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Your skincare routine is thorough. Cleanser, toner, serum, moisturizer. And yet your skin still isn't behaving the way you want it to. You've swapped products, simplified, added back, and you're still troubleshooting. Nobody has suggested that your routine itself might be the problem. Your skin hosts a complex microbial ecosystem that regulates barrier function, inflammation, and resilience. Research over the last decade has made clear that many conventional skincare ingredients, including common preservatives, surfactants, and synthetic fragrances, disrupt that ecosystem in ways that create the exact problems they claim to solve. Understanding the microbiome changes how you think about everything on your shelf. In this class you'll learn what the research shows about the skin microbiome and barrier function, then make two products designed to support rather than disrupt. You'll leave with both, and a completely new framework for evaluating everything else in your routine.

Y Your cycle is unpredictable, your mood shifts in ways that feel outside your control, and nobody has given you a satisfying explanation beyond "that's just hormones." You're managing symptoms you don't fully understand with products that may or may not be doing anything, and you're tired of guessing. NRI has published clinical research on PMS, perimenopause, and the female stress response. Botanical compounds including vitex, evening primrose, and specific adaptogenic herbs have been studied for their effects on hormonal regulation, symptom burden, and quality of life across the reproductive lifespan. Women's bodies are not an afterthought in this research. They are the entire focus. In this class you'll get a clear, honest picture of what the evidence shows and what it doesn't, then make two products formulated specifically for women's hormonal health. You'll leave with both, a working understanding of your own biology, and the particular confidence that comes from finally being taken seriously.

The English countryside has been a working pharmacy for a thousand years. The elderflower growing along the Cotswolds lanes. The rosehips covering the Jurassic Coast cliffs in autumn. The meadowsweet blooming in summer meadows that gave nineteenth-century chemists the molecular blueprint for aspirin. Long before clinical trials existed, English cottage herbalism was doing the careful, generational work of figuring out what actually helped. Most of it holds up. Dr. Cavanaugh sourced these botanicals directly on her Cotswolds and Weymouth trip, which means the plants in this class have a provenance most herbalism courses can't offer. We'll spend time on the history, the chemistry, and the published clinical evidence behind five hedgerow botanicals, because understanding where something comes from and why it works are not separate conversations. During World War II, the British government organized a nationwide rosehip harvest when citrus imports were blockaded. That decision was not folklore. It was applied botanical science, and the research behind it still holds up. You'll make three preparations that put that tradition directly in your hands. A classic elderflower cordial, the quintessential hedge-to-glass preparation that has been made along English lanes for centuries and carries documented antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity beneath its fragrance. A rosehip oxymel, honey and apple cider vinegar as a delivery vehicle for one of the most vitamin C-dense botanicals in the hedgerow, in a preparation that keeps for months and tastes like it was made in a farmhouse kitchen. And a meadowsweet salve, built from the plant that gave chemists the compound they turned into aspirin, salicylate-rich, anti-inflammatory, and deeply embedded in English herbal tradition, applied topically as the oldest headache remedy in the hedgerow. You'll leave with all three, the stories behind each one, and a new relationship with a tradition that was evidence-based long before anyone called it that.