Some essential oils I gravitate to more than others. Sometimes it has to do with the season or purpose and other times it is just because I love the oil and everything about it. One of these oils for me is the essential oil of Black Pepper Piper nigrum, especially as it is beginning to… Continue reading »
Apr
12
Antiseptic Clove Bud
I am currently in the middle of reading Gattefosse’s Aromatherapy by the early 20th century French chemist Rene-Maurice Gattefosse and I came across an interesting statement on Clove yesterday afternoon. Apparently in the late 19th century when “the Dutch destroyed the clove trees on the island of Ternate in the Moluccas archipelago, the colony was… Continue reading »