Although herbs and spices go together like peas and carrots, they could not be more different from each other in terms of their place in...

Many herbs have a place in magical folklore, going back through the ages - and Rosemary is no exception. As with several of the herbs...

The Ylang ylang (Cananga odorata) tree is also known as the perfume tree, and with very good reason. Worwood states that the heady,...

Nobody who was alive in the sixties and seventies would be unfamiliar with the scent of patchouli oil. Utilised partly for nefarious...

All spices were considered highly valuable throughout antiquity, having their own specific road and sea transport routes across the...

Lavender is often called the 'mother' of essential oils, and it is no wonder - there is seemingly nothing that lavender oil can't fix. A...

You don't get oils much more steeped in religious and spiritual history than resin oils, and Myrrh is prime amongst them. Used since...

...is NOT, in fact, a berry, but a round-shaped fleshy cone, which takes 2-3 years to ripen into the beautiful blue/black colour it is...

There is no more ultimate, or well-known symbol of love than the rose, the Queen of Flowers. The letters of the word 'rose' can even be...

If ever you could put sunshine in a bottle, Bergamot oil would be it. Robbie Zeck says "Bergamot brings a sunny, effervescent quality to...

I think the oils I love most are the ones steeped in history, and Bay Laurel certainly has rather lofty historical connections! And so to...

As promised in my last blog, I just have to share this observation I found from Nicholas Culpeper - I will be referring to him a lot as...

I will be writing a series of blogs on the essential oils supplied by Essential Therapeutics, as well as future products which will be...

I find Angelica to be a truly remarkable oil, steeped in medieval history, yet not as commonly used today as it could be. In this blog...