Laura Mae Biography
Our focus & passion at Oshamae over the years has been to seek unusual & luxurious plant medicinals in many forms. Whole plant, infusions, pressed oils, butter, extracts, essential oils or essences. Plant life offers us so much healing for wellness nourishment & divine Luxury. I am passionate about Plant Medicines for treating, senses, soul & compromised skin types.
Since 2000 we began to dabble in making natural soap, by a cold Process.
All of our skin care is 100% Natural & this has been our goal since our first day producing products.
Foraging flowers, & various Plants and storing them for usage for Skin care apothecary products is our Mission.
Our back ground In Herbalism & Aromatherapy lend to thoughtful curation of Skin care apothecary Line.
We incorporate Native nutritive wild plant into our formulations for skin care benefits.
Our time here on the magnificent land is to bring rare & common plants into your Home & on your skin for your special Daily care Rituals.
Your worth it!! Your skin is your largest organ exposed to environmental toxins.
For hygiene, Purification and Pure Blissful experience.
PROFESSIONAL AROMATHERAPIST
Practitioners of aromatherapy believe essential oils are absorbed through the skin where they can affect the whole body & promote our own body’s natural wellness.
EDUCATION
- Dalhousie University Halifax NS 1995-1996
- Herbal medicine making~ Douglas College, BC 1999
- Botany~ Douglas College, BC 1999
- Herbal Soap Making ~ Cranberry Lane, BC 1999
- Foundation in Herbal Studies, with Danette Steele M.A., RH, N.S. 1yr 2001
- Herbal studies workshop Danette Steele M.A., RH, N.S. 2004
- Professional Aromatherapy, N.S. 4yrs ~Casaroma Wellness Center ~N S 2007-2010
- Herbal Tonics with Danette Steele M.A. RH, 2014
- May Flower Herbal Studies with Savayda Jarone RMH 2014-2015
- Professional Aromatherapist 2010- present.
- Board of Directors member ‘The Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia’ ~HANS~2011-2013
- Organizer/volunteer @ ‘The Halifax Crafter’s Society’. http://www.halifaxcrafters.ca/ 2003 -2013
- Osha Mae Soap is a legally registered & insured company.
- All products have been processed by Health Canada Regulations Standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What products do we make?
Soap bars
Liquid Soap
Facial Serum
Facial Lotion
Body Cream
Bath Bombs
Bath Bubblers
Clay based Body Powder
Botanical Salves
Bathing Salts
Aromatherapy Oil Blends
Essential oils
Hydrosols
Facial Toners
Room Spray
Natural Perfumes
Body Butters
Bubble Bath
Natural Deodorant
Herbal Oils
Massage oils
What ingredients do we use?
We are so proud of our ingredients.
We are herbalists creating skin care products!
We use organic botanicals, herbs, roots, natural plant fats, oils and Essential oils to formulate all of our skin care products.
Always organic and or The plants we forage from our Land in Nova Scotia coast.
Do we wholesale our products?
YES!
We do offer wholesale opportunites to businesses.
If you would like to review our wholesale price listing please send us a message via email to
oshamaemae@gmail.com & we can send you our 2022 Wholesale price listing.
Where are we located?
Our Retailers are based in Halifax Nova Scotia (visit our stockists page)
Our production studio is based in Dartmouth Nova Scotia.
Oshamae has a GLOBAL outreach via our website traffic.
We retail our aromatherapy skincare products in Halifax, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island & Maritime provinces.
What payments do we accept?
We accept PAYPAL payments for our website.
We are setting up also SQUARE POS as well in the coming days.
If you would like to email money transfer funds pls sent us your online order by screen saver image.
Email it to oshamaemae@gmail.com
& we can accept etransfers to that account alternatively.
How to use our facial serum?
Begin with freshly Cleansed skin !
In the palm of your hand pour or spray and small pool of facial toner, hydrosol or water into your palm.
Add 3-7 (or more) drops of Facial serum to the pool of water.
Rub your hands together creating an emulsion.
On damp skin Swipe the product with upward strokes into the skin.
How to use a Shower steamer?
Jump into the shower !
Place one Eucalyptus Shower Steamer Tablet on the floor of the shower.
Some individuals place it near the drain. I place it in the stream from the shower.
It will fizz and expose expectorant rich Eucalyptus essential oil into your steam space.
Its invigorating… So i prefer to use these during the morning hours rather than night. 😉
How to use a solid hair shampoo bar?
Jump in the shower & soak your hair with water.
Take the hair shampoo bar and massage this into your damp hair.
Lather your hair as you would with liquid shampoo.
Repeat if you feel it is necessary.
Rinse thoroughly
Follow up with conditoner bar & Hair Rinse
How to use a solid hair conditioner bar?
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How to use a bath bubbler?
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How to make soap?
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How to create botanical oils?
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How to make a Hydrosol?
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OUR MISSION
- Our goal is to provide Safe, Natural, Pleasurable, Purifying experiences for our clients.
- We create unique natural herbal soap and sundries with superb quality ingredients.
- Aromatherapy is Art, organic chemistry, & botany combined.
- Formulating effective plant synergies is our passion.
- We create unique herbal products for aromatic pleasure & to sooth the skin.
- Our Professional Aromatherapist pairs herbs with pure essential oils in all formulations.
- Soap bars are still made by hand in small batches for the finest quality finished product.
- We have developed a variety of skin care tonics, Serums, Sprays & Lotions with effective results.
- For over 10 years we have been making soap and formulas for the naturalist in you.
- The ingredients are earth derived & consciously sourced from the finest organic suppliers.
- We pay close attention to what is growing Native here in Nova Scotia.
- We include these herbs, Sea vegetables & Plants in our products to benefit your healthy skin glow.
- Many of our Native Plant species here in Nova Scotia hold within them many valuable uses.