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Robert Tisserands New Boswellic Acids Article--are they found in frankincense essential oil?

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 oils and their safe and effective application. He might be best-known for his books The Art of Aromatherapy and Essential Oil Safety, which sets industry standards for the safe use of essential oils.So this article is on the Tisserand Institute's website blog, and you can access it here.The article on …

Frankincense powder uses!

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 days, break it again, and eventually we mill it in our small but precise German mill, to get a fine, dry, light and uniform powder. We've tested it plenty, and it contains Boswellic Acids, which don't come over in the distillation, in anything more than  trace amount. I know people like t …

On the Edge

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 our 25th year anniversary in the Village—that’s going to be the weekend of November 25-26-27. It’s Black Friday and the following couple of days. We hope you’re going to be around, because we are going to celebrate, at our store in New York. We will have some aromatic tidbits, a nice gift, and a …