All is "well and good in NYC" for LTB

Living Tree Botanicals is pleased to find itself in superb, artisanal company as one of 3 New York-based skin care brands with creative roots in Brooklyn to be profiled yesterday by Melisse Gelula of "Well and Good NYC". Melisse and Alexia Brue have created a website that serves as the blissfully sage, cool and grounded guide to health, beauty and wellness for the discerning tastes of dwellers in Manhattan and environs.

Melisse's favorites from our skin care collection include the ever-versatile blue chamomile facial tonic (cools sunburn, soothes post-waxing, calms itchy bug bites!) and restorative seaherb mask (a divine solution for summer break-outs). Both of these Living Tree Botanical essentials are a must for summer beauty routines!

Click here to read Well and Good NYC's profile of LTB, and while you're at it, sign up to follow G+W's fun and informative site!

LTB + Tay Tea = Grace & Warmth

Pictured above from left: Nini Ordoubadi, master tea blender, Tay Tea & owner of Tay Home, Erin Van Cott, founder & president of Living Tree Botanicals, Tiffany Wheat, director of marketing & sales, Living Tree Botanicals

The opening celebration of LTB Artisanal Beauty Bar and Tay Tea Bar was filled with great friends, new introductions, divine sweet & savories, and much fun!

There's an almost visible "spark" in the air when friends and patrons of these two companies walk into Tay Home. While putting the boutique and new expansion into place, the LTB and Tay Home teams discussed at length the mutual goal of creating a new experience. From the light in people's eyes and the murmured "oohs!" and "aahs!" upon alighting at the top of the stairwell, we can say that this is truly a unique experience - one that resonates as delightfully fresh, with a warmly familiar "yes, this is it" feel to it. The key? Perhaps it's a space that doesn't ask too much, rather allows guests to focus on a moment of quiet beauty both visually and sensorially.

Sip Tay's tea of the day while nibbling delicately-sized, tea-infused cookies. Order a frittata and organic salad so simple, yet so richly layered in taste that only the power of Nini Ordoubadi and Lucky Dog Farm could conjure them. Eat at the bar, find a bench along Main St., or take it home to your own picnic table.

As for Living Tree Botanicals, we are pleased to present our entire skin care collection within this spa-inspired setting. It is a chance for our clients both loyal and new to experience the brand as we see it in our minds. We present a synergistic grouping of skin and spirit nurturing products that are meant to make the daily rituals of embracing the day and unwinding into rest that much simpler, that much more enjoyable - perfect for life in a modern world.

We ourselves are inspired! We feel the wind in our sails as we plan for a summer filled with opportunity and growth. Several Saturday afternoon artisanal beauty clinics hosted by LTB founder Erin Van Cott and inspired by the bounty of our local farms are underway. Custom blends will be bottled on the spot and available for purchase. Featured locally-sourced ingredients will include strawberries, raw honey, blueberries, and wild-crafted herbs. Dates and times to be announced - stay tuned!

What else to say, but come sip, sample and shop the LTB Artisanal Beauty Bar and Tay Tea Bar this summer!

LTB goes to The Owl & Moon

Thanks to some pretty fine ink from Karen Miritello in Upstate Life Magazine, we were recently discovered by Lori Briggs, a much respected retailer in West Burlington, NY. Lori personally tried our daily ritual mini kit in "clarify" and liked it so much, that she decided to bring LTB into her boutique The Owl & Moon, so named after a much loved children's book. Now you can find a selection of our daily ritual mini kits for face along with LTB's "clarify" collection featuring blue chamomile facial tonic and apricot kernal pure therapy in a charming spot just west of Cooperstown, NY.

From what we've heard, Lori has great taste and a shop filled with carefully curated gift and home items, so we are happy to be on board! We look forward to spending a Saturday morning this summer with Lori at The Owl & Moon and getting to her know her loyal clientele.

Opening Party at LTB artisanal beauty bar!

L.T.B. artisanal beauty bar & Tay Tea Bar invite you to celebrate our debut this Saturday May 29th, 4-7 pm.

Join Living Tree Botanicals for Tay Tea's signature tea cocktails and nibbles as Tay Home unveils its Gypsy Caravan theme for the 2010 season. Sip, sample and shop the luxurious skin care of LTB and the eclectic, sophisticated offerings of Tay Home in a beautiful and serene spa-inspired atmosphere. We'll also toast the launch of "Wake Up TUB TEA"... a divine collaborative creation of Living Tree Botanicals & Tay Tea, this invigorating body steep energizes, detoxifies, and renews with a synergistic blend of organic green tea, jasmine and a proprietary blend of purifying salts & essential oils. We look forward to seeing you! Saturday May 29th 4-7 pm 72 Main Street 2nd Floor Andes New York

LTB thrives in "Product Junkies Rehab"

They like us, they really like us!

We are proud to say we have survived a 3 product (shea rosehip body butter, limon vert body scrub, sacred skin body oil) vetting by Product Junkies Rehab, a beauty blog created by Jordan and Emily. PJR founders Emily and Jordan left cabinets of conventional beauty brands and formulations behind a few years ago, and haven't looked back. What we noticed right away about their smart, informative and in true "junkie" form, detail orientated approach to the world of natural beauty was a distinct lack of self-righteous, over-earnest (dare we say judgmental?) attitude. Reading their material, which is not without research and knowledge, makes one feel good rather than bad, sane rather than "toxically paranoid", and filled with a desire to reach a little further everyday towards a healthy, inspired lifestyle. In a word, PJR conveys "Balance" - something we strive for in our dead run away from "Perfect". So, here's how it happened: we sent PJR some unsolicited samples, held our breath (not without believing, of course!). Here is what they had to say:

Product Junkies Rehab Blog

To sum up how we're feeling at LTB today:

It's a big, big world and it's filled with windows of small opportunity, doors of large chance, and seemingly inpenetrable walls. For the past 18 months, we've been knocking on doors (in varying decibels) and banging (mainly our heads!) against walls in an effort to perhaps be seen and maybe heard in an industry filled with both "super-funded" natural skin care giants and PLENTY of tiny and talented artisanal companies similar to LTB.

So, if our absolute delight in and celebration of finally being noticed feels like optimistic overkill, so be it! We realize such attention can be not only fleeting, but fickle, too! Though we love all 20 of our products, we appreciate diversity in taste and sensibility and respect that our clients and beauty reviews will embrace their LTB favorites and find others elsewhere. It's what life, beauty and artisanal skin care in a modern world is all about. Cheers!

just for mom...

a hand-picked trio to nourish, smooth, and uplift.

Because role reversal is a good thing!

our mother's day gift set $35.00 a $ 45.50 value orange cocoa lip bliss (erin's mom's favorite!) shea rosehip body butter (a bit of luxury for the oft self-denied) jasmine seaherb facial tonic (perfect for moms on the go) with cheerful gift wrap included, there should be plenty left over for a daffodil or two.... available for shipping now through Friday 5.7.10. shop now

it's the bee's knees...TODAY ONLY 30% off

You shop, and we'll mind our bees' wax, honey:

Because nearly half of our botanical skin care collection contains the fruits of a bee's labor,10 % of Earth Day sales will be donated to the Pollinator Partnership, whose mission is to protect pollinators (like bees!), critical to food and ecosystems.
For more info, visit Pollinator Partnership.

Your order will be shipped carbon neutral, thanks to UPS.
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Now is the time to save 30%*.
Please use coupon code BUZZ30. Now make like a bee, and spread the buzzzzzz.

*the fine print: all full size daily ritual gift sets and daily ritual mini kits are excluded.