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How we grow, infuse & make it
Real footage from our Tallahassee garden and studio, and the full transcript of every video, so you always know exactly how it’s made.
- What's In a Herbal Balm Gift Set? Inside InVine's Nature's Finest TrioWhat is actually inside a herbal balm gift set, jar by jar. InVine Botanicals' Nature's Finest Trio holds three garden-grown balms with three different characters: Bug Bite Balm (lemongrass, lemon balm, rosemary, basil), Breathe Free Balm (peppermint, spearmint, rosemary, lemon balm), and Muscle Revive Balm (ginger, turmeric, cayenne, rosemary). Which balm is for whom, where the herbs are grown in Tallahassee, Florida, and the shared base all three are built on: whole dried herbs cold-infused into organic oil for six to eight weeks, then blended with beeswax and Vitamin E.
- Meet the Herb: Rose (Rose Water vs Rose Essential Oil vs Rose Infused Oil) | InVine BotanicalsThree different things are sold as rose: rose water is a hydrosol, rose essential oil is a concentrate (otto or absolute), and a rose infused oil is the whole dried petal steeped in oil for weeks. InVine grows its own roses in Tallahassee and makes the third.
- How to Choose a Natural Skincare Gift (What "Small Batch" Really Means) | InVine BotanicalsFive checks for choosing a natural skincare gift: read the ingredients rather than counting them, ask who grew the plants, find out what small batch means on that label, look for a batch number and a date, and pick a story the giver can tell.
- How We Make Our Bug Bite Balm: From Garden to Jar | InVine BotanicalsThe complete garden to jar process behind InVine Botanicals Bug Bite Balm: five garden grown herbs, a 4 to 9 day controlled dry, a 6 to 8 week whole herb infusion, and a hand poured small batch finish in Tallahassee, Florida.
- Balm vs. Cream: What's the Difference, and Which Should You Use? | InVine BotanicalsThe difference between a balm and a creme, and which to reach for: balms are anhydrous infused oil plus beeswax; InVine's cremes are waterless too, built on lighter infused oils with mango butter and prickly pear seed oil, and carry no beeswax on the face.
- What Is Lemon Balm? How InVine Botanicals Grows & Infuses It in Tallahassee, FloridaHow InVine Botanicals grows, dries, and slow-infuses lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) in Tallahassee, Florida — and the two balms it goes into.
- How We Make a Natural Rose Face Cream: Rose Renewal CrèmeInVine Botanicals walks every step of making its Rose Renewal Crème: rose, rosemary, and spearmint grown in Tallahassee, dried 4-9 days, cold-infused 6-8 weeks in apricot kernel and grapeseed oils, strained, and blended with mango butter, aloe vera gel, beeswax, and Vitamin E.
- What Is an Herb-Infused Oil? Whole-Herb Cold Infusion, Start to FinishAn herb-infused oil (macerated oil) is a carrier oil with whole herbs steeped in it for weeks. InVine Botanicals walks the full whole-herb cold infusion process — garden, harvest, drying at 76°F, 6-8 week dark infusion at 74°F, straining, and blending into balms — plus a simple home recipe.
- Infused Oil vs Essential Oil: What's the Difference? | InVine Botanicals, Tallahassee FLInfused oil vs essential oil — the real difference, from InVine Botanicals in Tallahassee FL: essential oils are distilled/concentrated (used in drops); infused oils are whole herbs steeped in carrier oil (mild, used as a base). Plus how we make ours + our two-layer method.
- Aromatic Garden Herbs for Mosquito Season — What We Grow in Our Tallahassee GardenThe aromatic herbs gardeners have long planted for mosquito season — lemon balm, basil, mint, rosemary, and marigold — grown at InVine Botanicals in Tallahassee FL, and how several of those garden herbs go into our hand-poured Bug Bite Balm.
- Meet the Herb: Mint — How We Grow, Harvest and Dry It in Tallahassee, FLHow InVine Botanicals grows mint in Tallahassee, Florida: why we keep it in containers so its underground runners don't take over the beds, when we cut it (by hand, just before it flowers, when the leaves are most fragrant), how we dry it slowly on screen racks at 76F in the dark, and which balms it goes into — Breathe Free Balm, Muscle Revive Balm, and our Spearmint Hand Cream. For the difference between peppermint and spearmint, see our peppermint vs spearmint video.
- Meet the Herb: Echinacea — How We Grow the Purple Coneflower at InVine Botanicals, Tallahassee FLMeet echinacea, the purple coneflower, at InVine Botanicals in Tallahassee FL: how we grow it from seed, harvest the blooms by hand, dry them slowly, and use it in our Moringa Face Cream.
- Meet the Herb: Calendula — How We Grow & Dry the Golden Flower at InVine Botanicals (Tallahassee FL)Meet calendula, the golden 'pot marigold' flower, at InVine Botanicals in Tallahassee, Florida. Calendula is a cheerful, daisy-like flower with golden and deep-orange petals that's been a staple of cottage and herb gardens for centuries. We
- How to Dry & Preserve Garden Herbs (the Slow Way) — InVine Botanicals, Tallahassee FLHow to dry and preserve garden herbs the careful, slow way we do it at InVine Botanicals in Tallahassee, Florida. Good drying starts at harvest: cut in the morning when the aromatic oils are highest, then bring the herbs indoors fast. Lay t
- Peppermint vs Spearmint: What's the Difference? (From Our Tallahassee Herb Garden)Peppermint vs spearmint: the real difference, from InVine Botanicals in Tallahassee, Florida, where we grow both. They look nearly identical and share the mint family's square stem, but they're different plants. Peppermint is actually a nat
- What Is Garden-Grown Skincare? How InVine Botanicals Grows Every Herb in Tallahassee, FLGarden-grown skincare means the herbs were grown by the people who made the product, not bought in as an extract. InVine grows every herb in its Tallahassee garden: harvest at peak, dry 4 to 9 days on screens, slow-infuse the whole herb in oil for 6 to 8 weeks, then blend and pour by hand.
- Meet Rosemary: How We Grow It and the Balms It Goes Into — InVine Botanicals, Tallahassee FLGet to know rosemary at InVine Botanicals, Tallahassee FL: how we grow it, harvest and dry it by hand, and the four balms it's slow-infused into.
- A Walk Through Our Tallahassee Herb Garden — Where Every InVine Botanicals Balm BeginsA guided walk through InVine Botanicals' herb garden in Tallahassee, Florida — every herb we grow and which balm it goes into, then how the garden becomes the jar.