What is in the diffuser this evening?
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It our popular cleaning blend.
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A Blend of Pure Essential Oils for use in your duffuser or oil burner
The essential oils in this blend have been specially selected to help cleanse the air in your home or workspace as all 3 oils used are known for their anti-microbial properties.
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Contains
Eucalyptus, Tea Tree and Cinnamon Bark.
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Blend available to buy from@our online shop (link in bio) or from @yogaplaceabertawe
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This blend is for use only in a diffuser or oil burner due to the amount of cinnamon bark present in the blend, so not suitable for massage or a bath.
Not suitable if you are pregnant, have high blood pressure or suffer from epilepsy.
Only diffuse for 20 minutes at a time and make sure pets have an exit from the room you are diffusing in.
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Today at 2:30pm we celebrated the Autumn Equinox, so what better time to introduce our NEW aromatherapy blend for your diffusers and oil burners.

'HYDREF'

Hydref means Autumn in Welsh and this new blend will certainly make you feel cosy and warm on these cooler Autumnal days.

Aroma: Warm and pleasantly uplifting, sweet and spicy with herbal undertones.

A delicately balanced blend of Cardamon, Clary Sage, Ginger and Gurjun Balsam, this oil will take you to the back to the woods on a misty morning where crispy scarlet and golden leaves are falling gently from the trees and you are wrapped up all warm and contented in a place of calm.

This blend is warming to the senses and emotions, helping you to feel uplifted, and refreshed yet grounded at the same time.

It can help encourage the feelings of wellbeing, which are especially important at this time of year as we head for shorter days and longer nights.

The essential oils used in this blend are said that they may help ease symptoms of coughs and colds, which is ideal for this time of year.

Please note:

This blend is recommended for use in an oil burner or diffuser rather than for massage or in a bath.

Only diffuse for 20 minutes at a time and make sure pets have an exit from the room you are diffusing in.

It is not suitable if you are pregnant

Clary sage can have a sedative effect and if used when consuming alcohol, feelings of nausea may occur.

This blend is available to buy in our online shop now and from Yoga Place Abertawe from Thursday,

https://www.ymlaciolife.com/product/hydref-10ml/

I apologise if this post sounds preachy but I am getting more and more concerned that untrained sales reps are still continuing to promote unsafe practices regarding essential oils.

Surely the fact a qualified aromatherapist can’t get insurance to prescribe/suggest the ingestion of essential oils, should be warning enough to people that maybe it’s not such a good idea, but it’s seems it’s not. 🙁

The information in this post is about Peppermint Essential Oil. A seemingly harmless essential oil which has been promoted all over Facebook and Instagram by ‘sales reps’ for 2 to 3 drops to be added to water and then drunk.

The first picture shows:

* my precision scales that I use for measuring out essential oils for my blends.
The marks on it are where the plastic has reacted with the essential oils and has melted. Yes melted!

* The 780 page book is one I refer to when choosing essential oils for clients and when making blends. It contains all the information about the chemical constituents of each oil, toxicity, drug interactions, contraindications, and general safety. That’s right 780 pages of information for me to make sure what I suggest for you is suitable for you.

The second picture shows

*. The chemicals present in peppermint oil.

* That’s right chemicals, essential oils are chemicals, concentrated forms of chemical which can react with other chemicals. Look back at picture one at the melted plastic.

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* The information I look at before deciding if this is suitable for my client. Any drug interactions, contraindications and maximum dosage. In all there are 3 pages of information about peppermint essential oil.

When you see a post from one of these sales reps, just how much do they actually know about the oils they are suggesting you use? Where is this information coming from? A sales training book most likely.

If you want to add peppermint to water or foods just use the leaves there is absolutely no extra health benefits to ingesting the essential oil. The same goes for any essential oil that comes from a plant that is used in cooking. Just use the herb/spice in its natural form.

If the leaves or peel aren’t strong enough for what you want, you can buy in the baking section of most supermarkets ‘extracts’ of lemon, orange, peppermint etc which have been tested by the FSA and are safe for consumption.
Essential oils have not been tested by the FSA, and there is no such thing as a culinary grade essential oil.

The first episode of the Netflix documentary (Un) Well is worth a watch for more information about the pros and cons of essential oils and how they are used.

Please remember

* just because someone on Facebook or Instagram says you should do it, doesn’t mean it’s safe.

* a qualified aromatherapist can not get insurance to suggest or prescribe the ingestion of essential oils. If we can’t get insurance, then who is insuring these sales reps?

* the practice of the ingestion of essential oils is not recognised as a safe practice by an aromatherapist’s governing body (eg FHT, IFPA etc) here in the UK.

* essential oils are not food supplements. They are not subject to testing by the FSA as they are not seen as foods and there is no such thing as culinary grade essential oils.

* the most beneficial way of using essential oils is via massage or inhalation not through ingestion!

If you have any questions about essential oils and how they could benefit you, please get in touch my advice is free and I won’t try and flog you oils.

One of my favourite Eckhart Tolle quotes.
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“Realise deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”
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