For this assignment, I will be evaluating the hand lotion that I use nightly before bed and it is also the lotion that we have in our restrooms to use after washing your hands. The product is Avalon Organics Rejuvenating Rosemary Hand & Body Lotion. When looking at the ingredients label on the back, there are quite a few that are familiar to me, which include the following: Aqua (water) Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Glycerin Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil Avena Sativ

When choosing to use herbs for medicinal purposes, there are multiple ways that you can prepare them depending on what type of herb is being used, personal preference, and which preparation is the best given the circumstances that it is being used. Two of these types of preparations include making an herbal tea and making an herbal decoction. For this assignment, I chose to use organic cleavers (Galium aparine) as my herb of choice since it was the only one I had not worked w