Artisan Blog
Artisan Aromatics blogs, recipes, and articles to help you on your aromatherapy journey.
Essential Oils for Natural, Healthy Cleaning
Essential oils exist in plants for their healing and protection, and the chemical constituents are full of anti-bacterial properties that make wonderful cleaning agents.
Plant Part Spotlight: Woods & Roots
Oils from wood, bark and roots relate to the root chakra, representing the energies of support, strength and grounding.
Optimizing your Aromas: a few tips
How do dispersion methods and olfactory habituation impact your experience of essential oils?
The Edible Argument
Essential oils are extremely concentrated and potent extractions, and there isn’t enough research on ingestion to confirm its safety.
Essential Oil Shelf Life: Fact vs. Fiction
When essential oils are in dark/protective bottles and kept at room temperature, they will all last for several years without degradation.
Aromatic Tourism: traveling the world through scent
Take an aromatic tour without leaving home by exploring and diffusing these beautiful scents from dozens of countries.
PLANT PART SPOTLIGHT: Gums/Balsams/Resins
Balsam essential oils have anti-inflammatory properties that help soothe wounds and aching joints, and energetically they offer grounding, soothing and balancing.
Frankincense: the healing powers of Boswellia Resin
Frankincense is a powerfully therapeutic oil, but must be used sparingly due to sustainability issues.