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

Some color-coordinated Seaglass and shore memories

Some color-coordinated Seaglass and shore memories to brighten this gray day. 💙✨🌊

Seaglass soap pic from @jessicawitherow7 ☺️

After hundreds of shows all over, we know for cert

After hundreds of shows all over, we know for certain that there's no place like home. ❤️ It feels good to be in this sweet space with so many local makers again. I can't wait to see it all come together this weekend! ✨

OHL is set up at Divine Designs in Naples thanks to @jessicawitherow7, @laurenhirshcustomframing and @kathleenaengel. (Thank you, friends. 🙏🏽)

Divine Designs Pop-up
141 S Main St, Naples, NY
Dec 4, 5, 11, 18: 10a-5p

Do Re Mi Fa So... Five notes! One day late, or may

Do Re Mi Fa So... Five notes! One day late, or maybe just in time for #SmallBusinessSaturday? Thank you for supporting small businesses, both ours and many others. 🙏🏽

🌿 Extra treats will be going into orders placed Friday through Monday. Think lip balms, art soap cuts, mini scrubs. We have so much fun prepping and sending these each year. 🧼

🌿 Smoothie Face & Manicure Polish is now packaged in disc cap squeeze bottles instead of jars. It's SO much more convenient and easier to use: shake well, dispense. Argan oil, oats, skin-soothing herbs.

🌿 Baby Balm is transitioning over to compostable paperboard tubes! These are the same tubes as our deodorant and Fix It Balm. Between environmental concerns (first always) and supply chain streamlining, it makes sense. When it's empty chuck the whole thing, label, wrapper and all, right in your home compost bin.

🌿 A significant portion of our packaging is compostable, from plant-based shrink seals and films to paperboard tubes; from plastic-free glue-back paper tape to our recycled paper pulp padded mailers (tongue twister); from the second-life cornstarch packing peanuts (dissolve 'em in water) to thermal labels printed on recycled paper; to our hot stamped recycled paper bags and boxes. ✨ The rare times we use bubble wrap, packing papers, or air pillows, rest assured they're on their second or third use.

🌿 Last: If you're near Naples, NY come visit the 5th Annual Holiday Sale at Divine Designs. We're honored to join this wonderful pop-up of artists and makers throughout December. 💜

There are a thousand things to say about this day

There are a thousand things to say about this day but right now I want to share humble gratitude for another morning, season, and year. I wish you enough of whatever it is you need most, and the courage to ask for and receive it. Thank you for being here. ✨🧡✨ -Hayna

Image: yellow calendula and purple asters arranged in a peace symbol. My kids made this arrangement several years ago and sent me the photo. 🏵️

✨ Good morning from @plenty_the_bakery! We packe

✨ Good morning from @plenty_the_bakery! We packed three shelves with OHL staples and fun treats, and headed out with a gorgeous glazed apple bacon fritter. 😍 Visit Plenty for delicious pastries, breakfast sammies, @fingerlakescoffeeroasters coffee and @lostwoodsbreadco bread on Saturdays and Sundays, 8a-2p. 🍪

Spirited soaps and lip balms with our Naples neigh

Spirited soaps and lip balms with our Naples neighbors, Hollerhorn Distilling! We connected in early March 2020 for a potential soap collaboration after years of orbiting the same hometown circles. The partnership quickly became an altruistic scramble to make sanitizer, kicking off a fast and furious friendship rooted in community service, integrity, creativity and appreciation for a good single malt.

Through @hollerhorndistilling, the Neubauers have brought their dreams to life: impeccable spirits from locally grown ingredients, a farm-to-table restaurant and craft cocktail bar, and thoughtfully planned music and food pairing events, all on a beautiful campus built by Karl and artfully appointed by Melissa. Hollerhorn is a Finger Lakes gem and I encourage you to visit the next time you're in town.

It's been an honor to incorporate their spirits in these items. All are available online and at the distillery. I hope you enjoy them. 🖤

Ginship soap: Classic gin aromatics in a monochromatic woodgrain bar colored with our hardwood activated charcoal

Malt in Motion whiskey soap: Peated organic barley, vanilla bean and caramel, all smoked with toasted oak

Heat Wave lip balm: Big summertime vibes with watermelon, coconut and lime flavors, featuring Wassermelone unaged brandy/eau de vie

Sugaring Season: Vanilla maple lip balm with rich cheesecake notes from Hollerhorn's Flamed Maple spirit

New collab! I first met Scott and Desiree several

New collab! I first met Scott and Desiree several years ago through our local music scene. These talented sweet people are gardeners extraordinaire and the owners of @komorebi_shoppe, a wonderful kombucha and herbal business in Naples. If you're nearby, visit their Shoppe for the best 'booch and a visit with two of the friendliest folx around.
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You'll find Komorebi's Sunshine Daydream, Anti-Anxie"Tea" and Campfire Comfort tisane blends in our Bright, Peaceful, and Cozy gift sets. I'm so happy to include their work in this season's holiday offerings and hope you'll love it, too. 💚

Holiday items are UP! ✨ There are 21 new items a

Holiday items are UP! ✨ There are 21 new items and gift sets on the site including some fun collaborations with local friends @komorebi_shoppe, @hollerhorndistilling and @naplesbrewco, plus a couple treats from @foursquare_rum_distillery and @fourrosesbourbon.

I'm so excited to share all of these and strongly encourage you to do your OHL holiday shopping early this year to ensure timely delivery. Thank you always for your support, friendship and trust! So much gratitude and a million good memories here. You've made this the best job ever for 7.5 years and I hope to enjoy many more. Happy November, friends. ✨🙏🏽

☮️+💟,
Hayna

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! 🍑

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