ABOUT THE FORMULATOR
This diverse line of healing and personal care products offers safe, natural alternatives to chemically-based products. Formulated and handmade by Holly Beatie, these Earth-friendly recipes are enhanced with flower essences for body, mind, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being. Flower essences are used in all of the High Sierra Botanicals Products because they enhance, harmonize, and potentiate the other forms of botanical healing.
Holly is a true innovator in the combining of a variety of botanical elements into gentle, effective health products and remedies for the whole family.
Precise choosing of every element involved in recipes produces natural products that can rival their chemical/synthetic cousins without detrimental side effects. The addition of complimentary flower essences to each recipe gives the formulations an extra dimension and higher vibration for deeper healing and nurturing capability.
These botanical formulations are all quite concentrated (no cheap fillers or high water content) so a little goes a long way.
High Sierra Botanicals products have received positive reviews in a variety of magazines including NATURAL HEALTH, BODY & SOUL, HERBS FOR HEALTH, THE HERB QUARTERLY, MAGICAL BLEND, NATURAL BEAUTY & HEALTH, CONNECTION, ORANGE COUNTY MAG, FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR, CONNECT, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, YOGA JOURNAL, MOONSHINE INK.
HOLLY WRITES:
I began working with flower essences in 1998 to aid my own personal healing journey. I soon found that I possessed a deep connection and inner knowledge of not just flower essences, but the entire alchemical, medicinal, and energetic qualities of the plant realm.
As I devoured books on essences, wild plants, medicinal herbs, flowers, and essential oils, one thing led to another and I began creating these amazing products that seemed to work from a different level.
Our first experience with combining essences with essential oils was with Bug Brew natural insect deterrent. We took it with us one June evening on a dinner picnic near a mountain stream. The concoction not only kept the mosquitos at bay, it also gave us a gentle feeling of well-being. My partner Geoff’s skepticism turned to astonished belief. Wow, I was onto something.
Along with my work at creating High Sierra Flower Essences, I began wild-crafting mountain herbs like Arnica, Selfheal, St. John’s Wort, Horsetail, Elder Flowers, Wild Rosehips and more. Something compelled me to start blending combinations of the different forms of botanical derivatives together to create a manner of product that I hadn’t seen done by anyone else. I continually work toward sourcing the most effective formulations as well as finding supply sources for the highest quality ingredients. I use organic or wild-harvested ingredients whenever possible. I often grow or wild-craft my own herbs, or buy them from local organic farmers as I believe these connections add to the alchemy of my creations.
I am a prolific researcher and am always fascinated and interested in new information about plants and their many and varied uses. Often, information tends to find me at appropriate times, which re-affirms my belief in the magic and guidance that is always there and available to us if we can hear and feel it. Developing my intuitive skills, and higher heart and mind creativity is an ongoing process that ebbs and flows as I reclaim my old-soul knowledge and wisdom. Years of athletic training and competition, and as an event coordinator and publisher have contributed to my detail-oriented sensibilities. The combination of these practices have served to prepare me for the complex work that I now engage in through my product development. I have chosen to list all of the ingredients (except the flower essences which I keep proprietary) and the price of each product so there is no mystery as to what you are getting and for how much.
The feedback that keeps coming back to me (and I do appreciate feedback) is a wonderful affirmation that my products are making a difference in people's lives.