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CRYING SOLDIER

Posted in Aromatherapy, tagged , , , on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I don’t know where the picture comes from, but I used it anyways since it is heartbreaking in its stark reality. Pentagon tries aroma therapy to ease combat stress Sat May 8, 2010 8:27pm EDT FORT RILEY Kansas, May 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. military is experimenting with aroma therapy, acupuncture and other unorthodox methods [...]

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DERMATITIS

Posted in Aromatherapy, Babies & Children, Skincare, medicine, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

(picture from: www.medical-look.com/Skin_diseases/) Many people suffer from dermatitis (eczema) on small or large areas of their bodies,very often on the hands and arms.  (You can read more about dermatitis here.) One type of dermatitis, contact dermatitis, is a reaction to a substance which the body part is in contact with for a prolonged time. This [...]

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LITTLE STORIES ABOUT SCENT

Posted in Aromatherapy, Scents, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Ever since I can remember I have perceived my world largely through the sense of smell. I smell everything! As a little child I could find my way home, eyes closed, just by smelling. My siblings teased me and said I was a dog.  Sometimes I thought that if I would go blind, I could [...]

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GOAL-SETTING

Posted in Aromatherapy, Lifestyle, Personal development, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Lately I have been wrapping my head around the whole idea of goal-setting, really trying to break it down into the smallest possible components. Goals are like onions; layer upon layer, each layer hiding the one beneath…no wonder it can be so difficult to set goals. I think most of us are the same; when [...]

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HYDROSOLS

Posted in Aromatherapy, Babies & Children, Product information, Scents, Skincare, Wellness, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »

A hydrosol (also called hydrolate) is the condensate water produced during steam-distillation of plant material for aromatherapeutic purposes. In distillation of plant material for essential oil, water-steam is pressed through the plant material which releases all chemical molecules light enough to travel with the steam. From there it goes to a condenser where the steam [...]

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IMORTELLE / EVERLASTING: Helichrysum Italicum

Posted in Aromatherapy, Essential oil profiles, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Immortelle or Everlasting is the popular name of the plant Helichrysum Italicum /H. augustifolium. One of the reasons for the name is that the flowers of the plant retain their color and shape after drying, making them a popular flower for long-lasting natural flower arrangements, also called eternelles. Helichrysum means Gold Sun in Greek, and [...]

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MOOD-SWINGS

Posted in Aromatherapy, Lifestyle, Scents, Stress, Wellness, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »

We all get them; mood-swings. They usually kick in when we least of all expect it, and isn’t it strange that they only go in one direction…down? Or maybe we do have positive mood-swings, sudden bursts of inexplicable joy and happiness – of course we do, but they aren’t a problem, they are pure bliss. [...]

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VALUABLE ESSENTIAL OILS FROM WOOD

Posted in Aromatherapy, Essential oil profiles, Product information, perfume, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »

There are a few, very popular oils that come from the heart-wood of trees; Oud (Aquilaria agollocha, A. malaccensis, A. crassna) that I have written about earlier, Rosewood (aniba rosaeodora) and Sandalwood (santalum album). I will not write again about Oud, but concentrate on Rosewood and Sandalwood. These oils come from the heartwood of trees [...]

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SMELL YOURSELF WELL

Posted in Aromatherapy, Scents, medicine, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I found this article and wanted to share it. A lot of what is said here is what aromatherapy is all about, and then, amusingly enough, prof. Jacobs (halfway through the article) calls aromatherapy nonsense…this I call ignorance. True, some claims to what aromatherapy can do are not realistic and there tends to be this [...]

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Automatic Aromatherapy to Keep Drivers Awake | Popular Science

Posted in Aromatherapy, Scents, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Some years ago I was part of a scientific group concentrating on olfaction. I was invited as an aromatherapist to join the group in their endeavours to unravel the mysteries of scent and what scent does to us. The other members of the group were chemists, biologists, physicists and reps from the culinary and artistic [...]

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