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A reference database of medicinal actions, therapeutic behaviours and research for essential oil components.
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Andrea Butje has been teaching courses in the therapeutic uses of essential oils since 1995.
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Essential Living eBook


This 113-page aromatherapy recipes eBook includes over 60 easy recipes to help you create natural, safe and environmentally-friendly products for health and home. Learn more...

From our blog

Essential Oil Honey Recipe for Aromatic Tea

If you love honey and essential oils, how about combining them? Winter Honey 1 cup honey 8 drops bergamot (Citrus bergamia) essential oil 6 drops lemon (Citrus limon) essential oil 6 drops orange (Citrus sinensis) essential oil 3 drops cardamom (Elletaria cardamomum) essential oil * Use only 100% pure, high quality essential oils for the [...]

by Andrea Butje, from 02/20/2012 05:00 am

Winter Dry, Chapped Skin Butter

Body Butters are pure nourishment for your skin. The true art of creating body butters has to do with the ratio of butter to oil to wax. To create a butter that is soft and easy to apply, a 6:1 ratio is ideal. Six parts of butters and oils to one part beeswax. The aromatic [...]

by Andrea Butje, from 02/15/2012 05:00 am

Facebook Timeline

Have you noticed that some people have cool-looking new Facebook pages? Facebook is currently introducing Timeline as a way to “tell your life story with a new kind of profile.” I changed my profile to feature photographs in a whole new way that I love. The photos are just one of the many excellent new [...]

by Andrea Butje, from 02/10/2012 08:29 am


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