Mind-Body Health

Are you the type that reaches for the salt shaker before even tasting the food? What’s the point in sitting down to a healthy meal and then drowning it in salt? Wouldn’t you rather taste the food rather than the salt? Cooking with essential oils and herbs is a much healthier and tastier way to [...]

The Geranium is a perennial flowering plant, also known as Crane’s Bill or Alum Root plant, that is known as a powerful antibacterial, anti-fungal and antiviral. The petals and the leaves of the geranium are commonly used by herbalists in the form of a steam distilled essential oil or as a dried herb. Geranium is [...]

Candle making is a very sensual experience. The smell of the oils and feel of the soft wax in your fingers can be a pleasing experience.

Using the essential oils of plants — aromatherapy — is an alternative form of medicine that helps improve a person’s mood, cognitive functions, or health. Don’t equate aromatherapy with a feel good placebo. Essential oils are very strong and are usually diluted with a carrier oil like almond oil or jojoba oil that has no [...]

Many people are dismissive of aromatherapy as an alternative health method. They think aromatherapy is simply taking a whiff of some scented oil and miraculously being healed of an illness. Well, aromatherapy is much more than that. There is a large body of science behind it that says so. Herbs contain chemicals that make them [...]

Aromatherapy is not just a feel good option at the spa. Use it for practical ways to stay healthy.