Repair Dry Hair The Natural Way

by Sue Charles

Everyone looks forward to the summer sunshine, but all too often it can take its toll on our hair leaving it dry, frizzy and totally unmanageable. Even when the weather is not too hot or sunny, spending time outdoors in the wind can still dry your hair out and leave it in need of some tender loving care.

Summer is now beginning to draw to a close, so this is the perfect time to revive your dried-out, tangled tresses in preparation for the coming autumn weather. And as we all know, autumn time means frosty mornings, biting winds and much colder weather which can do even more serious damage to our dry hair unless we replenish and protect it. Read more…

Posted by Sue Charles | Beauty Tips | Tags: , | Friday, August 28th, 2009 - 8:54

Lavender Hand Wash

by David Wright

September sees the launch of a new addition to our expanding Aroma-botanicals personal care range, and as always it has been designed to care for your skin, the natural way.

Quinessence Lavender Hand Wash is a luxurious, creamy, botanical soap infused with the very finest organic Lavender essential oil from Provence and enriched with moisturising and skin-softening Aloe Vera - plus a whole host of other botanical goodies to cleanse and soften your hands. Read more…

Posted by David Wright | New Products | Tags: , | Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 8:47

Eucalyptus Radiata Essential Oil Profile

by Geoff Lyth

The vast genus of Eucalyptus includes almost 700 species, and continues to expand as unknown species are discovered and catalogued. The close physical similarity of many species and the wide variability in leaf biochemistry has proven to be a huge challenge to botanists ever since it was first discovered.

Initially, some species of Eucalyptus were incorrectly identified and even today revisions of taxa continue to take place in an attempt to clarify the state of affairs, with apparently varying levels of success. To say that the taxonomy of this species is confusing and incomplete would be something of an understatement! Read more…

Posted by Geoff Lyth | Profiles - Essential Oils | Tags: , , | Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 - 8:05