Woman owned business Cinnamon’s Botanicals
Bringing back the vintage apothecary vibe By Megan Jones
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W ITH $30 A ND A LOT OF determination, Cinnamon Bird set out to start her own business.
Five years later, she’s established a boutique apothecary business selling her own blends of herbs and healing ingredients formulated into teas, salves, balms, tinctures, potions and capsules. Her cozy little apothecary shop is located at 114 Kit Carson Road in Taos. “In the beginning, Taos was hard [but] it has also been so good to me,” she said. “When I came to Taos, it just seemed to take care of me. There’s not a day that I don’t thank God for all the blessings I’ve received here.” Bird, a single mom, says that she
became more interested in herbs and natural healing when her two children (now grown) were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She was curious about hemp and the healing properties of CBD which she had heard about claims that it helps with diabetes so she signed up for classes with a longtime herbalist. She says the claims were actually concerning Type 2 or adult onset diabetes but in the class she learned more about the other uses of CBD and hemp. Bird says the way she was raised made her appreciate the benefits of growing her own food, canning, drying and freezing it for future use. Bird says that her family had a garden, cattle
and horses. She says as a child she was immersed in a “natural, homeopathic way of living.” So after learning about hemp and CBD she decided to make a topical salve with some feedback from her massage therapist. After going back and forth over the dosage strength and finding a milligram quantity that was efficacious she went out with the first batch of salve and it sold out quickly. Bird took the earnings and put it back into making more and now it has become a business with stores and spas stocking her products in multiple states. “I make everything in small batches and it works because I am very particular » 70
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