Description
A warming botanical oil for tired, overworked muscles, created to bring a subtle heat to the skin and help the body to soften and release tension. Wild Sonoran chiltepin chiles, known as the “Mother of All Peppers,” are slowly infused into golden desert jojoba with meadowsweet, a centuries-old medicinal plant with a connection to the origins of aspirin.
How To Use
Use this earthy oil as a subtly warming massage oil to relax tired, overworked areas of the body. It is also a perfect localized sports rub for joint pain, and can be used on the back, calves, shoulders, or anywhere that is stiff, inflamed, bruised, or painful due to exercise, overuse, or arthritis.
Ingredients
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil*, Capsicum Annuum (Wild Harvested Chiltepin Chili), Spiraea Ulmaria (Meadowsweet)*
*Organic
Sizing & Info
Approx. 50 ml / 1.7 oz
Store in a dry place away from heat and direct sunlight. As with any of our Slow Beauty, please spot test this oil for adverse reactions before use and discontinue use if irritation occurs. Please consult with a physician before using if pregnant or breastfeeding. We recommend using this product within a year of opening. Opened Slow Beauty products are final sale.
The Bottle
Each bottle is a distinctive work of art, hand blown by a master glass artisan in Canada, and shipped using the ancient method of cork and wax sealing.
Refills
$115
Shipping & Returns
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Chiltepin is a tiny wild chile native to the canyons, desert foothills, and brushlands of the Sonoran and parts of the Chihuahuan Deserts in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. For thousands of years, chile peppers have been valued throughout the Americas not only as food, but as part of traditional plant medicine.
Known as the "Mother of all Peppers", chiltepins are the only wild chili native to the United States and are considered the ancient ancestor that gave life to nearly all of the domesticated pepper varieties, including jalapenos, serranos, and bell peppers.
Fresh meadowsweet leaf and flower are added to the infusion, another plant with a remarkable lineage in plant medicine. Meadowsweet has been used in European herbal traditions for centuries and contains naturally occurring salicylate compounds. In the nineteenth century, scientists studying compounds found in meadowsweet and other plants helped establish the chemistry that would eventually lead to acetylsalicylic acid, or aspirin. The name “aspirin” is connected to Spiraea Ulmaria, the botanical name once used for meadowsweet.
