Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
E.g., products you love, local businesses, travel recs - you can add anything to a Benable list!
Must Have Herbalist Tools
12
items As a professional herbalist I rely on some of these tools on a daily or weekly basis to craft my all natural herbal products for my family and clients. Some of these tools save me so much time and frustration!
A tincture press is a must have for getting the maximum output from your herbal infused tinctures and oils. It helps to press all of the liquid out of your potion ensuring less waste at the end of the day.
Tincture Press
A slow cooker is great when you need to do a quick oil infusion or are working with herbs that don't respond well to traditional slow infusions. I find the small ones are better than the big ones since you often aren't making huge drums of oils.
Slow Cookers
Funnels in all sizes but especially small sizes to fill your bottles and jars.
Funnels - Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets
Wooden spoons are a must because in some instances typical metal spoons can affect the alchemy of your potions.
Wooden Spoons
This blender is the best. It is great for grinding up dried herbs to make tea blends, processing salts, and mixing up tinctures. It is versatile, affordable and dishwasher safe.
Pitcher Blenders & Personal Smoothie Makers – Ninja
Honestly I can never have enough measuring cups and spoons.
Measuring Cups & Spoons for Your Kitchen
A good dehydrator is a must have. It provides a better quality and even dry to the herbs you harvest from your garden.
Food Dehydrators
I use a food scale for most of my recipes because weighing ingredients is more accurate than measuring them with cups.
Kitchen Scales & Food Scales
Plastic mason jar lids....sooooo useful when making tinctures. They allow you to protect the tincture without any fear of rusting tops and just make everything so secure.
Ball Wide Mouth Plastic Leakproof Storage Lids for Mason Jars, 6-pk
I love my Food Cycler by Vitamix. It allows me to take any organic waste from my herbal processing and quickly turn it into dry useable compost that I use to amend my potting soil in the spring (and through the winter). I use it several times a week!
FoodCycler® Eco 5
A battery operated fan is great when harvesting bug season to keep the bugs off of you, but also great to keep bugs off your plants in your drying room, and to keep you cool during the summer months at market or in the garden. I use mine almost daily...
Jobsite Fan
A basic heat gun is useful for smoothing out sunken salves or sealing packaging. You don't need anything industrial the basic model will suffice.
Heat Guns: Tools & Home Improvement