Update on The Young Living Post................

I had been neglecting the blog for a while but took a look yesterday and saw tons of comments on the YL post.  If you haven't looked at it, you should, and read through the comments.  YL reps assuming I work for DoTerra-why I don't know because I also lumped them into the post.  And, of course, people putting words in my mouth.  For those of you who may be new to my blog, I say exactly what I mean so if you put more into it than I have said, it says a lot about you-not me.  For those of you who know me you may find it somewhat entertaining, or you may just want to beat your head against the wall.  I swear, people need to learn to LISTEN and READ the words that are THERE!

Here's the short-cut!

http://glorybeherbals.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-i-will-never-use-young-living.html

Buyer BEWARE!

Last night I decided to do a search of essential oils on etsy.  First I want to say that I'm horrified at how many essential oil sellers are still selling pure essential oils with the rubber dropper top bottles.

Do NOT buy essential oils that are packaged in this type of bottle!  The oils will eat through this rubber and your oil will be contaminated!  Next time you are trying to get an adhesive label off of a bottle, try using an essential oil instead of goo gone or rubbing alcohol-it will get the adhesive off much faster than any solvent.

Now to my main point in this post.  I usually don't call out sellers by name but this time I want to warn people about a new shop I found last night.  Here is the shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/loverain7fc.  Just for funsies I sent this convo:

These are NOT essential oils!!! Change the names to fragrance oils before you hurt somebody. This is false advertising. There is no champa oil for $4 for 5 ml and lavender oil is not purple. There is no such thing as essential oil of apple, pear or strawberry

Here is the response I got back:

This is essential oil, some our oil diluted with ethyl alcohol
ethyl alcohol is just regular rubbing which is safe to use on skin
This essential is made in thailand

Thank you

THIS IS A LIE!  I can prove these are fragrance oils just by the pricing.  ALL of them are $4 for 5ml and if you buy 3 you get 1 free.  And, as I pointed out to the seller, Lavender oil is NEVER purple!  Even if you make an infusion of fresh lavender it isn't purple.  In water, it's brown.  In oil, it's green.  And how do you make essential oils from plants and fruits that don't contain essential oils?  How do you make essential oil of apple, pear, strawberry, OCEAN?????  Please warn everyone you know about sellers like this.  There is NO SUCH THING as champa or frangipani for $4 on a 5 ml bottle!  Even at wholesale pricing you are looking at over $500 an ounce on frangipani absolute, so for $4 you get to take a whiff from the bottle-that's it.

Do your own research!  Never take the sellers word for anything!

Anniversary Specials

Better late than never, right?  I have finally decided on my anniversary specials as follows:

My blog readers can use coupon code 4YEARS to get 15% off all orders now through April 30th.  This is good in my Etsy store only!

I will be giving away some Glory Be Herbals branded gear to 2 lucky readers.  Leave a comment below and tell me what products you love the most and what products you would like to see.  Two winners will be drawn April 28th.  The first winner will receive a tote bag and the second will receive a coffee mug.

I will have another lottery drawing for my customers who purchase between now and April 30th.  One winner will have the full price of an order refunded through paypal.  One winner will receive a set of 4 one dram vials of some beginning essential oils (french lavender, clary sage, rosemary, and double distilled peppermint) plus a 2 ounce spray bottle of the hydrosol of their choice.

Keep checking back as I will be posting info about distillations, especially since my plants are shooting up like crazy!  I should have tons of hydrosols available by the time the party is over!

Still Playing With the Still

I did a distillation of some dried roses last night and wasn't really happy with it so I made a strong infusion from 3 different dried roses.  This morning I'm distilling last night's distillate with the strong infusion and some rose hips and it is coming out beautiful.  I may also do some elderflowers today too.

I know Spring appears to be early-we are going to be in the 70's all week.  Yet I'm still impatient and can't wait to have fresh plants to work with.  Just in my garden I will have tons of Lemon Balm, Spearmint, Peppermint, Basil, Rosemary, catnip, calendula and hopefully Helichrysum.  Lest we forget the various Roses I'll have to play with.  My husband will probably move out if I have the house reeking of flowers all summer. I want a Rosa Rugosa Rose bush from Horizon Herbs, for the flowers and the hips-I love the EO so it should make some awesome rosewater.  I am also going to buy seeds and/or plants of German Chamomile, Roman Chamomile, Ceremonial White Sage and Tulsi Basil.  i have some Lavender but not enough to do much hydrosol so I may have to stick with dried herb there-but that one came out fantastic and produced more essential oil than I ever dreamed!

