Aromatherapy Education and Resources
We recently received this story via email from one of our South African distillers and would love to share it with you. I know that essential oils and the precious plants they are extracted from are have brought so much into our lives. Do you have any stories related to essential oils and your community [...]
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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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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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I love Lemongrass, Cymbopogon citratus. The thing is, it can be skin irritating. I use it carefully, being sure to dilute it well. One great quality of Lemongrass is its antifungal property due to the high levels of citral (neral and geranial). Sometimes I choose to use Geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, instead because its geraniol content [...]
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Guroo Farms Distillery is a group of certified organic farmers and distillers, with 550 acres of certified organic farm area. They are located in the Tarai area of Uttranchal, which is one of the most fertile belts in India in the foothills of Himalayas. After three generations of farming in Tarai, Guroo Farms officially began [...]
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