Comments on: Essential Oils: Some Things to Consider https://arealgreenlife.com/essential-oils-things-to-consider/ Making healthier choices. For you, your family and community, and our Earth. Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kate https://arealgreenlife.com/essential-oils-things-to-consider/#comments/272 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=11213#comment-272 In reply to Cathy.

I’m so glad it was helpful, Cathy, and thank you for letting me know. I really am not sure how many people realize these aspects of essential oils, but they are so standard in any DIY recipe for personal care that I finally couldn’t keep quiet with it any more. I am sure essential oils have valid uses in the hands of qualified healers, but they really are not necessary in our day to day DIY stuff and I feel as though clever marketers are just making use of our expectation for fragrance and transferring us over from synthetic fragrances to essential oils.

]]> By: Cathy https://arealgreenlife.com/essential-oils-things-to-consider/#comments/271 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=11213#comment-271 Wow! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I came into contact with essential oils many years ago, when I was a receptionist for a masseuse who used them. She had a burner going in at the entrance door, which was lovely for clients who came in, but she did tell me that she found them toxic for herself with over-use. It never occurred to me that it was big business or that they were using endangered plants. You make some very good points and, although I don’t use essential oils much, I will now be using them even less.

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