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  • The Scientific Holistic. Why, though?

    July 14, 2019 by

    I’ve been getting a lot of that question lately, since I fairly abruptly changed paths and started studying aromatherapy seriously several months ago. The question generally goes, “Oh, you’re an aromatherapist now! That’s … great. So, why?” There are a lot of reasons. Personal reasons, like the feeling that I had been on the wrong… Read more

  • Bad Recipes Number 1: Dilution Is For Suckers

    August 10, 2019 by

    This post begins my Bad Recipes series, an as-yet-unknown number of blog posts calling out bad essential oil practices that I find on the internet. Whoo boy, there are a lot of them. In the process of talking about the bad recipes and why they’re terrible, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to help my… Read more

  • GC/MS Reports: What Are They, And Why Should I care?

    August 7, 2019 by

    Every individual essential oil consists of many different chemical constituents, different molecules which in certain combinations create the scents that we know and love. Lavender oil, for example, has certain chemicals in it and not others, and we know what chemicals naturally occur in lavender and in what proportions. If there are other chemicals in… Read more

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