Another Great video by Elizabeth Ashley Starns and Adam Barralet. Dill is one of my favourite essential oils. Just wanted to point out to potential users that currently there are 3 kinds of Dill essential oil on the market. 1. European Dill Seed (Anethum graveolens) 2. European Dill Weed (Anethum graveolens) 3. Indian Dill Seed (Anethum sowa) The chemistry between the three is different, and so too are their uses and safety. What Adam, Liz, and I (below) are generally talking about is European Dill Seed essential oil. I first heard about Dill essential oil from Deby Atterby's book, Aromatic Detox and Elimination. It was used in some of her culinary recipes, and I found that 1-2 drops added to a soup brought amazing flavour. As Liz pointed out, it's a great digestive tonic to ease bloating, stomach cramping, excess wind, and indigestion, thanks to its antispasmodic properties. It's also really good in skin care, interestingly enough, to promote firm, healthy skin by supporting the skin's structure and elastin by stimulating fibroblasts. It can act as an alleviator of asthma symptoms, also thanks to its antispasmodic nature. In Greek, Dill is known as anethon (ἄνηθον), pronounced ah-nee-thos, and is believed to have originated from a young, beautiful, youthful man named Anethus who was transformed into the small, yellow flowering plant which bore his name. Culturally, it was used not only for food but also for its scent, specifically as garlands in body oils. Greek Physicians and soldiers applied dill to their wounds to speed up healing, and as used by Hippocrates, Dioscordies and Pliny externally to treat burns and internally to 'stayeth the hickets,' which is an old way of saying to stop hiccups.

Don't forget that you all have access to our Sunday Evening Relax at 7pm on our usual zoom link. There are at least 25 of you! 😊 You also have access to the EO profiles and hand and foot cream blends. There are also individual access to other things in the classroom, depending if you are a student, therapist or clinical level. Check your own individual profiles to see what you can access. When you access each one and tick the ✅you get points towards your level. I can see @Kathryn Lynnette Bales has been very busy with hers!!! 😂. Hopefully see most of you and our Premium members on Sunday evening. ❤️🌈

Have you upgraded to Premium yet? If not, why not? 😊What are you waiting for? One of the benefits of Premium membership is our monthly Sunday Evening Relax. We chat about all things complementary therapy and obviously essential oils, the crux of our tribe! We might do a wee meditation, I'm thinking a wee taster of Queen Hatshepsut this month. Discuss some simple self help techniques you can use on yourself or your clients if you are a therapist. A Q&A part, there are a plethora of different therapists in our tribe. Our monthly meets are very much "go-with-the-flow" and led by yourselves. Here's the link for more details: https://www.skool.com/maverick-aromatherapy-3200/monthly-sunday-evening-relax-2

Hey All, It's been a little while since I have posted anything here, and recently I was complimented on the aroma of my hand cream/lotion. One of my favourite essential oil duos to add to an unscented cream or lotion base is two Australian essential oils. First, make a stock blend in your 5ml orifice reducer bottle. You can choose between either stock blend, depending on which oil you want to stand out more. I personally love Rosalina Rose: Rosalina Rose Synergy: # 3.5ml Rosalina (Melaleuca ericifolia) # 1.5ml Red Rose Mitcham (Mentha x piperita red mitcham) Minty Rose Synergy: # 3ml Red Rose Mitcham (Mentha x piperita red mitcham) # 2ml Rosalina (Melaleuca alternifolia) Once the stock synergy has been made up, allow the oils to get to know each other for at least 1 week. To make hand lotion or cream: Mix into 100ml or 100g of Unscented Lotion/Cream base 1ml of the stock synergy of your choice. Stir very well. Enjoy. Red Rose Mitcham (Mentha x piperita red mitcham) is a specific cultivar of Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) grown and harvested in Australia. It's not the same as regular peppermint, which has a strong, cooling, crisp, and minty aroma, whereas Red Rose Mitcham has a more clean, smoother, slightly sweeter, and delicate floral (rose-like) aroma. If you want to know more about Red Rose Mitcham, check out the Aromatherapy Today International Journal Volume 94 (December 2025 - Jan 2026), which highlights this oil. The article is written by Australia's own Aromatherapist and Australian Essential Oil expert, Deby Atterby. The Journal can be purchased either as a physical copy or a downloadable PDF. If you just want the individual journal (Volume 94) and do not want to subscribe, perhaps reach out to Deby to inquire if she can send you a back issue of it? https://www.aromatherapytoday.shop/

A couple times a year, I get together with my students on a zoom call to discuss which EO they ARE. NOT which EO is their favourite, but which EO reflects their personality. It's really interesting to see which EO each of them identify with and if it changes with their growth. Today, I was exchanging a few messages with one of my said students, and she described her life over the last 3 months as being Grapefruit, just that one word. Those who know, know 😂. I immediately understood how her life has been, without having to go into huge detail with her. It also made me giggle! So, with this in mind, which EO perfectly describes your day, or the past few days/weeks? Not an EO that you NEED, just an oil that would be "Code" to sum up your life just now. Here's the personality of an EO that sums up the last 3-4 days of my life. People I have tagged should be able to work it out.... 😂 "One of my favourites when it comes to these ‘new’ EO’s. Its immediate effect was rather like the Blue Anemone, ‘just be’, switch off and be still. As soon as the stillness kicked in, the scent became almost over-powering and I had to move the bottle further away so I just got gentle wafts, like a breeze off the sea, but it wasn’t a sea breeze smell. Its perfume had me standing on a cliff top, looking out to sea at the rising sun, its warmth on my face, but I could not make a link to the sea smell that I’m quite familiar with having grown up on Anglesey. I felt it had more to do with the sun’s warmth, with my eyes shut and a gentle fresh breeze, "?" is far from a fresh air smell, it has an intoxicating and almost cloying perfume. Still being drawn to the warmth of the sun on my face, I was drawn further into the healing abilities of the sun. Besides the sun providing us with VitD, I felt it could melt away unfriendly bacteria and microbes. The deeper I went; I saw little sparks of light on a deeply cellular level in different parts of my body as though dysfunctional, redundant, damaged cells were being zapped. This feeling extended to places where negative thoughts and emotions were stored too. Hmmmm…… very interesting!