Comfrey ointment Archives

Win an Organic Mother’s Day Hamper Worth Over 50

by Josephine Christie | Mar 14, 2019 | Competitions

Win an organic Mother’s Day hamper worth over £50! All you have to do is LIKE our Facebook page and SHARE the competition post 👍

One lucky winner will be selected at random and will win this hamper full of natural products, handcrafted in the North East of Scotland.

The hamper includes:

Restful Evening and Nervous Exhaustion Pulse Point Roller Balls – relaxing, calming and to aid sleep at bedtime
Organic soap (natural, gardener’s and cooks, meditation) – our soaps create a rich lather leaving skin feeling soft and smelling great!
Reflexology foot balm – for tired and overworked feet, providing deep moisturising qualities.
Natural lip balm – provides a protective and soothing layer to give you soft lips.
Nervous Exhaustion Bath and Body Oil – to be used in the bath to help you wind down and relax.
Love essential oil blend – Soothe troubled emotions, calm frustrations and irritations. Use a couple of drops of this blend in an oil burner or diffuser, on a tissue by your bed, or diluted in a carrier oil of your choice for use on the body.

The competition closes at 5pm Monday 25th of March so we can get the prize to you in time for Mother’s Day

This competition is open to UK residents only.

Good luck! 💚

Organica J – 12 Days of Christmas Promotions

by Josephine Christie | Nov 23, 2018 | Competitions, Offers

To help get into the Christmas spirit, we are excited to announce that for the first time, we will be launching a spectacular 12 Days of Christmas promotion!

From the 1st to the 12th of December, we will be running a different deal on each day. The code for each unique promotion will last 24 hours, but it will change everyday at midnight.

We don’t want to spoil the surprise of all the amazing offers we will doing, but for example, one day could be a discount on a particular item, then the next could be a free gift with each order!

It’s up to you whether to order on one day, or whether you wait until another day to see if it’s an offer more suited to you!

All we can guarantee is there will be a lot of great promotions that we have never before offered at Organica J. The promotion is a thank you to all our customers, old and new.

The codes will be announced on our Facebook and Instagram pages each day so please make sure to like/follow these accounts.

We hope you manage to get something that’s been on your Christmas list this year!

Terms and Conditions:

The codes must be used at the checkout. The codes will be announced daily on our social media channels (Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/OrganicaJ) (Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/organicaj)
The codes are only valid for 24 hours. Customers cannot request to change codes for another day’s code.
It may be the case that some promotion codes will not show up in order confirmation or at the checkout. In such cases, you will be contacted once your order is placed with details about the promotion you have applied for.

Top Ten uses for Comfrey Ointment

by Jacqui Christie | May 23, 2018 | Essential Oil Top Ten Uses

Welcome to another of our Top Ten Uses! This month as its comfrey harvest time, we thought we’d look at one of our top selling products – comfrey ointment.

We have had so much feedback over the years from clients on our comfrey ointment, which we make from our own comfrey macerate (wild crafted comfrey herb in organic sunflower oil). The comfrey is gathered by us, by hand, from a private, protected piece of ground in North East Scotland. Here are some helpful uses for our Comfrey Ointment.

1. Hacks in hands and feet.
2. Helpful for over used or tense muscles
3. After a sprain or strain
4. Ligament or tendon issues.
5. To ease pain in joints, eg fingers, shoulders, knees
6. Bed sores
7. Minor wounds
8. Scar tissue
9. Eczema-prone skin
10. After fractures & breaks (supports the muscle and tissue structure around the break or fracture)

In ancient times the herb was called ‘knitbone’,’ all heal’ or ‘woundwort’.

On the skin, comfrey is an emollient, soothing and was used to heal scars and blemishes. It was also said to promote a youthful complexion.

Dioscorides, a greek physician, who wrote ‘Materia Medica’ in 50AD used the herb to heal wounds and broken bones. The Latin name ‘symphytum’ means ‘heal together’

It is now believed that the allatoin (a main component of comfrey) is responsible for the growth and multiplication of skin cells.

We use the comfrey macerate in our Comfrey Ointment, but also in our Gardener’s Hand Balm, Herbal Foot Balm, Reflexology Foot Balm, Skin SOS Balm.

If you feel this ointment would be useful for you, you can bu y it here from Organica J. Please call or email us if you require any further information on our products. I am a qualified Aromatherapist (BSc) and happy to help.

This ointment is to be used topically only. For complex medical conditions & pregnancy always contact a qualified aromatherapist or your GP.

