Blog - Wild Rose Herbs

1.5 Decades of Handmade Botanical Skin Care

It's hard to believe, but March, 2026 marks 15 years since Wild Rose opened its doors and we made our first sale! Our offerings began with herbal balms, including Renewal and Gingermint, and have grown to encompass a full range of natural skincare and body care products.

To commemorate the journey and show our sincere appreciation to our customers we will be offering 25% off using code HAPPYHAPPY15 through March 17th!

There's always time for wheelbarrow rides!

A Check-in

With our new-ish Eugene workshop fully established, a number of irons in the fire— including some new contracts with local and regional retailers as well as some brand new products coming soon — and our apothecary permaculture garden going strong and ready for spring, Wild Rose is doing better than ever!

Jakob celebrating the installation of our newest trellis.

Medicine, Native Pollinators and Food!

We've just planted a whole bunch of native and pollinator species throughout the apothecary garden including Clarkia sp., Epilobiums sp., Grindelias sp., Madias sp., Phacelias sp. and more. They've sprouted but aren't much to look at yet!

Kiwi berries newly planted along the tunnel trellis.

The last several weeks we've also been getting a lot of new food producers in the ground including multiple goumi berries—a soil restoration shrub that fixes nitrogen and produces excellent antioxidant-rich berries— some kiwi berries on a new fruit tunnel and pineapple guavas for an evergreen, edible privacy shrub. We've also added a new hillside yarrow stand for erosion control along with our native kinnikinnick in the expanding mini olive orchard adjacent to our impressive native Oregon Grape stand. That's just a small sample however, so stay tuned for later season photos in spring/summer blog posts!

Happy kiwi berries leafing out!

Mountain Rose Mercantile Event

We'll be be at Mountain Rose Herbs Mercantile this Saturday March 14 11am-3pm for: Meet the Makers of Wild Rose: Scent Profiles & Herbal Products where we will doing some demos and will be available for personalized recommendations and discussion of some of our favorite products.

Raizel using their "own tools" in the garden.

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Try out some of our bath salts and sprays, massage balms and facial masks this Valentines Day!

Passion

Our Passion Collection combines warming and stimulating cardamom with the relaxant aromatics of rose, perfect for deep level rejuvenation and restoration—getting the heat deep into the core and to the tips of your toes—or just for kicking back and getting extra chill, and warm!

Enjoy a warming, relaxing bath with Passion Botanical Bath Salt with Cardamom & Rose

Go even deeper and try a combo with Passion + Bloom Spa Sampler Gift Set , adding a muscle-warming and relaxing massage and salt spray clarifier.

Refresh

Try a mask before the bath  with Refresh - Stimulating Facial Mask. Stimulating peppermint, penetrating sweet orange, soothing Pacific Northwest lavender and nourishing carrot blend to invigorate and energize tired skin. Refresh's scent is minty and sweet with a deep, resonating floral jasmine undertone.

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Wild Rose will not be conducting any business  in solidarity with the National Shutdown - Jan 30, 2026 and will return January 31st, 2026.

                         NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. STOP FUNDING ICE.

—Vote No to ICE Funding — ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE — STOP ICE TERROR —

—Justice for Renee, Alex, Silverio, Keith and all victims of ICE, POLICE, and STATE terror —

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The Pervasiveness of Plastics

As many reading this know, microplastic and nanoplastic fragments are everywhere throughout our bodies, from the tissues in our brains to our reproductive organs. They have been documented in over 1,300 species, and pervade every ecosystem on earth. A truly grotesque estimated 10 to 40 million metric tons of these particles are released into the environment every year and represent one aspect of the ecocidal policies the masters of industrial capital seem hell-bent on continuing to unleash on our world.

Plastics as Pathology

Within our bodies, there is already ample—and growing—scientific evidence of associations between the micro and nanoplastics in our bodies and many disease processes. Immune system impairment, reproductive abnormalities, inflammatory changes, cellular damage, as well as links to metabolic dysfunction, cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke, and lung and colon cancers, are just a few examples in the research documenting that higher exposure to microplastics correlate with increased disease incidence and poorer health outcomes.

Biodegradable lip balm containers work great and are plastic free.

At Wild Rose we are committed to finding solutions for packaging materials for products without the use of plastics.

So far, Wild Rose has eliminated all use of plastics, save the caps used on a few of our glass containers and the sprayer and caps on our glass spray bottles. Please tell us if you know of a distributor for cornstarch based medicine bottle caps and sprayers, or other solutions!

A Different Way

Beyond supporting local farms and organic and biodynamic agriculture, growing much of the medicine we make ourselves, and avoiding all synthetic chemicals in our products, Wild Rose also limits the worsening ecological and climate catastrophe through avoiding plastics use. Some of the ways we make this actionable include using only biodegradable lip balm and deodorant tubes, using glass rather than plastic jars, and employing recycled materials and cornstarch based packing peanuts for shipping. While seemingly small, all are examples of how we elevate our ethics above our bottom-line, and go way out of our way to increase your health and safety, as well as the solvency of continuing life on our planet.  

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Ash, myself(Yak), and Raizel will have a booth for Wild Rose at the annual Ditch Market this Sunday December, 7 from 12 noon - 4pm at: 303 S 5th St #165, Springfield, OR 97477. 

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