Bath safety II : Dispersing essential oils

Bath safety II : Dispersing essential oils

An aromatherapy bath can be a very relaxing and therapeutic experience, and it is one of the most popular ways to use essential oils. However, it can very easily turn unpleasant if you don’t follow one simple rule – disperse! Essential oils are not water...
Bath safety

Bath safety

Bath safety notice! Do not put drops of essential oil directly into a bath and then step into it. Seriously, don’t do it. This is a mistake very easily made, even by people who have been using essential oils for some time. If you want to add essential oils to your...
How big is a drop?

How big is a drop?

How big is a drop of essential oil? And how many drops are there in 1ml? When calculating percentages, this is important to know! In three empirical investigations dating from 1999, 2000 and 2016, 1, 25 and 23 different essential oils were assessed using 3 – 7...
Topical safety guidelines

Topical safety guidelines

Q&A Essential Oil Safety edition Question (by Helen Bairstow): I’d like to know if tea tree starts to oxidize is it still safe? And how can you tell? Answer: The more that Tea Tree oil (TTO) oxidizes, the less safe it is in terms of adverse skin reactions....
Q&A safety maximums for dermal application

Q&A safety maximums for dermal application

Question (by Lora Carbo Cantele): Can you clarify why using a topical (such as a roll-on) that contains say a 5% dilution of EOs on a very small location may be unsafe? In your book you list the maximum % of a given EO, but there are some that say using an EO in...