Starting A Home Apothecary: What Do You Need?

You've grown your herbs. You've dehydrated them. Now it's time to start making tinctures, salves, lotions and other items for your home's medicinal apothecary. But what supplies do you need aside from the herbs, plants and flowers?

Some of the supplies you'll need.

• Brown glass bottles (with and without droppers)
• Essential oils
• Cooking Pots or small slow cooker
• Glass bowls
• Glass jars
• Cheesecloth
• Wooden stirrers (I use chopsticks or a wooden spoon)
• Notebook- to keep track of when you've made certain salves, lotions, tinctures or what each one is used to treat
• Mortar & pestle and/or coffee grinder
• Scale (one that measures ounces, grams, pounds and kilograms) I paid $10 for the one in the image above two years ago
• Metal tins or other small containers
• Beeswax, alcohol 80-proof, carrier oils
• Labels
• Measuring spoons/cups

What's nice is that more than half of these items can be found at a thrift store for much cheaper than new.

The pot/small slow cooker, glass bowls, measuring devices, coffee grinder; just to name a few can be purchased second-hand. No need spending a fortune on pots or other items specifically needed for cooking herbs and other plant based concoctions.

Having a variety of essential oils, harvested and dehydrated herbs and flowers are must-haves to start a home apothecary.

When buying essential oils, check to see which scents are recommended for what ailments and uses.

Don't buy an essential oil scent just because someone else has. Buy what you will use.

This scale is one of the best investments I've made in the last few years.

I originally bought it to weigh cannabis and its trim for baking, but soon found myself using it for packaging items I sold on eBay and Etsy as well as for measuring items and ingredients to make soap, lotions and more.

It weights things in kilograms, ounces, grams and ounces and even pounds. Definitely worth the money to have on hand.

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