Shirley Price Gifts guide for the holiday season

8 Hawley Road, Hinckley LE10 0AN

Shirley Price Essential Oils and Diffusers make the perfect gift this holiday season for even the hardest to buy for

Christmas is mere days away, and if you’re like the majority of men out there, you’re still struggling to find the perfect gift for that significant someone in your life (and perhaps to suggest for yourself!).  But for all of you facing this dilemma considering yet another bottle of perfume, a piece of unwanted jewelery or a sweater that will end up collecting dust, may I make a recommendation she’s almost certainly going to love:

Shirley Price Essential Oils and aroma blends.  It’s a scent collection of pure essential oils that bring incredibly great smells into the comfort of your own home.

Shirley Price offers dozens of essential oils and blends like lavender, grapefruit, cinnamon, neroli, the spicy Noel blend and frankincense, each of which gives a distinct benefit to your everyday health and enjoyment.  Some are used for mental clarity, some for relaxation, some for rejuvenation, some for overall health, and the list goes on.

Moisturise. Shirley Price Botanical Skincare can be found all over the world and is probably the best loved brand you have never heard of.  The oils are packed into a range of 10 botanical moisturisers so you can give her the whole collection at once or thats the next ten Xmas stocking fillers sorted. Base creams and aloe vera gels are also provided so she can experiment with DIY although the base creams like carrot and avocado and sunflower oil are so good some clients just moisturise with them alone.

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But when you consider the benefits, Shirley Price Essential Oils are a unique way to not only give a non-generic gift, but also to show your partner you care about them as well.  Of course they may wish tojoin in the festive fun and pack for you the relaxing Sandalwood aftershave balm a firm festive favourite with SP clients.

Making your own Aromatherapy Products

Jan Benham's aromashoppe

http://www.aromashoppe.com/about-us-1-w.asp

workshops and courses
http://www.aromashoppe.com/

Jan Benham has been a practicing Holistic therapist and Cosmetologist for over 30 years both in the UK and Canada. Originally trained as a Beauty Therapist between 1978 and 1980. Jan became an Aromatherapist and Reflexologist in 1981 after training with Shirley Price one of the pioneers of Aromatherapy and author of numerous Aromatherapy books.

In 1985, Jan started teaching for Shirley Price before moving to Montreal, Canada where she founded the Institut d'aromatherapie 1986. In 1996, she relocated to Toronto where the Aroma Shoppe was created. She is author of two books "The Creamy Craft of Cosmetic Making" 1996, 2011 and "The Baby Boomers Beauty bible" 2004, 2011. 

Jan teaches in both the UK and Canada Aromatherapy, Holistic Skin Care and Cosmetic Making.

She is a fellow member of the International Federation of Health & Beauty Therapists (FSBTh), and members of the International Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT), International Federation of Professional  Aromatherapists (IFPA) UK. and the Canadian Examining Board of Health Care Practitioners. Past President, CFA (Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists), Founder and Director of the Institute of Aromatherapy, The Aroma Shoppe and The Jan Benham School of Holistic Studies.

Making your own Aromatherapy Products

News from Andrea Butje and the Aromahead Institute

http://www.aromahead.com/

Aromahead's YouTube Channel

Want to learn to create your own Aromatherapy products, but can't easily attend in-person classes? Aromahead's YouTube channel is for you!

If you click the red Subscribe button on the Aromahead channel, I'll send you an email each time we upload a new blending video!

Check it out! Here are 10 recent videos on how to make your own:

1. Foam Soap
2. Aromatic Beeswax Candles
3. Baby Acne Spray
4. Argan Oil Face Wash
5. Baby Powder
6. Yoga Mat Spray
7. Muscle Tension Inhaler
8. All Natural Bathroom Scrub
9. Sponge Spray
10. Incense Sticks

