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The Fifth Season in Traditional Chinese Medicine with Dr. Lydia Au of The Beauty Within

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You are familiar with the four seasons; spring, summer, autumn, and winter. However, Traditional Chinese Medicine recognizes a fifth season. This fifth season is actually a season within a season – late summer. The time when we begin to slow our pace, cool down, and reflect.  Why does Traditional Chinese Medicine add this separate fifth …

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The Science Behind Jojoba Oil in Botnia Skincare

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We’re scrupulous when it comes to the ingredients we use in our skincare, especially when it comes to jojoba oil. Our jojoba oil comes from a small farm located on the border of California and Arizona and our farmer has been growing jojoba with his parents since the late 80s starting from seed. Did you …

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Botnia’s Approach to Botox Treatments

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Everyone’s looking for a miracle cure these days, and while a little nip tuck or injection might sound like a fun quick fix, we’d like to show you other holistic alternatives you can try before going “under the knife.” As we age, our skin loses the ability to generate and regenerate cells, collagen and fluids …

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Embracing the Energetics of Spring, feat. Anne Miller, L.Ac.

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Oh, Spring . . . we couldn’t wait for you to arrive! As we watch our micro-farm transition from the depths of winter (admittedly pretty mild in Sausalito!) into spring with sprouting seeds and flowering buds, we can’t help but think about how we can transition ourselves into the new season too. In Traditional Chinese …

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Beyond Facials: Alternative Healing Modalities from Botnia Spa Partners

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There are so many different ways to #treatyoself these days . . . and if you’re looking for something beyond a nourishing holistic facial, we have lots of options for you! While our spa partners share one thing in common (they all use and love the power of organic skincare!), they also have strengths in …

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Botnia Skincare Key Ingredient – Rose Geranium

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This year we celebrate the big 5! As something special for this milestone birthday, we’re bringing back our most beloved hydrosol, Rose Geranium! We call it our power plant because it has so many useful properties and benefits for the skin. The type of geranium we use for our hydrosol is called Pelargonium graveolens (its …

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How Holistic Estheticians Use Botnia Skincare

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Psst . . . here’s a little secret! Our Botnia spa partners have the inside scoop on Botnia product hacks from working with our full lineup day in and day out in the treatment room. Like our not-so-secret non-Botnia product, goat milk yogurt, which we LOVE using with our powdered masks! Let’s unveil some of …

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Botnia’s Love Letter to Candice of Sonoma County Bee Co.

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By now, you can probably feel our love for Candice of Sonoma County Bee Company and how we’re super obsessed with her honey to use both inside and outside the treatment room. Over the last three years, we’ve created a yearly hydrosol together. In 2019 our first blend of wild-harvested mugwort together with yarrow and …

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Botnia x Sonoma County Bee Co. Hydrosol For Humanity

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Let’s just be human. How can we love more? How can we help more? What can we do to be more human? These ideas have been swirling in my mind recently. In this second year of the pandemic, the escalating climate crisis and injustice all around the globe have created a vacuum of cancel culture …

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Reflections: 2021 Botnia Esthetician Workshop Summit

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In October we gather with our spa partners for continuing education. It’s something I look forward to every year because every year since I launched this company, we’ve met the needs of our estheticians in a different way. This year was all about supporting them as they went back into their treatment rooms. What that …

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