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How to choose an essential oil diffuser for your office
The Best Essential Oil Diffusers For Your Office

This article is about how to choose the best essential oil diffusers for your office.   The best essential oil diffusers for your office will vary depend on a variety of factors including: We will briefly look at each one of these situations and provide a few examples of what would ...

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10 Reasons Why You Might Not Smell Essential Oils

Have you ever wondered why you might not be smelling your essential oils? So, you or someone purchased an ultrasonic essential oil diffuser and you are excited to use it.  The diffuser instructions say it will last 8 hours per refill and since you love citrus smells, you put 7 ...

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“All” Glass Ultrasonic Diffusers

All glass ultrasonic diffusers are not easy to come by.  Sure, if you do a search for glass diffusers, you will come up with pages and pages of “glass” diffusers.  But when you look more closely, you will see the outer part is made of glass while the inner reservoir ...

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The Best 8 Essential Oils To Repel Spiders

  Their creepiness brings instant fear to many people even if most spiders are mostly harmless.  But spiders are critical in sustaining our ecosystem, so if you are interested in only repelling them, then essential oils may be an option. My personal story with spiders and essential oils I do ...

Ingesting essential oils that are toxic
Ingesting Essential Oils: Myths & Truths

Way back when I first started using essential oils and researching them, I discovered they could supposedly cure all sorts of illnesses by not just inhaling them, but by ingesting the essential oils.  But as I continued to learn and do my research, I discovered that many of the people ...

15 magical properties of essential oils
15 Magical Properties of Essential Oils

When I started researching magical properties of essential oils, it was tough to find a place that would list the magical properties and then the essential oils that would fall under those properties. So, in this article, I will be listing some of the more popular magical properties of ...

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The Best Essential Oils For Gamers

I love video games.  For those of us who play video games, we are always looking for that little something that gives us an edge.  Let us discuss the best essential oils for gamers. Do essential oils provide me with any advantage while playing video games? Essential oils can provide ...

Using Essential Oils in your food
Using Essential Oils In Your Food

Essential oils have become widely popular and have a broad variety of uses.  So, you will probably not be surprised to know that essential oils can be used as a flavoring agent for your food.  In fact, for many years, the food industry has been using essential oils as an ...

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10 Essential Oils For Men

  Ok guys, when you think of essential oils, you usually think of your wife or girlfriend using a diffuser in the restroom, bedroom, or maybe the living room to get rid of the “manly” aromas.  She fills up the house with the flowery aromas or maybe the citrus aromas.  ...

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The Best Essential Oils To Relieve Sinus and Congestion Symptoms

The essential oils we will be talking about are meant to be diffused into the air and are not intended for topical or internal use. Over here at Enchanted Aromatics, we sell a variety of essential oils to make your space smell absolutely beautiful while being used in a diffuser.   ...

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What Are Essential Oils?

You have heard of these things called essential oils, but what are essential oils? Ever wonder why roses smell like roses or oranges smell like oranges?  Recently people have started to discover that we are living in a toxic environment.  It seems like every time we watch the news, we ...

Magical Dream Properties of 17 essential oils
17 Essential Oils With Magical Dream Properties

Can essential oils make you dream? The magical dream properties of essential oils are not just magical but are real. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence and some science to back up the fact that smells can contribute to your dreaming. If you are interested in possibly enhancing your dreams ...

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Pine Needle Oil

Classified as a top note, Pine Needle essential oil has a refreshing aroma that has uplifting and purifying properties.  It has been used for centuries to treat a wide range of medical ailments including respiratory, muscular, and joint conditions.  Pine Needle essential oil is very effective against ordinary stress and ...

What are the most aromatic herbs
What Are The 10 Most Aromatic Herbs Used For?

What are the 10 most aromatic herbs used for? You may be surprised by all the different ways aromatic herbs are used.  Sure, the first uses of these herbs that may come to mind are in cooking, teas, or essential oils, but there are many other uses for these herbs.   ...

How many pounds does it take to make essential oils (eucalyptus forest)
How Many Pounds Of Material Does It Take To Make Essential Oils

How many pounds of raw material does it take to make essential oils?  In this article, we will explore this question and I think many of you may be surprised by the answer.  By now we all should know that essential oils are the concentrated oils that a plant produces.  ...