I am going to start listing some of these this week so if you are interested in hydrosols and aromatherapy you should consider making a purchase. 

Happy Holiday

I am up early, as usual, but getting some work done.  I am working on some perfume materials again.  I have some Tonka Beans soaking in pure grain alcohol-I started this yesterday and the alcohol is already quite aromatic.  I also am working on some amber oil.  I had some benzoin stashed away that was the most fluid I've ever purchased.  I decided to work it into some fractionated coconut oil with the help of a crock pot hot water bath.  it actually mixed very well without the heat but I figure some mild heating will really help the benzoin and oil to blend.  Actually, it's a good thing because it turns out the labdanum needed some additional heating and of course I have already added the vanilla.  I am getting 2 ounces of amber oil out of it-a 50/50 mix of absolutes and FC oil.  This is going to be an awesome base for my oil based perfumes.  I may attempt to infuse the remainder of the Tonka Beans in oil when there is enough sunshine and mild weather to put it outside.

I have also discovered a VERY reasonably priced copper still thanks to Gretchen over at ADKaromatherapy.  Money's a little tight right now but by the time Spring is here to stay I will have one.  In the meantime I will daydream about all the local and garden plants that I can distill.  We have red elder trees everywhere around here.  They have the most toxic berries but also the most aromatic flowers.  From my garden-Lemon Balm, Roses, Peppermint, Rosemary, Lavender, Basil, Calendula, Chamomile and hopefully Helichrysum.  If I can talk the hubby into it I would love to buy a Rosa Rugosa bush from Horizon Herbs, too.  I LOVE that essential oil and having the hydrosol on hand would be a dream.  For now, I have an aromatic climbing rose and my Jackson&Perkins Aromatherapy rose that would make some dreamy rosewater.  The AT rose bush makes HUGE flowers so I could get a good distillation with 3 flowers.

Just checked the amber oil again and it has clarified and turned an amber brown instead or soupy tan.  Some stuff settled out and I stirred and stirred and ended up pulling out a sticky chunk of sediment about 1/4 teaspoon sized.  I will strain the rest through cheesecloth but this is looking ans smelling good.  I'd say I've gotten all the funky stuff out from the solvents that were used to make the absolutes.  This was worth the trouble.  I love benzoin but it's just so difficult to work with and so is labdanum absolute.  I usually dissolve them in alcohol but it difficult to incorporate into oil based perfumes and leaves sediment in alcohol, so I couldn't use much.

I'm excited!

Flower Waters

I am trying very hard to get some work done today since I will have absolutely no time again until next Sunday.  I have orders to work on-one of which is a surprise package.  I love doing these because I can get really creative and throw in some products not offered in my store and get feedback.  If I listed everything I think of I would be bankrupt from listing fees!

I haven't offered flower waters for a while and I have gotten some awesome new essential oils since then so I will be listing a few.  My flower waters are not to be confused with hydrosols-I dissolve essential oils in pure grain alcohol to make an essence then add the essence to distilled water.  This gives you the benefits of the essential oil in a more diluted form plus the alcohol acts as a preservative so there's no need to refrigerate them.  It's also a lot more economical!  I love making these because I can carry them in my purse, or leave a bottle in my locker or keep a bottle in my nightstand to use as a pillow spray and they won't spoil.  Plus since I can do this with just about any oil I have so I can make any water or blend that I like.  I felt inspired to do this when I received the order for the surprise package so she is getting a bottle of Rosalina flower water.  I also made essences from Fragonia and cermonial White Sage today.  I have been thinking about doing a kit with essential oils for meditation with 10% dilutions of Holy Basil, Sandalwood, Frankincense and Myrrh so the sage spray would be a nice edition for clearing sacred space.

I'm also getting ready to make anointing ointments based on the Temple blend of Exodus.  Some people get nervous about duplicating this blend because of the stern warnings in the Bible.  But it is supposed to be formulated by a perfumer (aromatherapist?) for use by the priesthood.  Under the New Covenant we are all members of the common priesthood.  Besides, it is extremely unlikely that I am duplicating the exact formula for a number of reasons: 1)  We can't be 100% certain that the translation is correct 2)  Even if it is correct which Myrrh is it referring to? 3)  They wouldn't have been using essential oils but infused oils  and 4)  I have no clue what a HIN is.

