Our Story
Infused By Vicki started with an ethnobotany class and an epiphany: Nature often has the solutions we need.
Plants are the basis for so many pharmaceuticals. Pain killers derived from willows and poppy seeds, heart medication from foxglove, chemo drugs from yew trees. Plant compounds manipulated into synthetics, and packaged to us with side effects and interactions.
Nature has stabilized these compounds already, in the whole plant. What if we went back to the source for healing?
Whether its tendon strain, muscle pain, raw or splitting skin, we’re making ethical products to help you heal in the most natural way, while also giving back to those ecosystems we harvest from.
Who is Vicki?
That’s me! I’m Vicki, a climber based in Seattle, Washington. Always working through some injury, training became painful and often made things worse.
Out of equal parts necessity and curiosity, I started turning to medicinal plants for help. Thanks to an ethnobotany course I took (shoutout to Raven’s Roots!), I was introduced to Pacific Northwest healing plants. I became fascinated with what I learned–how for millennia indigenous peoples have related to these plants as food, medicine, tools, and spirituality. I learned about how “invasives” may actually help remediate ecosystems, and how a forest arises after humans or a natural disaster level a landscape. It was in this class that the ethics of leaving more than you take was instilled in me.
On my own, I started researching different species I was interested in, and experimented with them to learn more about their properties and constituents. I then turned that knowledge into medicine that I used for myself.
When I shared my creations with friends and climbing partners, many saw a change in their long standing injuries and healing times. I incorporated their feedback and enthusiastically iterated on my infusions, and in this process, I found a way to merge my love of climbing, science, and ecological repair into something that could help others!
