Plants & Pleasure: Herbal Lube & Edible Body Oils
This class explores how herbs can support comfort, connection, and body awareness through the art of plant-based formulation. You’ll learn how to work with herbal allies, nourishing oils, and traditional preparation methods to create body-safe products that support personal care and well-being.
Through the lens of herbal medicine, nervous system awareness, and individual constitutions, you’ll explore how the body’s unique needs influence the plants and ingredients we choose.
Together we explore:
The relationship between herbs, body care, and comfort
Understanding vaginal pH and choosing supportive ingredients
How nervous system regulation influences embodiment and connection
Constitutional differences and personalized herbal approaches
Practical formulation techniques for creating herbal oils, lubes, and suppositories
This class offers a grounded approach to plant-based self-care, combining herbal wisdom and practical preparation skills to support greater awareness, nourishment, and connection with the body.
Plants & Pleasure: Herbal Lube & Edible Body Oils - With Ashley
A hands-on, skill-based class focused on plant-based intimacy care. Together we’ll learn how to craft simple, nourishing herbal lubes and edible body oils using safe, skin-loving botanicals. We’ll cover ingredients, infusion methods, safety considerations, and how to choose plants that support comfort, pleasure, and sensual touch. Students will leave with practical knowledge—and a deeper appreciation for pleasure as a form of self-care and medicine.
In this class we cover:
- Types of oils that are appropriate for internal use
- Methods to infuse oils (stove top double boiler, long infusions, crockpot)
- Importance of vaginal pH
- The role of plant oils, fats and mucilage
- Water based vs. oil based lubes
- Plants for vaginal health
- Plants that are safe for internal use for humans with trauma
- Constitutional basis of sensuality and sexuality
- Apothecary medicine making: oil based suppositories and mucilage based lubes
- Ratios for making herbal suppositories and lubes
