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Aromatherapy Bath Salt Lavender

What Is Aromatherapy?

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Aromatherapy is the use of aromatic plant essences like essential oils to support wellbeing and help maintain the balance of the mind, body, and spirit.

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What Is A Hydrosol?

What Is A Hydrosol?

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Hydrosols are the natural waters produced during the distillation process that extracts essential oils. While less concentrated than essential oils, they offer their own therapeutic benefits.

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Natural Essential Oil Soap

Natural Soap and Essential Oils

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While a natural essential oil scent blend may change a bit when combined with virgin oils in a cream, these blends are especially unpredictable when making cold-processed natural soap.

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Natural Fragrance offers no therapeutic value

Natural Fragrance Oil? . . . Really?

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Natural Fragrance oils, made in a laboratory by isolating single aromatic components from the complex scent of an essential oil, lack the aromatherapeutic effect of true essential oils.

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Jasmine & Vanilla are Not True Essential Oils

How We Decide What Scents Not to Use?

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When we choose which scents to use in our skincare products, we look at several criteria such as the method of extraction, sustainability, cost, and of course is it a pure essential oil.

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