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Peppermint seems to get associated with foot care products quite a lot, but it seems there is more this minty essential oil can offer to our products! Peppermint essential oil tends to be steam distilled from the flowers of the Mentha x piperita plant, a hybrid plant. High pressure distillation seems to be the norm, but...
I’m really frustrated right now by the Dove commercial in which they show a bar of soap looking all wizened and dried out, then imply this is what said bar will do to your skin. My skin is not like soap, and the appearance of the product I use to clean it has nothing to...
I’ve seen these properties quoted time and time again in my research about anise essential oil – antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative (it decreases gas or encourages the expelling of it), expectorant, and a stimulant. I’ve seen information about it being estrogenic (mimicking the hormone estrogen), and I’ve seen that it can be used as the starting...
It’s Monday morning and I’m getting ready for my math exam – EEK! Saturday was a crazy day! Video games with the girls at the library, including Dance Central 2 for the Kinect, then Raymond took me out roller skating for my birthday on Saturday night. I haven’t roller skated since I was about 11,...
I love my aniseed! From the aniseed balls and Imperials I would get when I’d visit my grandma in England to the anise-vanilla combination a friend used in her CP soap, I love this herb! (Don’t confuse it with star anise, though! That’s a different herb altogether!) The main compound in anise (Pimpinella anisum) is...