Aromatherapy Education and Resources
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Last year I wrote a post titled A Great Gentle Lemongrass Chemotype. The post is about a monoterpenol rich lemongrass essential oil from India that was new to me. It is such a lovely chemotype and has the antifungal properties of the aldehyde rich lemongrass, so it seemed worth mentioning again.
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It is rare for a distiller to sell retail. Generally to buy directly from a distiller we have to buy larger quantities (at least a few kilos). Alain, the distiller and owner of Florihana Distillery in the south of France, is happy to sell small and large sizes of essential oils. Here is a blog [...]
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In my last post about Aromatherapy blogs, I linked to eight blogs I read regularly. I thought you might enjoy reading some excerpts from each of those blogs. I am posting the first four excerpts in part one of this post. The next four will be in part two, later this week. I made this [...]
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Aromahead Institute recently launched a new Component Database, a subscription-based online tool for researching essential oil components and their therapeutic actions. A subscription to the component database gives you access to exclusive datasheets compiled by Andrea Butje and Robert Tisserand. Each datasheet includes a molecular structure illustration, chemical family, therapeutic properties, medical actions, safety concerns, [...]
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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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