Flowers, Crystals, Cupcakes and the Super Moon (A Few Pics for You)

Posted on November 30, 2016 by suzannerbanks

Hello dear scent lovers and natural beauties. I hope you’re doing well on the slippery slope to the end of the year. Here’s an easy post to read – mostly pics from the past month of my life.

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The flowers of eucalypts and native Australian trees are so divine!

pretty gumnut flowers in Sydney

Crystals bathed in sea salt waiting in the rain for the super moon

crystals waiting the charge of the moon

The clouds covered the luminous moon, evaporating, finally letting us have a peak!

Super moon over urban Sydney

Vegan, Persian love cupcakes, where the heroes are pistachio and rosewater – from That Vegan Lady

Persian Love cupcakes with rose water

And some flowering scented deliciousness from Thai basil at the local market

flowering Thai basil

I hope you’ve had a great week. Have you taken any good pics? DO you have an Instagram account? If so leave your account name in the comments.

Follow me on Instagram here @banksbotanicals

Remember to treat yourself first, then everyone will benefit.

The Gardenias Are Out! And a Few Perfume Recipes Too

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I’m so happy its getting warmer and the heady, intoxicating scent of gardenias is everywhere. So fragile, so pretty and oh what a scent! And the good news is you can buy gardenia absolute – it’s more expensive like the other floral extractions of rose, jasmine and neroli – but worth every scent (get it? cent/scent). What can you do with gardenia absolute?

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Please check out my new book REVELATION! – Reveal Your Destiny with Essential Oils

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and many other stores worldwide as an ebook and paperback

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the beautiful gardenia

Because this floral scent is so special and so unique, you don’t need to mix it up too much. You could treat it in the way you use jasmine oil, as it has an exotic white floral scent indicative of summer evenings somewhere delightful.

Here a a couple of recipes you try with this precious oil, and my general rules for making an anointing perfume:

Pure Pulse Point Perfume

In a little dish mix these oils and anoint your pulse points or chakras – 3 drops of essential oils and dilute with a few drops of carrier oil – always patch test first!

The classic Duralex glass dish is handy to make oil blends and quick perfumes in

“An Evening by the River”

gardenia absolute 1 drop

cedarwood Atlas 1 drop

palmarosa 1 drop

” Being”

gardenia absolute 2 drops

bergamot 1 drop

“La Verite”

gardenia absolute 1 drop

jasmine absolute 1 drop

orange 1 drop

“Tropicana”

gardenia absolute 1 drop

lime 1 drop

ginger 1 drop

mixed into some coconut oil

“Femme Fatale”

gardenia absolute 2 drops

sandalwood Mysore 1 drop

Billie Holliday with gardenias in her hair

“Holiday: Madonna vs Billie”

gardenia absolute 1 drop

peru balsam 1 drop

patchouli 1 drop

Have you ever used gardenia absolute? I’d love to hear from you!

Remember to treat yourself first, then everyone will benefit.

Essential Oils in Pregnancy and Childbirth – Video

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Hello natural beauties everywhere. I did the live Q & A with The Mothership International on Facebook last Friday (November 11 2016). It was challenging as no one asked a question – I’m glad I prepared some notes. So I talked to the reflection of myself for about an hour and you can check it out here today. It was good to do something I haven’t done before, to challenge myself and create new brain synapses by learning something new.

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jasmine is great preparing for childbirth and in labour too

My Chat (with myself)

I generally talked about:

* taking the toxic chemicals out of your life

* the facts about essential oils in pregnancy

* the myths – if any?

* using your intuition

* seeking advice

* making aromatherapy easy

And in relation to pregnancy and childbirth (and perhaps more specifically):

* 1st trimester

* 2nd trimester

* 3rd trimester

* preparing for birth

* at the birth

* after the birth

I hope you gain some insight from this talk and please pass it on to anyone you know who may be interested.

Did you use essential oils through your pregnancy?

