About
A small apothecary built on slow oil
Veritabalm creates luxurious botanical blend salves using natural ingredients and slow-infused plant oils, made by hand in small batches and packed in brown glass.
How it started
A single jar of olive oil with plantain leaves pressed under the surface, left on a shelf for six weeks because there was no reason to hurry it. When it was strained, the oil had turned deep green and smelled like the garden it came from. That jar is still the whole idea.
Everything since has been an attempt to keep that patience intact while making enough for other people to use.
What small batch actually means here
It means the number of jars is decided by the infusion, not by a forecast. An oil that takes six weeks cannot be hurried into existence because demand rose, and we would rather a blend be unavailable for a while than be made in a way we would not recognise.
Each batch is poured in one sitting, labelled with its batch mark, and sold until it is gone.
What we will not say
Botanicals have been valued in herbal traditions for a very long time, and those traditions are genuinely part of why these plants are in the jar. But a salve is a cosmetic. We describe how it feels on skin and how it is made, and we leave claims about the body to people qualified to make them.
If you are looking for something specific for your skin, please speak with a qualified professional. We will happily tell you exactly what is in every jar.
Made by hand, in small numbers
Infusions are turned by hand. Oils are strained through cloth. Jars are filled while the balm is still warm, capped once set, and labelled one at a time. Nothing about this scales gracefully, which is rather the point.
The current batch
Everything above is in the jar
Salves are poured in the quantities each infusion allowed, so what is on the shelf today is what these weeks yielded.