News for the soul — essential oil safety

Carrier oils 101: what are they and how to use them

Posted by Jo Harris on

Essential oils have amazing therapeutic properties but they have to be used with great respect and even caution. When essential oils are used, the adage 'less is more' is especially true and thus before applying them to your skin, they must be diluted in a carrier oil. 

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Should you really be drinking that?

Posted by Jo Harris on

I love doing markets. The thing that I love most of all is that I get to talk to anybody, which of course doesn’t really happen outside of the market context, or at least not in my world, or not often anyway. Being at a market, selling my skincare and aromatherapy products, gives me the license to speak about these. And unless I am giving a workshop on either of these (which I also really love doing) then I don’t get to talk about these things so freely either.

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