Remember to treat yourself first, then everyone will benefit.

Essential Oils in Pregnancy and Childbirth – Standby for a Live Q and A

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Hello natural beauties everywhere. I am doing a live Q & A with The Mothership International on Facebook, this Friday (November 11 2016), 10am local Sydney time. If you can’t pop in because of the time difference the video will remain on the Mothership Facebook page.

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Please check out my new book REVELATION! – Reveal Your Destiny with Essential Oils

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and many other stores worldwide as an ebook and paperback

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As I prepare for this live chat I realise I haven’t written very much on this topic so I’ll try and follow up with some recipes and articles in the next couple of months.

Go to the Facebook page here: The Mothership International

Here’s a quick look at a quick tech run I did today so I could work out what was going on. Hopefully it will be much better on the day with some real people asking questions!

I’l do my best to limit the um and ahs …….. It’s actually quite difficult speaking live without a lot of direction.

Wish me luck!

Is there anything you’d like to know about essential oils in pregnancy? Ask me on Friday or leave a question here.

10 Vapouriser Essential Oil Recipes for Exhaustion

Posted on November 2, 2016 by suzannerbanks

Hi natural beauties and scent lovers everywhere, I’ve been wondering what to write about this week as I’ve felt so tired. Exhausted actually. So I realised I needed a boost of essential oils, and the easiest and best way to do it is to add the oils to a diffuser. A minimum amount of energy is required to throw a few oils into a diffuser and turn it on. Check out these recipes and oils:

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Please check out my new book REVELATION! – Reveal Your Destiny with Essential Oils

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and many other stores worldwide as an ebook and paperback

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Flowerin rosemary in a client's garden

Oils Generally Great for Tiredness, Lack-lustre Energy and Exhaustion

Lemongrass

Black pepper

Rosemary

Cypress

Lemon

Basil

Pine

Cinnamon

Ginger

Wintergreen

Eucalyptus

Puzhen diffuser from the 5 senses series – puzhen.com

Scent Your Space

In a traditional oil burner with a candle, or a diffuser, add up to 25 drops of oil

“Cant. Get. Off. The. Couch”

Lemongrass 8

Geranium 8

Orange 8

“A Better Deeper Sleeper”

Lavender 6

Marjoram 6

Lemon 8

Australian sandalwood 5

Lavandula stoechas, my own pic thanks yes it is wonderful

“Exercise Mantra”

Rosemary 6

Ginger 6

Mandarin 9

Cedarwood Virginian 4

“Mind Blast”

Basil 6

Juniper 6

Cypress 6

Peru Balsam 6

“Inspiration”

Pine 5

Black Spruce 5

Patchouli 5

Lemon 10

Fresh clean inspiring pine

“Warm Up Get Up”

Black pepper 10

Lime 8

Himalayan cedarwood 7

“Sweet Talkin Myself”

Cinnamon 8

Rose geranium 6

Blood orange 6

Wintergreen 3

cinnamon – my own pic

“Clarity”

Eucalyptus 8

Petitgrain 8

Cedarwood Atlas 5

Nutmeg 4

“Spice Up Your Life”

Cinnamon 6

Black Pepper 6

Palmarosa 6

Bergamot 6

“Crank It!”

Pine 8

Orange 8

Eucalyptus 4

Cypress 4

black pepper

Remember to treat yourself first, then everyone will benefit.

Check out my YouTube channel too, thanks.

suzannerbanks

scent . intention . consciousness . essential oils

Monthly Archives: November 2016

Flowers, Crystals, Cupcakes and the Super Moon (A Few Pics for You)

The Gardenias Are Out! And a Few Perfume Recipes Too

Video

Essential Oils in Pregnancy and Childbirth – Video

Video

Essential Oils in Pregnancy and Childbirth – Standby for a Live Q and A

Video

10 Vapouriser Essential Oil Recipes for Exhaustion

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