The beauty of aromatherapy is the opportunity to create a blend of essential oils that’s tailor-made to your exact requirements and preferences.
Sure, you can buy pre-mixed blends — but learning how to blend essential oils from scratch will take you to another level of aromatherapy. Once you learn the basics and start experimenting, I can guarantee you won’t look back!
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Making your own aromatherapy products using essential oils is SO popular right now.
With concerns about toxin overload from commercial beauty products, it’s no wonder that more and more people are interested in creating their own DIY lotions and potions — not to mention the fact that you can save £££ by making your own skin care products at home.
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What is the best way to store essential oils? To maximise their shelf life, it’s important to store them correctly.
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What is the shelf life of essential oils?
Do essential oils ever expire? Is it true that some essential oils may even improve over time?
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Is it safe to use essential oils in pregnancy? It’s a controversial question, and one that elicits varying responses among aromatherapists.
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What is the best essential oil brand? It’s a question guaranteed to spark fiery debate among aromatherapy fans.
If you’re a regular user of social media, you’ll be familiar with two big brands of essential oils (who shall remain nameless!). These are known as MLM (“Multi Level Marketing” ) brands — a type of network selling, which involves recruiting independent distributors to sell essential oils.
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One of the most commonly debated topics in aromatherapy is whether it’s safe to ingest essential oils – particularly the recent phenomenon of casual ingestion on an everyday basis.
Recently, it’s become fashionable to advise adding drops of essential oils to your glass of water, or directly under your tongue.
So, is it safe?
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It’s important to store essential oils correctly — and if they’re well organised, it will make blending so much easier!
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Hi everyone, you can now follow my blog with Bloglovin — so you’ll never miss a post!
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Welcome to my new blog and YouTube channel, The English Aromatherapist!
So, what’s it all about?
You might be thinking “…but aren’t there already a ton of blogs and videos online already about essential oils?!”
You’re right – essential oils have never been more popular. Social media networks are brimming with pretty posts about how to use essential oils in every aspect of our lives.
It’s great that so many people are enjoying essential oils and that they have become normalized in everyday culture. But I’m often shocked at some of the “advice” that’s posted online – from massaging undiluted oils all over your body, to drinking essential oils in water. Most worrying is the amount of blog articles I’ve seen that recommend using neat essential oils directly on the skin of babies and young children.
In my opinion, part of the problem is that much of this misleading “advice” is perpetrated by unqualified essential oil distributors. The focus is on profit, rather than facts.
There is so much crazy advice online – much of it completely unverified – and the unfortunate outcome is that people end up experiencing negative side-effects after using essential oils. Scaremongering “horror stories” start to appear, which discourages others from using essential oils.
I started this blog to share simple, honest and safe information about aromatherapy and essential oils.
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