Aromatherapy Education and Resources
Our distiller in South Africa recently sent me this picture of one of the women producing Marula oil (Sclerocarya birrea), one of our favorite carrier oils. Each Marula fruit holds a nut, and inside the nut is the kernel from which the oil is extracted. Considerable work goes into the extraction process as the nut [...]
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We recently received this story via email from one of our South African distillers and would love to share it with you: We have a very poor community in Bela Bela who have quite a lot of land available to them because of the size of their tribal boundaries. ( Bela Bela is about 4 [...]
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Florihana is a distillery in the south of France. This is their mission statement: “At the foundation of our commitment to create the Florihana distillery were two main aims: respect for nature and development of highly therapeutic certified organic products for aromatherapists.” I believe they have accomplished both! Florihana uses organic farming techniques for plants [...]
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Aromatics International imports their Ylang Ylang (Canaga odorata) essential oil from a South African distiller who has been in the essential oil business since 1983. Clive works with rural communities and emerging farmers to establish crops specifically for essential oils. His daughter, Jessica, works with him in the business concentrating primarily on organic essential oils. [...]
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Lubanchem Limited was named after their pioneer product “Luban” – the Somali word for frankincense or the Boswellia species. The company is registered and has its factory operations in Nairobi, Kenya. From their humble beginnings in 2002, the company now has its own facilities with 12,500 square feet of production area. Due to the ability [...]
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I hope you’re enjoying stories from my week traveling through Morocco. This amazing journey has given me the chance to experience the local essential oils and culture. Here is a photo set of some of the photos I took in Morocco. Click on thumbnails to enlarge. You can close the photo on the bottom right [...]
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