Is it wrong to eat to make ourselves happy? Yes, no, maybe. Personally, I think there’s a lot to be said for the pleasure gained from good food eaten in good company. If that company happens to be me, myself and I, that’s fine too – as long as I don’t slide over to the dark [...]
Frankly, I’m a maximalist. So when it comes to writing about natural products for minimalists, I had to phone a friend! She’s just moved from a house with heaps of storage to an apartment with the opposite of heaps of storage. And she’s amazed at how much stuff she has, even though she thinks of herself [...]
Essential oils are one of the most beautiful ways you can take care of your health and well-being. While you might struggle to chew through kale and go for a jog (both great things, though!), inhaling essential oils, applying them to your skin and increasing the vitality of your food with them is always a pleasure. [...]
Want to spruce up your life? Start diffusing spruce essential oil! This expression – ‘to spruce up’ meaning ‘to make trim or neat’ – doesn’t come from the essential oil but it well could. It actually harks back to the 1500s when spruce leather was popular for making smart-looking jerkins. Personally I think we should bring [...]
We live in a mobile world. From portable devices to portable jobs and online shopping, most of us expect ease and simplicity and the ability to do lots of things while on the go. I’ve tried to dig my heels in and stem the tide – slow food, minimal social media, growing my own fruit and [...]
When you’re personally involved with growing, producing or selling natural substances, you come to truly appreciate how vulnerable they are – in some cases, how miraculous it is that they've even survived this far. From fruits to vegetables, grapevines to coffee plantations, plants, shrubs and trees to the essential oils that are extracted from them, you [...]
If there’s anything better than cheese, it’s cheese in the form of a cake! While I love essential oils and I’m vigilant about removing toxins from my environment to the best of my ability, I have a huge confession: when it comes to the dietary side of things, I am not as pure as the driven [...]
Are you sage about sage essential oils? Today, let’s take a look at three of them: common sage, clary sage and Spanish sage. All of them are members of the very large Lamiaceae botanical family, which includes many culinary herbs like basil, rosemary, sages and thyme. Walk through a garden of these plants brushing past them [...]
Selling your home? Then even if it’s winter, say Hello to Spring Cleaning time! In Part 1 of our two-part post on prepping your home naturally with essential oils for sale and open houses, we covered how to do that with absolutely zero use of toxic cleaners while imparting your property with spicy-sweet scents that are [...]
Selling house is a rollercoaster ride. And we’re here to help you get through to the other end as enjoyably as you possibly can with more thrills than spills. You might not think essential oils can help you with this process but once we’ve taken you through it from start to finish, I hope you’ll be [...]
