Honey
Before there were tinctures.
Before there were powders or pills.
There was honey.
Thick, golden, eternal. Found in tombs still sweet after thousands of years. Revered by priestesses, warriors, midwives, and poets alike. At Soulcraft Apotheca, honey is never just a sweetener: it’s a sacred binder, a living preservative, and a medicine in its own right.
✦ More Than Sweet
Honey is antibacterial, antifungal, enzymatically alive, and deeply nourishing to the immune system. It's been used for:
Wound healing and infection prevention
Coughs, colds, and sore throats
Digestive ease and ulcer soothing
Energy restoration after illness or depletion
But in our work, honey goes beyond the body. It's a bridge between plants and people, the natural world and the sacred. When we infuse herbs into honey, we’re not just creating medicine: we're creating ritual offerings.
✦ How We Use It at Soulcraft
We infuse honey slowly, in small batches, using low heat or sun-steeped vessels, never rushing the process. Every jar becomes a vessel of transformation, holding the essence of both the herbs and the bees.
Some of our favorite infusions:
Saffron Honey for mood enhancement clinically proven to be more effective than Prozac (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31118846/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23280545/, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6503633/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38913392/)
Ginkgo & Maca Honey resilience, strength, and a strong foundation
Ginger, Turmeric, and Black Pepper Honey for inflammation
Ritual Honey for ceremonial practice.
We also use honey in our non-vegan topical salves, where its humectant and antimicrobial properties support skin healing and barrier repair.
✦ The Energetics of Honey
Elemental: Earth & Water
Energetics: Moistening, nourishing, tonifying
Taste: Sweet with underlying complexity
Spiritual associations: Fertility, wisdom, immortality, divine feminine
In magical and alchemical traditions, honey is believed to carry memory. It absorbs and holds intentions, making it a powerful ally in spells, rituals, and offerings to ancestors or deities. To work with infused honey is to sweeten your experience of life, not just in taste, but in presence.
✦ A Final Pour
Let’s not forget: honey is made from flowers. Thousands of them. A collaboration between bloom and bee, time and intention. When you taste herbal honey, you are tasting the landscape itself: wild, local, and full of ancient memories.
At Soulcraft Apotheca, we honor this sacred exchange. Every dose is small-batch, raw, and infused with care. Whether taken straight, stirred into tea, or anointed onto skin, this is sweetness that remembers where it came from.