Archive for October, 2009

Young Living has come out with a brand new roll-on essential oil that has become my newest favorite oil–Stress Away. I carry it in my pocket wherever I go, and I make sure that it is with me on airplaines, in traffic and just plain working at my desk writing. It has an amazing fragrance [...]

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The ocotea tree lies deep in the amazon basin of Ecuador and is related to the cinnamon species. It’s not like any common cinnamon tree though and as for it’s chemistry, has only about 5% cinnamaldehyde as compared to 50% or higher in cinnamon bark oil.  That means ocotea will produce far less skin sensitivity than cinnamon [...]

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The oleoresin of the Copaifera tree is one of those secrets from the Amazon basin that native people have used for centuries. They have tapped the trees to obtain this life blood and used it in a myriad of different ways–rubbing it on sores, muscle aches and pains, and even taken it internally for digestive upsets. [...]

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