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Lavender
Lavender is so much more than just a prety shrub. Stressed out? Lavender tea will calm your nerves!
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Lavender's Healing Properties
This article describes the many therapeutic benefits of lavender for people with autoimmune and related conditions.
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Lavender for Health and Healing
Lavender is a useful herbal remedy that provides anti-anxiety, antibacterial effects.
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The Lavender Essential Oils
There are a number of Lavender oils used in aromatherapy: true Lavender, Lavender Stoechas, Spike Lavender and Lavandin. They all have different aromatic uses.
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Heal Your Mind, Body and Soul with Essential Oil
Feeling stressed after a long day? Have aching muscle pain? Coming down with the flu? Then indulge in Essential Oils.
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Lavender Essential Oil Profile
Lavender essential oil is one of the most commonly used oils for aromatherapy, home health and natural medicine. A universal essential oil, lavender has many benefits.
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Essential Oils
Many of the fragrances you have come to take for granted in household cleaning agents, soaps, cosmetics, and room fresheners started out as essential oils.
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Lavender Plants and Their Uses
Lavender plants are so versatile. Lavender buds, flowers, leaves and stems have multiple uses.
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Natural Therapies - Part two
A few examples of traditional herbs used for healing common ailments. All of these can be easily grown in a small herb garden with no special requirements, and a medicinal plot will be alwasy at your disposal.
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Herbal Baby Balm
Now you wouldn't put just any old thing on our new baby's bottom? We all like to make everything for baby as fresh and as pure as possible, which often means homemade. This recipe is a balm, which means it is a fragrant ointment or aromatic oil that is healing, soothing.
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Scented Bath Powders
Bath powder is used to dust on after a bath or shower or to take away that not so fresh feeling any time. It helps to absorbs excess moisture when rubbed into the skin. Make these and lovely containers to go with them, great for gifts too.
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Sacred Trust Family Remedies Contest Judging
Here is your chance to vote for the winner of the Natural Health Contest for 2002. If you are one of the contestants, you get two votes, one for your own, and one for someone else's entry.
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Alternatives to Air Fresheners
With recent studies confirming the toxicity of conventional air fresheners, many households are looking for ways to freshen the air naturally; try one of these ideas.
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Gift Time, Yule Time
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Natural First Aid Remedies
Treat everyday mishaps using herbs and plants such as lavender, arnica, tea tree, witch hazel and aloe vera from Mother Nature's first aid kit.
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Treating Urinary Tract Infections
UTIs are a common and painful problem for many women. Learn how to manage an episode using baking soda, and how to prevent future infections.
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6 Methods to Relieve Depression
Depression can be devastating. Fortunately, there are natural methods to elevate your spirits. If you've been feeling down, here are 6 ways to lighten your load.
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A History of Massage
Massage has been practised for centuries as a means of treating illness and promoting good health. Here's a brief overview of the key developments.
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Aromatherapy: Cure-all or Placebo?
For millennia, essential oils have been used by healers in different cultures. Rigorous studies are difficult to design, but research supports some claims of benefits.
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Beauty Tips Using Oil
Your kitchen or bathroom cupboard most likely contains at least one of these oils which may help you obtain softer skin than you ever thought possible.
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British Versus French Aromatherapy
Are essential oils safe for internal use? That depends on whether you were trained in the British or French model of aromatherapy. The history of the 20th-century divide.
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Choosing Natural Beauty Products
Products claiming to be organic, herbal or botanical are all the rage, but how do you know if they are really safe. Educate yourself about natural, healthy alternatives.
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Find Restorative Sleep When You Have Insomnia
More soothing than a power nap, sleep enhancement therapy have wended its way into the top spas. In a holistic spa setting, guests are lulled to a restorative sleep.
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Green Clay Facial Masks
Instead of spending your extra cash on that great trip to the spa, make your own facial mask right in you own home. Just about everything you will need comes straight from the kitchen.
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Holiday Stress And Sobriety
Christmas parties, empty wallet, in-laws are coming: that egg-nog is looking better each day. Tips to cope with holiday cravings and stress.
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Home-Made Herbal Sunscreen Lotion Recipe
With summer fast approaching, here is a chemical-free way to protect your skin from the sun's ravages.
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How to Get a Better Night's Sleep
Everyone has trouble sleeping from time to time. But insomnia can cause problems with our health. Relief and remedy might be easier than you think.
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How To Make Your Own Body Scrubs
These are not only fun to make but help keep your skin soft and velvety too.
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How to Massage a Baby
Article explains why baby massage is essential to a child's health and wellbeing and gives tips and suggestions on how to do it well.
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Lavender: An Old-Fashioned Flower for Today's Gardeners
Lavender is grown around the world for its wonderful flowers and scent. This article reviews a book discussing all the species known today.
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Lavender: The Purple Peace Giver
Lavender has been around for ages since it was first seen growing on the hillsides of ancient Greece. A lot of literature talks about its use in bath water and for scenting laundry. It's long been used in fragrances, soaps, and potpourri.
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Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
Han Van Meegeren made a fortune and a reputation forging paintings and fooling Nazis.
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New Professional Haircare Products
New shampoo, conditioner, treatment and styling tool from the world-renowned hair care brand.
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Nutraceuticals and Disease Prevention Pt. 2
The use of herbs for specific physical conditions is still in its infancy in modern society. Still, it is a movement whose time has come. Any trip to the pharmacy will expose you to a gamut of herbal preparations for a variety of ailments. This week we will begin to explore the use of herbal remedies for common concerns.
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Regency and Victorian Perfumes
Regency and Victorian women enjoyed a variety of luscious botanical perfumes.
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Spas Going Green
Spas in the know are going green. Learn the benefits of a green spa for the environment and for your health and relaxation.
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Treating Insect Bites and Stings
Learn how to identify different bites and stings in order to give the most effective first aid treament. Find out how to remove a bee sting and when to seek medical help.
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Alopecia Areata
The autoimmune condition alopecia areata, including its symptoms, incidence, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Aromatherapy vs. Aromacology
If you're brand new to Aromatherapy, you can't miss this article! You won't sound like a newbie afterwards.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Facts
CFS, also known as M.E. is very challenging for the sufferer as well as friends and family. Learn more about the illness and discover 5 practical ways to help.
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Grow More Lavender!
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.This week: lavender.
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Herbal Skin Care
Make your own skin care products from herbs and other natural ingredients.
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Lady Lavender
The history and uses of lavender
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Maytime in Southern England. Pt.2 - Salisbury
The Travel Sleuth visits Chichester Festival Theater, the medieval Cathedral City of Salisbury, and discovers a jewel of a hotel with a restaurant to remember.
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Natural Sleep Aids
This is the third in a series of four articles on the subject of insomnia. After a short review, this article gives some natural methods and treatments which have helped in cases of poor sleep.
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New Age Healers?
How New Age are natural healing methods such as aromatherapy, herbalism, Reiki, hypnosis and other techniques that appear to be popping up all over the place?
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Simply Summer Cookbook
Angela Tunner's new book, Simply Summer, offers readers a bevvy of gourmet, unfussy recipes and tips for elegant living. Here are a few ideas from the Renaissace Gourmet.
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