Sunday, July 5, 2009

All-Natural Perfume Oils by Eden's Kiss

Eden's Kiss has added four new All-Natural Perfume Oils that are now ready for you to try. We've been playing in the still room for quite some time to develop just the right scents. We're pleased with the results and hope you will be too.

How are Eden's Kiss perfume oils different from mainstream, mass-produced perfumes?

Eden’s Kiss luxurious all-natural perfume oils are created to provide you with pure aromatic pleasure as nature intended—without the use of toxic synthetic ingredients. Eden’s Kiss all-natural perfume oils are hand blended from precious botanical essential oils and organic golden jojoba oil to create divinely inspired scents that are subtly sensual and feminine.

Why Our All-Natural Perfume Oils are Safer than most conventional perfumes
· Eden’s Kiss perfume oils are synthetic-free
· Phthalate-free
· Dye-free, and
· Alcohol-free


What else is special about Eden’s Kiss all-natural perfume oils?
Eden’s Kiss perfume oils offer you more than pleasing natural aromas; they also may provide beneficial aromatherapy properties. Eden’s Kiss all-natural perfumes are blended from precious essential oils reputed for inspiring confidence, uplifting the spirit, and sparking sensuality.


Eden’s Kiss currently offers four beautiful scents: POEM, FLOWER KISSES, EAU DE PARFUM, and ROSE. Each perfume oil is packaged in a glass bottle.
(Like to try a small vial before purchasing a full-size bottle? Eden's Kiss also offers try-me sizes that can be found with our other product samples).

Each of our perfume oils is hand blended in Ferndale, CA.

- Michelle Tucker

Eden's Kiss All-Natural Skin Care


Sunday, June 7, 2009

Amy Stewart's Wicked Plants is a Seductive Read - Eden's Kiss All-Natural Skin Care

Lately, at the end of the day at Eden's Kiss, when it’s time to climb into bed, I’ve been indulging myself with Amy Stewart’s new release: Wicked Plants. This book has been on my Amazon wish list for almost a year. I was very happy to receive as a gift from my husband, Tracy. And who could resist opening this bright green book, with strange and intriguing black, medieval-like designs, and the seductive lead-in one finds on the back cover:

“Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly . . . A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war.”

One is easily drawn inside this text that’s organized by plant categories, such as: Botanical Crime Families; Carnivores; and Forbidden Garden. Naughty plants, such as opium poppies (Please don’t look but my mother has these growing in her garden—after generations of hybridized poppies returned to their original form) are introduced with intriguing hand-drawn illustrations and etchings on sepia colored paper. All in all, Wicked Plants is interesting and aesthetically pleasing. For example, a caramel colored satin ribbon holds your page as you reach for your chamomile tea.

Amy Stewart provides a brief historical background regarding dozens of plants that are commonly found in many of our gardens; Wicked Plants is easy to digest and certain to hold our interest about plants which many of us are already acquainted and perhaps have become a little cavalier: consider rhubarb, potato, and oleander. . . And then there are the many formidable plant companions that were silent onlookers of so many of my walks down Lawson Lane: hemlock, jimson weed, and tansy. Dare I admit I wondered “just how much” hemlock Socrates drank before he succumbed to death? I was a quasi-melancholy child filled with morbid curiosity.


Stewart shares her knowledge about the dark side of plants—plants that deserve our respectful care and caution, to serve as an instructive guide that can help keep us and our loved ones safer as we spend time with nature and/or bring it in to our homes. Stewart also has written other delightful books, such as: “From the Ground Up,” a story about Stewart’s first garden in Santa Cruz. Amy Stewart is currently a Humboldt County “local.” She lives in Eureka, California—which is not so very far from Ferndale.


Here's to more pleasurable moments of reading what we like.


Michelle Briseno-Tucker

Saturday, May 23, 2009

All-Natural Coffee Body Scrubs - Recipes from Eden's Kiss

At Eden's Kiss, one of my favorite morning pleasures is to make a fresh latte. I enjoy the aromatic skunky scent of freshly ground espresso beans, the phtting of the steam transforming the milk to a delightful froth inside the rim of my favorite coffee mug.

These days, coffee is gaining increasing popularity not only as a beverage that is rich in antioxidants, but also as a beauty treatment. At some ritzy spas in Japan, one can literally swim in a rejuvenating pool of coffee. In addition to soaking in our own tubs filled with coffee, we can also consider what remains.

What’s great about warm coffee grounds? As an all-natural beauty ingredient, caffeinated coffee can function an astringent, antioxidant, detoxifier and exfoliant. This means our freshly brewed coffee grounds can be incorporated into a cellulite-busting body scrubs and body masks.

Finely ground coffee functions as a gentle exfoliant that smoothes away dry, dead skin cells, while supporting improved circulation to the skin and temporarily reducing the appearance of dimpled skin. How so? Beauty experts say the caffeine in the grounds constricts blood vessels, causing skin to temporarily appear tighter, firmer and smoother.

When we add seaweed to the brew, we get additional detoxification support. Although seaweed generally has a strong, inherent “ocean” scent, the coffee in the recipes below masks the seaweed scent. Hence, we can enjoy the additional benefits seaweed offers our skin without having to hold our breath.

Eden's Kiss offers recipes for two simple spa quality coffee beauty treatments below that can be used to treat arms, buttocks and thighs. We’re don't claim that coffee will produce instant miracles. However, we do believe these all-natural coffee beauty treatments can complement healthy eating habits and daily exercise. (As with trying any new product, please patch test the recipes below to rule out any unexpected allergies).

(Note: coffee and seaweed products may stain light colored linens--including wash cloths and bath mitts!)

Coffee-Seaweed Smoothing Scrub

In a small glass bowl, blend together:

½ cup of warm, freshly brewed coffee grounds (finely ground)
½ cup of sea salt
3 T. honey
2 T. olive oil
¼ c. kelp powder
25 drops pure coffee essential oil (optional)

¼ c. to 1/3 c. of warm water

Gradually add water to the blended ingredients to form a smooth thick paste that will easily spread upon the skin without dripping. Aim for the consistency of “mud.”

Warm your bathing area. Apply the coffee scrub to your arms, buttocks and thighs. Use gentle stroking motions that move upward in the direction of your heart. Massage your limbs and dimpled areas to improve circulation and to help break up cellulite deposits. Think loving, healing thoughts for all the work your wonderful body does each day. Rinse your body with warm water and pat dry. Your skin will be blissfully soft.

(Please note: the oil in this scrub can cause your shower or tub to become slippery; please be careful to avoid slipping. Also, although this scrub rinses away easily, you will have to rinse some residual grounds from your tub or shower).

For those who, don’t want to deal with having to rinse away coffee grounds from the shower, we can quickly mix together this instant coffee treatment below.


Instant Coffee Cellulite Treatment

In a small glass bowl, blend together:

1 T kelp powder
2 T. instant espresso coffee powder

Gradually add approximately 2 T. of warm water to form a smooth paste that will easily spread upon the skin without dripping.

Apply coffee paste to arms, buttocks, and thighs. Allow the coffee paste to remain on the skin for 10-15 minutes. Rinse away with warm water. Pat skin dry. Apply your favorite Eden’s Kiss all-natural hand & body balm to moisturize as necessary.



With love,


Michelle Tucker

Eden's Kiss
All-Natural Skin Care