Bridget’s Botanicals oers classes, products

For more than a decade, Bridget Molloy has been teaching people how to enhance their wellbeing through the use of plants.

Now, Littleton locals can learn to make herbal teas, try botanical tru es and purchase aromatherapy and tincture kits at Molloy’s new storefront, just o of Main Street.

Bridget’s Botanicals, which Molloy started in 2014, is a company that embraces health, wellness and fun through experiential classes and natural products.

Molloy, who grew up in Littleton, said she hopes her store becomes “a community place to experience botanicals and (connect) to nature in a really fun way.”

Learning about botanicals

Molloy has studied ecology, molecular biology, teaching, pharmacology and medicinal chemistry, including graduate work at Harvard and Georgetown. She said her company allows her to combine two of her main passions in life: teaching and herbalism.

“Herbalism is really the practice of when you’re using botanicals — it can be leaves, owers, berries … to bene t your health,” she said. With over 40 courses developed, Molloy and her team will o er classes ranging from an in-depth herbalism study to an elderberry syrup-making class. She will also teach sessions about ethnobotany, which is the study of traditional knowledge and customs of di erent groups and cultures concerning plants and their uses.

Some of her classes are o ered as private events, which people can schedule for their teams, workplaces or friends, Molloy said.

Sustainable products and kits

Her shop also sells a variety of products, including tea blends, tinctures, elderberry syrups, aromatherapy mists and cocktail bitters — all made by Molloy. She said she hopes to partner with other local businesses to o er some of her products for use on their drink menus.

In an e ort to be sustainable, Molloy’s product line have labels that are all ink-based and made in a windrun printing facility in Colorado, she said.

Of her products, Molloy is most excited about the kits, which o er curated selections of tea, aromatherapy mists, tinctures and other products that aim to address speci c mental or physical wellness goals.

She sells kits for menstruation care, fertility, sleep and stress,

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