essential oils.....

[Rose799]

*Julia's* Awesome Aussie Soaps

[LaurieS]

Wise Women Inspired

[Tara]

Julia,

I use Starwest Botanicals, Inc.   1800-800-4372.  They have alot of various products
including dry herbs by the pound, essential oils, tea pots, etc.

I don't know if you will need a business license.  I am able to get wholesale as a
health care prof. 

I have made things for xmas like bath salts, etc.

I've thought of a business like yours, but, never got motivated to get going with it.

enjoy,  I think this could be fun.

One funny story:  a friend and I made bathsalts with alot of lavendar essential oil in it for xmas gifts one year.
  It involved mixing up big bowls of sea salt, epsom salts and lavendar essential oil with our hands and then bagging it
up.  Lavendar is deeply relaxing and stress reducing.  By the time we were done, we both needed to go
home and go to sleep we were so relaxed.

[holliberri]

Tara,

Do you have this recipe? I love lavendar, and need to send some gifts out. 

[LaurieS]

Women Wise Inspired

Outback green

A'la Outback

Bloody Good Smells

[Tara]

Holly,

Yes, will send it to you.  It might take a day or two to round it up

[Tara]

Holly,

will post the recipe here incase anyone else is interested.

Bath Salt Formula:

8 c sea salt
4 c epsom salt
1 c baking soda

13 c total

relaxing bath:

lavender         30 drops
ylang ylang     13 drops
bergamont        7 drops


When I have made it, we have also mixed up the essential oils, for example you could
just use lavender oil if you wanted.

also, I see that we estimated about 6 drops per 2 cups when we made it for xmas

we also added essential oil drops if I remember right.

A nice way to present this is in a cellophane bag with a gold or silver tie
and a  lable.  I used my psudo company name:  East West Trading

[cadagi101]

I love every suggestion..(bloody good smells might be just a bit aussie, hick )

Ok,Aussie, spirit, outback,
Pam1.  this should sum it up.  (we Don't have mountain ranges.)

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothea Mackellar

Tara thanks for the recipee
Holly

I love it... all the suggestions  keep them coming,  I am storing all the info.... 

I am keeping it relatively simple till I gauge the response.
potpurrie
Citrus Blend
Garden mix?
Flower child Bush mix
Lavender
Rosemary
same scents in sachets, body scrubs, dissuser oils, soaps
all from my garden with added essential oils

[lancaster lady]

Hi Julia ....

what about Julia's Garden Glory ?
Thought of a few others , but when googled , already there !
' Lush ' is the famous one here . Soapshack  is a Scottish one .
You will have to list them all , and let the ladies vote .

Re health : Still typing all over the place , still stoned ..( meds ) ....

[LaurieS]

oh that's a good one LL.. how about Be Still

[cadagi101]

Julia's Outback scents

[FAFE]

Rainbow Gold Essence - taken out of your poem. 

[Rose799]

Julia's Outback scents

*Julia's Outback Scents* --  It has a nice ring, Julia, but wouldn't it disqualify you from receiving the bath bomb?  : )

[holliberri]

Tara,

Thanks for the recipe...I will try to make this in August on my school break. I have 5 friends I owe sommething homemade to.

I may make some extra for myself. My bedroom has a whole bowl of lavender seeds in it that I got in California. They still smell, but not as strong.

[Tara]

Holliberry     yr welcome