Tuesday, December 11, 2007

My soap is poetry


because of it´s fragrance.... lingon & ljung (or lingonberry & heather)

This Swedish brand Bliw has the most poetic fragrances, I can use them and be off to really nice spots, a summer field, wild strawberries in the summer sun, Blueberries and mountain creeks etc.

It´s like a little poetry for home...and it smells good too.


Äpple och Fläder [Apple and elderberry]
Blåsippa och daggkåpa [windflower and lady's mantle]
Kärnmjölk och kamomill [raw milk and chamomille]
Smultron och sommarsol [wild strawberries and summer sun]
Björk och äng [birch and meadow]
Blåbär och fjällbäck [blueberries and mountain stream]
Lingon och ljung [lingonberries and heather]
Mjölk och vildhonung [milk and wild honey]
Nyponros och rabarber [rosehips and rhubarb]
Hjorton och fjällsippa [cloudberries and "Dryas"]
Svarta vinbär [black currants]

PS. Translations by LS.

2 comments:

LS said...

We have BLOW here too, sent by wonderful friends in Sweden. Blueberries are in our guest bath room, and chamomille in our master bath! Wonderful Swedish things, indeed!

I have often thought that Swedes are so much more connected to nature than many other cultures. I mean that Swedes know many more common names of plants that are not food plants, just pretty. Here in the US many kids can barely identify a broccoli or leek in the store. Of course, our kids are different, they know every vegetable on their plates, right, AREA and LA?

LS said...

I meant BLIW, not BLOW!!! Where is the edit button for comments?