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Essential oils for safe, sacred, and empowering women's circles

28/04/2025

Essential oils are perfect for creating a nourishing and empowering environment for women’s circles. We discus how to use them safely in order to encourage relaxation and dispel any fears that arise from attending.

Essential oils to activate the brain’s “appreciation” pathways

08/04/2025

Life is a race, and it can easily lead to racing thoughts. In this blur, your focus may drift to what’s wrong instead of what is working. Learn how aromas can help you be in gratitude and shift your focus to what really matters.

Healing tendonitis with essential oils: the ‘natural’ approach

11/03/2025

Tendonitis is a common, painful, inflammatory condition often caused by repetitive motion, affecting the tendons. Discover the best essential oils to help heal the symptoms naturally, and aid recovery.

Emotional aromatherapy - essential oils for trauma

28/02/2025

Emotional trauma leaves lasting scars, and the healing journey can be long. Aromatherapy can offer comfort and support and help reduce negative feelings such as depression, stress, fear, anger, anxiety and panic. Learn more in our blog.

Wheel of the Year and essential oils for each Sabbat

09/01/2025

We look at the Wheel of the Year and how essential oils can be used in conjunction with the energies of each Sabbat, to align us more powerfully with the cycles of life and bring our body back into natural equilibrium.

Essential oils to supercharge your manifesting magic

02/01/2025

Enter 2025 powerfully with our New Year ritual. Supported by essential oils, Nicole Barton’s ritual will help you tune into your heart and soul to see what magic you long to manifest this year, and act as a focus point to help you hold that vision.

Essential oils for emotional regulation this Christmas

03/12/2024

As we head into the busy and often stressful festive season it can be all too easy to ignore the underlying signs of emotional dysregulation. Read our blog for how essential oils can help us stay ‘regulated’ this Christmas!

Essential oils to inspire hope and winter wellbeing

31/10/2024

The darker season is a time for slowing down and going inwards - a time of rest and restoration, which can feel a stark contrast to other seasons. But when we fully embrace it, it can begin to offer us healing and renewal. Learn more…

Aromatherapy, folklore & the magickal associations of plants

03/10/2024

Our Consultant Aromatherapist, Kirsty Summerbell, shares how aromatherapy, botanical folklore and magickal plant associations often come together. Carry on reading to discover the magic, mystery and healing power of plants.

Essential oil rituals for endometriosis

17/09/2024

1 in 10 women suffer with endometriosis – an often-misunderstood condition that the medical system doesn’t really have an answer for. Having experienced the condition, Nicole Barton, discusses how essential oils can help support.

Essential oils for emotional exhaustion

27/08/2024

The busy summer months can be overwhelming, with little time or space to really ‘feel our feelings’. So, as summer slows, learn how to reconnect to your body and harness essential oils to combat the fatigue of suppressed emotions.

How to relax and unwind on your holiday

21/08/2024

Holidays are essential for our physical and mental wellbeing – a time to rest, relax and recharge. Unfortunately, many of us find it’s not as easy to unwind on holiday as we’d like it to be. Read our top tips for helping you relax!

Essential oils for thriving children

30/07/2024

Parenthood can be utterly challenging and frustrating at times. Learn how essential oils can be used with children to create an environment that’s calm and peaceful, enabling both child and parent to thrive!

Aromatherapy oils for glowing summer skin

19/06/2024

As Summer arrives it’s a good time to contemplate a different skincare routine to synch with Mama Earth’s seasons. We explore how to create glowing summer skin, whatever your skin type, with nature’s finest essential oils.

How to enhance Forest Bathing with essential oils

05/06/2024

Forest Bathing (Shinrin-yoku) is the practice of immersing yourself in nature in a mindful way. Learn how aromatherapy can support the experience and help you connect with nature on a higher level.

The science of essential oils - debunking the myth of ‘woo’

22/05/2024

Our latest blog debunks three common myths that aromatherapy is ‘woo’ and looks at the real science behind this natural healing art, and how it positively impacts on health and wellbeing.

Essential oils for end of life care

30/04/2024

We explore how essential oils can be supportive for end-of-life care, helping to promote calmness, comfort and wellbeing for those in their last moments, but also for relatives or carers who are experiencing challenging emotions.

A walk through the seasons' aromatherapy oils

24/04/2024

One of the joys of living is the UK is the four distinctive seasons! Join us on a walk through these seasons to discover the healing plants and trees, used in aromatherapy, that we might see on our walk!

Essential oils for Stress Awareness Month

13/03/2024

Even the smallest steps taken each day towards self-care and stress reduction can yield significant improvements in mental health over time. Read how essential oils can be used in six small ways to help you heal and relax.

The benefits of diffusing pure and natural essential oils

21/02/2024

Diffusing essential oils doesn’t just create a lovely smell and ambiance. Learn how the different therapeutic oils work on a deeper level to benefit our health and wellbeing, and try out some of our recommended blends.

Essential oils for deeper self-love

07/02/2024

Self-love has become a bit of a ‘buzz-word’, yet the true power of it is often underestimated. Our blog looks at the deeper kind of self-love that’s important for accessing a more fulfilled life of health and wellbeing on all levels.

Embrace the slower pace of Winter to beat the Winter blues

26/01/2024

The natural world understands winter is a time to retreat, rest and embrace a slower pace of life. Although we can’t hibernate in winter, read how we can enjoy a slower existence and use essential oils to help us rest and recharge.

Essential oils for highly sensitive people

09/01/2024

Sensitive people feel ‘more’ in every sense – physically, emotionally and spiritually, and can struggle to fit into chaotic daily life. Learn how essentials oils offer the soul-nurturing that is needed more deeply by the highly sensitive person!

Essential oils to stop you people pleasing

28/11/2023

So many people are burned out and exhausted from people pleasing. Meeting everyone else’s needs but their own. Read Nicole’s blog for her expert advice on how you can choose differently and start to take care of yourself.

Hygge essential oils to bring winter warmth and cosiness

14/11/2023

Hygge (pronounced ‘hoo-ga’) is a Danish word meaning ‘cosiness’. Here are our top hygge-inspired essential oils to soothe and lift your mood and bring warmth and cosiness during the colder months.

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