Top Ten Uses for Vetivert Essential Oil

vetivert organic essentail oilWelcome to another week of Organica J’s Top Ten Uses! This week will be focusing on 10 helpful uses for Vetivert essential oil (known as the ‘Oil of Tranquility’).

We use protective vetivert essential oil in our soothing and calming Meditation Blend, Meditation After Shower, Bath & Body Oil, Meditation Pulse Point Roller Ball and our Meditation Soap.  All made with 100% organic ingredients.

Here’s our Top Uses:

1.  for stress & anxiety
2.  for burnout & exhaustion
3.  for painful muscles & rheumatism
4.  helpful in menopause & PMS
5.  as a boost for tired skin
6.  minimising stretch marks
7.  to help with grounding & centring
8.  for insomnia

9.great to use as a base note in any essential oil blend

10. boosts the immune system

For using essential oils for specific medical problems always contact a qualified aromatherapist or consult with your GP.

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Top Ten Uses for Frankincense Essential Oil

frankincense-2207Welcome to another week of Organica J’s Top Ten Uses! This week will be focusing on 10 helpful uses for Frankincense essential oil (boswellia carteri).

Frankincense essential oil is a favourite and used in a few of our organic skincare products.  It is an essential ingredient in our Meditation Blend which calms and stills the mind, and also in our skin balancing and restoring orange and frankincense soap.  They are all made with 100% organic ingredients.

Here’s our Top Ten Uses:

1. can alleviate anxiety
2. a powerful meditation aid
3. good for dry & mature skin
4. helpful for scars
5. can aid respiratory issues
6. reputed to ‘deepen the breath’*
7. can alleviate wrinkles
8. can promote stillness of the mind
9. may be helpful for heavy periods
10. releasing the past and past blocks

For using essential oils for specific medical problemsalways contact a qualified aromatherapist or consult with your GP

Tune in next week for another oil in another Top Ten Uses and comment below what you would like to see next!

Top Ten Uses For Cypress Essential Oil

220945262Welcome to another week of Organica J’s Top Ten Uses! This week will be focusing on 10 helpful uses for Cypress essential oil (cupressus sempervirens).

Here’s our Top Ten Uses:

1. can be helpful for varicose veins
2. can relieve hemorrhoids
3. good for oily skin
4. helpful for sweaty feet.
5. can aid hot flushes in menopause
6. may help regulate menstruation
7. it can be a good deodorant
8. helpful as a cough treatment
9. supportive in times of transition in life
10. it has insect repellent properties

For using essential oils for specific medical problems always contact a qualified aromatherapist or consult with your GP.

Tune in next week for another oil in another Top Ten Uses and comment below what you would like to see next!

Organica J at Whitmuir the Organic Place

Whitmuir the Organic PlaceWe recently stopped in by one of our retailers Whitmuir the Organic Place. Whitmuir is located about 16 miles south of Edinburgh, in a peaceful area called Lamancha. The farm rears it’s own beef, lamb, pork, and turkey as well as growing veg and keeping hens for eggs. All of their produce can be bought in the shop, served in the restaurant, and those in the area can get home deliveries.

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Top Ten Uses For Everlasting (Helichrysum) Essential Oil

291755120Welcome to Organica J’s new weekly Top Ten Uses posts, in which we will tell you all about essential oils and what they are good for. This week’s focus is on helichrysum italicum, also known as everlasting. Helichrysum is usually best used in a blend with other oils, such as lavender, mandarin, neroli.  For using essential oils for specific medical problems always contact a qualified aromatherapist.

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Comfrey Harvest 2015 Now Complete

Bank of comfrey plants May 15

Comfrey plants on bank in sunshine

close up comfrey flower

Flower of comfrey plant

After a good season with fairly long spells of dry  weather (although not too warm here), we have now finished the comfrey harvest 2015.  The comfrey plants are fine this year and because of the cooler weather, it makes harvesting easier as the plants in the sun are ready first.. We then progress to the plants that are in more sheltered areas, as they are ready later.   The pictures are taken after the harvest, and as you can see we make no visual or environmental damage to this area of private ground in a wonderfully rural setting in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 

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Ayurvedic Massage with Erika Azkue in Beautiful Madeira

Can you imagine anything more lovely than an amazing massage treatment to help you relax on holiday?  During a recent family holiday to celebrate my Dad’s 80th birthday in Madeira, my daughter, Mother-in-Law and I enjoyed amazing treatments with Erika Azkue and her brother David.  My daughter, Josephine and I had an Abhyanga Ayurvedic Massage, which Erika explained is a full body massage.

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Beeswax Candles at Balmoral Castle & Shop

We are incredibly delighted to have our natural beeswax candles scented with organic essential oils available for sale at the shop at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire.  Balmoral is the Scottish holiday home of the British Royal Family and is open from 1 April 2015 until the Royal Family come back to stay in the summer time.

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