Nature's Bounty: Healing Herbs

About Herbs

The word Herb has many definitions. Here are two definitions, from Dictionary.com.

  1. A plant whose stem does not produce woody, persistent tissue and generally dies back at the end of each growing season.
  2. Any of various often aromatic plants used especially in medicine or as seasoning

The first defines a specific group of plants, and reflects what most of us have in mind when talking about herbs. The second defines herbs according to usage, and is how we define herbs here at Green Fire Herbs. In addition to sage, basil, ginseng, feverfew, and meadowsweet, we use berries, fruits, spices, and even cornmeal (in our soaps).

Herbs and spices have been in use to heal wounds, cure illnesses, improve resistance to disease, grow hair, lose weight, improve our mood, help us sleep better and who knows what else for thousands of years. Many of today's medicines are derived from herbs.

Our website dedicated to the understanding and use of herbs in our daily lives. We offer organic herbs, herbal teas, hand made herbal soap, and bath and body products, and will soon be releasing a line of natural cleaners and laundry soap.  Please browse through our site! If there is something you're looking for, or if you saw something at one of our shows that you don't see here, please email us at sales@GreenFireHerbs.com .; Include your name, phone number, credit card information and the product(s) you're interested in. Or give us a call at 631-780-6294. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and Discover. We will be happy to discuss any special requests.

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We are constantly adding new product. We invite you to check back frequently.

About Green Fire Herbs

We are one of a growing number of companies who seek to run successful, but ethical and socially responsible businesses.

NONE of our products are animal tested!

Where we have a choice between ingredients provided by large companies who pay their workers next to nothing, and those provided by workers who earn a fair wage for their efforts, we buy the Fair Trade ingredients.

We avoid the use of ingredients which are produced in ways that damage the environment.  For example we only use sustainably grown unrefined African Red Palm Oil in our soaps. Palm oil is a common oil in hand made soaps.  It adds little in the way of skin care, but does produce a harder bar of soap. Unrefined African Red Palm Oil is rich in beta carotene and other nutrients that are good for your skin. It also adds a rather nice, natural red to orange color to soap.

Most Palm Oil is produced by large corporations that destroy forest land in order to plant their plantations. Once the forest itself is gone, the way these plantations are worked continues to harm the surrounding land (and people).

We prefer to ship orders using paper (preferably recycled), however some of our supplies are shipped to us packed with bubble wrap and/or peanuts. We reuse such packing in an effort to keep then out of land fills for just a little longer (and encourage our customers to do the same). Also, the more often these packing materials are reused, the less market there will be for more to be produced. For more information about reusing items, keeping them out of our landfills, look into Freecycle.org.

These are but examples of our philosophy of doing business. For more information on how to support ethical and socially responsible businesses, check out Co-Op America.