- Essential oil use – indications and applications. The importance of essential oils produced from regional plants and trees for “community immunity”. Essential oils will be passed around for imbibing the aromatics.
- “Neat” use, dilution and diffusion.
- The difference between therapeutic, cosmetic and industrial grade essential oils and the importance of knowing the difference and why.
- The difference between essential oil, hydrosol, oil infusions, teas and tinctures.
- The fundamentals of distillation – I’ll bring a slide show of the process on my computer.
- The connection of botanical distillation to alchemy, chemistry, and the essential spirit/intelligence of the plant through distillation – the legend of the “Genie in the Bottle”.