ShareHere is a list of some of the herb-related books I recommend, and I would like to share some of them with you. Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health by Rosemary Gladstar Medicinal Herbs by Rosemary Gladstar - also find Medicinal … Continue reading
Share Yet another month, yet another great Herb Box! This month’s herb is Nettle.Take a peek at my goodies… One of the hands-on activities is to make an herbal infusion with a mixture of nettles, holy basil, and licorice. This … Continue reading
Share OK, I’ve been bitten by the herb bug and I’ve decided to enroll in the Herbal Academy of New England‘s Online Intermediate Herbal Course. Why did I choose the Herbal Academy of New England? Although I do reside in … Continue reading
Share Read my guest post, Essential Oils Basics, over at Whole Intentions!
You’ve probably heard Black Pepper Essential Oil given as an alternative to Melissa Essential Oil. It’s touted as “Poor Man’s Melissa” due to it’s “high aldehyde content” that it shares with Melissa.
If you take a look at the GC/MS reports for Black Pepper, you will find Black Pepper doesn’t even have aldehydes! Continue reading
This is the same basic paste I used to clean out my old fridge before giving it away. I was shocked at how marks inside my fridge that were unable to come off for years were just wiping off so easily!
I never posted that recipe (I need to), but when my stoneware cookie sheet cracked in the oven while I was baking turkey thighs, it made quite the mess. Unable to clean it before baking a chicken, it baked on hard.
I admit the oven wasn’t pristine before the spill, and it really needed to be scrubbed out before I used it again.
Knowing what a wonderful job Lemon essential oil does for removing stickers and other stuck-on things, I knew it would be great in this paste. I was right! This is now my go-to scrub when nothing else fails. In fact it will be my first choice, since it works so darn well!
I mixed up this paste in a glass jam jar I couldn’t bear to throw out. Here is my recipe: Continue reading
I wanted to pull the “meat” from my first Essential Oils 101 and FAQ pages post and put it here, along with other stuff I have since learned. I hope this will help you learn more about essential oils so you will feel comfortable using them.
If you don’t see your question addressed, please comment with your question and I will do my best to answer it 
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My daughter’s back gets hot, especially with her hair laying on it all the time (she loves her hair down!). Last month she got a heat rash that flared by her scratching a bug bite in the same area. We treated just with the witch hazel, and it went away within a week.
She got the heat rash and bug-bites combo again, and this time I added essential oils to the blend to accelerate the healing process and kill the itch.
Here is the blend we are using with wonderful success… Continue reading
Want to know how to make a 1% dilution? The best rule of thumb is one drop of essential oil per 1 teaspoon of carrier oil. View the chart below for other dilutions…
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If you missed Essential Oils 101, I encourage you to read that before or after this post.You can find all my essential oil-related posts here: Essential Oils Master Page.
As promised, I asked the members of the Learning About Essential Oils Facebook group, and Black Pepper was requested as the oil profiled this week.
Before we dive in, I want to let you know we have raised enough donations to test 11 essential oil brands of Tea Tree Oil. We are in the process of gathering the oils needed so we can ship them off. Thank you to ALL who supported financially to this testing. You can view the list of donors here.
As always, please please please make sure you use essential oils responsibly. Don’t leave them in your children’s reach - treat them like you would any other powerful medicine Continue reading