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Aromatherapy helps you de stress naturally, so when you are feeling uptight, slightly irritable or short-tempered for no apparent reason, then you are likely to be experiencing some symptoms of stress.

Small amounts of stress can be useful, it even helps adrenalin flow, to help you to achieve a goal or reach a target.

When your task is completed, stress lifts & you are left with a sense of achievement.

This is ‘good stress’.

Stress can become harmful when it begins to impact upon your daily life in a negative way. Your neck & shoulder muscles become tight & ache constantly, you have a continuous headache, insomnia, unusual emotional reactions to situations or conversations, over or under eating & even lethargy.

Aromatherapy can help to relieve these symptoms with the use of anti-depressant & sedative oils. The most important step to combating stress is to recognise & admit to yourself that you are stressed. As stress affects us all in different ways, we therefore require different methods to overcome & relax.

Essential oils can be used in a variety of products & ways to aid this process.

Spa Treatments – Bubble bath, bath oils, melts, fizzes, shower gel, shampoo are products that we can utilise from our daily lives to use as ‘stress relief’ products. Choose products that contain relaxing essential oils & take time out for a pampering session. Finish with body lotion or oil that contains the same essential oils.

Room Fragrances – Oil burners, electric diffusers – add a few drops of your favourite relaxing oils. Room sprays – make your own, add 10 drops of essential oils to 100ml of water in a spray bottle shake & spray.

Perfumes – Roll-on or solid perfumes can be a wonderful way to surround yourself with a unique fragrance which can help you to relax.

Tissues – add 3-4 drops of your chosen oils onto a tissue & inhale as required.

Driving – pop the tissue into the air vent of the vehicle & turn on the air.

If you know you are facing a stressful situation, inhale the oils prior to putting yourself in situation.

Which Essential Oils are helpful for Combating Stress?

Here are the 8 most popular relaxing oils.

Camomile – gentle, soothing & relaxing.

Clary Sage – extremely relaxing, can create feelings of euphoria. Do not use prior to driving.

Frankincense – slows & deepens breathing, in turn calming & relaxing.

Grapefruit – light & refreshing, helps to overcome anxiety & stress.

Lavender – calming & relaxing. Use in small amounts, as over use can be stimulating.

Marjoram – a sedative oil, can help to bring about feelings of calm.

Ylang Ylang – a rich exotic aroma can slow overly quick breathing & lower blood pressure. A good aphrodisiac as stress can inhibit loving feelings.

Choose oils/products which include aromas that you enjoy.

Oils can be used singularly or blended together.

Creating your own ‘stress relief’ blend can be fun & rewarding.

Courtesy: Aromatherapy De Stress

Organic products, such as organic herbs and teas, organic essential oils and organic bath products can provide healthy options for your herbal needs.

Organic products such as organic herbs make wonderful long-term additions to your daily diet.  Flavorful herbs, such as oregano, thyme, mint, basil, bay leaf, as well as spices such as cinnamon, cumin seed, dried ginger and garlic, as well as herb and spice blends like curry powder taste freshest when made with organic herbs and spices.

There are also many organic teas that can offer you a caffeine-free and low-caffeine alternative to coffee and soda pop.  Organic tea comes in a plethora of flavors.  Choose long-time favorites, including peppermint, chamomile, and Earl Grey, or try something exotic like bancha or assam teas.  Teas can be purchased in loose form or in bags.  Bags are quicker because they are pre-measured and contained, whereas you can mix your own special tea blend of your favorite loose teas and place a serving in a metal tea ball, through which the herbs’ flavors are distributed throughout the hot water.  They are all easy to drink, and hit the spot on those cold winter mornings or anytime you need a tasty pick-me-up.

Other organic products find their way into our olfactory system.  Aromatherapy uses the scent released from organic essential oils to help heal the mind and body.  Massage oils made from essential oils of herbs smell wonderful and will add another layer of delight to your next massage session.  Organic bath products are what you need at the end of a long, stressful day at work or with the kids.  You can add herbal blends together into a sachet, which is then placed in the bath water.  Your bathing blend could include herbs such as lavender, orange peel, rosehips, peppermint, and even lemon grass for your enjoyment.  Slip into a world of relaxing fragrance, and let the cares of the day melt away.

No matter what your herbal need is, food, drink aromatherapy and body care organic products made with organic herbs are your safest bet for quality, purity and scent pleasure.  Why take a chance on being exposed to harmful chemicals when you don’t need to?  Instead, organic products provide a healthy alternative.

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Extract article source: Anne Harvester is an herbalist who has studied the benefits of organic herbs. In this article, she explores organic teas, organic bath products, organic essential oils, and other organic products. Anne’s advice can help you get the most out of this powerful therapy.

Are you on the dark chocolate side of organic?

Healthy chocolate is organic dark chocolate according to a wide range of studies.

And who are you and I to argue, especially as it simply tastes so blooming lovely!

Dark chocolate looks good, tastes good and apparently does you good, in moderation! Although I’m not sure that chocolate and moderation quite go together do you?

And organic dark chocolate, being high in cocoa, is full to the brim with flavenoids,  powerful anti-oxidants that support your circulation, and it contains the mood enhancing natural compound Theobromine, amongst others.

The makers of this organic dark chocolate, one of my very favorite brands, tell me that even Harvard University have suggested that eating good chocolate three times per month will help you live almost a year longer!

If you want to add almost another year on your life span

you can buy organic dark chocolate here!

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Lavender

Organic Lavender Water has a wonderful aroma and is widely used for it’s therapeutic properties.

Imagine your tired eyes and face being refreshed with a delicately scented spritz of pure organic lavender water.

A soothing mist leaving you…..

…. feeling revitalized
…. looking energized

Lavender water is not only your facial skin care defense on a hot day!

No matter what your skin type, it can:

• liven and add moisture to dull hair
• calm shaved and sensitive skin
• be sprayed onto your pillow to soothe you into a good nights sleep
• give you a refreshing boost before your next office or client meeting
• be used as a refreshing body spray

Lavender water has been credited with being:

• a mild antiseptic to balance facial skin blemishes
• an effective skin toning solution
• beneficial for preventing stretch marks and scarring

… and having cell regeneration properties that aid in the prevention of wrinkles (every little helps as ‘they’ say).

This Organic Lavender Water is gathered through steam distillation, which extracts the Lavender Oil. The water becomes infused with the light and naturally luscious scent of Lavender.

To get the most benefit of your organic lavender water: Mist over your face, once or twice and gently press the mist into your skin with your fingertips. Alternatively, spritz into the palms of your hands and press lightly onto your skin.

Perk yourself up with a refreshing mist any time of the day or night.

Ingesting lavender should be avoided during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

SLS Free?

Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) is a strong detergent used as an industrial degreaser and foaming agent.

Do you use SLS free bodycare?

What Are The Facts About SLS?

SLS and this ‘family’ of chemicals has been used in the beauty industry for decades and you don’t have to go far to read up and research the chemical compounds and related sodium lauryl sulphate bodycare ingredients.

SLS is recorded as being an irritant!

Despite this fact, many bodycare products, shampoos, soaps and other bodycare recipes and formulas contain SLS.

There is only one way to ensure that the bodycare products you buy are sls free and that is to check out the side effects of sodium lauryl sulphate, note the SLS chemical family names and then very carefully read the labels on your bodycare products to check whether these chemicals are included in the list of ingredients.

Find SLS free bodycare products here.