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Aldehydes in Perfume: Are They Harming Your Health?
Are the aldehydes in your favorite perfume harming your health? This controversial topic has been the subject of much debate. Aldehydes are a group of organic compounds commonly used in perfumes to add a unique and long-lasting scent. However,…

A New Ethical Standard Towards Perfume Consumers
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Fragrantica interview with AbdesSalaam Attar
by Naheed Shoukat Ali 08/30/11 12:17:00
For most people the only factor that determines their purchase of a perfume is that they like the smell of it. However, more people every year ask…
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Allergy Relief: Natural Antihistamine Essential Oils
Allergies can be a frustrating and sometimes debilitating condition. They affect millions of people worldwide. The symptoms can range from mild discomfort to severe reactions, whether it is seasonal hay fever, pet dander, mold, or food allergies.…

Exploring the Elegance of Tonka Perfume
The Tonka perfume is a captivating and versatile ingredient that has earned its place in the world of perfumery. Its rich, warm, and complex aroma adds depth and sophistication to a wide range of fragrances. Whether you prefer sweet gourmand scents, elegant floral compositions, or bold masculine fragrances, Tonka perfume has something to offer to everyone.

Perfume-Induced Asthma: Understanding Triggers, Symptoms, and Prevention
Various fragrances and scented products can act as triggers for perfume-induced asthma. Some common triggers include perfumes, colognes, body sprays, scented lotions, air fresheners, and cleaning products. It's important to note that not all fragrances will affect every individual with asthma, as sensitivity can vary.

Side Effects of Chemical Perfumes
Perfumes have historically been used for distinctive pleasant smells that make us feel relaxed and rejuvenated. But the side effects of chemical perfumes have become a major concern nowadays since the vast majority of perfumes are made from hazardous chemicals. Therefore, they are found to be associated with various health complications ranging from asthma to skin allergies to even cancer.
Perfume Allergy: Symptoms, Causes, and Cure
Allergies are considered one of the most common as well as fastest growing chronic conditions worldwide nowadays. A wide variety of symptoms are associated with allergic reactions that may range from simply making you miserable which is easy…
Ylang-ylang – Properties, Distillation, and History
Ylang-ylang oil has strong anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. These actions help alleviate fungal infections and symptoms of malaria.
Ylang-ylang has long been used for a range of therapeutic purposes. Modern scientific research has also substantiated many traditional benefits.
Toxic Chemicals in Perfumes
The sense of smell is closely linked to our feelings and emotions. A specific perfume may remind you of your best moment in life, or the scent of warm yummy spices may remind your feeling with your favorite holiday baking. If you ask your…
Essential Oils for Headaches
Essential oils offer a more effective and safer way to get rid of headaches without using medicines that often come with many unpleasant side effects. The best part of essential oils is that they not only reduce the symptoms of headaches but also help to address the underlying root of the issues causing the headache.
Anti-Inflammatory Essential Oils
Inflammatory conditions can be treated safely with aromatherapy using certain essential oils. They do not only suppress the symptoms but instead treat the root of the issues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Mukdeer – Homeopathic Materia Medica
Mukdeer - Homeopathic Materia Medica
MOSCHUS, Musk
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Medi-T
From the page on the web: www.homeoint.org/books/boericmm/m/mosch.htm
A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions,…
Subliminal effects of perfumes
Subliminal effects of perfumes
During scientific experiments of research into peoples’ sense of smell, in order to eliminate the possible placebo effect, test participants have no conscious perception of the fragrance being diffused during…