Benefits *** Lavenders ** Mixing Oils

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In a message dated 6/11/2003 1:17:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,

butchbsi writes:

 

> Feller raised in Manila can get the same bennies

> from smelling mangoes.

 

Actually it's not the smell of Mangos that this chick remembers but the smell

of the very polluted bay(all the locals used it for a bath and a toilet). It

stunk... Another smell, also not sweet was the odor of urine where the taxi

drivers would do thier biz. Would piss me mum off something fierce cuz twenty

steps away was a toilet....

 

Two funny stories, at least in my mind...connected to the Taxi drivers...

 

My mother would take us to the pool everyday and we would have to walk past

the taxi drivers...Every time we would reach them, she would haul out her

perfumed handkerchief and hold it over her nose as she would pass them. Years

later

she told me that she was trying to give them a hint! ROFLMAO!

 

The other story, when I was there, we had two almighty earthquakes. The first

was way up in the 7. something range... The cement wall, that went round our

compound crumbled to bits in only one spot... right where the taxi drivers

would relieve themselves! ROFLMAO!

 

hey. I gotta take my laughs where I can find them..

 

Cheers!

Kathleen Petrides

The Woobey Queen

We're haing a LOLLAPALOOZA of a sale!

http://www.woobeyworld.com

 

 

 

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Hey Helen,

 

> Good info.

 

Thankee m'am .. busy as I am but that 141 oil blend fired me up. ;-p

 

> Question: In the past, I have simply ordered lavender 40/42 when I > need it

and order from whoever seems to send a note on a " fast buy " or

> a " coop. " Now I am rethinking this. I want the BEST quality lavender

> oil. I love the stuff so why not have the best.

 

Good attitude this is for Cosmetics and Aromatherapy .. but for Soaps I

reckon the 40/42 will do OK .. even if its most probably synthetic.

 

> I am not concerned about FRAGRANCE . . . I want a quality oil which

> contains all the healthy benefits God intended.

 

Then .. I'm hearing AT from that statement. But lets stray a minute and

talk about healthy bennies. We got psychological, physiological and we

got emotional healthy benefit possibilities from EOs .. and some things

that aren't EOs too.

 

Physiological .. whether we can detect odors or not, when those little

volatile molecules get in the bod they do good or bad things whether we

believe in them or like them or not .. they don't really give a crap.

 

Psychological .. its pretty much the same as physiological .. with some

exceptions .. and it can even cross over into the realm of emotional.

 

Emotional .. you like it .. you benefit from it. Feller raised on a

cattle ranch who misses his younger days can get much benefit from the

odor of cow manure. Feller raised in Manila can get the same bennies

from smelling mangoes. Good attitude and steady emotions help healing.

 

> Comments please, Butch? Are all lavenders pretty much created equal

> as far as the " beneficial " component?

 

All pure, natural, steam-distilled, unmanipulated Lavandula angustifolia

oils will be pretty danged close. Now .. if there is a bad year in some

area and there is an extremely low percentage of Linalool or Linalool

acetate in a particular L. angustifolia .. that's a different matter.

Same for the Carvacrol in Oregano .. I've seen it as low as 35% when it

was picked too soon by illegal harvesters .. usless as tits on a boar

hawg that is.

 

But Lavandula stoechas is gonna be different, for example, than is the

Lavandula angustifolia. So we can't say all lavenders .. we gotta stick

to botanical types.

 

But .. more importantly is that you like the odor. Folks can't make you

like it .. you gotta decide that yourself. If you don't like it, even

though it will affect you physiologically .. it might not benefit you

psychologically or emotionally .. and those two factors are important in

healing .. maybe not as important as the physiological aspects .. but

danged near.

 

> I think I just spent some pretty tidy dollars on a Bulgarian Lavender

 

Its good stuff .. if its good stuff. There is good and bad depending on

the distiller and whether or not its been doctored.

 

> . . . I am not home so I can not look in my EO cupboard. But it was

> different lavender some raved about. Now I wonder if I simply

> purchased great SMELLING lavender which has less beneficial qualities.

 

Maybe .. maybe not. Only an analysis could (might?) tell you that. It

is not hard to get folks to rave about something .. not a lot different

than getting them fired up at a pep rally afore a basketball game or in

a crowd during a protest .. many folks love to follow leaders and many

others think there's gotta be something wrong with them if they don't

see things as those around them do. But even so, if you liked it and it

was NOT a doctored essential oil then it was a good buy.

 

> If you have already answered this before, please point me in the right

> direction, OK?

> -Helen

 

I probably have .. but I don't recall where or when .. sounds like some

kinda ol' love song - huh? ;-p

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com