Steampunk Apothecary

My dear friend told me something very interesting about sheep. They don't get ticks. The lanolin wax secreted naturally by their sebaceous glands protects their coats and skin from weather and tick bites. Ticks are a big concern for Cape Codders and people from this region, because ticks spread Lyme Disease and several types of bacteria which cause illness. Knotweed, an invasive Japanese botanical, has been problematic for indigenous plants enthusiasts, but it brings with it a potential treasure for islanders. It is the only known herb which can track down those shifty spirochetes and other bacteria organisms spread by Lyme Disease. I'm using my son's new favorite word. I'll be attempting another root harvest in the fall.

Lanolin is extracted from sheep's wool humanely, in the first stages of wool or felt processing. A quick check of the internet shows that lanolin is included in some tick repellents for pets, but not for humans. Before veganism became popular, commercial beauty products with lanolin had a long history of use. Why not get your epidermus souped up with sheep's wax before venturing into the garden? (Lanolin isn't technically an oil because it doesn't have enough fat to be classified as such.)

Poets, pagans, and steampunks wouldn't mind getting messy, they like living knee-deep in their animalistic ways.

People who make emu oil bath beads and ostrich jerky in their backyards, put fertile chicken eggs in their sprouted-chia-hemp-chlorella-cacao smoothies, air-dry their bloomers on parasols in the back of their curiosity shops, and aspire to live-off-the-grid, but have thriving online businesses...Those People are My People. And, I may need a new DBA.

STEAMPUNK APOTHECARY(TM) all-natural Tick Repellent...made with real sebaceous gland excretions.

Here's what cheesecloth is good for...besides making your own cheese. This is one of my pain relief liniments (a topical pain rub). Herbs pictured are about half of the herbs that go into creating this volume of liquid.