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  • How to Buy Essential Oils Carefully: Avoiding Adulteration and Choosing Ethical Brands

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    Essential oils can be wonderful tools for wellness, skincare, and home use — when they’re made well and sourced responsibly. Unfortunately, the essential oil market is full of misleading labels, adulterated products, and ethically questionable practices. Learning how to evaluate quality, sourcing, and transparency can help you make safer, more ethical choices. Here’s how to buy…

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  • Wintering

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    Wintering: How to Honor the Season of Rest Winter often arrives with an unspoken expectation that we should keep moving at the same pace as the rest of the year. The days grow shorter, the weather colder, yet productivity culture rarely slows down. But nature tells a different story. Trees shed their leaves. Animals hibernate.…

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  • Essential Oil of the Month: Palmarosa

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    Essential Oil of the Month: Palmarosa When I really started my aromatherapy journey, Palmarosa was one of the first essential oils I began using on a regular basis. It has a similar scent to Geranium, but I find it a more subtle substitute, especially for those who cannot tolerate stronger scents. Palmarosa is a grass,…

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  • Essential Oil of the Month: Bergamot Mint

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    Essential Oil of the Month: Bergamot Mint (Mentha cirtrata) Bergamot Mint, also known as Lemon Mint oil, is a herb and member of the mint family. The leaves are steam distilled to get the delightfully aromatic scent. It is herby with hints of mint and citrus. This is a great oil to use instead of…

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  • Essential Oil of the Month: Immortelle

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    Oil of the month: Immortelle (Helichrysum italicum) This month I had to include Helichrysum italicum, sometimes known as Everlasting or Immortelle essential oil. Grown in the Mediterranean, you’ll often find the essential oil is from Corsica. The yellow blossoms are steam distilled and it produces a herbaceous, earthy, honey-like aroma. Some people find the aroma…

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  • Essential Oil of the Month: Jasmine

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    Essential Oil of the Month: Jasmine absolute (Jasminum grandiflorum)  The weather has been beautiful so I have chosen Jasmine absolute for May. Jasmine is one of my favourite (of many) oils to use. It has such an intense, rich, sweet smell. This is due to the fact the oil is extracted by solvent extraction. This…

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  • Essential Oils v. Fragrance Oils.

    Essential Oils v. Fragrance Oils.

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    Essential Oils vs. Fragrance Oils: What’s Best for Your Homemade Products? Your making your own beauty products to use at home and you are choosing a fragrance, do you choose essential oils or fragrance oils? Do you know what the difference is (or how to tell the difference)? When it comes to choosing how to…

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  • Stress Awareness Month

    Stress Awareness Month

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    Stress Awareness Month: Understanding the Effects of Stress and Embracing Complementary Therapies April is Stress Awareness Month—a time to reflect on the impact stress has on our lives and explore ways to manage it more effectively. Unfortunately, stress has become an almost unavoidable part of life. But while a little stress can be motivating, chronic…

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