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Fragrance Bouquet Loves… Silky Soft Skin: Nourishing Body Oil Recipe

Your skin knows it’s fall and worst of all, it shows. Sun exposure in the previous months, the cold winds that are starting to blow ever chillier with each day that passes and the dry indoors climate created by central heating leaves our skin looking… well, slightly reptilian. Not a good look. Left alone to its own devices, the skin of my legs and arms has the propensity to start looking as

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herb + citrus = EDC

History on eau de Cologne is quite varied and difficult to pin down exactly where the word and formula came from. It appears the term eau de Cologne was coined by French soldiers stationed in the city of Köln, Germany. History tells us the first EDC w…

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Beltane Perfume

The warming weather, longer daylight hours, the blossoming earth all hearken the turn of the great earth wheel once again. Beltane, one of the high Celtic holy days, has arrived. Traditionally celebrated with wild romps in the woods and dancing around …

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A Red, Red Rose

“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly pla’d in tune.-” ~ A snippet from “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert BurnsAs with just about every holiday the roots of Valentines day go very deep int…

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Recipe of the Day: Lip Balm

LIP?BALM(Adapted from The Correspondence Course by Jade Shutes)Base ingredients: 1 oz Beeswax 1 1/2 cup Carrier oil (Almond, Apricot Kernel and/or Olive - 1/2 cup of each is good.) 40 drops total Essential Oil per tube (The consistency of the…

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Recipe of the Day: Solid Perfume

The recipes posted over the past week were as a gesture of gratitude and in the spirit of sparking your creative juices. The intention is that these recipes will facilitate you to create wonder filled, handmade gifts from the botanical realm for the up…

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Recipe of the Day: Scented Beads #2

“A rose is a rose is a rose.” - Gertrude SteinThe word Rosary comes from the latin “rosarium”, meaning rose garden. The first rosary originated in India as a counting devise, the repetition action is believed to achieve a heightened state, much like co…

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Recipe of the Day: Scented Beads #1

The tradition of scented beads, also termed prayer beads or rosary, goes back into ancient times to the Hindu Sages. In fact there are sandstone sculptures dated 185BC, from the Sunga and Kushan periods depicting sages holding prayer beads.SCENTED BEAD…

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Recipe of the Day: Infusion

An infusion, is similar to a tincture, however we utilize oil instead of alcohol. The definition for infusion is defined as: Prima materia (plant or other material) placed into an alcohol base to extract its aroma or medicinal properties. Ideally a hig…

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Recipe of the Day: #2 Bay Rum continued

Here is an alternate t0 the Bay Rum Aftershave recipe published in yesterdays post. Instead of placing the herbs and spices in rum you can place them in a pure grain or grape alcohol. This process is called tincturing. A tincture is defined as: Prima m…

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Mind & Heart Expansion

Lisa Camasi, of the Botanical Perfume Yahoo Group, has challenged all of us on the list. She is encouraging us to consider options to the cultural mind set of consumption on the day after Thanksgiving. Here is a list of her ideas:1. Instead of consumin…

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