal Soap Bags: Softer than our Loofah Nets with a softer lather, made of compostable material

⭐ Six handmade soap dish styles including Rainbow (reclaimed wood, mixed species) and new Zigzag LIFT soap dishes in Poplar

⭐ The return of three tea gift sets in collaboration with @komorebi_shoppe

⭐ 15 customizable gift sets including collab items with @naplesbrewco, @hollerhorndistilling, Four Roses Distillery, Foursquare Rum Distillery

⭐ Organic cotton face cloths, hand knit by Ben (that’s my honey! ☺️)

⭐ Smoothie Facial Polish IN JARS

⭐ Four give-back items with proceeds going to Metavivor, The Trevor Project, The Rainforest Trust, The Xerces Society. Annual donations will be made late December.

⭐ More seasonal scrub gift sets and Hollerhorn soaps—these sold out quickly last year.

⭐ Restocks of just about everything else

Holiday timing guidelines:
💫 For USPS delivery by Hanukkah: Order by Wed. Dec. 7
💫 For USPS delivery by Christmas: Order by Wed. Dec. 14

✨ Free local pick up in Naples NY
✨ Free domestic shipping on all orders $75+
✨ Orders placed on or after Dec 23 will be fulfilled after New Year’s
✨ You are loved and you are enough, in case you need to hear it. 💛✨

Feels like this year has been <whew> for all of us, and you are amazing for making the best of it. I'm sending you a virtual hug and tremendous gratitude for your support and friendship.
Hayna

P.S. Current waiting orders will receive additional goods equal to or exceeding 10%. 😊

This kid knows! We agree, grown-up mail can be THE

This kid knows! We agree, grown-up mail can be THE WORST. Want some fun mail? DM your (US) address and we'll send you something that's way better than another solicitation.

This non sequitur offer of a post kicks off the week I'm supposed to be marketing nonstop. 🥴 I promise this is not spam or phishing; OHL doesn't even have a snail mail retail list and I don't plan to start one. It's purely for fun because wow, we all really need a little fun and kindness right now. 💛✨

xoxo, Hayna

#BFCM #BlackFriday #OrNot #SnailMail #HONY #HumansOfNewYork

Hey! Bear with me. These apps really aren't made f

Hey! Bear with me. These apps really aren't made for long thoughts. Here are two highlights; please swipe or click to comments for the full post. 💜

"Along the way I’ve learned that some people are looking for solutions to their skincare problems, and some people want inventive niche items, but many more seek well-made products they need to buy anyway made by people they actually want to support. We can all find soap, deodorant, lotion and anything else, anywhere. The people and causes behind them often determine whether we purchase or pass."

"Today is National Entrepreneurs’ Day. While I look forward to a time when no one needs to sell anything to live, I’ve learned that mindful entrepreneurship can help push the needle forward by giving back. In a world that rewards the monetization of necessities, endless greed, and profit over people and place, I’m told it’s a little weird to take only what one truly needs and dedicate the rest to community and environmental aid. While it’s far from ideal to hang equity on the benevolence of business owners, that's the system we have right now, and I firmly believe we’d all benefit from more businesses of all sizes who embody a similar kind of ‘weird.’ I hope this rewritten measure of entrepreneurial success will someday become standard."

With love and appreciation from your unlikely soap-preneur,
Hayna

#OnHandLotions #OhlOfTheDay #NationalEntrepreneursDay #SmallBusinessOwner #MinorityOwnedBusiness #ImmigrantOwned #DisabledBusinessOwner #MadeInNY #FLX #MadeInTheFingerLakes #HandmadeBusiness

OHL's only in-person events for 2022!!! This super

OHL's only in-person events for 2022!!! This super sweet local series will be held right next to our shop this year. Hope to see you there! 🌲 Big thanks to @laurenhirshcustomframing for coordinating and hosting. 💛✨

Reservoir Creek Golf Course
8613 St Rt 21 // Naples, NY

Dec 3-4, 10a-5p
Dec 8, 3p-8p
Dec 10-11, 10a-5p
Dec 15, 3p-8p
Dec 17-18, 10a-5p

Dahlia and sunflower petals are skin safe and edib

Dahlia and sunflower petals are skin safe and edible, and they dry into perfect sprinkles for cakes, winter cheese boards, and—Yay!—naturally colorful botanical body care. 💐

Soon, soon.

The season of fresh bouquets may be ending a bit earlier than expected here in NY, but there are rainbows everywhere if we look through the storm. 🌈💛✨

1. Dahlia and sunflower petals arranged from crimson to fuchsia to lemon, plucked and headed for the dehydrator.

2. Cosmos in the garden: Unlike our dyestock darling, C. sulphureus, the C. bipinnatus species is not edible, but 'Seashells' is lovely and fleeting with dark pink, white and blush tubular or rolled petals. She is an old friend; I saved and brought her seeds from our Connecticut gardens nine ?! years ago. Edited: Ten years! Time flies.

Happy Fall, y'all! Today's mist felt positively ma

Happy Fall, y'all! Today's mist felt positively magical. 🍁 We gratefully collect loads of flowers, herbs and veggies every day, May through September. Sometimes it feels like the gardens might always be warm and fruitful. Every year, I'm amazed when the main harvest is nearly over as summer flies by.

The closure this time seems right for us, though. I have a few weeks of tough treatments coming up and we're wholeheartedly welcoming the cozy season of wool beanies, simmering soups, changing leaves and hoodies by a bonfire while it's still delicious and fun. Fall is so beautiful in the Finger Lakes and we feel incredibly fortunate to live here.🍇

Ooh, and shop talk: Lots-lots-lots of restocks including Thirsty Face serum, Fix It balm, Sweet Rice cleanser, Smoothie polish;

Calendula Chamomile salve, Arnica balm;

Flower City Lilac scrub, Naples Grape Seed scrub (with ground seeds from the one and only Jeni's Pies);

Pomelo & Sage, Unscented, Cedar & Citrus deodorants;

Ginship and Malt in Motion art soaps (made in partnership with @HollerhornDistilling); a few others. It's been a busy month-plus here. 🙌🏽

Hope you're all doing well. If you can, take a minute or ten to soak up the season outside. It's so, so good. 💛✨

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