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Organic Production of Essential Oils in the UK

by Dr Jane Collins

Agriculture, our most important global industry, provides the world's population with food from plants and animals. Farmers grow plants and animals to harvest as foodstuffs and are...

Parkinson's Disease Project

by Shirley Price

Is Aromatherapy an effective treatment for Parkinson's Disease - Report and Summary of Results. The idea to carry out a trial on people suffering from Parkinson's Disease originate...

Properties and Uses of Carrier Oils

by Doreen Wallace

The importance of carrier oils beyond their role as dilutants is often overlooked, maintains Doreen Wallace. Many of them, she says, are full of valuable nutrients.

Properties of Good Quality Essential Oils

by Lowana Veal

The author offers useful advice on how to choose a good quality, unadulterated oil by examining the Latin names given, specific components listed, country of origin, part of the pl...

Reaping the Bounties of Autumn

by Barbara Payne

In this Expert Column the author offers some comforting solutions from garden blooms of fruits and herbs to please the senses as the days get shorter and cooler. She says those wit...

Recipes For Health And Beauty Using Essential Oils

by Nicola Jenkins.

Edited extract from The Aromatherapy Kitchen by Nicola Jenkins. This feature shows you how to make a wide selection of stimulating and soothing products for cleansing, toning and m...

Spotlight On Norfolk Lavender Farm

by Teresa Lloyd

Lavender essential oil can be used to calm, revive and re-balance our emotions. Some of the practical uses include alleviating high blood pressure, clearing blocked sinus, healin...

Spring - A Time of Regeneration and Rebirth

by Barbara Payne

This article provides a stimulus for initiating change in our lives. Just as we nourish seeds and young plants in spring, we all need to learn how to nourish ourselves, regenerate ...

Summer - And Its Aromatic Bounties

by Barbara Payne

Barbara Payne describes the many different ways we can enjoy aromatic summer herbs, fruits and flowers, not simply by inhaling their beautiful aromas as they grow in our gardens or...

Tea Tree Oil

by Cynthia Olsen

In today's societies, natural medicine is becoming more mainstream. The baby boomers now make up a large portion of consumers in the natural products industry. Sales of herbs in th...

The Effect of Aromatherapy Treatment on Raised Arterial Blood Pressure

by Jolanta Basnyet

Aromatherapy treatment is widely used for the purpose of relaxation and although the effects of aromatherapy massage are controversial, there is a shortage of controlled studies to...

The Foundation of Quantum Aromatherapy A New Vision of Aromatherapy

by Dr Daniel Penoel

The way essential oils are used, be it from the 'hard' side or the 'soft' side, has the capacity to bring 20% of the healing potential of essential oils. To unravel the remaining 8...

The Fragrant Journey

by Kerry Doyle

The overwhelming passion of my life instigated the journey beyond the shores of my native England, the place of my excellent training and the home of my practice and small distribu...

The Need for Quality in Essential Oils

by Kolinka Zinovieff

Sadly, most aromatherapy essential oils on the market are of low quality: they are often synthetic or 'perfume grade'. This means they have little or no therapeutic effect – in oth...

The Profession, Standards and Safety of Oils

by Sylvia Baker

The Aromatherapy Organisation Council's (AOC) pre-eminent position for the aromatherapy profession was confirmed earlier this year when it was granted the first independent seat on...

The Recuperative Power of Plants

by Barbara Payne

This column looks at the recuperative power of plants damaged by floods in the author’s Aromatherapy Fragrance Garden.

The Use of Essential Oils

by Maureen Farrell

If we focus on the therapeutic use of essential oils and on aromatherapy, we can explore at various levels. Perhaps the most obvious is that of the pharmacological and physiologica...

Training as an Essential Oil Practitioner

by Carole Preen

I have taught Aromatherapy diplomas since 1996 and have always loved sharing my passion for this amazing therapy but in 2015, after receiving many phone calls from people who wanted...

Use Essential Oils to Change Your Mood and Make the Most of Every Minute

by Barbara Payne

In this, Barbara Payne’s final Expert Column prior to her retirement from PH, she finds powerful, yet tangible ways in which we can search for balance in our busy lives. Essential ...

Use The Dark Days To Lighten Up

by Barbara Payne

Barbara Payne points out how outside influences and emotional ups and downs create chemical changes within, which in turn affect the way we feel and ultimately define our health st...