Bluebonnets
I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rosemary
Sweet friends gifted me this bag of fresh Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) last night and I'm making good use of it with the distiller today. Did you know: Rosemary is used in floral [...]
Types of Olfaction
Retronasal olfaction greatly enhances the flavor of food by carrying aromatic compounds up the back of the throat and into the sinus cavity where the olfactory bulb is found. In times of [...]
Supporting Chronic Lyme Disease with Reflexology and Aromatherapy
Chronic Lyme Disease can present with a wide variety of symptoms ranging from neurological (brain fog, parasthesia, acute to chronic fatigue, headaches), to psychological (irritability, depression, bi-polar-like symptoms), to musculo-skeletal inflammatory conditions [...]
10 Epic Essential Oil Myths and Dangerous Uses of 2014
2014 was a doozy of a year for rumors, myths, and really dangerous essential oil use ideas. Did you fall for any of these? 1. Essential Oils for Ebola? During the height [...]
Aromatic History: Gattefosse’s Aromatherapie
French chemist René-Maurice Gattefossé (1881-1950) is credited with coining the term aromatherapy (aromatherapie): which is the therapeutic use of essential oils. His contribution to aromatherapy includes a personal story - burned in [...]
What Every Mom Needs to Know About Essential Oils
Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. ~Ann Taylor Moms are amazing healers, aren't they?! [...]
{Giveaway} I Love Lavender
Do you love lavender? Do you love a giveaway? Then you're in the right place! I am raffling off this beautiful 'I Love Lavender' tea towel to one lucky guy or gal. [...]
Can Reflexology and Aromatherapy help your insomnia?
Most of us can list a dozen amazing things about living in Austin without skipping a beat. But living, and sleeping, in any large city can chip away at our ability to [...]
Try some Turmeric Chai this season!
Turmeric shares a family tree with Ginger, Plai, and Cardamom, as part of the Zingiberaceae family of aromatic rhizomes. The rhizome, or root, has that familiar papery outer skin that when peeled [...]