Aromatherapy Education and Resources
It is an exciting time for us at Aromahead Institute as we just launched our new website! You can find us at the same web address: www.aromahead.com Some of the cool new features are the photo gallery, the graduate directory and the updated information about our Scholars Program Next week we will be adding a [...]
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Healing Burns There are many wonderful carrier oils that can nourish the skin and speed the healing of a burn on your skin. Baobab oil, Shea butter and Tamanu oil are three of my current favorites. Baobab: The oil is made from the fruit of the Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) by cold pressing the seed [...]
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For a refreshing, bright, and uplifting aroma try diffusing Grapefruit! It blends beautifully with all other citrus oils as well as Rosemary, Palmarosa, Geranium, and Cardamom. I love citrus oils. Grapefruit has so many wonderful qualities and because it is so common I sometimes forget how amazing it is. Perhaps Grapefruit’s most valuable use is [...]
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At Aromatics International we believe that in order for essential oils to have a therapeutic effect, they must be pure plant extracts. The best way to assure the purity and quality of each batch of oil is to test with Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS). The precise breakdown of the chemical components in individual oils is [...]
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The International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy is an excellent professional journal. I have asked the editor of the journal, Rhiannon Harris, to tell us about the journal’s history, content and goals. Please tell us about the IJCA The International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy started in 2004 at the initiative of myself, Bob Harris and John [...]
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Tamanu Oil, extracted from the fruit of the Calophyllum inophyllum tree, is renowned for its remarkable skin healing properties. The oil we import is from Madagascar. The Tamanu tree blooms twice in a year, and has aromatic white flowers that create clusters of yellow-skinned fruits. The fruit has a large nut within it. The oil [...]
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