Essential Oil Safety Archives • Gigi's House

Why the Color Caps Labels?

by Gigi | Feb 24, 2022 | Essential Oil Safety

Why the Color Caps? Why the Color Caps? It’s a Coding System! This is my first blog. I wanted to start with one of the things that Dedi did that I loved. She wanted to assist her customers in seeing what age category each oil or blend fell into without...

Fun Fact Friday – Essential oils can do what?

by Ruth Nelson | Oct 26, 2018 | Essential Oil Safety, Fun Fact Friday

Fun Fact Friday Did you know that some essential oils can cause psychotropic effects? First let’s define psychotropic. A psychotropic or psychoactive substance is something that alters your mental state. These psychotropic effects are the reason CBD extract has a...

Fun Fact Friday – It’s all about the dose

by Ruth Nelson | Aug 17, 2018 | Essential Oil Safety, Fun Fact Friday

Fun Fact Friday Did you know that essential oils have a sweet spot? I had always heard that less is more when it comes to essential oils. I understood this as “if less works, why use more,” which is true, but there are so many variables that come into play. I have...

Essential Oil Safety: It’s Important!

by Dedi Thorne | Aug 16, 2018 | Essential Oil Safety

Essential Oil Safety is at the heart of our company. While essential oils can be great tools, they are also something to use with wisdom, not haphazardly. Funny that this WebMD article was brought to our attention this week (because Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy...

Fun Fact Friday – Adulterated Lavender, Why do they do that?

by Ruth Nelson | Aug 3, 2018 | Essential Oil Safety, Fun Fact Friday

Fun Fact Friday Lavender is likely the most adulterated essential oil. More lavender essential oil is sold indigenous to France in the US than is imported. It has been this way for many years. Natural or synthetic components are used to help stretch the oil or you...

Fun Fact Friday – Am I Photosensitizing?

by Ruth Nelson | Jul 27, 2018 | Essential Oil Safety, Fun Fact Friday

Fun Fact Friday Did you know that some oils are photosensitizing? Yes most of us do know this. Which ones, and why is that? Well first let’s define photosensitization- Photosensitization is a reaction to something that occurs from UV lighting. I was going to define...