Helichrysum Essential Oil

I wanted to write about this oil this morning because I have been working with it today (and ran out) and because it's one of my favorites, as well as one of my most useful oils.  It is one of the pricier essential oils, but worth every penny.  Thank goodness I ordered some more last night because after my work this morning I don't have a single drop left!

The scent is a dry floral, tea with honey smell.  It's gentle enough to be used neat on the skin and, actually, that's my preferred method of using it on bruises.  It's THE best essential oil for healing bruises and one of my projects this morning was making a bruise healing oil with Arnica infused oil and Helichrysum essential oil.  Since we still have yard work to do this weekend we'll be using it for pain and we always seem to end up bruised, especially my husband since he's on blood thinners.


Helichrysum is also commonly used in facial oils to prevent wrinkles, as a wound healer (it also prevents scarring) and for trauma.

I also made an under eye oil for my daughter using this oil blended with avocado oil to help clear up her dark circles.  I ran out at that point so for my eye oil I used my scar treatment blend (which contains Helichrysum and other goodies for middle-aged ladies) and I threw in some Neroli to smooth out the lines around my eyes.

This is one of my "must have" essential oils for youthful skin along with Lavender, Neroli, and Rose.


I bought some plants this year, hoping to be able to infuse the flowers and save some money, bu they never produced flowers :(  I am hoping they survive the winter in Kentucky.  Not likely unless we have a long-overdue mild winter.

Rose Geranium

I recently purchased some essential oils from a new supplier including some Rose Geranium (pelargonium roseum) not to be confused with Geranium (pelargonium graveolens).  I wanted to give it a try since I'm not a big fan of the scent of Geranium and it's supposed to have a rosier smell.  I am really enjoying the Rose Geranium, to the point that I even used it in my bath and in my nebulizer last night.  The properties seem to be the same as Geranium but the scent is definitely more floral and it's much more tenacious.  I am going to try it in a perfume too, and I have already made a body butter with it.  It's a great detoxifier and hormone balancer, cooling, relaxing and can be used on the skin for burns and to balance sebum production.

I am thinking about offering some incentives in my store so I can try to keep my sales up.  I'm doing well overall but my sales are all over the place.  One month I'll do $200 or $300 dollars then the next I'll do $50 and during the holidays I'm starving!  So I will be offering incentives and I would really like all my loyal customers to think of me at Christmas.  Share with your loved ones :)

Hummer Watch and Other Projects......

Good Morning!  I am outside on the patio having my coffee and hoping to have a hummer sighting.  I always see one on Memorial Day, though last year my husband and I saw our first one in early May.  It hasn't been unbearably hot yet, but we are supposed to be in the 90's today and tomorrow.  I hung my feeders yesterday and added a couple drops of blue food coloring to the nectar so my hummers are going to be having purple nectar

I am going to be finishing my gardening work early this morning before it gets hot.  I have some helichrysum and St. John's Wort to plant.  All my St. John's plants perished for some reason.  Two of them may have been simply from old age but the other 2-I don't know.  The only St. J's that I have in the ground look like seedlings that were sown from last year's plants.  So I suspect I may have a shortage of oil this year.  I also bought a stevia plant.  Not sure where I'm going to put it.  We have run very late getting our mulch in so I am going to cut the comfrey and lemon balm plants to the ground to make it easier to put out mulch.

I am still working on some perfumes.  I want to build a musk accord tonight with ambrette seed extract, cistus absolute, patchouli, myrrh, angelica root and maybe some jasmine.  Since we are having plenty of sun I am also going to make some more flower essences today and tomorrow-but I need some brandy first!  I am going to do valerian, lavender, roses, and arnica.

I am also going to be working on some natural pest control.  I have a bad case of little red spider mites on the patio so I am going to make insecticidal soap with neem CO2 and castille soap and water.  I may also make a brew of Neem CO2, rubbing alcohol and water to spray directly on the little bastards so they'll die.  We also have ants invading our dining room.  This is a room where we only eat when we invite the whole family over for special occasions like Thanksgiving so there's no food in there.  I have no idea why they are there but I will fix it.  I am also going to come up with a chili pepper CO2 mix of some kind to put around the flower pots for the Hibiscus.  The squirrels are actually climbing the hibiscus and sitting in them while they eat the leaves.  Last year we had rabbits chewing off branches.  Apparently hibiscus leaves are a rodent delicacy.  I am also attempting to grow Calendula again this year and the squirrels always chew those to the ground-so we are going to have a chili pepper barrier..............

