It is possible to make delicious herbal wines to use as tonics, digestive aids or after a stressful day. If you want your wines to last for a long time choose a full-bodied wine. For a light mellow wine to be used as a good tonic a good Muscat will blend well with herbs.

The following herbal wine can be drunk as a pick-me-up after a cold or just because it tastes good. Place fresh herbs one at a time into a mortar and pound them gently four or five times but DO NOT mass them.

Prepare the mixture in to a very clean glass jug.

2 cups Muscat wine

1 teaspoons Sage

1 teaspoon Rosemary

1 teaspoon Thyme

2 teaspoons Aniseed

5 whole Cloves

4 cm Cinnamon stick

3 cm Ginger root

1 lemon peel pared and sliced.

Put the herbs and spices in the wine bottle, and top up with the wine. Cork the bottle and store into a dark cool place for 10 days. Strain and filter. Poor back into the bottle and leave for 30 days before use.

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Herbal Face Mask
Herbs have been used for cosmetic reasons for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and other civilizations used herbs for beauty, perfuming, therapeutic reasons, and religious rituals and for ceremonies. Today, there is a world wide industry based around beauty products.

However, the bigger single problem with commercial preparation is the lack of control over the purity of the ingredients in the production of the products and the addition of chemicals. But by making your own products you ensure control over the purity of the ingredients.

This musk will tighten the pores of your facial skin

It makes enough for one treatment.

1 tablespoon of honey

1 tablespoon of whole milk

1 egg

1 tablespoon of dried Chamomile flower crushed

1/2 teaspoon of crushed fennel seeds

1 tablespoon of fresh peppermint finely chopped

Place all the ingredients in a ceramic bowl and mix well. Place a hot wet towel over your face (no too hot) and sit down to relax for a minute or two. Remove the towel and apply the mixture to your face and neck. Let it dry. Rinse it off with warm water.

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The multitude of uses man has found for plants, including medicinal, domestic and culinary, demonstrates his close association with nature. Apart from their traditional use for all man’s ills and ailments, herbs have proved invaluable in many other ways in the domestic context. They have provided shelter, roof coverings (grasses, reeds, heather), utensils, household trays, dishes and baskets (birch bark), buildings and furnishings (bamboo), dyes (hair, textile), insecticides (moths, flies).

This site will provide you with guidelines in utilizing herbs in the kitchen, to make some great herb bread, oil, butter, vinegar dressings and herbal teas, in and around the house, in potpourri, herb pillows, scented items and decorative purposes, and in many other preparations.

In the best of all possible worlds, you would use fresh herbs all year round, but many herbs are annuals and the perennials more often than not die back in winder, so you have to use dried ones. Although dried herbs lose some natural oils and vitamins, they retain much of their flavors if they have been dried correctly. Store all your herbs in glass airtight containers.

The time of the year for harvesting is any time when the part of the herbs you want to collect are well advanced but still young and fresh. However, seeds must be collected when they are mature. Dry herbs on racks or hang then upside down in a dry cool place with good air circulation. If you dry them in bunches keep them small and as loose as possible.

To collect seeds, place the mature flower heads with some of the flower stems attached in a paper bag, head first, and secure with a string or rubber band tied around the top. Now you can rub the flower heads by hand through the paper bag to collect the seeds.

Some herbs can be frozen. They are better frozen than dried. Collect them when plenty in season. Parsley and chives can be frozen after been chopped fine so can basil, chopped and mixed in a little olive oil. Shape them in to small cubes and use them as they needed.

Troughs out history herbs have been important to the household. Traditionally, herbs have been used as medicine for humans and animals, disinfect and purify the air, repel insects, surface cleaners, beauty and relaxation….

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