Christmas simmering fragrances for your home
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Christmas crafts, Potpourri making
- On December 23, 2016
- No Comments.
Natural home fragrance There’s nothing quite like the spicy scent of Christmas, but these days there are increasing concerns over
Homemade room fresheners using essential oils
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Potpourri making
- On March 26, 2016
- No Comments.
How to make a natural room freshener There are various natural ways to add fragrance to your home Choices for
Making a floral bath sachet with dried flowers
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Making bath products
- On January 13, 2014
- No Comments.
Soak in a bath of dried flower petals Brighten up your bathtime with the fragrance of flowers from your garden
How to dry chamomile flowers
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, How to dry flowers
- On September 17, 2013
- No Comments.
Drying flowers – Chamomile Growing chamomile flowers at home This summer I accidentally grew some chamomile in my garden, and
Making chamomile tea
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Recipes
- On August 29, 2013
- No Comments.
Relaxing chamomile tea I recently wrote an article with five uses for chamomile flowers after accidentally growing some in my
Five uses for dried Chamomile flowers
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy
- On June 18, 2013
- No Comments.
Chamomile is a pretty daisy-like flower Chamomile is much-used in aromatherapy with properties similar to lavender. The flower is soothing
Dried lavender and hop pillow make
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Lavender craft
- On April 24, 2013
- No Comments.
Make use of the relaxing properties of dried flowers Dried lavender and dried hops These dried flowers are well known
Fragrancing my dried leaf potpourri
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Potpourri making
- On July 20, 2012
- No Comments.
Using essential oils to fragrance potpourri Last week I made some potpourri using dried leaves from my garden. This week
Dried leaves for use in potpourri
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, How to dry flowers, Potpourri making
- On July 11, 2012
- No Comments.
Dried scented leaves make great homemade potpourri A couple of weeks ago I took my trusty basket into the garden
Ten uses for dried lavender
- By Ruth
- Aromatherapy, Lavender craft
- On April 23, 2012
- 3 Comments.
Dried lavender has many uses Dried lavender is gaining popularity at the moment for home crafts. Many people have a
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