Laborcare Pack - Just For Mama and Me

Motherlove Herbal Company creates the finest quality, pure products using certified organic ingredients with no synthetic fragrances, preservatives or artificial ingredients. We offer nurturing products that are gentle on baby's skin. Because our products work so well, we have earned the trust and continued use from lactation consultants, midwives, healthcare practitioners and women everywhere.

This Laborcare Pack was chosen by Pregnancy Buyer's Guide 2005 for its annual Editor's Choice Awards.

This Laborcare Pack

witch hazel bark, plaintain, yarrow, calendula, in olive oil and beeswax)

Effectively shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves itching

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Calendula is an easily planted annual with orange and yellow flowers and alternate leaves. The unusual curlicue seedpods easily reseed themselves. This herb is an all purpose skin healing herb used to stop bleeding, wash wounds, heal cuts, abscesses, rashes, boils, chapped skin, and eczema. It relieves muscle cramps, painful swellings, hemorrhoids, and insect bites. It can be used in a footbath on swollen feet and as an eyewash on sore, tired eyes. A hair rinse reduces dandruff.

Yarrow is an aromatic herb that grows in meadows. It has alternate, wooly gray-green fern-like leaves, and its tiny, white flowers each have 4-6 ray petals that grow in flat-topped clusters. Put the leaves or flowers on wounds or a bloody nose to quickly stop the bleeding. Use a wash on rashes, runny sores, boils, poison ivy, chapped or cracked skin, and hemorrhoids. Drink to relieve indigestion and gas. Yarrow promotes sweating when taken to reduce a fever. It is also said that the smell repels mosquitoes.

Lavender is a perennial that grows up to two feet tall with many branches of gray-green linear leaves. The very aromatic purple flowers, which grow on terminal spikes, are gathered just before opening and used to relieve headaches, depression, exhaustion, and to promote relaxation and sleep. They are also used in herbal body care and aromatherapy for sachets and sleep pillows; relaxing baths; antiseptic face washes, steams, and toners; and creams and oils to relieve aches and pains.

swollen glands, and irritations of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary tract.

Witch Hazel Bark

Witch hazel is a shrub or small tree growing in the rich soils of the eastern part of the United States. The star shaped leaves become brilliant colors in the fall while the round fruits, which have projections, shoot their seeds several feet as they ripen. Witch hazel leaves and bark contain astringent tannins which stop internal and external bleeding. Both the bark and leaves are used to treat hemorrhoids, varicose veins, swelling and bruises, and sore nipples. Internally it stops diarrhea, vaginal discharge and excess menses. Witch hazel is an ingredient found in eye drops and many skin ointments.

Uva Ursi

Uva Ursi, also known as "kinnickinnick," is a low creeping plant with trailing stems that form a mat in dry, conifer forests. It has small, leathery, evergreen leaves, and its pink, urn-shaped flowers produce red berries. These berries are mealy and don't have much taste, but can be made into jelly, sauce, or a drink with honey. The astringent leaves reduce pain and bleeding on a cut. Make a wash for heat rash and hives. In a sitz bath after birth, uva ursi reduces swelling, hemorrhoids, and slows bleeding. It is one of the best herbs for clearing up urinary tract infections, but should only be used short term as it is irritating to the mucus membranes of the uterine lining and bladder.