Make Your Own Foam Shower Gel, Soap & Shaving Cream!! Foam soap recipes are simple to make and soft on your body . . . and they smell great! I have foam soaps by my kitchen and bathroom sinks, and foam gel and shaving "cream" in the shower. People comment on the soaps all the time. They're so popular, which is why they make perfect gifts. The base is castile soap, aloe vera gel and various carrier oils, depending on the intention of the product (gel, soap, or shaving). 8 oz Foam Shower Gel (250 ml) 4 oz castile soap (120 ml) 1 oz aloe vera gel (30 ml) 2 oz argan oil (60 ml) 3 ml drops of essential oil I like: 1 ml Rosemary – Rosmarinus officinalis ct. camphor 1 ml Mandarin – Citrus reticulata 1 ml Balsam Copaiba – Copaifera officinalis 50 ml Foam Soap 1 oz castile soap (30 ml) .25 oz aloe vera gel (~ 7.5 ml) .25 oz rosehip seed oil (~ 7.5 ml) 20 drops of essential oil (I like Lavender — Lavandula angustifolia) 50 ml Foam Shaving "Cream" .75 oz castile soap (30 ml) .50 oz aloe vera gel (15 ml) .25 oz jojoba wax (~ 7.5 ml) 20 drops of essential oil (I like Black Spruce — Picea mariana) 8 oz, 250 ml tall elegantPET plastic foam soap bottle and pump. 50 ml natural color PET plastic foam soap bottle and pump. Red, black rosted white and green foam soap bottles in various fun shapes and sizes. PET plastic and HDPE plastic. All Clean? Now Try A Clay Mask! I like making simple facial masks. Some French green clay, a little aloe vera gel and some hydrosol, and I have happy skin! Green Silk 1/2 cup green clay 1 tablespoon aloe vera gel 3 tablespoons German Chamomile hydrosol 1 drop of Neroli – Citrus aurantium var. amara Rose Silk 1/2 cup green clay 1 tablespoon aloe vera gel 3 tablespoons Rose hydrosol 1 drop of Rose Otto – Rosa damacena Apply to your face, leave on for 10 minutes, and rinse with warm water. For the final touch, spritz your face with the hydrosol you used in the mask. Now that's a little bit of facial heaven! AromaAdvisor- We All Need One! My friend and Aromatherapist Kc Rossi is offering a 10 week world wide webinar power series offering business guidance for Aromatherapists by an Aromatherapist. AromaAdvisor; Empowering Aromatherapists for Success in Business.  In this 10 week world wide webinar power series, we will be covering a new module each session, ranging from defining your unique mission, identity, branding, product development, compliancy, sales & marketing and much more. Join the momentum and put your desires into action! Registration is being accepted for the next series, which begins on January 27, 2014. Click for more details:www.AromaAdvisor.com.

Online Classes Body Butters and Lip Balms Sign up now and begin right away, or tuck it aside and begin in a few months–it's up to you, because your login never expires! Aromahead founder Andrea Butje walks you through the process of blending shea butter, cocoa butter, kombo butter, kpangnan butter, coconut oil and more in eight video tutorials produced exclusively for this course!          Learn to make: Scar Butter No More Pain and Inflammation Butter Luscious Skin Healing Butter Lip Balm Lip Gloss Solid Deodorant Massage Cocoa Butter Stick

AROMAHEAD'S BOOK & eBOOK: Essential Living: Aromatherapy Recipes for Health and Home -

Aromatherapy blending

Highly recommended are Rosemary Caddy's highly visual training materials
Demo here  http://www.ccprofiles.co.uk/essential-oils-software.htm

#aromatherapy #essentialoil I know you too busy to fight Windows 8.1 so here it is, a demo blend of Amyris and Basil pic.twitter.com/ra17lwtGjZ
— Essential Oil (@EssentialOil48) December 10, 2013

Amyris is being used by some practitioners in place of Sandalwood and you can see why.

Aromatherapy study blends

Each system of aromatherapy blends reflects the background of its author, whether perfumer/scientist (Gattefosse), a skilled/inspired aromatherapist (Worwood), Doctor/Educator (Valnet), Nurse/Educator (Tiran, Molhatra), Salon skincare practitioner/Educator (Shirley Price, Maury, Taylor) or Practitioner/Educator (Gubba, Mojay, Tisserand). Some authors have come to their aromatherapy via professional life like Westwood or Caddy. The full list of current authors and practitioners worldwide is lengthy and distinguished.

The personality of the practitioner no doubt reflects their successful use of particular oils as well as does oil chemistry and each practicioner will have their favourite oils and conditions they treat with most success.

The study conditions and blends are therefore something of a compromise for the convenience of educators setting and adhering to qualification standards rather a limit to aromatherapy. In that every condition has its mental as well as its physical aspects there are no limits to the usefulness of aromatherapy. Besides its use in routine skincare research shows 70% of serious medical conditions are attended by depressive symptoms.  There is plenty of work for aromatherapy to do!

Qualified aromatherapists should not be defensive about the use of intuition in oil blending as well as information.  The human brain is the universe's most subtle and powerful computor operating in all the infinite dimensions available to mathematics.The blends which come as a result of intuition and experience whether for ones own use and enjoyment or that of others often outshine those obtained by consulting textbooks.