Tea tree oil and manuka oil are natural substances that appear to be good candidates for the development of new antimicrobial products. This article provides a thorough review of the evidence for a role of these oils in inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
You can help your laundry “go green” along with the rest of your household by creating simple laundry products in your own kitchen.
Have you ever wanted to distill your own essential oils instead of spending loads of $$ on buying them? Especially when some are diluted and therapeutically speaking, not worth the price. Yes, there are reputable companies out there who consistently offer top of the line essential oils, but their prices reflect this and wouldn’t it [...]
How to Make Environmentally Friendly Air Fresheners & Other Household Cleaners With the sagging economy, industrial pollution, wastefulness and uncaring going on in the world; life can really get you down sometimes.But, we can decide to make it better, even if only a little at-a-time. With everyone trying, even a little bit can make a [...]
Ok, new diet plan…… Hi everyone! I hope some people will benefit from this. Throughout the years I’ve experimented with so many different diets, and found none to work for me as they were, while learning to use the things that work from all of them and I’m already seeing results after only a week. [...]
I thought this was such a great article I had to post it as I’ve been wondering how to address the absorption/elimination of essential oils through the skin topic without sounding too technical so that everyone can understand this critical issue that’s been raised over and over again in the western medical world. Essential oils [...]
Research Reveals The “Real Aromatherapy Story” I’ve read nearly every book out there on aromatherapy, and been in the field for far over ten years. Yet, somehow I missed the fact that the aromatherapy history books had the story of the rebirth of aromatherapy all wrong. For a particular story I was writing on Lavender [...]
Popular, Hard to Come By and Fabulous! We’ve recently received a lot of requests for and inquiries about Ylang Ylang oil, one of the most complex and exquisitely fragrance essential oils of all. This is another oil which has conspicuously shot up in price over the last year. The Comoros Islands are the most prolific [...]
Just Because It’s Called Cedar, Doesn’t Mean It’s So One of my favorite essential oils is cedar wood. And I mean real cedar wood oil, which is the only kind Yellowstar*Essentials uses. True cedar wood oil is distilled from Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara), or Lebanon Cedar (Cedrus libani), or Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica). But there [...]
I love sweet orange oil and use it for so many things and am always finding new uses. There are those who say it isn’t safe, but it truly is one of the safest. Citrus essential oils, including Sweet Orange, are completely safe when applied to the skin of a baby or expectant mother as [...]
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