Earth Day: Essential Oils and the Environment
As aromatherapy thrives and becomes, at best, a widely used natural, holistic healing modality, and at worst, a soulless cash cow, it is important to remember that behind each bottle of essential oil is a plant, growing somewhere on the planet. It is easy to forget that fact when essential oils moguls focus on…
Ticked Off: Essential Oils for Pest Control
Welcome, friends. We’re here today to discuss everybody’s favorite topic: bloodsucking arthropods! And not just any old arthropod. I’m talking about those loathsome emissaries of infectious disease — and the heebie geebies in general – ticks. Infectious disease has been on the rise in the last century. Indeed, an astonishing 335 human diseases have…
Concepts in Essential Oil Blending: Synergy, Additivity and Antagonism
It is inevitable when teaching that someone asks if an essential oil (EO) can “cancel out” another essential oil when creating a blend. This could be from an olfactory sense as well as a chemical component sense. The answer is multivalent just as an essential oil and the practice of aromatherapy is. My fun…
Three Ways to Enjoy Spring Cleaning With Essential Oils
The shift from winter to spring is symbolic on many levels. Now that the time for introspection and inward reflection has gone, nature makes way for outward expression and action. In nature, plants and seeds slowly come out of their deep winter sleep as they start reaching for the sun, and the same awakening can…
Energize Your Environment for Spring Equinox!
“Equal dark, equal light Flow in Circle, deep insight Blessed Be, Blessed Be The transformation of energy! So it flows, out it goes Three-fold back it shall be Blessed Be, Blessed Be The transformation of energy!” – Night An’Fey, Transformation of Energy March brings us two special events on the same day this year –…
Acne Vulgaris – A Gentle Cleansing Alternative
I really empathize with the struggles of teenagers today. Aside from all the pressures of school, social media and family life, as many as 80% of the population are struggling with acne1. Acne vulgaris is a common condition exhibiting red swollen bumps on the surface of the skin. This inflammation is caused by hair follicles…