Essential oils can be used in any number of ways to improve health, treat physical conditions, create a mood, ease the nervous system, fight germs, and much more. Below, find some tips for making your own essential oil blends to use in everyday personal and cleaning applications. Aromatherapy One of the easiest ways to use essential oils is to add…
Salvia Sclarea is the given Latin name for clary sage… an amazingly powerful herb in the salvia or sage family that affords users all sorts of holistic benefits. This plant is native to Italy and Syria but is now grown all over the world. This essential oil made by distilling the buds of the clary sage plant. Sage…
A hybrid of the spearmint and water mint plants, peppermint comes from the Mentha pipertita and Labiatae categories. Its aromatherapy use dates back to ancient Egyptian and Roman times. When distilled into an essential oil, peppermint is prized for its unique cooling and invigorating effects. Since the days before commercial toothpaste, this essential oil was the go-to for mouth freshening…
Cinnamomum zeylanicum, or cinnamon as it is commonly known, originated in tropical Asia and is commonly used in Ayurvedic medicine. This essential oil is highly potent and only requires a very small amount to be effective. There are two types of this essential oil – cinnamon bark oil, and cinnamon leaf oil. The bark is more potent than the leaf,…