Despite having visited once before in my early twenties, my love affair with France really only started in the summer of 2004. My friend’s car was filled to the brim with our camping gear and summer clothes and on a miserable July morning we set off from northern England and Read more…
“A compassionate herb of the highest order” For my final blog to celebrate Aromatherapy Awareness Week I wanted to leave you with something simple. The above quote by Peter Holmes* says it all. Lavender remains one of the most popular and versatile essential oils, an all-time favourite for so many Read more…
As part of my week-long blog to raise awareness of aromatherapy I thought I would go back to the raw ingredients themselves. And because I felt like baking today, I decided to give you a delicious recipe for Lavender and Ginger cookies! You will need: 4½oz / 125g butter 4oz Read more…
Trust an aromatherapist to be extolling the virtues of lavender yet again but trust me, this is definitely worth trying…… You will need: 200ml of milk (regular or almond is good) a sprinkling of culinary lavender seeds (around 1/2 level tspn) 50g dark chocolate* (mine is 74% cocoa and I Read more…
We’ve all heard that “from small beginnings come great things” so with this in mind I spent the best part of yesterday (a lovely sunny Sunday) potting seeds and organising a little cloche for them to live in. It’s a bit basic but it seems to be doing the trick Read more…
The weather today is grey, cold and drizzly. I’ve been burning bergamot, lavender and cypress* in an attempt to evoke thoughts of hot Mediterranean summers, swimming in the sea off the southern tip of Italy, the Greek islands or the coastline of Croatia. In reality I’m sitting in the lounge with the Read more…
As I was hanging upside down this afternoon in downward dog pose I found myself thinking about the best essential oils to use for yoga. Obviously I acknowledged the thought and let it pass, but it did spark something worth writing about. More often than not it is incense you Read more…
I have rather erratic sleep patterns to say the least. When I’m on a roll I can sleep for hours, dead to the world, oblivious to bin lorries and recycling trucks outside my window, phones, alarms, crying babies. Unfortunately this is rarely the case and more often than not I am up in Read more…
As an aromatherapist I’m currently in possession of around 50 different essential oils. It’s great for me to have such a large choice at my fingertips and gives me endless combinations to cover a variety of needs. But what if you are just starting out with aromatherapy and still learning Read more…