Grief Carebox: Meet the Makers
“We believe that Time is an invisible ingredient, and so the majority of what makes up an IDYLHOUR box is carefully handmade.”
Grief has been described as the waves of the sea. Sometimes we sit peacefully on its shore, watching the waves come in and out. Sometimes we are swept up in the sea of grief, tossed around in its overwhelming energy. Both experiences are necessary to the process and the contents of this care box provides a means to keep on floating, present through it all.
High Sun Low Moon, was founded by Cassie Courtney. During her pregnancy, Cassie was dismayed by skin and hair products with questionably long shelf-lives and suspicious ingredient lists. She set out to create her own using vibrant plants and raw organic materials, lovingly married by hand. Cassie launched HSLM with a few of her standout formulations as the initial product line.
Ritual is at the heart of the HSLM process, as Cassie draws inspiration from the practices of great healers, goddesses and Egyptian queens, the process of becoming intimate with the plants, harmonizing them and nourishing the body with the compounds. It became a most loving ritual to herself. She says that, “the duality of sun/moon, mother/father, yin/yang all really spoke to how I wanted to create products that complimented one another and worked energetically.”
The Grief Carebox features High Sun Low Moon’s Mary Moon Tea Bath is a celestial soak with wise herbs including butterfly pea flower, which paints the water a deep blue, igniting the throat and crown chakras for clarity, intentions and heightening heart consciousness.
We also included their Plantwise Mud Mask to cleanse and soothe. The combination of these products create a conscious plane in the body and spirit to release and make friends with the myriad waves of grief we encounter in our process.
Lisa Li founded Qi Tea in 2019 after leaving a career in the fashion industry. Raised in a small coastal town in Asia, a 2017 trip to the Yunnan Province (often referred to as China's birthplace of tea) inspired the pivot in focus. She was captivated, “looking at this dry whole flower come back to life in the water, watching it unfurl, and tasting it was this out-of-this-world experience."
Qi Tea (their name means life energy) is the first and perhaps only purveyor of whole flower tea in the United States. Sourcing sustainably was a primary focus that consumed two years of Lisa’s life until she found small, family-owned farms growing single-origin whole flower herbs.
The Grief box curation includes their Royal Chrysanthemum, which unfurls beautifully when steeped in warm water. A cooling tea, it reduces inflammation and lowers blood pressure.
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