What is a salve? A salve is the combination of two basic ingredients: an oil and a wax. You can use any one vegetable oil, or combine 2 vegetables oils, or combine a vegetable oil with a nutrient-rich specialty oil (e.g. Rosehip seed oil), combine herbal oils or use...
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Healing the Heart: Exploring Heart Rate Variability and Trauma
Written by: Jon Keyes, Licensed Professional Counselor and Herbalist At the top of the heart, a small bundle of cells known as the sinoatrial node regularly send out an electrical impulse. The signal causes the walls of the heart to contract, sending blood into the...
Are Essential Oils Really That Dangerous?
I don't know about you but if I were relatively new to aromatherapy, I'd be scared! And that's not really a feeling I want to associate with aromatherapy and essential oils. Are essential oils really dangerous? There seems to be a huge pendulum swinging between rather...
Aromatherapy and My Experience with Hospice Patients
Written by: Robin Kessler Graduate of our French Aromatherapy Certification Course Introduction: Five years ago I became an aromatherapist. I was always interested in alternative medicine and how it could help when conventional medicine failed or was too invasive or...
Herbs and Essential Oils for Anxiety
Discover the benefits of integrating herbs and essential oils in the treatment of anxiety with Thomas Easley and Jade Shutes Download: Anxiety Handouts 3 per page. Download: Herbs and Essential Oils for Anxiety ebook Save Save
Learn how to blend with essential oils
Enjoy Jade's talk on approaches to blending and formulation. This talk was given at NAHA's Beyond Aromatics Conference in October of 2016. Powerpoint PDF: The Art and Science of Formulation
Aromatherapy & Pregnancy
Aromatherapy & Pregnancy: Exploring the controversy to uncover the healing potential of essential oils. Written by: Jolene Meum, MBA Research paper for The School for Aromatic Studies Abstract Pregnancy is a pivotal point in a woman’s life. One will seek out...
Is Eucalyptus safe for children?
Is Eucalyptus essential oil or other 1,8 cineole rich essential oils safe for children under the age of 10? "All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.” -...
Models for Aromatherapy: French, English, and the Emerging New Model
“It could be argued that the explanatory model of disease that a practitioner uses is the most defining characteristic of that practitioner.” - James Snow This is my all time favorite quote regarding the impact of explanatory models of disease. It is from a course I...
Can essential oils be considered as dietary supplements?
Can essential oils be considered dietary supplements? by Jade Shutes The correct answer is: Yes. PLEASE NOTE: This article is being written as a part of my research in preparation for our free webinar in January on Aromatherapy Products: Labeling and Packaging. One of...
Blending by Plant Part: Morphology
Blending by Morphology Written by: Jade Shutes WATCH OUR BLENDING WEBINAR (FREE!) Introduction to Morphology Blending I define ‘morphology’ as a method of intuitively approaching essential oils based upon the messages or energetics inherent within each individual...
Aromatherapy Organizations Around the World
Worldwide Aromatherapy Organizations Around the world aromatherapy practitioners are represented by an amazing collection of aromatherapy organizations working towards the advancement of aromatherapy. Here is a list of international and national aromatherapy...