Looking After Citrus Oils

by Louise Morgan | Aromatherapy, Blog, Buying Essential Oils, Complementary Therapy, Essential Oil Safety, Introduction to Essential Oils

If you buy essential oils then you may well have already looked into how to store them and look after them. If you don’t know how to store them and you’d like some guidelines you can check out one of my previous blog posts about how to look after your...

Essential Oils and Babies

by Louise Morgan | Aromatherapy, Baby Massage, Blog, Complementary Therapy, Essential Oil Safety, Holistic Therapy, Introduction to Essential Oils, Massage for Children, Uncategorised

Across the internet there is lots of information about essential oils, and there is lots of conflicting advice about essential oils and babies. Some people will say never to use essential oils on babies below 2 years of age, others 12 weeks, and others say it’s...

Looking after your essential oils

by Louise Morgan | Aromatherapy, Blog, Buying Essential Oils, Complementary Therapy, Essential Oil Safety, Introduction to Essential Oils, Uncategorised

If you’re buying essential oils, you may discover that some cost a few pounds while others actually cost quite a bit. The cost is usually a factor of where it was obtained, current levels of availability and how difficult it is to extract. For example,...

A Commonsense Approach to Aromatherapy

by Louise Morgan | Aromatherapy, Aromatherapy massage, Blog, Buying Essential Oils, Essential Oil Safety, Introduction to Essential Oils

Aromatherapy is a massive subject and no one knows everything; we keep discovering things and changing our stance on things based on new information; in many circles this is considered as adopting ‘best practice’. We revise and grow. Or we don’t. I...

What is phototoxicity?

by Louise Morgan | Aromatherapy, Blog, Buying Essential Oils, Complementary Therapy, Essential Oil Safety, Introduction to Essential Oils

If you use certain oils on your skin or if you see an aromatherapist for a massage, you may be warned about going into direct sunlight after your session. Sometimes it will be because it’s summer and the carrier oil means you are more likely to...