Description
Picea Abies, also known as European Spruce and Norway Spruce, is a mainstay of traditional medicine in ancient and modern Northern Europe.
This resin is sustainably harvested by an artisan in Lithuania. Someone with a reverent and respectful relationship with the trees and the land, (the kind of people I love to support). The trees are harmed in no way and offer up their resin as a gift. It is painstakingly sorted and truly beautiful quality material. This is a fragrant healing expression of nature, harvested in small quantities, painstakingly sorted and will never be available as a large volume or wholesale item.
Traditionally, a salve prepared from the resin of Norway Spruce with animal or vegetable fat/oil is used to treat wounds, ulcers and other skin issues. You will find many modern studies online that examine the efficacy of this ancient medicine.
The resin of Norway Spruce, like most other Northern Conifers, makes an excellent base for chest rubs that address myriad respiratory issues and is also effective as a rubefacient and anti-inflammatory for muscle and joint pain.
The resin when purified and filtered makes an excellent chewing gum that stimulates the gums and freshens the breath. These are only a few of the many uses our ancestors found for this beautiful tree.
Norway Spruce resin makes a lovely incense on its own or when blended with other aromatic materials.
As a natural perfume ingredient, this resin can be tinctured in alcohol. I believe freezing the tincture before filtering may reduce some of the inherent stickiness.
In oil-based perfumes, Norway Spruce resin dissolves readily in warm carrier oils and lends a beautiful fragrance to perfumes and other products that is both grounding and uplifting.
Needless to say, Norway Spruce resin makes a lovely essential oil, distinct from other species of Spruce and I look forward to distilling it in the near future.
Let me not forget to mention that Norway Spruce resin also makes a wonderful base for moustache and beard products.
On my blog- http://apothecarysgarden.com, ( In the drop-down menus at the top of the page), you will find recipes for moustache waxes and various healing salves and balms using fresh Pine, Fir or Spruce sap. You will also find instructions for building your own still and how to distill essential oils from resins.
A tip for easily removing these sticky saps from the plastic sleeve I ship them in, is to put them in the freezer for 1/2 hour or so first. When cold they will peel easily from the plastic and you won’t loose any in the process.
Dan
Enola Cummings –
Such magical items!! Dan is masterful, a world traveler, a protector of natural resources, a teacher… collecting, harvesting and offering some of the most incredible treasures I’ve come across!
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Yazmin Miller –
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Abdullah Brown –
Smells absolutely amazing! Can't wait to try it!
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Jordy Langosh –
Gorgeous scent! Packaged carefully, shipped quickly. Great shop!
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Marisa Buckridge –
Fragrant and fresh. This spruce resin is of the highest quality.
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Rosemarie Koch –
All of Apothecary's Garden's products are excellent quality, carefully sourced and quickly delivered.
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Sedrick Turcotte –
Excellent! As always. The Larch resin included as a sample – this is so amazing! It took me back to my childhood, camping with my family, sitting around a fire, sparking from the resins on the dry twigs and branches. The second I breathed in the fragrance from the resin I was taken back there. To that fire, the smell of my father’s old, well-worn, L.L. Bean green and black plaid wool shirt that smelled of wood smoke, creosote, fresh sawdust, and “Daddy”. And marshmallows on sticks – mustn’t forget those. The power of fragrance is magical!
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Genevieve Rice –
This smells amazing! I'm very happy with the quality.
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Trudie Padberg –
my fave shop to purchase resins
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Werner Wilderman –
Fragrant, beautiful! Always the best quality from this shop!
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Sadye Conn –
Very happy with this one. Great scent production and easy cleanup in a resin pan.
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Vergie Schamberger –
Best resin! Mystical and grounding! Allows for travel with intention
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Herminio Rogahn –
These divine resins travelled from Canada to Australia in just over 2 weeks. I am so happy to have found the most beautiful quality products here after a long depressing search online. Items appeared just as depicted. The smell – omg check my pulse – I think I may have passed into the heavenly realms 😁 Thank you so much ❤
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Owen Sauer –
So Unique! Fast Shipping!
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Krystina Bernhard –
This is my first experience with Norway Spruce resin. It has a clean and woodsy, yet earthy fragrance to which I’ve been addicted. I burn this resin on charcoal as well as warming it using an electric incense burner. Each method brings out different qualities in the resulting fragrance. Will buy this again. Love this shop!
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Presley Stracke –
Smells great in my wood tree blend
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Treva Dickens –
This was my first time trying spruce resin. It has a warm, earthy, spicy wood, masculine scent to it. I can see how spruce would be good for a chest rub! Great stuff, thank you so much!
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Marquise Predovic –
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you 🙂
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