Aromatherapy Inhalers

I am going to revise a couple of my formulas on the aromatherapy inhalers.  The allergy blend will now include Nerolina and the vapors blend will also include Eucalyptus polybractea-guaranteed to make your nose run!  Which is the point now isn't it.............

Eucalyptus polybractea

I added a few drops of this oil to my anti-viral inhaler last night and just tried it out.  It has a higher concentration of cineole than E. globulus so I figured it should be a stronger inhalant.  Wow was I right!  It is way more intense than E. globulus!  Bring a tissue.........

New Listings

I have listed 3 new essential oil kits in my etsy, artfire, and hyenacart stores

I finally got the ylang ylang kit up plus a set of eucalyptus oils and a really awesome set of oils from the Melaleuca family.  Here are the links:

http://hyenacart.com/GloryBeHerbals/mt/1686/43725/Ylang-Ylang-Set-of-Essential-Oils-All-Fractions
http://hyenacart.com/GloryBeHerbals/mt/1686/65545/Set-of-Seven-Essential-Oils-from-the-Eucalyptus-Family-
http://hyenacart.com/GloryBeHerbals/mt/1686/59641/Melaleucas-Set-of-Essential-Oils

http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=3083544
http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=3083371
http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=3083132

http://www.etsy.com/listing/70915656/melaleucas-set-of-essental-oils
http://www.etsy.com/listing/70913538/set-of-seven-essential-oil-from-the
http://www.etsy.com/listing/70910312/ylang-ylang-set-of-essential-oils-all

Essential Oil Experiments

I used the Rosalina in the nebulizer last night and just absolutely loved it.  It really is a bizarre yet beautiful combination eucalyptus/rose/rosewood/lavender type smell and I think it really helped with the little chest congestion I'm having and definitely helped me drift off to sleep.  I actually got the best rest last night that I've had in a long time.  I have been dragging all week.  I also had a very vivid work-related dream that is directly associated with stress I'm experiencing in the work place so I am wondering if Rosalina may help release blocked up stress.  I'm going to put some in a bath here shortly too if I can get myself off of the computer and into the bathtub.

The Australian Blue Cypress has also really helped with the sorenes from my eczema outbreak I'm having on my right foot.  Did I mention I'm a little stressed?  I have also been drinking nettle tea to try to detoxify my liver (a little Spring cleaning) and build up my blood.  My iron is always low so I'm sure it's also the source of my feeling tired all the time.

I wanted to start playing around with my eucalyptus oils when I got up this morning so I started with the Eucalyptus dives (AKA peppermint eucalyptus).  I added a couple drops to some sunflower oil and used it as a chest rub, a sore muscle rub and on an open lesion on my foot.  It was very cooling and very quickly numbed the soreness in the sore muscle, much like menthol.  It has been working best as a chest rub and the muscle is sore again.  I suspected this would be the case since it contains a very high concentration of cineole.  My thoughts on this one is it will be great for inhalation for congestion and would make a wonderful cooling bath or spray in the summer, much like peppermint.

I will keep you updated on my experiments as I conduct them this weekend!

New Essential Oils

I got an order in today with some new essential oils.  I bought several varities of Eucalyptus (E. polybractea, E. dives,E. camaldulensis) that I'm going to play around with.  I also bought a bottle of Australian Blue Cypress which is supposed to be a great anti-inflammatory.  It is a blue oil and it smells wonderful.  I have a rash on my foot so I will be using that tonight.  The oils I'm most impressed with are Rosalina and Nerolina.  They are melaleucas, which means they are related to Tea Tree-you wouldn't know it from their scent!

Nerolina is also known as Lavender Tea Tree.  To me the scent is fruity not Lavender.  It's much more like Roman Chamomile but not as overpowering.  It's also good against allergies so I will be including this in my blend for the allergy relief inhalers.

Rosalina is a good name for this oil.  It is definitely reminiscent of Rosewood  only brighter.  It is relaxing and anti-infection so this is going in my nebulizer tonight!

I mentioned in a previous post that I would be doing a Ylang Ylang kit (will be posted this weekend).  I will also be doing a Eucalyptus kit with 7 varities of eucalyptus oil;  Now I am also thinking about a kit for the melaleucas and will include the Rosalina, Nerolina, Tea Tree, Niaouli, and Cajeput.  You won't believe the range from down-right medicinal to floral and beautiful!

