Mother Earth Plants for Health and Beauty: Indigenous Plants, Traditions, and Recipe

Carrie Armstrong, 2020

Mother Earth Plants for Health & Beauty is a guide and recipe book to help you improve your life with ethically crafted health and beauty products that you can make at home. Within its pages, you'll find out how to create a luxurious and natural beauty regime by crafting your own lotions, soaps and teas from all-natural ingredients.

From stress-busting teas and bath bombs to skin-smoothing lotions and creams, get vibrant skin and a healthy glow with Carrie’s creations based on her grandmother’s traditional teachings. The recipes and traditions found in this book reflect the culture and the knowledge of the Medicine Wheel, and feature 26 edible and medicinal plants that you can gather in nature as Carrie and her grandmother did.

Mother Earth Essentials was founded by Carrie Armstrong who comes from a long line of Cree Medicine Women. She started to form the idea for a bath & beauty line business during her first teaching job at Amiskwaciy Academy, where she used traditional plants to connect the students to their history. Prior to teaching, she worked in the beauty and retail industry as an esthetician and a cosmetic sales rep. These combined experiences helped her down the path to launch her collection of natural products through Mother Earth Essentials. 

Since the beginning, Carrie has been passionate about sharing her Indigenous culture and the spiritual properties handed down to her.

Mother Earth Plants appeared on the Bestseller list on Read Alberta and was a finalist in the Trade Non-Fiction category for the Alberta Book Publishing Awards.