Essential Care

Receiving a bunch of roses is almost guaranteed to make you happy. But these incredibly beautiful flowers don’t just impact your senses through your eyes. Roses and the concentrated extract from their petals (e.g. rose essential oil and rose water) also influence you through their glorious scent. So much so that in aromatherapy, the essence of rose petals is dubbed ‘the queen of oils’. 

Continuing our theme of bringing some cheer and calm to your New Year, today's blog is about lavender - one of the most popular and widely used of all essential oils, not surprising considering it has such an impressive array of applications. From inducing relaxation and aiding sleep, to soothing minor burns and grazes – this herbaceous yet sweet and floral essential oil is a must for every household! 

January can make the most upbeat of people feel a little down in the dumps with the lack of Christmas cheer, failed New Year’s resolutions and back-to-work blues. Or maybe you’re so pumped up with energy for 2012 that you can’t sleep?! Either way, Mother Nature has plenty to offer to balance our moods, be it calming our souls or boosting our spirits. Over the next few days we’ll blog about some amazing properties of therapeutic organic essential oils and plant extracts, and bring you tips from Margaret Weeds, Essential Care’s aromatherapy guru to help put some zest into your New Year.

A recently published study conducted by the Farming Systems Trial (FST) at the Rodale Institute has concluded that organic farming really is better than conventional non-organic farming. In a study that has taken 30 years, it was found that not only is organic farming far superior to conventional farming in terms of maintaining and replenishing the health of soil, it is also far more sustainable when it comes to economic viability, energy use and human health.