06/02/2026
It’s Top 5 Tuesday and I (Lisa 👋🏼) just had to make the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my entire life:
My (personal) Top 5 Wunder Budders 🥹
I use every day - I’ve been using it daily since creating our very first product, our Original calendula salve, in 2002!
In no particular order (except for the first one, because it’s the OG), here are my Top 5 Wunder Budder picks:
🧡 Original Wunder Budder calendula salve - I haven’t left home without this in 24 years?! It’s my favorite (non living) thing in existence. Whenever I’d struggle over the years and want to give up trying to build a small business, I’d think, “but who will make my Wunder Budder??” It’s for hands, lips, and anywhere else
🧡 Calendula Oil - calendula oil is what started my love for calendula and herbal skincare, before I even knew what a salve was! I got a bottle from a health food store sometime in the late 90s for some super dry skin. I fell in love so hard that I started a business based on oils infused with calendula! I use this on my face and body, either alone or in combination with other oils or salves, depending on the time of year and my need
🧡 “Winter Inhaler” - you know this as “Breathe”! I first created this clearing blend to support wellness during a stressful time in my life (2009ish) when I was trying really hard to avoid getting sick. I used daily until thinking, “I think other people will also love this”! The original name was “Winter” and it had a tree on the label
🧡 Black Rose - this is part of our limited Halloween collection. It comes out annually in the fall. It’s a creative blend, and I don’t remember my original inspiration! It has rose, black pepper, and black cumin. It’s a “love it or hate it” blend, and I loooooooooove it!
🧡 Paramedic Salve - our herbal salve for irritated skin. It has one of my early herbal allies in it - chaparral! When I was in herb school in 2000, I had a contract job where I harvested/dried/processed tons and tons of chaparral for a herbal business, and I fell completely in love with it. It’s not super common in herbal repertoires of herbalist in NE, but it is in the SW
What are your favorites?
