Category Archives: Oils for Relaxation

Verbena Essential Oil

The Aromatherapy Store is a great lover of Lemon Verbena – with its distinctive stimulating aroma. The oil is derived by steam distillation from the flowering stalks of the plant and therefore the yield of each plant is low – hence the high price. Aromatherapy Uses for Verbena Essential Oil Verbena is famed for its [...]

Clove Essential Oil

Clove oil holds a very particular place in the aromatherapy spectrum as well as the traditional medicine cabinets and kitchens of everyone. With its deep warm scent it makes for a wonderful room scent, especially during the Christmas period when it typifies the warmth and comfort of being inside on a cold winters evening. Clove [...]

Clary Sage Essential Oil

Introduction As with so many plants which give us their oils, the Clary Sage plant originates in the Southern Mediterranean as well as Central Asia. It comes from the Salvia family of plants and so looks very similar to amny of the annuals we have in our gardens. Its a short lived plant but provides [...]

Black Pepper Oil

Introduction Black Pepper originates from Southern India and has long been a central requirement in the kitchen. The black pepper is the ripe fruit of the plant piper nigrum, (the green pepper berry being just a less ripe berry of the same plant) and is usually dried and ground to be used in the kitchen. [...]

Bitter Orange Essential Oil or Neroli Oil

Bitter Orange Essential Oil is also known as Neroli oil and as such has a major part in the composition of many of todays leading western perfumes. It was back in the 1700′s when one of the Princesses of Nerola started added it to her bath that its popularity established it as one of the [...]

Patchouli Oil

Introduction Patchouli oil has been used in perfumes for centuries and its deep heavy scented oil goes a long way diluted, providing long lasting scent. There are a number of different ways of distilling the oil and different providers will either adhere to the dried leaves or the fresh leaves as being the best source. [...]

Geranium Oil

Introduction This versatile and sweetly scented oil has been used around the world since ancient times, and the Ancient Greeks used it in a number of ways, a a paste to be applied to bone fractures, wounds as well a stomach complaints. The plant itself has a lovely peppery scent whereas the oil distillation process [...]

Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender has been a mainstay of the essential oil and perfumery world for eons and
its history can be traced back beyond the Pharoahs of Egypt and the philosophers of Ancient Greece.
Looking around the shelves of any high street store it can be found in plenty – perfuming talcs, soaps, shampoos, air freshners, and a hundred an one other products. So this oil has a definite place on the shelves of any oil lover or aromatherapy practitioner!