Posted in Health Topics, Ingredients, Lifestyle, News from True Botanica, True Alert: Seasonal Alert, tagged Allergies, Allergy Season, Seasonal Alert, Spring on April 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The spring time allergy season is upon us and according to doctors throughout the country it is one of the worst ever.
Besides sneezing and blowing your nose, rubbing your eyes and just plain suffering through the misery of it all, there are a couple of suggestions that we might make.
Click here to read more about True Botanica’s Spring Alerts
Don’t forget to check the True Alerts: Seasonal Alerts section of the website for seasonal health updates!
Posted in Holiday, Ingredients, Products, tagged Archives, Calcium, Carti, Cartilage, Easter, Egg, Egg Shell on March 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Since Easter is this coming Sunday, we wanted to share a post from the archives about one special ingredient you are likely to find in your Easter basket this year.
Posted in Ingredients, Lifestyle, Puzzles Fun and Giveaways, Recipe, Superbowl, tagged giveaway, Pepper, Recipe, Sea Salt, Super Bowl, True Life on January 31, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
With the Super Bowl taking place this weekend, we decided to ask YOU for some of your favorite Game Day recipes for a chance to win a FREE True Life Pepper. One True Botanica follower, Elizabeth, sent in this delicious and healthy recipe. Consider trying our True Life Sea Salt and Pepper for extra flavor and nutrients! 
You will need:
1 Large Head of Cabbage
1.5 Pounds Of Ground Turkey
1 Red Bell Pepper, 1 Green Bell Pepper
1 Small Onion
Salt and Pepper, Garlic Salt
2 Cups of White Rice cooked
Core the cabbage and boil the whole head for 3-5 minutes. While that is boiling cook the ground turkey until brown. Chop the bell peppers and onions in small pieces. Then add to the ground turkey when its cooked. Add the white rice after that and mix well. Add the salt, pepper, and garlic salt. When the cabbage is finished take a piece off and add a couple of spoon fulls of the mixture. Wrap up and repeat. Put in a pan and cook 350 degrees until a little brown. You can also add your favorite spaghetti sauce on top for a yummy finish! Enjoy!!
What are some of your favorite Game Day recipes?
Posted in Holiday, Ingredients, News from True Botanica, Products, tagged Cosmetics, Fragrance, Hand & Body Cream, Holiday Gift Giving Guide, New, Pink Grapefruit Vanilla on November 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Refreshing New Fragrance
A hypoallergenic, natural cream for a deep lasting moisturizing and renewing effect.
Absorbs quickly and does not leave a greasy residue.
Suitable for all skin types.
A refreshing blend of Pink Grapefruit, Vanilla and Lavender give a natural, subtle scent.
Click here to read more and purchase the new Hand & Body Cream Pink Grapefruit Vanilla
This product is featured in the True Botanica Holiday Gift Giving Guide.
Posted in Ingredients, Lifestyle, News from True Botanica, Products, tagged Ankles, Boswellia, Cosmetic, Cream, Curcumin, Feet, Foot Cream, Gem Stones, Health, Menthol, Natural, Oils, Peppermint, Refreshing Foot Cream, Smooth, Trace Minerals on November 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
- With menthol, peppermint, incredibly natural oils, unique gem stone derived trace minerals and more! -
(If we hadn’t made an equally beautiful cream for the upper part of the body, your face would surely envy the feet.)
Do you prefer dry, scaly skin on your feet, or a smooth and velvety feeling? Do you prefer a tired, exhausted feeling before you go to sleep, or a new stream of well being to help you let go of the day’s stress? Do you prefer to start the day “with lead in your feet,” or with a lightness that makes you think you have wings by your ankles? You don’t have to answer –we think we know the answer!
The feet deserve a much higher amount of attention than they get. After all, we carry our entire body weight on them. We have known for centuries that the whole body, with every single organ, is mapped on the soles of the feet. A treatment that pays attention to this detail is called foot reflexology. You can have your very own treatment every day by applying it on your feet and ankles and gently massaging it in. Since we have added boswellia, curcumin oils and gem stone derived minerals (of the kind that are particularly important to the feet), much needed energy is attracted now to that area of your body.
This treatment is particularly important to all those whose jobs force them to stand on their feet a lot. But those sitting in front of computers all day will benefit too. During sedentary times, blood pools into the lower legs, increasing the discomfort associated with increased fluid in the lower legs. Try this for a while: massage the feet every morning and evening and compare the difference to before. By the way, massage your feet (and calves) even more frequently if you have to travel longer distances and really cannot move freely.
I wonder if one can put it this way: taking care of the face is 80% cosmetic and 20% health. Taking care of the feet is 80% health but also 20% cosmetic.
