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

Quick update! 🧡🌱🏵️🌿💛 ✨ Holiday

Quick update! 🧡🌱🏵️🌿💛

✨ Holiday items drop November 1! We have some fun new items for you and a couple gift set options coming. Soon, soon... Stay tuned.

✨ Customized lip balms are back: Whether it's a name or a quote or a witty swear 🤣, we'll print just about anything you send. Choose Vegan Mint or Lemon Tart flavor.

✨ I highly recommend ordering gifts early this year due to shipping service delays especially if your order is being shipped overseas or needs any kind of customization, gift wrap, or handwritten messages. Holiday order date guidelines TBA.

✨ Health: Thanks to an amazing care team, I'm doing really well. It's so good to be back. Thank you for all your kind messages, prayers, and good thoughts. I read every single one and appreciate them all. ❣️

✨ Last, and maybe most importantly: Meg has been an incredible—invaluable—help running the show while I heal and rest. I feel fortunate to have someone so reliable, skilled, and kind on our team. If you've received an order these past months, it's 100% thanks to her dedication and care. So much gratitude here. 🙏🏽 Please join me in three (hundred) cheers for Meg!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽💚💚💚👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Hope you're enjoying these gorgeous autumn skies and soaking up all the fresh air you can. We sure are.
- Hayna

New Art Soaps are ready and I'm so excited to shar

New Art Soaps are ready and I'm so excited to share these with you! Each collaboration is a celebration of the kinship between makers and growers. I hope you love the results as much as we do. 💜

🌊 Seaglass: Created with botanicals from several gardening friends across the continents. Scent is fresh florals, sea salt, musk, citrus. Contains jasmine, mock orange, lavender, lilac, woad, alkanet and other plant extracts.

🥃 Malt in Motion: Single malt whiskey soap! Made with organic barley grown in New York, peat from Scotland, rich vanilla bean, and exfoliating grains, all cold smoked with toasted oak.

🌿 Ginship v.2: A reprisal of one of last year's favorites with clean citrus, complex botanicals, and classic gin aromatics grown in New York including juniper and coriander.

Malt in Motion and Ginship Art Soaps also available at our collab partner, @hollerhorndistilling.

Psst: tomorrow's October 1. If you're in the North

Psst: tomorrow's October 1. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere and swap out for argan-enriched Thirstier serum in the cooler months, now's the time. (It snuck up on us, too!)
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#HappyOctober #FacialSerum #LittleGreenBottle #MadeInNY #RoseFacial #Calendula #OilCleansing #Thirstier #OnHandLotions

"Walking in mist tests not only individual self-di

"Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons." Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, on hiking the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland as a team

Some Grape Fest Love: I just caught up on a backlog of email, scanned the stockroom stats as I do every Sunday, and did a double take. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your many orders and messages this weekend. 🙏🏽 These months have felt a bit like walking in mist with no map but with a steadfast team of colleagues, clients, customers and friends, and an intuitive compass as a guide. We are on course despite several reinventions and the occasional temptation to panic. 😅💚

In hiking we trust the compass and trust the other people in our party. Thank you for being steady members of mine. I'm humbled by your loyalty, kind words, and enthusiasm for everything our company and beautiful town have to offer. Thank you.
- Hayna
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Red leaves and blue skies on the horizon: It's def

Red leaves and blue skies on the horizon: It's definitely fall here, and the Naples Grape Festival is this weekend! 🍇 We hope you'll come visit and enjoy the gorgeous hills and valleys, catch some tunes, find new inspiring art, and sample the work of many incredible artisans and makers in town. We'll tag several favorite local eateries and shops below. Feel free to add others we might have missed.

South Bristol, Rt. 64:
🍇 @arborhillgraperywinery: Wine tastings and everything grape
🍇 @plenty_the_bakery: Creative pastries, perfect baked goods, coffee, and @lostwoodsbreadco sourdough breads and muffins

Naples, on or just off Main Street:
🍇 @artizanns: Original art and fine crafts from the Finger Lakes region
🍇 @carusoscafe: Fresh comfy cooking with bagels, soups, sandwiches in an artistic setting
🍇 @hollerhorndistilling and @11weld: Amazing NYS-grown spirits, creative farm-to-table dining, craft cocktails with a view, great outdoor music
🍇 @inspiremoorewinery: Wine tastings, vineyard views, lovely music venue
🍇 Joseph's Wayside Market: Farm market with Jeni's grape pies, local produce and goods at the south end of Main Street
🍇 @komorebi_shoppe: The best kombucha and sweetest people!
🍇 @naplesbrewco: Delicious brews and ciders. This is their first Grape Fest—give them some love!
🍇 @oldschoolnaplesny: Sweet new cafe in a restored schoolhouse
🍇 @roots.cafe: Fun purple and teal Naples icon featuring locally sourced ingredients and craft cocktails

While we're unable to host Grape Fest booths this year, the shop is in full (fall) swing and we'll be fulfilling orders today and tomorrow for local pickup this weekend. Our friends at @thecheshireunion and @plenty_the_bakery also carry a selection of items. Stop by on your way down to the Festival! 🍁

