Category: Blending Essential Oils

  • Saro Essential Oil

    Saro Essential Oil

    There’s much more to the aromatic world and essential oils than Eucalyptus and Tea tree, no matter how lovely those plants of Australia are. Earth’s varying and vast regions host an array of plants, including aromatic plants, who have grown and evolved to suit those locations. Plants are a direct expression of “sense-of-place,” a reflection…

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  • Vetiver Essential Oil

    Vetiver Essential Oil

    Oh Vetiver! There is so much to appreciate about you and the essential oil obtained from your gorgeously long roots. Not only are you one of the few root oils of aromatherapy, but you also have cooling qualities that are nearly unparalleled and invite a calm that is different from any other calm. Sure, you…

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  • Learn About Sweet Marjoram Essential Oil

    Learn About Sweet Marjoram Essential Oil

    Do you know Sweet Marjoram is related to Oregano and just as powerful in its own right, with its own characteristics that set it apart? I like to think of Sweet Marjoram as the yin to Oregano’s yang. This aromatic plant talk profile takes you from the gentle sun loving plant to its softly powerful…

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  • Plant Talk with Cistus Essential Oil

    Plant Talk with Cistus Essential Oil

    Welcome to the land of Cistus ladaniferus, a place to learn from the short, sticky, resilient shrub that graces hot and arid locations such as Spain and Portugal. Known since ancient times, Cistus invites you to a space of healing and contemplation. Also known as Rock Rose, this plant has a lot more to share…

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  • Plant Talk with Palmarosa Essential Oil

    Plant Talk with Palmarosa Essential Oil

    There is much to admire about Palmarosa grass and its pearly inflorescence. In my mind, Palmarosa is the yin to […]

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  • Plant Talk with Basil Essential Oil

    Plant Talk with Basil Essential Oil

    There is much to know and love about Basil. This Plant Talk article features Sweet Basil’s many virtues, highlighting Basil essential oil and how to incorporate it into essential oil blends and life overall!

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  • Dilution Rates and the Concentrated Nature of Essential Oils

    Dilution Rates and the Concentrated Nature of Essential Oils

    Ever notice how dilution rates are often cited in aromatherapy formulas and recipes yet it is often vague on how the rates were derived? This has always gotten to me so I decided to look into it.

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  • Blending Essential Oils: Synergy, Additivity and Antagonism

    Blending Essential Oils: Synergy, Additivity and Antagonism

    Have you wondered if an essential oil (EO) can “cancel out” another essential oil when blending 2 or more EOs? […]

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  • Plant Talk with Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

    Plant Talk with Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

    Oh Ylang ylang! Often times called “flower of flowers” and “poor man’s Jasmine” it is one of the few aromatic […]

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  • Plant Talk with Laurel Essential Oil

    Plant Talk with Laurel Essential Oil

    Can you remember your first encounter with a specific plant and its essential oil? Laurel is one I still feel in my bones. To this day the same sensation arises each time I am with essential oil of Laurus nobilis. It helps me release the ideas of “should” and “could.” It gives me a gap,…

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