Lavender oil – skin savior or skin irritant?
Dit artikel is ook beschikbaar in het Nederlands! A question came up recently on TheBeautyBrains forum: Lavender oil in cosmetics – does it cause skin cell death, and is that a problem? This was in response to the description of “lavender extract and oil” on...Q&A: Lavender oil and cancer
This question combines two recent topics – lavender oil and cancer – and shows that strange information continues to swirl about… Beverley H writes Hi Robert One of the first references I use when looking up contra-indications is your book with Tony...Lavender oil and pregnancy
A Google search for “Avoid high doses of lavender oil during pregnancy because it is a uterine stimulant” produces 1,110,000 hits, though none of these will tell you how much constitutes a “high dose”. (Yes, I checked every single one.) Other Google search results...
In defense of science, and of safety precautions
In a recent blog post Jade Shutes challenges the safety guidelines for using essential oils in the bath published on TisserandInstitute.org. She also feels that there is an increasing (and in her opinion unfortunate) trend to cite research. Jade proposes that this is...The Tisserand Institute
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