Journal

Desert Mountain Apothecary and Desert Fountain of Youth Botanical Anti-Aging Treatments are all based on a philosophy of creating harmony between the body, mind, and nature.  Beyond offering effective natural products that will make you look great, I am trying to spread the idea that you can harness nature in order to not only cultivate physical beauty but love, joy and happiness and a sense of ease and gratefulness in the mind. The natural materials in the products, that grow in the earth, fed by the sun and water, your skin, your body, your mind they are all products of...

 Happy 4th of July from Desert Mountain Apothecary!  Let's treasure this beautiful land. Enjoy this stirring patriotic display from the Winter Polo season at the El Dorado Polo Club.

The California Desert is a haven for equestrians during the winter seasons and the HITS Horse Show in Thermal, California is one of the major ongoing equestrian events.  Situated adjacent to the Thermal Airport, a convenient runway for private air travel, the HITS Horse Show is found after a drive through the beautiful date plantations and farm fields of the eastern Coachella Valley.  The facilities and the event are huge in terms of both the sheer size and the number of participants.  The sprawling grounds are planted with California fan palms, and the backdrop of the mountain ranges surrounding the valley make...

Picture this: You splurged on a natural essential oil reed fragrance diffuser over the weekend and on Monday you come home from work and the scent is much stronger than you expected. Upon entering, you can hear your dog barking and whimpering in pain. While you were at work, your dog has knocked the diffuser over onto the floor, and rolled around in the oil, and is covered in severe burns all over it’s skin. You carry it into the bathtub and try to wash off the oil only to have the burns get worse, and you despair as your...

Rosewater is actually the byproduct of steam distilling rose petals into essential oil or the highest grade of distillation: absolute.  Indian Damask Rosewater is steam distilled hydrosol water made from Rosa Damascena rose petals.  Rosa Damascena or Rose Damask has a bright heirloom rose smell.  The kind of smell until recently seemed to have been bred out of commercially available roses.  I come across several 50-60 year old heirloom rose bushes on my usual walking route and I always stop and smell the sublime berry-like scent when one is in bloom. As opposed to the Bulgarian rosewater that I sell,...