NATURAL PERFUMES AND ESSENTIAL OILS

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Why Phthalates in Perfumes are Dangerous?

Phthalates in Perfumes are Dangerous? Due to laws that protect perfume manufacturers from sharing "trade secrets", most perfumes sold commercially are packed with harmful chemicals that aren’t listed individually on the ingredient label. Instead, these fatal chemicals are simply covered by the term "fragrance" – an umbrella word that could mean a variety of different ingredients and hide the actual one.
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Botanical Extracts in Natural Perfumery

In recent years, with the increasing scenario of health concerns using synthetic fragrances, there has been a shift towards natural perfumes as many people seek safe and natural ingredients in their favorite perfumes. Botanical extracts are natural, safe, and perfect for enhancing the quality of perfumery products. 
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Which Niche Perfumery?

Your choice in selecting between mainstream and niche perfumery depends on how you want to wear your scents. Do you want to wear simply a famous scent? Or do you want to wear a unique scent and be remembered due to your unique smell? If you have allergies and higher sensitivity to some substances, you’ll need to consider only natural perfumes that typically come under the group of natural niche perfumes.
Natural Perfumes Benefits

Natural Perfumes Benefits

Wearing natural perfume is one of the most traditional luxuries which has been used since ancient ages. In the early days, perfumes were made truly based on natural ingredients, and physicians used natural fragrance oils to prepare diverse types of medicines. Aromatherapy benefits: Natural perfumes or essential oils have been used for therapeutic purposes for centuries. Most natural fragrance oils have significant healing properties that are effective in improving the body, mind, and soul.
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Rose Attar

Rose Attars are typically natural essential oils derived from the petals of diverse types of roses. Rose attars are made through the steam distillation process while rose absolutes are collected through the solvent extraction process. The absolutes are more commonly used in the perfumery industry and the techniques of production originated in Persia.
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Oakmoss Perfume

Oakmoss (or oak moss) is one of the most beloved substances to perfumers around the world. It’s a type of fungi lichen that usually grows on the branches and trunks of the oak trees. The essential oil derived from this moss primarily used in perfumery as a fixative or base note. Someone may feel its smell very strong and earthy, but to most perfume lovers oakmoss scent is unique with natural woody and leather-like undernote with no other similarities in the world. 
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Arabic Perfumes

Perfumery has been a cultural tradition in the Arab communities for thousands of years. Typically, Arabs are highly principled and demanding people, and using quality perfumes has been treated as a mark of luxurious status in Arabian societies since the ancient ages. Arabic perfumes always acquire a top position with their complex and pleasant smells.
What is Attar?

What is an Attar?

Attars are basically highly concentrated perfumes, free from alcohol and synthetic chemicals. Attars are respected as an identity of majesty, honor, and glory. Attars have an extremely long shelf-life and don’t need any preservatives.
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Oud Perfumes

Oud is derived from the wood of agar tree (Aquilaria malaccensis) that typically grows in Southeast Asian countries. When a specific mold infection occurs in the wood, the plant excretes a resinous substance that is dark and highly scented. This resin is often called "black gold" or "liquid gold". The term "Oud" refers to both the resinous dark wood and the liquid oil distilled from it.
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR DEPRESSION

Essential Oils against Depression

Essential oils have changed the way of improving mental health conditions including depression and stress. In the age of epidemic proportions of side effects of synthetic drugs, many people tend to search for natural ways to get rid of depression. Essential oils have gained enormous popularity over recent years for their natural and harmless benefits.
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Ginger Essential Oil Benefits

Benefits of ginger oil in medicines Ginger oil’s digestive and detoxifying actions enhance the digestion process and help to eliminate toxins from the body. Besides, it alleviates discomforts associated with the bowel and stomach, including dyspepsia, diarrhea, stomach ache, flatulence, spasms, and colics.
Non-Toxic Perfumes

Non-Toxic Perfumes

A non-toxic perfume is simply a perfume that is free from any toxic ingredients such as synthetic alcohol, aroma chemicals that may harm you. Non-toxic perfumes are typically made from natural ingredients using only aromatic materials that are directly extracted from natural flora and fauna.
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Star Anise – Essential Oils benefits

Star anise is the seed pod from the fruit of the Illicium verum plant, an evergreen shrub grown in China, Indo-China, and Japan and sometimes referred to as Chinese star anise and has been used as a medicine and spice for more than 3,000 years. It is a native of Egypt, Greece, Crete, and Asia Minor and was cultivated by the ancient Egyptians.
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Lavender essential oil benefits

Lavender has a long history of being used medicinally. Hildegard von Bingen, a German saint and herbalist who lived from 1098-1179, wrote down that she used a mix of alcohol and lavender in order to treat migraines. In the 1600s, the Shakers…
ORGAN-CHANEL

How to build a folding perfumer’s organ

This organ has been designed for traveling and to allow me to keep on composing perfumes when I am away from my base, this has conditioned the choice of the materials used to build it. The organ should be as light as possible and occupy as little…