doTERRA and Young Living/ 16.03.24
Essential Oils for Gut, Thyroid, and Adrenals
These reviews of two lectures are from the recent Essential Oils Revolution online conference. I have decided to release these two reviews separately because they contain such exceptionally bad information and I know more exploitative marketing exercises are happening soon. Essential Oils for Gut, Thyroid, and Adrenals By Dr. Josh Axe Bla...
Education and training/ 16.03.24
Education and training
Anyone considering a career in aromatherapy should study all the articles on this site carefully. You will then have an idea on what to be on the lookout for, and how to avoid wasting your money. Do I need to take a training course? Minor updating 2014 Aromatherapy is no different to many other subjects in that it is only worth paying for...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 16.03.24
Review of an article “how to Ingest Lemongrass Oil”
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5780039_ingest-lemongrass-oil.html NOW 2024 THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN CHANGED This company ehow.com (Demand Media), run information web sites on a wide variety of advisory topics. However, when challenged on the accuracy and safety of their featured articles they ignore you. Even contacting them is very difficult as their m...
Education and training/ 15.03.24
Aromatherapy blogs 2
Most of these numerous blogs are run by untrained and inexperienced people, yet they give all kinds of advice on health issues. They may be selling attractive products, but often these are made at home with no safety assessment or consumer safeguards - particularly in the USA. Another problem I have noticed is that some link fr...
Education and training/ 15.03.24
A warning to people in Canada seeking a training course. Also, beware of any other courses who are teaching the trash below!
By Martin Watt Cert Phyt. Medical Herbalist & essential oil educator, UK. Dec. 2003 Also see the other file entitled 'Canadian claims+general errors' Beware of web sites where it is claimed the teacher has "20 years experience in aromatherapy," that can mean little in a trade which has no sound quality control mechanisms, that's assuming t...
Miscellaneous issues/ 10.03.24
+Tony Burfield
+Tony Burfield I was sad to hear of Tony passing in May 2023. We first met around 20 years ago when he came to my then home in the wilds of Essex. That meeting was prompted by his contacts with Sylla in the USA that I also knew. It soon emerged that we were both big fans of Jimi Hendrix and Tony had a big collection of his tapes. I had alre...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 01.03.24
Factors affecting Photosensitisation and Sensitisation
Factors affecting Photosensitisation and Sensitisation. By Martin Watt Introduction: There are a number of variables which need to be taken into account when considering which essential oils are safe to use on the skin. Obviously the first thing is the RIFM and other figures of maximum recommended volumes of essential oils to be used on the skin...
Essential Oils Production & Conservation/ 23.02.24
Rose distillation - in Turkey
Rose distillation in Turkey In June 2000 I saw the full production cycle of Turkish rose oil. I was invited there by Butch Owen (above), an American who lived in Turkey for around 20 years. Since he speaks the language like a native, he has direct contacts with growers, producers and miscellaneous other people. He is treated by them as...
Essential Oils Production & Conservation/ 23.02.24
Cinnamon oils What you need to know
Cinnamon oils What you need to know By Martin Watt I have decided to write about another oil which is hyped like crazy on social media blogs and on some websites. The first thing to consider is which oil are people referring to when they say “cinnamon oil is good for x,y,z”? Cinnamon trees yield two totally different essential oils, on...
Therapeutic use issues/ 23.02.24
A trade rebuff to inaccurate articles on tea tree oil in 2007
The report below was in response to some dreadful quality research in 2007 claiming that lavender and tea tree oil promoted the growth of breast tissue in boys. Members of this same incompetent research team produced a similar report in 2018 (below) which was published around the world by newcasters. Call for Journal of New England Medicin...