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As I go about my daily life, I'm reminded of how much aromatherapy is a part of it. You know how you keep hearing about growing herb gardens so you can have spices handy to cook with? Those same herbs can be steeped in hot water to make teas and/or aromatherapy facial mists/room sprays. What flavors your cooking are the essential oils in the herbs;...

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It's not as bad as it sounds. Those chemical ingredients? Like "methyl salicylate"? That's really Oil of Wintergreen. For some odd reason, manufacturers often choose the scary chemical names of everyday, aromatherapy ingredients. Some labels even list "Aqua" rather than water, so the most basic ingredient of all is called something that might worry the average consumer. The most common mineral we all ingest every...

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Essential Oils are: - any of a class of volatile oils obtained from plants, possessing the odor and other characteristic properties of the plant - used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes, flavors, and pharmaceuticals - obtained from various parts of the plants (as flowers, leaves, or bark) by steam distillation, expression, or extraction - usually mixtures of compounds, and are used often in the...

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Well-being is: - a contented state of being happy and healthy (and prosperous) - physical and mental soundness - analogous to the term Quality of Life, used by politicians and economists to measure broader social effects of policies - one of the components of overall health, which is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, emotional and social well-being.

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