February Giveaway

For February I will be giving away a 2 oz bottle of my new THIEVES spray.  Many of you may know the story by now of the band of thieves who managed to rob plague victims without contracting the disease themselves.  They used powerful botanicals to protect themselves from the Black Death.  The essential oil blend in this spray is based on that account.  The blend is cinnamon bark, clove bud, rosemary cineole, eucalyptus radiata, and lemon peel.  All of these oils are powerful against micro-organisms but also rough on the skin so I recommend only using this as a room/linen spray.  I keep this with me at work to protect myself and others from exposure to colds and flu by sick coworkers and members of the general public.  My daughter has been sick too so I've used this alot at home.  I have been around lots of sick people and I haven't gotten sick so I can tell you it helps!

The contest is open worldwide and will end at midnight eastern time on February 28th.

Leave a comment for 1 entry, follow my blog for another entry, and if you make a purchase from me make 3 entries.

Herbs and Essential Oils for Romance

Valentine's Day will soon be upon us.  My article about essential oils for the Holidays was so well liked I decided to do one for Valentine's Day and romance.

Here is a link to one of my favorite herbal love recipes ever.  It takes a few weeks to make but is well worth the wait and the effort.  It features Damiana, which is an extremely bitter herb, but it's also great for reproductive health.  The combination of the damiana, chocolate, honey and rosewater tastes wonderful.  Scroll down the page to view the recipe.  If you have all the ingredients, or can gat them this week you have time to make in time for your big romantic evening.

You may want to sip your damiana love potion while enjoying an herbal bath (in the dark with candles, champagne and chocolate covered strawberries).  You can tie up your chosen herbs in cheesecloth and just toss it in the tub and let it steep or take your herb bag and let it steep in a pot of water that has been boiled.  This way you can make a really strong herbal infusion and just add it to your bath water.  Your herbs can include damiana, roses, lavender, chamomile and if you want to spice things up a bit you can add a touch of cinnamon, clove or cardamom to your herb bag.

I created my Lover's Massage Oil a few years ago with sensual essential oils and my husband and I love to give each other a nice back massage with it.  Not only do the essential oils relax us (and it has some sexy oils in it), just the act of giving each other a massage helps to strengthen our bond with each other, it is a nurturing act of love in and of itself.

For a massage oil choose carrier oils that are light and soak into the skin easily.  I recommend almond, jojoba, avocado, apricot kernel, grapeseed or fractionated coconut oil.  the whole point of a massage oil is not to get greasy but to lubricate the skin enough that you hand isn't skipping and pulling on your lovers' body.  Add essential oils at a rate of no more than 2.5%.  That's about 15 drops per ounce of carrier oil.
Relaxing essential oils can include lavender, roman chamomile, petitgrain, neroli, clary sage.  More sensual oils include rose, jasmine absolute, vanilla absolute, champaca absolute, cocoa absolute, Ylang Ylang, Patchouli -all of these are pretty strong so you don't need more than a drop per ounce.  Some warming essential oils are ginger, rosemary, cinnamon (bark or leaf), cardamom, clove bud, cassia (chinese cinnamon).  In the case of the cinnamons and clove, I would add very little because they can cause some stinging on some people and some people- about 5% of the population-can develop a skin allergy after they are exposed to them.  I recommend adding a little something from each list for a nice balance.


Of course any of the essential oils can be used in a diffuser or room/linen spray rather than applied to the skin.

Neroli Essential Oil

Today I have decided to post about my absolute most favorite essential oil-Neroli AKA orange flower.  It is distilled from the flowers of the bitter orange tree.  Citrus aurantium (bitter Orange) is the only plant that I'm aware of that yields 3 different essential oils.  Bitter orange oil is cold pressed from the peels of the fruit, Neroli is steam distilled from the flowers, and Petitgrain is steam distilled from the leaves and twigs.  All have relaxing properties and are useful in skin care, but Neroli is the most powerful.

The scent of Neroli is light, floral and delicate.  It's a top note in perfumery, which means the fragrance only lasts for a couple hours.  It's one of the more expensive oils but worth every cent! 

