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The Botanical Lab at NRI Stovehouse, ste 330 Huntsville, AL

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All new: take the lab home. Experience the Blend Bars and our workshops from anywhere in the world. Each formulation is evidence based, all natural, and packed with luxury ingredients. Shown: The Sunday Bath - a soothing bath soak perfect for Sunday

This is how it starts. Calendula officinalis in oil, double infused. The triterpenoids that make calendula effective for wound healing are fat-soluble, which is why oil infusion is the right extraction method for topical preparations. The container m

Currently in the still: lemon peel and rosemary co-distillation. The vibrant scent is great as a morning wake-up call and a spritz of the hydrosol is perfect after a workout.

The Tuscany Intensive is six days in the place where the apothecary tradition was codified. Botanical sourcing, distillation, formulation, and the clinical evidence behind all of it, taught by Dr. Cavanaugh in the region that has been doing this long

Join us Saturday for our Opening Day celebration. Free mini labs. Hydrosol distillation demos. Create your own preparations at the Herbal Blend Bar or the Aroma Blend Bar. Or grab a tiny treat from our vending machine. @stovehouse 10A-4P

Capsaicin depletes substance P, the neuropeptide that carries pain signals to the brain. It is one of the more counterintuitive things in botanical medicine: you apply heat to reduce pain, repeatedly, until the signal stops firing.

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Not every salve is the same. The color tells you something. The botanical infusion used, the concentration, the extraction method. This one is darker because of what is in it. We will teach you how to read that. Herbal Blend Bar, Stovehouse, from $28

A tale of two chamomiles. Both of these oils come from chamomile. Yet they couldn’t be more different.

Roman chamomile is soft and apple-sweet. It leans calming and nervine, the one you reach for when the goal is quiet.

German chamomile is

This is what a NRI Study Tour looks like. We take small groups to England, France, Italy, or beyond, visit producers, and build the kind of ingredient knowledge that changes how you experience botanical medicine. International Study Tours are one of

The research behind the Lab → Nutraceuticals Research Institute.