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Is Aromatherapy Dying in Australia?
Australia was, in my opinion, a country that was ahead of the curve in the Aromatherapy world with a nationally recognized Diploma of Clinical Aromatherapy & one of the very first government-accredited qualifications in Aromatic Medicine (Internal Use of essential Oils).
Ever since 2015, when the Government decided to no longer recognize Aromatherapy as an effective medical treatment and therefore no longer subject to Medicare rebates & private health insurance rebates, or Government Study Assistant Loan (Fee-Help), Aromatherapy has been slowly dying.
From the Aromatic Medicine Qualification going from an HLT60907 Advanced Diploma to now downgraded HLTSS00046 Skill Set, to the ONLY Australian Aromatherapy Association IAAMA (International Aromatherapy & Aromatic Medicine Association) which was founded in September 1993 (as the Australian branch of the IFA – International Federation of Aromatherapists before breaking away from IFA in 2008) having closed its doors and now one of Australia’s oldest RTO Aromatherapy Schools, the one which pioneered the Advanced Diploma of Aromatic Medicine and was the ONLY school in Australia teaching the a HLTSS00046 Aromatic Therapies Skill Set closing its doors, Aromatherapy in Australia seems to be dead.
Currently, only three RTO Schools are teaching the HLT52315 – Diploma of Clinical Aromatherapy & they are:
Massage Schools of Queensland has been teaching since 2016
Melbourne College of Hair and Beauty has been teaching this qualification since 2016
Max Therapy School has been teaching this qualification since 2017.
There is no longer any real competition when it comes to retail or wholesale suppliers for Aromatherapy in this country, as many of the retailers closed their doors either due to the ridiculous amount of rent, import tax on goods, etc., or by being bought out by ABP (Australian Botanical Products /Ixom).
We used to be able to get Hydrosols, CO2 Extracts, and high-quality essential oils in this country. Heck, we had a product range that was exclusively sold to practitioners only called Essential Therapeutics that was once owned by well-known Clinical Aromatherapist and Aromatic Medicine Practitioner Ron Guba. The company, unfortunately, was bought out by ABP, and since then, the quality and reliability of the company have gone downhill, with products not being restocked for months or even years.
Their products, a huge range sold through Oborne Heath Supplies or Rener Health Products, are virtually non-existent now, with these companies not even knowing if Essential Therapeutics is getting products in, with 98% of their product listings showing as ‘Out of Stock.’
Heck, it is impossible to get batch-specific full GC/MS (Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry) analysis reports from ANY company but one in Australia, with them giving the following excuses: “It’s a trade secret,” “this is proprietary knowledge”, etc
What the heck is happening to Aromatherapy in Australia?
Is Aromatherapy dying in this country?
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Is Aromatherapy Dying in Australia?
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