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Sarah Wayt Our bathroom routines play a big part in our wellbeing. After a hard day at work, there’s nothing better than sinking into a warm bath and soaking away the day’s stresses. A brisk morning shower is also an essential ritual, refreshing us for the day ahead. The products we use can make all the difference. … Read moreAromatherapy: Using Oils for Bathing
Aromatherapy vaporisers are a quick and easy way to make your environment smell beautiful. In simple terms, they gently heat essential oils, turning them from a liquid into a vapour which then wafts through the air, filling your room with its beautiful smell. Home comforts Vaporisers may be used anywhere in the home or office. … Read moreAromatherapy: Vaporising your Essential Oil
Many of the most popular spring flowers tend to have fresh, slightly warm, yet peppery notes. Think of the hyacinth, narcissus, tulip, crocus and daffodil. Most spring plants do not actually produce essential oils, although some, such as the hyacinth, are used to create what are known in the perfume industry as absolutes. The majority … Read moreAromatherapy: Finding Essential Oil’s Spring-like Characters
In many cultures spring represents the start of the year, and the increasing energy of longer, lighter days can provide the incentive for you to make some new beginnings. Changes are most significant when they start at a personal level, but working on your home environment can help considerably to get the energy moving. For … Read moreAromatherapy: Spring Seasonal Connection
Spice Chest of Calm One delightful way of using spices is to create a mini spice chest for your desk or where you sit to make phone calls or pay your bills. Either buy a small chest of drawers or make one yourself from several matchboxes stuck together and either painted or covered in pretty … Read moreAromatherapy: Winter Spice to Fill your Home
Although work patterns may be changing, the majority of us still live in, or commute to towns and cities, surrounded by concrete and man-made materials. Our environment is increasingly controlled, and our surroundings change the most when our social life moves indoors or outdoors, depending on the temperature. However, humans are not naturally city dwellers … Read moreAromatherapy: Winter Seasonal Connection
Scented Jack-o-lanterns One of the special events of autumn is Halloween, and perhaps the strongest visual symbol of this day is the ‘jack-o-lantern’ pumpkin, carved with a grotesque face and lit from inside by a candle. Children always enjoy making Halloween pumpkins and it is possible for adults to get in on the act by … Read moreAromatherapy: Autumn Fragrance Palette
Autumn is known as the season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’, when there is an abundance of warm colours and varied textures. But is can also be a bittersweet time of year – although the turning leaves may put on a glorious display, there is also a sense of sadness that the long summer days … Read moreAromatherapy: Autumn Seasonal Connection
A Rosy Glow If we could choose just one flower to symbolise the summer, it would probably be the rose. Although there are many variations in form, the key characteristic is the fragrance. We may be stunned by the colour and shape of some of the newest roses, but it is hard not to feel … Read moreAromatherapy: Summer Fragrance Palette
The abundance and variety of colours and aromas in summer flowers makes this truly a season of the senses, and the easiest time of year to fill your home with natural fragrance. There are flowers to suit all tastes and occasions, such a lilies, mock oranges, sweet peas, jasmine and roses, providing a succession of … Read moreAromatherapy: Summer Living Solutions