Therapeutic essential oils
The Truth About Therapeutic Essential Oils

There is a great deal of confusion and misinformation on the internet concerning therapeutic essential oils.  So, who is right and who is wrong? Well, let us set the truth straight.  If you look for essential oils on the internet, you may see some websites that claim their essential oils ...

Hidden Dangers In Essential Oils
Hidden Dangers In Essential Oils

Despite the hidden dangers in essential oils, they have become a multi-billion dollar industry.   Maybe you are using them as an alternative to commercial fragrances or just to make your home smell good.  Or perhaps, you are using them to help you with your mental well-being.  And many of ...

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Are Essential Oils Safe For Fish?

Updated June 2022 Since many people use essential oils on themselves and sometimes their pets to treat various conditions, you may be wondering if essential oils are safe to use on fish or around fish.  Since I am a tropical fish owner and I use a wide variety of essential ...

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A Guide To Purchasing a Diffuser For A Large Room

Can a diffuser be used in a large room? Here at my house, we have diffusers in most of the rooms.  We do not have extremely large rooms, but the diffusers we have work fine in these rooms.  Surfing around the internet, you may see many places claiming to have ...

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Is the Plastic in Essential Oil Diffusers Toxic?

Is the Plastic in Essential Oil Diffusers Toxic? If you purchase a diffuser made of medical-grade plastic, then your diffuser should be toxic-free.  But, since plastics can differ between manufacturers, it is not a guarantee that your diffuser is not leaching toxic chemicals into the water and into the air ...

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Replace Scented Sprays With Essential Oils

Should you replace scented sprays with essential oils? You may want to replace scented sprays with homemade essential oil sprays after reading this article.  More and more I am using my essential oil sprays to freshen up my home instead of those cans of spray fragrances.  I think you will ...

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Essential Oils For Odor Elimination

Using essential oils for odor elimination is a natural way of masking and eliminating those harsh odors using nothing more than essential oils and maybe some water. Odor elimination is a multi-billion dollar business.  Most products mask odors while others eliminate the odor. Most sprays you buy use harsh chemicals ...

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What Are The Magical Properties Of Tea Tree?

The magical properties of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) have long been used by the deeply mystical Australian Aborigines. They have used tea tree for both its medicinal and ceremonial powers and tea tree’s ability to cure various spiritual ailments. The Aborigines claim that water and land around the ...

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The Best Type Of Diffuser To Make Your Bathroom Smell Nice

Updated May 2022. After experimenting with a variety of essential oil diffusers in the bathroom, I decided to write this post and share with you why I discovered the best type of diffusers to use in the bathroom are fan-based diffusers and nebulizing diffusers.  Fan-based and nebulizing essential oil diffusers ...

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10 Warm and Cozy Essential Oils

So, you want your home to have that warm and cozy feeling, you know the type I am talking about.  You know there are some homes you walk into and can instantly tell it is a warm and inviting home.  Much of that cozy feeling comes from the aromas filling ...

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Holiday Essential Oils

Essential Oils For The Holidays Family traditions focused around the holidays do not only include the sights and sounds, but also the smells.  And I am a big fan of the holidays and making my home smell absolutely delightful. When we think of the holidays, one of the first things ...

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Cleaning With Essential Oils – Backed Up By Science

Does science support the fact that essential oils can be used to clean, disinfect, and purify our homes?  Science has shown that some essential oils can be used to clean, disinfect, and purify our spaces.  After aromatherapy, using essential oils to clean may be the next most popular use of ...

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Essential Oils For Mosquito Bites

Using essential oils for mosquito bites can be highly effective when used correctly, especially If you do not wish to use medications such as cortisone, antihistamine, or lotions loaded with chemicals. If you are like me, I am a mosquito magnet and need respite from the constant itching and swelling ...

Variety of essential oil diffusers for blog
What Are Essential Oil Diffusers?

So, you may be finding yourself asking "what are essential oil diffusers?" You may have heard of them but do not know what a diffuser is or how it works.  Let us take a few minutes and learn what are essential oil diffusers and why you should get one.  What ...