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About Our Frankincense Sourcing…..

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 Somaliland, with some information from Puntland; it involves corporate sourcing on a huge scale, and the corruption that comes along with it. It’s not about the traditional harvesting practices of frankincense, whether in the Horn of Africa or Arabia. Oman is a different country than Somaliland. It …

More About our Omani Frankincense Production

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 our company there in 2011. Dhofar, the Governate that Salalah is the capital of, is the nerve center of Omani frankincense. Frankincense trees love Dhofar, and voluntarily grow and thrive there. While they are possible to grow in the north, and even other countries, these trees will not flourish i …

Citrus Cheer Everything!

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 (neroli) and jasmine sambac (mogra.) it’s the reason this is our most swoonable, most popular blend. Especially now, as we struggle back from covid, with all the looming and occurring disasters, there’s a real necessity for self-care and any little step we can make towards feeling good, and improvi …