• Natural Ingredients

    Our creations are crafted from pure, wild-crafted botanicals and ethically sourced ingredients, always free of harsh chemicals or hidden toxins. Even our packaging is chosen with care, clean and sustainable from start to finish.

  • Enchanting Tale

    Every creation is steeped in folklore, ancestral memory, and fairytale wonder. From hedge to hearth, each offering carries a story of enchantment—woven to awaken a sense of magic and timeless connection.

  • Customer-Kinship

    Your flame lights our way. We're bound by shared wonder, not commerce. For the soul who longs to remember - this space is for you

Who We Are?

The Folklore Apothecary

At Buffy Belladonna’s Botanicals, every creation is both offering and story—born of hearth-fire, hedgerow, and hive. We craft small-batch candles, tisanes, honeys, and balms that echo the old songs of the Celtic Britons, who knew plants not as commodities but as kin (and occasionally as stern lecturers, if you’ve ever argued with a thistle patch).

Our ingredients are gathered with reverence: honey from our hives, herbs from our gardens, botanicals from the wild—always natural, clean-burning, and ethically chosen. No harsh chemicals, no compromises, and certainly no shortcuts unless you count the ones through the bramble path (which we wouldn’t recommend without stout boots).

Each bundle carries more than fragrance or flavor—it carries remembrance: the murmur of folklore, the wisdom of ancestral matriarchs, the healing pulse of the land. In tending these offerings, we invite you to pause, breathe, and feel the sprinkle of enchantment that lingers in the flicker of a flame, the swirl of steam, or the impudent laughter of a blue jay overhead.

Here, ritual is not performance but homecoming—and perhaps a reminder that magic has a sense of humor too.

SIGNED:
Clare & Buffy Belladonna Tenderfoot

Our Offerings

Come with their own tale

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The Summer day


“Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?”

—Mary Oliver, The Summer Day. First published in House of Light, Beacon Press, 1990. Reprinted in New and Selected Poems, Volume One, Beacon Press, 1992.

Our Tale

Clare & Buffy

Buffy Belladonna Tenderfoot was not born of our world. An escapee from the realm of fantastical beasts, she wandered lonely until the Evergreen Animal Protection League carried her into gentler hands. There, her fierce heart captured mine—and we have been walking together ever since.

I was unraised as a feral witchling-child of English woodlands, listening to hedgerow winds and learning the mycorrhizal-web of toadstools and the music of crickets. My matriarchal grandmother, a rose-garden wizardess and botanist, taught me that plants reveal how to live—and how to die—with grace and courage. My patriarchal Irish grandmother, a nurse-matron and midwife, taught me that compassion can be fierce, service holy, and that no ailment is too great for a properly brewed cup of tea—and, if you were truly suffering, a dunking-quality chocolate digestive biscuit

Together—Buffy with her lupine-hearted, elemental joy, and I with my wild ramblings and unruly imagination—we tend this apothecary. It is not merely a business, but a living tale of remembrance, healing, enchantment, and belonging.

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  • Lilibet Lord

    “The fragrances of each transport one into a magical world of relaxation and an imaginary journey from dense forests to misty moors, to sun-splashed gardens. These lovely creations are the perfect gift for anyone wanting to give a present that is pure, natural, sustainable and above all, spellbinding in fragrance”

  • Emily Frost

    "I've been using Clare's products for years. The amount of research, intention, experimentation and care that goes into each product is tantamount to spellwork - and her products are nothing short of magic. Her salves are gentle enough for my newborn, her balms packed dense with herbal goodness, and her candles straight up transport me. I've never met a candle or wax melt scent I didn't love, but the earthy woodsy ones are just next level, and I'm so grateful that there aren't any hidden chemicals or nasties lurking - only pure ingredients and love."

  • Kinzie Wallden

    "I'm so grateful I found a balm that aligns with my values. I highly recommended it to anyone looking for gentle ingredients."

  • Anonymous

    “I brought the Hearth-Keeper candle at our local craft fair for the scent, but I stayed for the story. It’s like lighting a bit of folklore — the fragrance slowly unfolds just like the tale it’s inspired by."

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