All articles tagged oils

If you’re on board the essential oils train, chances are you spritz and slather onto your pulse points like a pro. And maybe you even spread the air-and-mood-boosting love to your coworkers or co-inhabitants at home via your diffuser. But there’s one place...

By Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. If you do some research into the Royal English Archives, you’ll come across an interesting little tidbit. It’s a recipe for “thieves’ oils.” So the story goes: In the 17th century, when all of Europe...

By Liivi Hess Long before the essential oil craze took hold of the Western world, alternative health practitioners were using essential oils for aromatherapy. Aromatherapy involves the use of essential oils extracted from the flowers, bark, stems, leaves or roots...