FLORAL ESSENCE BOTANICALS
Floral Waters, Herbs and Gifts for Health and Enjoyment
DISTILLATION WORKSHOP
DISTILLATION WORKSHOP (IN-PERSON)
June 26, 2025
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BROWSE OUR PRODUCTS
Shop our latest products in our Etsy shop.
We offer floral waters, cremes, and handmade soap all made with our locally crafted hydrosols.
Lavender Garden Relief
Lavender Garden Relief was formulated especially for weekend gardeners and farmers alike.
The ingredients contain lavender and tea tree essential, both excellent for all skin types, and calendula infused oil with jojoba oil.
Nothing but the best in skincare.
Calendula Facial & Body Oil
Unveil Nature's Golden Secret: Organic Calendula-Infused Jojoba Oil
Facial oils are to be applied last, after the moisturizing facial creams, as facial oils are heavier than the moisturizers. Apply in small amounts as the face absorbs the skin oils easily.
This versatile Facial Oil can also be applied to dry irritated skin spots to hydrate, soothe and repair.
Add a few drops of this "liquid 'gold" to your fingertips to gently cleans your face before using a toner or astringent. Mix a few drops into other ointments, creams, or salves to enhance.
Our Organic Calendula flowers are infused with Organic Jojoba Oil. For all skin types, Calendula Oil may be massaged into the scalp to moisturize and fortify the hair.
Roll-On Favorites: Rose, Lavender, Peppermint, and Lemon Verbena
This set of four Aromatic Roll-ons are hand crafted at Floral Essence own local facility.
The Floral Waters of:
- Lavender encourages you to relax.
- Rose is known to enhance that aromatic feeling,
- Peppermint is called "The Wake-up Water".
- Lemon Verbena's will bring back memories of moms lemonade.
All are crafted by hand and distilled in Floral Essence's 8-gallon Copper Still.
We carefully select the Essential Oil companions to add and spice up each roll on.
We accept special orders of the individual fragrances at $20.00 each
Facial Toners - Skincare
Toners promote cleaner skin washing all excess oils and grime away. In the evening, after cleansing, saturate a cotton pad with Toner and apply it to your face and neck removing all left-over residue of oil and soil. Then, apply your normal night cream. In the morning, apply the toner first, then your moisturizer.
My Toners ingredients vary depending on the season. We use Hydrosols we distill ourselves from our plants in our local garden. We are natural gardeners, harvesting by hand.
The Hydrosols of choice are Rose Geranium, Rose, Lavender, Chamomile and Orange Blossom. Add to that, Calendula, Lavender, Geranium, Helichrysum, Palmarosa, Ylang-Ylang and Rosewood Essential Oils.
Rosel Petal Powder
As a body powder Rose Petal Powder leaves a gentle fragrance reminiscent of walking through grandmas rose garden. Sprinkled on your body after a shower or on a hot humid day leaves your skin soft and silky.
Rose Petal Powder is so pure and gentle it can also be used as a cleansing powder, mixed with a little rose water, leaving your skin soft to the touch. As a cleanser mix a small amount of rose floral water to a few tablespoons of Rose Petal Powder, to make a paste.
Special orders accepted.
MoisturiIng Facial Cream
Floral Essence Signature Facial Cream was created for dry, sensitive, and mature skin to hydrateyrour skin while adding protection from the elements.
It is light, smooth, and creamy working wonders on your face as well as your elbows, heels, hands, and all dry spots.
Floral Essence's Facial Cream is produced using only the best natural ingredients with no additives or preservatives.
ONLINE COURSE
The Art of Herbal Gardening: Nature's Gift of Sustainability
Discover how to grow, maintain, harvest, and prepare herbs you grow in your own garden.
This course includes:
- 2 hours on-demand video
- 19 articles
- 47 downloadable resources
- Access on mobile and TV
- Full lifetime access
- Certificate of completion
BOOKS BY DONNA GIBBS
You can follow Donna's passion for herbal gardening and aromatherapy in Hydrosols: Aromatherapy's Emerging Star and Aromatic Herbal Gardening, available on Amazon.
HYDROSOLS: AROMATHERAPY'S EMERGING STAR (INCLUDES RECIPES FOR HEALTH, HOME AND BEAUTY)
This book is about my personal journey after discovering the world of Aromatherapy 30 years ago. I developed a passion, to learn more about the healing powers of the herbs and flowers that are steam distilled and produced into essential oils and hydrosols.
This desire to educate myself led me to the realization that the hydrosol, the liquid byproduct of producing essential oils should be sitting right next to the essential oil in importance. My ultimate goal is to share my world and show the reader how they can enhance their lives by bringing this natural way of living into their lives.
AROMATIC HERBAL GARDENING: GROWING YOUR OWN AROMATIC HERBS
Have you ever wondered how to design your own herb garden; plant, grow, maintain, harvest, and dry those herbs for culinary and home care uses?
This book is about Mother Nature and her part in supplying us with an abundant supply of material to entice us to use our imagination, experiment with and discover how she can best serve us. I emphasized the information with pictures and sketches from my own photography to share how gorgeous nature is. My hope is that you take away an appreciation for herbs, flowers, and natural remedies.
ABOUT FLORAL ESSENCE BOTANICALS
Floral Essence is the creation of Donna Gibbs and Jo Labor.
Together, they produce hydrosols (floral waters) by steam distilling locally grown plants and flowers they grow themselves.
Trained in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Kauai, France, Sedona, and San Francisco, they have over 300 hours of combined training in botany, aromatherapy, and distillation. Currently, available hydrosols include lavender, basil, rose geranium, rose, lemongrass, and lemon verbena.
Got a question or a custom order? We love to create small batches of seasonal blends and if you’d like to order, drop us a line! We’d love to hear from you!
"...delightful sachets filled with wonderful lavender scent. My daughter loved the gift."