The Living Desert

I am Toni Leigh, the chief formulator and owner of Desert Blends of Taos, a manufacturer of natural organic skin care in Taos, NM. I have a passion and no means an expert of desert plants, herbology and good skin care. It turns out that the combination is a 40 billion dollar industry! So I've combined my interests and developed a good skin care line, Desert Blends of Taos. We manufacture, wholesale; have a flagship store and an on-line store at www.desertblends.com.

We use the desert plants to formulate our skin care line. Turns out the desert is full of nutrient plants with natural UV protection. Great for skin care! Part of my job is wild-crafting herbs (out in nature for you suburban moron's). I count my blessings in the fall when we harvest the sunflowers abundant along the acequia's (a small water vein through-out the valley, I won't say moron again). This is my job~ We will take the sunflower heads, dry them and infuse in our organic base oils to make our creams, etc.

Sunflowers are one of dozens of plants we harvest in the fall. We pick the burdock root; wild licorice rt.; wild rose hips to name a few. There are seven botanicals in our Living Desert Complex, our signature complex high in UV protection; EFA's (essential fatty acids) Collagen building peptides; vitamins C, D, E, A, for our creams, lotions, soaps, shampoo etc. It took harvesting these plants for over 10 years to understand that these plants are a matrix of herbs building on each other in strength and effectiveness. Excellent for skin and hair care.

We use whole plant systems using the roots, seeds, flowers of a plant in it's wholeness. We believe that it is more potent that way as did the indigenous healers and herbalist of an ancient time. You can feel the life force of these healing plants.