Please note that Canada Post is on strike and won't be delivering orders for the unforeseeable future. Pick up is still available until December 7th 2024. Also, Panacea Herbs will be closing December 7th until February 1st 2025.

Panacea Daily producing organic skin / dental care on Gabriola Island

Winter and Your Skin: How Herbal Skincare Provides Relief

Winter and Your Skin: How Herbal Skincare Provides Relief
Winter and Your Skin: How Herbal Skincare Provides Relief Winter brings with it chilly winds, low humidity, and shorter days—elements that can leav...

Stinging Nettle Soup recipe

Stinging Nettle Soup recipe
One of the most delicious spring time wild foods is Stinging Nettles! Packed full of iron and vitamins, stinging nettles is the perfect food when t...

Lemon Honey Ginger Tea

Lemon Honey Ginger Tea
Loving this on these cold dark days. Best to make  from scratch.  Lemon Honey Ginger Tea In a tea pot squeeze 1/4 lemon add 11/2 tbsp honey grate ...

Interview with CBC's North by Northwest 2023

Interview with CBC's North by Northwest 2023
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north-by-northwest/clip/15981601-april-gardening-series-panacea-herbs

Panacea Herbs featured in Folklife Magazine!

Panacea Herbs featured in Folklife Magazine!

Picture an old white farmhouse rooted amid gardens and trees, a rusting school bus and workshops. A U-shaped driveway directs you straight back to the place you came from, should you carry with you the scent of city and speed. For in this old house live stories of seas and herbs and manifestations.

Here is where she plants and grows, harvests and wild forages. Here is where she infuses and concocts, distills and mixes. Here is where she heals and soothes, enlivens and prevents. Here is where she bottles and packages, promotes and sells. Here is where she lives and works and mothers—in an old farmhouse that she dreamed into being 22 years ago.

“My boys were starting to complain of tasting soap on their toast and essential oils in their juice.”

“It kind of felt like we were beating the system ... and herbalism was a part of all that somehow!”

 

Dandelion Wine Recipe

Dandelion Wine Recipe.

The Aroma Vacation

Gardenia Solid Perfume!!
*NEW* Gardenia Solid Perfume!! The sweet scent of a tropical paradise,  just in time for the cold weather to set in. Let your senses be lured into ...

Coconut Chocolate Chai Tea

Coconut Chocolate Chai Tea
I woke up to an early November frosty morning. A perfect day for picking rosehips. Before heading out, I made myself one of my newest delicious war...

The Power of Roses

The Power of Roses
Nootka Roses. The smell around here is intoxicating with the Nootka roses in bloom. Every morning I walk into the backyard and pick a bag of rose p...

March Spring Special

March Spring Special
*SPECIAL* save 30% on all 8 oz body lotions to soothe that winter, dry skin.  For the month of March only. Special includes the Calendula Rose body...

This old bus

This old bus

When I first started making herbal products, in the mid '90's I lived in this old bus. I lived off the grid with a huge garden on a large beautiful acreage. I loved it. I was hardier back then so I could handle the cold winters and the hauling of water for dishes and baths. There just seemed to be more time to keep life simple. Panacea was developed out of a love of growing and harvesting nature's herbal bounty. I love how the earth provides its inhabitants with exactly what we need to stay healthy in body, mind and soul. The only thing she asks in return is that we humans stay healthy, as this is the only way we will survive but even if we don't, the earth will adapt and carry on with or without us.

 

Panacea Headquarters

Panacea Headquarters
For years I made skin care in my kitchen. I had a room that was my office and stored all my ingredients. When I made product, I would haul out all ...