- The Intention
- The Ingredients
- The Ritual
- The Apis Apotheca Story
At the heart of this sacred salve is Dragon’s Blood - an ancient crimson sap revered in the Amazon as a cure-all for wounded skin and weary spirits. Sustainably harvested from the mythical Dragon’s Blood Tree, this resin offers profound healing: calming inflammation, supporting collagen renewal, guarding against infection, and awakening the skin’s innate ability to repair. Wrapped in the lush embrace of raw shea and kokum butters, Dragon Balm carries the intelligence of the forest and field. Calendula and chamomile soothe like a lullaby sung by the sun. Gotu kola stirs cellular renewal and radiance. Yarrow weaves a protective shield, helping the skin remember wholeness. Infused with whole plant extracts grown on Apis Apotheca’s own organic farm, this balm is not merely skincare...it is a ritual in restoration. A moment to tend to your body like sacred land. Use it where the skin is dry, fragile, or inflamed. Use it when the body asks for healing touch. Let it be your daily devotion to resilience, beauty, and balance.
2oz
Raw organic shea butter (Butyrospermum parkii), raw organic kokum butter (Garcinia Indica), organic + local sunflower seed oil (Helianthus annuus), organic hemp seed oil, organic jojoba oil (Simmondsia chinensis), raw dragons blood sap extract (croton lechleri), proprietary extracts of japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)*, calendula (Calendula officinalis)*, chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla)*, gotu kola (Centella Asiatica)*, ethically wildcrafted reishi (Ganoderma Tsugae), yarrow (Achillea Millefolium)*, frankincense eo, green myrtle eo
*Organically grown on Apis Apotheca's New York medicinal herb farm
A little goes a long way! Use a pea size amount and evenly distribute across face and neck after cleansing, misting, and applying serum. Follow with one more misting to ensure fullest hydration.
Founded and run by farmers, herbalists, and educators who feel a duty to uphold traditions of equitable access to safe herbal medicine and knowledge, Apis Apotheca creations are brought to life by Aviva Skye Tilson, who comes from a farming background and is a certified community herbalist. Aviva has spent a decade healing herself through working with plants and animals, and has always loved skincare. The Apis Apotheca line represents her combined years of field experience, academic research, and endless experimentation.
The Apis Apotheca team runs a medicinal herb farm in New York’s stunning Hudson Valley, high on a hill facing the Catskill Mountains, with deep, mineral-rich, loamy soil that supports trillions of healthy micro-organisms in balance. This healthy soil grows healthy plants, 100% organically. They grow 98% of the plants used in their formulas to ensure they are fresh, potent, and properly preserved for ever batch of products. And their lab is steps away from their farm fields, which enables them to capture the potency of the plants they grow to the fullest, as well as to experiment to their hearts content whenever they have a lightbulb moment out in the field! The Apis Apotheca lab is also solar powered and they recycle everything that can be recycled, and compost absolutely everything that can be composted — and that compost goes right back on their fields to help grow more gorgeous plants. Full circle.
The Intention
At the heart of this sacred salve is Dragon’s Blood - an ancient crimson sap revered in the Amazon as a cure-all for wounded skin and weary spirits. Sustainably harvested from the mythical Dragon’s Blood Tree, this resin offers profound healing: calming inflammation, supporting collagen renewal, guarding against infection, and awakening the skin’s innate ability to repair. Wrapped in the lush embrace of raw shea and kokum butters, Dragon Balm carries the intelligence of the forest and field. Calendula and chamomile soothe like a lullaby sung by the sun. Gotu kola stirs cellular renewal and radiance. Yarrow weaves a protective shield, helping the skin remember wholeness. Infused with whole plant extracts grown on Apis Apotheca’s own organic farm, this balm is not merely skincare...it is a ritual in restoration. A moment to tend to your body like sacred land. Use it where the skin is dry, fragile, or inflamed. Use it when the body asks for healing touch. Let it be your daily devotion to resilience, beauty, and balance.
2oz
The Ingredients
Raw organic shea butter (Butyrospermum parkii), raw organic kokum butter (Garcinia Indica), organic + local sunflower seed oil (Helianthus annuus), organic hemp seed oil, organic jojoba oil (Simmondsia chinensis), raw dragons blood sap extract (croton lechleri), proprietary extracts of japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)*, calendula (Calendula officinalis)*, chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla)*, gotu kola (Centella Asiatica)*, ethically wildcrafted reishi (Ganoderma Tsugae), yarrow (Achillea Millefolium)*, frankincense eo, green myrtle eo
*Organically grown on Apis Apotheca's New York medicinal herb farm
The Ritual
A little goes a long way! Use a pea size amount and evenly distribute across face and neck after cleansing, misting, and applying serum. Follow with one more misting to ensure fullest hydration.
The Apis Apotheca Story
Founded and run by farmers, herbalists, and educators who feel a duty to uphold traditions of equitable access to safe herbal medicine and knowledge, Apis Apotheca creations are brought to life by Aviva Skye Tilson, who comes from a farming background and is a certified community herbalist. Aviva has spent a decade healing herself through working with plants and animals, and has always loved skincare. The Apis Apotheca line represents her combined years of field experience, academic research, and endless experimentation.
The Apis Apotheca team runs a medicinal herb farm in New York’s stunning Hudson Valley, high on a hill facing the Catskill Mountains, with deep, mineral-rich, loamy soil that supports trillions of healthy micro-organisms in balance. This healthy soil grows healthy plants, 100% organically. They grow 98% of the plants used in their formulas to ensure they are fresh, potent, and properly preserved for ever batch of products. And their lab is steps away from their farm fields, which enables them to capture the potency of the plants they grow to the fullest, as well as to experiment to their hearts content whenever they have a lightbulb moment out in the field! The Apis Apotheca lab is also solar powered and they recycle everything that can be recycled, and compost absolutely everything that can be composted — and that compost goes right back on their fields to help grow more gorgeous plants. Full circle.