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Monday, 22 August 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011
What are Hydrosols and How Do You Use Them?
Hydrosols are also called flower waters or floral waters. Genuine hydrosols are not made by just mixing a few drops of essential oil with water (though you may find sites that tell you this is so).
For full information on how hydrosols are made, read this article by West Coast Aromatherapy/
Hydrosols do not keep anywhere near as long as essential oils. Once opened, they are ideal places for bacteria and other nasties to grow. Keep them in the fridge, and discard immediately if they go cloudy, discolored, or the smell changes. Personally I wouldn't keep them any longer than a month, so use them up as fast as you can.
This article from Aromatherapy at Home will help with that: 15 ways to use Hodrosols
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Bearberry for UTIs and E.coli
Bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (syn. Arctostaphylos officinalis, Arbutus uva-ursi, Uva-ursi procumbens and Uva-ursi uva-ursi), is also known as arberry, bear grape, hogberry, hog cranberry, kinnikinnick, manzanita, mealberry, mountain box, mountain cranberry, pinemat manzanita, red bearberry, rockberry, sagackhomi, sandberry, upland cranberry and uva ursi. Bees are attracted to the flowers, and bears to the fruit in those countries where bears roam free. It is often used as an ornamental,
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