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Top 10 Essential Oils to Whiten & Brighten Your Laundry +Recipes

The most common way most of us use for cleaning our clothes, linens and other household items is to use wet cleaning action that uses water and some type of soap. Not that long ago this meant using washing boards, or beating our clothing against stones by riverbeds. In many instances, performing the weekly washing was done in the company of other women, perhaps family members, and was an important part of our social life. Women gathered together at the local riverbed or stream to share stories and enjoy each other’s company while toiling away at their weekly washing chore. In some third world countries this custom is still practiced. It wasn't until the mid 19th century that this social custom...

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4 Potent Essential Oil Surface Cleaners +Easy to Use Recipes

Each of these essential oils is readily available on the world market for purchase and relatively inexpensive. Each is known for its clean, fresh scent and has a well-earned reputation for being potent cleansing, clearing and cleaning agents. Combining the oils in a synergy blend enhances their individual properties for even greater effects. Lemon Tea Tree (Leptospermum petersonii) Chemical Family - Aldehyde  Cleansing properties Supports a healthy immune system Promotes safe natural insect protection Lemon Tea Tree has a wonderfully clean, fresh lemon scent. Combining the cleansing power of its aldehyde content, as well as the cooling and purifying effects of tea tree oil, Lemon tea tree is packed with all the properties needed to support a healthy immune system. ...

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Smell Dating Pheromone Science and Scents-ability

On February 14, 2016 (Valentine’s Day) Smell Dating launched “the first mail odor online dating service.” The online dating service matches soulmates strictly by scent.Smell Dating Smell Dating is a not for profit pilot research program. Submit a small fee of $25, and Smell Dating will send you a T-shirt to wear for three days. No aromatic scents, including deodorant, are allowed during the experiment. You then send your sweaty T-shirt back off to Smell Dating for analysis. After which you will receive similar sweaty T-shirts back in the mail for you to samples as potential mates to sniff in exchange. Smell Dating research is experimenting to find out the success rate for choosing partners through scent alone. They're hoping...

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Limitless Essential Oil Scents & Science What Your Nose Knows

Science has uncovered the truly remarkable power of your nose and its scent receptors.Turns out your human nose has the capacity to discern scent that is far beyond our wildest imaginations. Finally, the myth that humans have a bad sense of smell may be put to rest.  Research scientists have unveiled the human nose’s capacity to detect at least 1 trillion different scents. According to scientists the power of your nose to discern odors "may as well be limitless." The human nose has about 400 different types of scent receptors that can detect at least 1 trillion different odors. Previously it was thought that the human nose could only detect 10,000 odors. However, based on recent results of psychophysical testing, a...

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What Makes a Plant an Essential Oil? Aromatic Oil Distillation Methods

Essential oils are the concentrated volatile or ethereal oils extracted from a single botanical plant source. The part of the plant that yields the maximum amount of volatile oil is what’s used in the extraction process, i.e. flowers, leaves, stems, bark, seeds and roots of shrubs, bushes, herbs and trees.When the substance of scent is still in the plant, it is called an essence. After distillation from the plant part, the volatile aromatic compound is referred to as an essential oil. These subtle, highly aromatic plant extracts are found in the specialized cells or glands of plants. Through millennia these plant excretions have evolved as protection for a plant from predators and to attract pollinators. Surprisingly aromatic compounds are not...

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