gardener's hand cream with alkanna extract & urea

gardener's hand cream by Stella Crown

So far I've only given one hand cream recipe for the beekeeper's hands but now I think, it's time to make a formula for the gardener's hands too! A nourishing and protective cream, suitable for the wearied hands of the gardeners and not only, but also chefs, builders and other hand-working jobs. What if the cream is a little bit… pink??😱😜

alkanet root, a natural pigment (alkanna tinctoria)

blue flowered alkanna tinctoria with precious red roots

Its flowers reminds us the alpine forget-me-not flower (Myosotis alpestris) and it makes sense because they belong to the same family, while the extracted colour from its root is deep red! Today the post is dedicated to alkanna tinctoria which belongs in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae, a therapeutic herb known since antiquity, native to the eastern Mediterranean.