Comfrey Uses and History

by Jacqui Christie | Jun 23, 2016 | Comfrey

There are a myriad of Comfrey uses and history, we would like to share some with you here.

In ancient times the herb was called ‘knitbone’,’ all heal’ or ‘woundwort’ and was used topically for healing cuts, bruises, fractures, sprains, injured tendons/ligaments, sores and skin ulcers.

On the skin, comfrey is an emollient, soothing and was used to heal scars and blemishes. It was also said to promote a youthful complexion.
Dioscorides, a greek physician, who wrote ‘Materia Medica’ in 50AD used the herb to heal wounds and broken bones. The Latin name ‘symphytum’ means ‘heal together’

It is now believed that the allatoin (a main component of comfrey) is responsible for the growth and multiplication of skin cells.
The medium we use for maceration is organic sunflower oil, as a rich oil full of vitamins and moisturising. Our comfrey oil macerate is effective for use in massage and can be easily blended with other carrier oils and essential oils can be added.

We use comfrey oil macerate regularly in our clinical aromatherapy practice, for clients for which comfrey oil would be effective and approriate for their individual needs. All our products are only suitable for topical use.

For further information here are three links to research papers on comfrey ointment. (1), (2), (3).

Our own comfrey uses – we have 6 products which contain our own wildcrafted comfrey from Aberdeenshire, Scotland – the comfrey oil macerated in organic sunflower,comfrey ointment,gardener’s hand balm, herbal foot balm,reflexology balm and Skin SOS Balm.

The comfrey is harvested by hand from deep within the rural countryside here in Aberdeenshire. We have permissions to access a private piece of controlled land for the harvest. It is free from artificial fertilizers, pesticides and the comfrey grows completely naturally in its own environment. The harvest took place this year in May and June 2016 and we choose the optimum conditions for harvesting the plant as early in the season as we can (finding consecutive dry days can be challenging!). The harvest is fully sustainable and damages no part of the land.

Comfrey Ointment – the wildcrafted comfrey is harvested by us in Aberdeenshire and macerated in organic sunflower oil to create a wonderfully rich and powerful oil. This oil is lovingly combined with other organically grown ingredients to make what we believe is a truly premium product

Gardeners Hand Balm – Great repair and deep moisturising for cut, grazed, dry or rough hands.

Herbal Foot Balm – Excellent regeneration and deep nourishment for overworked and/or damaged feet at the end of the day.

Reflexology Balm – Tested and used by reflexologists. This product was made by request and has been so popular. Many reflexologists also use the herbal foot balm too.

Skin SOS Balm – The Skin SOS Balm was developed following many requests from customers for a product that would specifically help with scars, and skin issues. It contains a rich blend of powerful organic carrier oils and essential oils, which can be helpful on scars, also on psoriasis and eczema-prone skin. After much testing it was found also to be helpful for use on new tattoos and after tattoo removal. Protective, calming and regenerating.

Look out for more comfrey uses and history in future blog posts

All our organic products are handcrafted by our highly qualified aromatherapist (BSc in Complementary Therapies (Aromatherapy), Member of the International Federation of Professsional Aromatherapists)

Comfrey Plants Survive The Aberdeenshire Flooding

by Jacqui Christie | Feb 3, 2016 | Comfrey

The end of December and start of January heralded some of the worst flooding in living memory in Aberdeenshire. Where we are living and working on the river Dee flooded causing great devastation along its entire length. In some cases local people have lost all their possessions and are unable to return to their homes for many months, for some perhaps never.

Farmers lost animals, and fields which were simply washed away Everyone was taken completely by surprise by the speed of the rising water, as floods had never been seen before to this extent. Wildlife and the environment, business and communities, roads and bridges, cars and transport – nothing was left unaffected.

We went down to the place where we gather the comfrey leaves from their natural environment, on a private piece of ground near the river Dee, to survey the damage. We use the comfrey leaves that we gather in our comfrey oil macerate and in our comfrey ointment and other balms which contain our comfrey.

We knew that the comfrey plants are strong and resilient plants, but were very pleased to see them growing up through the debris that had been left in wake of the river in spate. Areas where the comfrey plants grow, that normally would be unaffected by usual high river levels, were entirely under water during the flood.

It is a great testament to the wonderful resilience of nature, that the comfrey plants and leaves are looking extremely healthy. We will be watching them closely over the next three months to see their progress to harvest time in April/May 2016.

If you would like to help the people here after the floods, Aboyne and Upper Deeside Rotary Club is collecting through crowdfunding at the Ballater and Deeside Flood Relief Fund.