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Effects of Scents on Emotions
Scents are closely intertwined with emotions, moods, memories, and perceptions. They have a great ability to influence both positive as well as negative emotions and may alter your moods either by enhancing or hindering them in certain circumstances.
Therefore,…

Autism and Perfume
Autism and perfume have been found closely linked. While certain synthetic perfumes and the ingredients they contain may play an important role in the development of autism, some natural perfumes have been described to have noticeable positive effects in the treatment and management of autism.

9 Reasons to Switch to Natural Perfumes
Scents are directly linked to our emotions and wellnesses. They have been found to be closely associated with our history and cultures for thousands of years. With the growing consequences of the health hazards of synthetic ingredients globally,…

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.

Antibacterial Essential Oils
The concept of using essential oils to combat infections isn’t anything new. Besides, modern studies found that certain essential oils can effectively kill micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, and fungi without becoming resistant, making these essential oils great antimicrobial resources in modern medical science.

Essential Oils for Infections
Some essential oils have tremendous anti-microbial properties that can heal a large number of infective conditions including ear infections, sinus infections, bladder infections, skin infections, kidney infections, and urinary tract infections among others.
Best Essential Oils for Skin
Choosing the best essential oils for skin that can treat and prevent skin-related issues is the most critical part of caring for skin. Taking care of skin isn’t a one-time job, it’s a lifetime practice that you’ll have to bother throughout your life. As every skin type has different sets of issues, understanding what your skin requires is also an important factor to determine the best essential oils for skin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Correcting commercial fragrances with animal pheromones
The kit of the practical Phero-researcher
From a research made with Basenoters with Hyraceum, Castoreum., Civet musk and Honey bee’s wax
Eule:
Bal a Versailles – This scent defies classification for me. Powdery, musky, animalic,…
Pyramids, lies and mythos of Modern Perfumery
From my house in Lefke.
If you believe that olfactory pyramids published by the industry are meant to give you information about the ingredients or about the smell of a perfume, you are really naive.
Pyramids are but a marketing tool used…
21. Aromaterapy in Timbuktu: ringworms and other
Ringworm is a disease that affects children. It makes them suffer a lot, the itching is so strong that they scratch their heads until they bleed, the sores spread and the pain prevents them from sleeping at night. Ringworm makes children's…
22. Aromaterapy in Timbuktu: the earache
Earache is so widespread in Timbuktu that I had it after a month. It must be the desert wind that carries the poisoned dust from the roads into people's ears. Fortunately, I had already gained experience treating the population before this happened…
23. Aromaterapy in Timbuktu: the toothache
Five months of antibiotic treatments
When he came to see me, Ibrahim had been like this for five months.
One of the most frequent problems for which the people of Timbuktu came to me for treatment is toothache. It seems like a minor…