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Yes you read that right. I’m coming off a mitral valve replacement with a hefty side of pulmonary hypertension. It’s my 4th day in ICU and it looks like there will be a few more before I move to the

The Muslim world today begins the lunar month of Ramadan, which many of us know for its fasting: no food or drink, tobacco, sex or gossip, from sun up to sun down. The idea is to stop focusing on wo

Welcome to 2023…….I don’t want to jinx anything, so I’ll just say we are ready for a nice year, and it’s about time. The last part of 2022 seemed like it was starting to go in a better direction, s

Robert Tisserand is one of the world’s leading experts in aromatherapy with over 40 years of experience. He is a speaker, educator, author, and consultant on the science and benefits of essential oil

As many of you know, we offer the spent biomass of frankincense, post-distillate. After the distillation, we dry the leftover plant material in the sun, break it into smaller pieces, dry a couple more

Of course you’ve noticed that we are in a huge and major shift right now; it would be absurd to pretend we’re not. But we have something celebratory coming up.You may know that we are approaching o

Lavender essential oil—the essence of aroma.Lavender is a great, drought-resistant plant, with seemingly endless varieties, and it swims happily in both the olfactory and gustatory realms. We consi

Frankincense has a special place in our hearts, as you probably know. And our Omani distillery continues to function, as it has throughout almost the entire pandemic. In fact, we continued to prod

Delicious and smooth, new and luscious. Our new Pommades are here—lilac and jasmine!Remember, most flowers refuse to be distilled—jasmine and lilac are two of those. While some jasmines, like samba

We received lots of questions involving our sourcing, spurred on by the Vice News video about frankincense sourcing in Somaliland, so let me answer a few of those questions. That video is from Som

As you might already know, we have our own, independent distillery for frankincense, distilling our own Boswellia sacra in Muscat, Oman, since 2017. Before that, we were in Salalah, and I formed ou

Our first blend, or one of the first, anyway, originally created in 1996, Citrus Cheer is as perfect as it gets. A mélange of pressed essential oils from various citrus peels, plus orange blossom (n