In aromatherapy it's used for thread veins and redness in the skin (rose works better), wrinkles (nothing is better than Neroli, here), to promote relaxation, lower blood pressure, fight anxiety, strongly promotes restful sleep, tones the heart and blood vessels, for grief and shock, and to promote the production of healthy new skin cells.  I can personally tell you that it is the only EO I have used that makes a visible difference in the appearance of wrinkles in the skin.  It is said to mimic youth hormones but I also believe that the physical action of relaxing the muscles and the psychological and physical action of the aroma relaxes you so that you aren't making the facial expressions that CAUSE worry lines and wrinkles.

Not only has it made my skin more youthful and radiant, I am convinced that it has possibly saved my life, or at least saved me a great deal of suffering.  When I first purchased some Neroli I just had to use it in the bath.  I was borderline hypertensive before I started taking a Neroli bath almost every night and within weeks I stopped taking the drugs my doctor had prescribed and I have never gone back on them.  It was one of those cases where I didn't realize how bad I was feeling until I was well again!  I ALWAYS have this oil in my house!

The reason I was inspired to write about this oil today is because of the turmoil in Tunisia.  Tunisia produces the finest Neroli oil in the world and I'm concerned that the political upheaval is going to make the price of the oil skyrocket even more.  If you would like to purchase Tunisian Neroli now I recommend camdengrey and 100% Pure Essential Oils.  I also had the pleasure of getting an ultrasonic diffuser from 100% Pure Essential Oils for Christmas and Neroli was the first oil I used in it.  Three drops was all it took-very impressive!

Leave comments!  I always check them and respond if you have any questions.

January Giveaway

Since I didn't have a giveaway in December I decided to post January early.  I am launching a new product line and you will have a chance to win one for yourself!  I have started making inhalers. I use them myself and I'm very impressed with them. 
You can read all about them here.  Your choices are Lavender, Rosewood, Pink Grapefruit, Geranium, Detox Blend, Anti-viral Blend, Vapors Blend and Allergy Blend.  Read the post on the listing and tell me which one you would like to try and why.  The contest ends at midnight EST on January 31st and all you have to do is leave a comment.  The giveaway is open worldwide.

Good Luck!  If there are other blends you would like to see just let me know and I may add it!

I am also sponsoring the same giveaway on the team blog in January so you can enter there too!

Product Updates

Today is my day off but I went into work for a couple hours and shoveled some snow then came home and shoveled snow.  Now I'm just laying around the house in my long johns drinking coffee.  I feel like I should do something today but it's not looking like I'll get much accomplished.  To be quite honest, I'm already sick of snow and it's not even winter yet.  We had our first snowfall Thanksgiving night and it's been downhill ever since.  It's usually 40's-50ish here in December and we have already had about a foot of snow plus we are having single digit temps.  Weather like this doesn't hit Kentucky until mid-late January.  Did I mention it's not even Winter yet?  So, anyhow, this blog post is my big project for the day and maybe I'll even drag my exhausted behind upstairs to take a bath.

One BIG product update has to do with my Melissa Cold Sore Treatment.  I made a new batch with coconut oil infused with lemon balm-even more stable than olive oil, plus the coconut oil I used is imported from India and has a wonderful toasted coconut aroma.  Now, I have also gotten some Melissa essential oil so I'll be using that instead of the CO2.  I will update the listing when I actually get the work done :)

My most exciting news is that I will be offering aromatherapy inhalers.  I actually made an anti-viral inhaler when I got home from work because I was around a co-worker with a cold, that I don't want to get.  I am toying around with the blends I want to offer-here are my thoughts and you can tell me what you think:  Lavender (calming, tension headaches), Rosewood (anti-stress, immune boosting), Anti-viral (tea tree and Ravensara-to prevent colds and flu), Anti-Herpes (Lemon balm, bergamot and ravensara-to short circuit the herpes simplex virus, including shingles), Detox Blend (Geranium, Lemon, Helichrysum), Vapors (something like a Vick's Inhaler), Geranium (for hormonal balance and blood sugar control), Insomnia (marjoram, lavender, clary sage, etc), Performance (Basil, Rosemary and lemon to enhance physical and mental performance and memory).  I may even try some other blends for meditatation or may a version of my Clarity or Joy for the inhalers.

I would love to know what you think.  I'm really excited about these!

Black Friday Specials

I still have soaps and essential oils on sale.  Now through Christmas Eve I am offering free shipping on orders over $20 and orders over $50 will also receive 10% off.  Soaps are 20% off and EO's are 10% off through the rest of 2010.  So if you want to stay in your nice, warm house and shop take a look in my shops!

Hyenacart
Etsy
JASaromatics
Artfire