Click here to purchase the new Refreshing Foot Cream
Our Refreshing Foot Cream is one of the gift ideas in this year’s Holiday Gift Giving Guide
Posted in Events, Ingredients, Recipe, True Botanica Co-Workers, tagged Alyssa, Chili Cookoff, Heidi, Philia, Recipe, True Botanica Coworkers on October 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Today we had the first ever True Botanica Chili Cookoff! Three TB coworkers brought in their special batches of chili. What made it so great? Each of the batches were very different from the others.
Philia, Heidi and Alyssa in the colorful aprons Heidi brought in for the three chefs to wear!
Philia
My chili is a little different than one might expect-it is called ‘white chili’. Made with three different kind of beans (cannellini, navy, and garbanzo beans) shredded chicken, fire roasted green peppers, and fresh herbs from the garden like oregano, basil and parsley. I made honey cornbread muffins made with local honey to go with it.
Heidi
Mine was your traditional ground beef Chili with diced tomatoes, black and kidney beans, red pepper, celery seed, plenty of onions, garlic, and 1 small Jalapeño (because I’m a chicken when it comes to spicy food). This recipe is extra delicious with cheese and a healthy serving of sour cream.
Alyssa
I made a basic recipe using mild, medium and hot beans, diced tomatoes, ground turkey and a blend of various spices (including the True Life Coarse Pepper). I also brought macaroni noodles and Fritos corn chips in to add on top (with lots of cheese and sour cream of course).
So, any guesses on who was chosen as the winner? Well of course it was a tie because all three were so different it was difficult to choose just one! Plus, it was great just to take time out of our busy day to sit down and enjoy a lunch together as a team.
Do you have a special recipe you’d like to share? If so, post it or email info@truebotanica.com.
Happy cooking!
Posted in Anthroposophy, FAQ, Ingredients, tagged Aurum, Gold, Olympics, Potentized on August 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With the Olympics in full swing, athletes from all over the world are battling to win the gold medal! But did you know about the spiritual healing qualities of gold (Latin, Aurum)? Check out this post from the archives to learn more (originally posted March 15, 2012):
What’s With All the Gold?
Gold (Latin, Aurum) is a mysterious substance. The medieval alchemists recognized already that due to its special stability it was nearly impossible to “destroy” it. Gold does not combine readily with any other substance. It is very “happy in itself.”
Rudolf Steiner confirmed through his spiritual scientific research what the ancient sages also knew, that various metals are corresponding in their energies to the spiritual forces of the various planets. Gold is a perfect picture of the Sun!
From a spiritual healing point of view gold has certain immense qualities. It can help make us more “luminous, give us a more sunny disposition,” and more. Another one is its ability to draw our thoughts deeper into the soul life and make them more “available” to us. In other words we can think better when we take a small dose of highly diluted gold!
Diluted, rhythmically potentized gold always has a balancing, equilibrating effect on all three of body, soul and spirit.
Additional uses of the diluted forms of gold can be found on our website.
(Please keep in mind that we are referring here strictly to rhythmically potentized or diluted gold not the concentrated forms used occasionally in mainstream medicine f. ex. for the treatment of arthritis.)
Posted in Ingredients, True Botanica Co-Workers, tagged Angelica, Heidi, True Botanica Coworkers, Wisconsin on June 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One True Botanica coworker traveled throughout Wisconsin this weekend and had quite the adventure. Read on to hear about her trip, including the special plant she stumbled upon.
This past Sunday, my fiancé Luke and I had a 3 hour drive ahead of us and all day with which to do it. Instead of taking the freeway, we bought a Wisconsin highway map and opted for a little backroads adventure. We saw some bizarre yard decorations, beautiful scenery, and loads of cows that we wouldn’t have otherwise seen. I also saw tons of Angelica growing along the roadsides, right at its peak in the growing season, so I couldn’t resist stopping to get a few photos. It is truly a breathtaking plant, and I hope that you enjoy the pictures!
All photos courtesy of Luke Wein.
Do you know which True Botanica products contain Angelica?
Posted in Anthroposophy, Discussions, Ingredients, Products, tagged Arnica, brusing, ego, injury, Real Arnica Forte Oil, Real Arnica Massage Oil, Real Arnica Ultra Cream, Rudolf Steiner, swelling, trauma on June 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This week we made a fresh batch of Real Arnica Ultra Cream and it reminded us of an article Dr. Rentea wrote. Check it out and let us know your thoughts!
My Cell Phone and Arnica!
I was standing in the midst of hundreds of acres of beautiful Biodynamic farms, with the only sound coming from buzzing summer insects, when… my cell phone went off – with a call from 200 miles away. That’s when it struck me! What unimaginable electromagnetic waves we must be exposed to every day if we are “reachable” even when no physical means of contact are visible. Any wonder that we feel constantly on sensory overload? The thought then followed that we need to strengthen our periphery even more than I believed was necessary, to withstand the visible – and invisible – onslaught against our senses, on our periphery.
