EO Cleaning Blend/Rosewood controversy

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It's been rainy and muddy out so today I'm going to clean the tile

entryway with a bowl of water and the essential oils of:

 

Atlas Cedarwood (Cedrus atlantica)

Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora)(controversial, but it's an old bottle I

must use up)

Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)

Lemon (Citrus limon)

Sea Pine (Pinus pinaster var. laricio)

 

Should smell better than than Method brand crap I use in my bathroom. :-)

 

Followup: I posted this to my blog and someone replied about the

controversy on Rosewood, so I replied with this:

 

It's fairly serious since so many people like the [bland] scent of

Rosewood essential oil, yet they don't realize there is no sustainable

harvest when the trees are felled.

 

Enter Rosewood leaf and/or twig oil, which will hopefully one day take

the place of the wood oil. (The wood oil doesn't smell all that great

anyhow… think Murphy's oil soap scent. The skin effects aren't all

that special, either.) Thankfully, there are a lot of less than

ethical suppliers who already sell the leaf and twig oil and pass it

off as the wood oil. Haha.

 

Anyhow, if by any chance you're interested, there's more info here by

a woman who actually knows what she's talking about, unlike many

others out there who… don't. ;-)

 

http://chrissie-wildwood.com/SAVING-ROSEWOOD-THE-FOREST-AND-HER-PEOPLES-2

 

:: gingerly steps off her soapbox ::

 

Take care,

Stacey