Unusual post! Our friends at Flint and Steel Farm

Unusual post! Our friends at Flint and Steel Farm are hosting a Fall Festival to benefit @naples_hospeace_house this weekend and we'd love to help raise some funds for a beloved and worthy cause. If you're near Naples, NY pack up the kids and visit this sweet farm festival tomorrow, September 19 from 10a-4p. (See second slide for details.) Faraway folx can DM us to bid on one or both gift sets. If you win, I'll ship it to you. 💌 Each set is valued at more than $50. Please consider sharing and/or bidding! From someone who has leaned heavily on palliative services this year and also had family members comforted by hospice care in the past, thank you.
❤️, Hayna

Stone Fruit Scrub! Almost edible, and almost ready

Stone Fruit Scrub! Almost edible, and almost ready after three weeks of prep. Our local fruit seems especially flavorful, fragrant and abundant this year and we're absolutely loving it! 🍑

Seaglass! The colors, the sparkle, and oh the scen

Seaglass! The colors, the sparkle, and oh the scent! Clean sea salt, soft fresh florals, and bright citrus with amber musk low notes round out this test-turned-final batch. Seaglass combines botanicals from the gardens of six friends—New York to Brasil—and I'm loving the luxurious blend of jasmine, mock orange, lavender, lilac, woad, indigo, alkanet. Ready in 5-6 weeks. 🐚🌊✨

#Seaglass #MermaidSoap #BeachDayEveryday #ColdProcessSoap #alkanet #indigo #woad #MockOrange #MadeInTheFingerLakes #FLX #OnHandLotions

Channeling seaglass and the Atlantic seaboard in t

Channeling seaglass and the Atlantic seaboard in this color run test batch with indigo, woad, alkanet, and several clays. Scented with jasmine, mock orange flowers, lavender, grapefruit evap, and a host of other extractions, because why not? Some days call for a little extra. 💙

Candy mix or fall sample prep? 🤔 One or two go

Candy mix or fall sample prep? 🤔 One or two go in every order, like trick or treating. We're feeling some energetic autumn vibes after a couple cool days but the garden hauls of peaches, tomatoes, berries and flowers say it's definitely still summer. Soak it up and don't rush it!
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Psst! This OHL gift basket is up for auction for t

Psst! This OHL gift basket is up for auction for the @naplesnyrotary's Walk of Life event! Retail value is more than $100. All proceeds go to the Margery Pawluk Cancer Fund and @naples_hospeace_house, two local-to-us organizations directly benefiting some of our community's most vulnerable. This year's recipients feel especially poignant to us and we'd love to see a ton of bids on all the offerings. Thank you so much for taking a look, sharing, and maybe even bidding. 🙏🏽❤️ Link in comments.

It feels so good to be back at it! 🤩 Quick prev

It feels so good to be back at it! 🤩 Quick preview of Ginship v2: a collaboration with our friends at @hollerhorndistilling, Ginship soap features NY-grown juniper, coriander, barley, maple water, lilac, and several other botanicals including our activated hardwood charcoal. This second version is even more intensely herbal and layered thanks to some fun new extraction methods here at the shop. I can't wait to share it with you this fall! 🌿

OHL nerd post: Back in the gardens harvesting Cale

OHL nerd post: Back in the gardens harvesting Calendula officinalis! When properly prepared this sunny flower becomes a powerful anti-inflammatory and antibacterial agent with clinically measurable, statistically significant wound healing results thanks to its triterpenes and flavonoids.

To prepare the extract, dried organically grown calendula flowers are cold macerated in organic ethanol and then concentrated using a rotary evaporator at 40°C. (No ethanol remains in the final extract.) Calendula extract is an active ingredient in several of our facial serums, salves, creams and balms.

Each season's harvest is collected, dried, and combined into one giant batch. Before processing any of the plant material I prepare several samples, log any observations about the growing season and harvest, and identify active plant constituents utilizing gas and liquid chromatography. Each step enables fully informed formulation and ensures consistency in our final products year to year. I do the same with every harvest, from arnica to yarrow, at the end of every growing season. Whew! Yes it's a lot, but oh so worthwhile. 🏵️🌼🌿

Hello from the shore! 🌊 I'm so excited to share

Hello from the shore! 🌊 I'm so excited to share this old friend with you: Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica). These peppercorn-sized berries are boiled to render a brittle, fragrant wax favored for candles. Burning a bayberry candle in one sitting is said to bring prosperity and good luck to the entire household. 🌿 When we lived in CT we harvested bayberries each year, blended the rendered wax with beeswax, and burned small bayberry tapers each holiday season. Seeing (and sniffing!) these shrubs again added another layer of nostalgia to an already poignant week.

💚 Tonight I'm sending extra special thanks to several friends who made this trip possible. We've soaked up the sun and Atlantic salt air for a few days as a family and are ready to return to the beautiful Finger Lakes. With renewed energy and a ton of sweet memories, we'll be back to fulfillment, production, and formulation this Saturday. 🙌🏽 Thanks for your patience and good wishes!
-Hayna

Gardens and woods and shop life are all in full su

Gardens and woods and shop life are all in full summer swing here! We've been processing pails of botanicals every day, cooking up fresh batches and new ideas in the evenings, and celebrating both the season and the sun. As much as we miss the shows, events, and road, we're really loving this new home-based groove. ✨Thank you✨ always for making the shift toward a healthier family life possible.

Wiser people teach us that in a world driven by personal productivity contests, rest is the real revolution. With renewed appreciation for making memories together and an undeniable need for rest, we're taking a short break as a family and will resume shipping on Saturday, July 31. Happy midsummer, friends. We hope you're soaking it up, too. 💚🌿🌅

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