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🌿 Welcome to Carrie’s Handmade Essentials on Substack
A quiet space of nourishment and grace, created especially for women over 40 who want to care for mature skin with gentleness, simplicity, and soul.
Here, beauty is more than skin deep. It’s about slowing down, choosing ingredients you trust, and honoring the season you’re in — both in life and in faith.
Through herbal skincare rituals, cozy self-care practices, and faith-rooted reflections, you’ll find support to care for your skin and your spirit. My hope is that this becomes a place where you feel restored, radiant, and deeply at home.
🌿 This is Your Invitation to Slow Beauty
You don’t need another overwhelming skincare aisle or expensive cream that doesn’t deliver.
You need rhythm. Rest. Radiance.
I know what it feels like to have changing skin, to wonder what really works, and to crave routines that nurture instead of deplete.
That’s why I created this membership: a gentle rhythm of natural beauty, seasonal rituals, and grace-filled encouragement to help you feel confident and glowing at every age.
This isn’t about perfection.
It’s about presence.
It’s about remembering your skincare can be sacred — soothing your skin while nourishing your soul.
When you join, you’ll begin to:
Create your own skincare with herbs and oils that work for your skin type
Celebrate the seasons with simple, cozy beauty rituals
Restore your spirit through gentle devotionals and grace-centered reflection
Feel confident and radiant, especially as your skin matures
Embrace slowness, self-kindness, and soul care that actually fits your life
This is skincare you’ll look forward to.
Self-care that doesn’t ask you to become someone else.
And a rhythm that gently says: you’re already enough.
💌 Free Subscription (Always Included)
🧴 Weekly Herbal Skincare Tips
Simple, natural DIY recipes
Guidance for crafting skincare with herbs, oils, and ingredients you trust
🌸 Monthly Seasonal Self-Care
Reflections + rituals to help you live in rhythm with the seasons
Cozy recipes and mindful practices for each time of year
✒️ Ink & Wildflowers: Journaling Inspiration
A weekly creative journaling section with a Word Garden and thoughtful prompts
Gentle encouragement to explore your thoughts, creativity, and inner beauty
✝️ Faith-Based Inspiration
Gentle devotionals and encouragement in Oil & Light
Soul care practices rooted in grace, warmth, and botanical beauty
🌟 Paid Membership (Go Deeper in Your Rituals)
🧴 Skincare Recipes & Rituals
Self-Care Saturday: cozy biweekly ritual emails with recipes + seasonal challenges
Expanded monthly reflections with deeper explorations + practical steps
📖 Journaling & Reflection
Guided journaling prompts to help you process, reflect, and renew
private journaling podcast with prompts.
✝️ Faith-Based Care
Full-length Oil & Light devotionals (scripture-rooted inspiration + self-care pairings)
Soul care reminders that blend faith, self-compassion, and renewal
🧴Mini Workshops
Monthly workshops on various topics on skincare and self-care.
🌼 Guided Radiant Renewal Program Access
The Guided Radiant Renewal Program: build your personalized skincare + self-care rhythm step by step
🧺 Whether you’re here for:
Herbal DIY recipes
Faith-based slow living
Seasonal skincare routines
A gentler way to care for yourself...
You’ll find a place of beauty, nourishment, and encouragement here.
📬 Subscribe today and let’s create skin and soul rituals that feel like home.
Join The Radiant Wildflower Society
Support. Skincare. Special Gifts.
I created this Founding Member tier for those who want to go deeper — to support the heart of my work and receive something beautiful in return.
Become a part of the Radiant Wildflower Society (Founding Member) and you’ll receive:
🎁 Your Founding Member Bundle
✅ One-Year Membership
Enjoy all the benefits of my $7/month membership — skincare bundles, herbal DIYs, seasonal rituals, and more.
✅ One Paperback Book
Choose from my growing library of books on DIY skincare and self-care. (Value: $16.95)
✅ One Tote Bag
A lovely tote to carry your herbs, journals, or books — wildflower-inspired and useful. (Value: $26)
✅ One Online Course of Your Choice
Pick from any of my online courses — including those for mature skin, herbal infusions, and seasonal skincare rituals. (Value: up to $199)
✅ Special Thanks
When you subscribe (free or paid), you’ll get access to my freebies:
The Herbal Quick Start Guide
A simple, plant-powered routine for radiant, mature skin
Two Weeks to Glowing Inside and Out
Create Your Skincare + Self-Care Routine with Faith at the Center
Spritz and Soothe: 10 Self-Care Sprays you Can Make at Home
Ageless Glow: Formulating Herbal Cleansers, Toners, and Moisturizers for Mature Skin Care
and a private podcast about all-natural skincare for women over 40.
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