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Handcrafted with foraged and home-harvested botanicals.

It Cuts Like a Knife 🔪💔

An Herbal First-Aid Balm for Your 3 of Swords Moments

Sometimes the wound is on your skin. Sometimes it's in your heart. Sometimes it's both.

It Cuts Like a Knife is a handcrafted, small-batch herbal balm created for those moments when life leaves a mark—whether that's a scrape on your skin or the ache of a heartbreak you can feel all the way in your chest.

Inspired by the Three of Swords, this emerald-gold balm brings together five botanicals chosen for their traditional topical properties and their deeper symbolic medicine. It is a balm for tending what hurts, creating a moment of ritual and care, and reminding yourself that wounds can heal—and you do not have to remain inside the story that created them.

🌿 Two Kinds of First Aid

🩹 For the Physical Wound

Use this rich botanical balm as part of your personal skin-care ritual for minor, shallow cuts, scrapes, dry cracks, and everyday surface irritation.

The herbal oils bring together plantain, yarrow, rose, calendula, and butterfly bush in a nourishing blend designed to soothe and support the skin's natural recovery.

💔 For the Emotional Wound

Heartbreak doesn't stay neatly inside your thoughts.

Sometimes grief sits in your chest. Anxiety catches in your throat. A memory becomes a phantom sting. You find yourself replaying the conversation again…and again…and again.

This is where It Cuts Like a Knife becomes a ritual.

Warm a little balm between your fingers. Place your hands over your heart, your throat, or your pulse points. Breathe. Feel the place that hurts without asking yourself to solve it.

You don't have to analyze the wound to begin tending it.

Let this be your reminder to soften your grip, release what isn't yours to carry, and return your energy to yourself.

🌿 The Herbal Alchemy

FORAGED PLANTAIN OIL

Traditionally cherished for its soothing, skin-supportive qualities, plantain is associated with drawing out heat, irritation, and the sting of life's little wounds.

In the spiritual language of the balm, plantain becomes the draw-er-out—the herb that helps you symbolically release the words, memories, resentment, and emotional residue that no longer belong in your field.

MOONSHINE YARROW OIL

Yarrow has a long history of traditional topical use and is beloved in herbal lore for its astringent and protective qualities.

Energetically, yarrow represents boundaries: gathering yourself back together, sealing the places where you've been giving too much, and reclaiming the energy you've been leaking toward someone who isn't meeting you there.

HOME-HARVESTED ROSE

Rose brings nourishment, softness, and the medicine of the heart.

Spiritually, Rose is the sovereign heart—the part of you that can remain tender without surrendering your dignity. She reminds you that protecting your heart doesn't mean closing it forever.

WARMING CALENDULA

Golden calendula has long been treasured in traditional herbal skin care for its gentle, soothing qualities.

Spiritually, calendula carries the warmth of The Sun: illumination after confusion, clarity after illusion, and the return of warmth and safety to a heart that has been living in the cold.

BUTTERFLY BUSH BLOSSOMS

Delicate purple blossoms symbolize transition, transformation, and the courage to leave one cycle behind.

Butterfly Bush is the medicine of metamorphosis—the reminder that releasing what no longer serves you isn't the end of your story.

Sometimes the heartbreak is the doorway.

👑 Your Ritual of Repair

For the Physical Wound

Gently clean the affected area and apply a thin layer of balm to minor, shallow cuts, scrapes, dry cracks, or surface irritation.

Allow the balm to become part of a quiet moment of tending and care.

For the Emotional Wound

Take a small amount of balm and warm it between your fingertips.

Massage gently over your heart space, throat, or pulse points while taking several slow breaths.

As you apply it, you might say:

I release what is not mine.

I reclaim what is.

I can love without abandoning myself.

I can grieve without living in the wound.

I am healing.

Then stop.

You don't need to figure everything out tonight.

Tend the wound. Let the rest unfold.

⚠️ A Note on Safety

For external use only. This balm is intended for personal skin care and ritual use, not as a substitute for medical treatment.

Do not use on deep, puncture, infected, or seriously bleeding wounds. Seek appropriate medical care when a wound requires it.

Because several ingredients belong to the Asteraceae/daisy family, including calendula, yarrow, and plantain, anyone with known plant allergies should exercise appropriate caution and consider a small patch test before broader use. Discontinue use if irritation occurs.

Avoid contact with eyes and mucous membranes.