If you long for immortality, rub on some helichrysum. Just kidding! But this plant somehow earned the nicknames ‘immortelle’ and ‘everlasting’ so it doesn’t hurt to keep this essential oil hanging around your life. Adding a drop to your daily skincare routine will be uplifting for your soul at the very least. Whether it has the [...]
Today's Yummy Crunchy Wolfberry Slice proves that getting your nutrition on really doesn’t require a lot of sacrifice. Never before have we had such a ready wealth of healthy ingredients at our fingertips. Grains and pulses that used to be weird and wonderful are now standard fare. More often than not, people stopped in the street [...]
Hello, autumn, old friend! Shed a few leaves and make yourself comfortable while I rustle up a few autumn essential oils that are ideal for diffusing. If you’re new to essential oils, you can be forgiven for thinking I’ve lost a few marbles in the summer heat. “Choosing oils based on seasons? You wacky oil-sniffing herbalist!” [...]
Refreshing and uplifting, grapefruit – like all citrus oils – is the party animal of the essential oil world. And given the zesty zing of fresh grapefruit, you’d expect that! Let’s talk about the fresh fruit first, which is also jam-packed with benefits. Eating grapefruit for brekkie is a dead giveaway that someone has decided to [...]
When using genuinely pure essential oils, it’s important to follow essential oil safety cautions and guidelines. For sure, authentic essential oils are 100% natural. But they are highly potent and not all are suitable for inhaling deeply close up or rubbing on anywhere and everywhere. We’ve already covered guidelines for safe use in this post here, [...]
Lemon. Wolfberry. Truffle. What’s not to love about the sound of that. Even better, they are raw. They'll help you get the kids into the kitchen for some family fun. And they are healthier blackmail than store-bought lollies. Awesome. We’ve enhanced their flavour and given them extra zing by adding genuine lemon essential oil. Please note [...]
Today’s essential oil spotlight shines on galbanum essential oil. Finding a single word to capture the essence of an oil doesn’t always come easily to me. They are complex and subtle individuals, after all. It’s like those annoying personal growth or business team building exercises where you have to sum yourself up in three words. But [...]
Is wealth consciousness a real thing? Can essential oils help you to expand it? I was talking last night with someone would be rolling his eyes over these questions and talking about pseudoscience. Fair enough. Many folk prefer to only believe in things that can be seen, measured and probed. On the other hand, just because [...]
When you get dressed for the day and discover someone switched your usual garments for cranky pants, it can be hard to shake them off. Sometimes it’s tempting to not even try. Do you ever find that? It’s kind of like eating a chunk of chocolate cake for breakfast then proceeding to make it the base [...]
Today’s essential oil spotlight shines on gentle and honey-like cistus essential oil. Sounds pretty, doesn't it. Where does cistus essential oil come from? If you have a green thumb maybe you already count on cistus shrubs as hardy favourites, especially if you have a Mediterranean garden. There are upwards of 20 species of the genus — [...]
