"I did not have a job before. Now I can support my family", says Njara, a rice farmer who has become a producer of geranium essential oil. Njara is a farmer. With his wife and their six children, this ...

“Essential oils fulfil many needs and they work,” says Sarah Townsend, who runs The Aromatherapy Company, a New Zealand-based company that produces aromatherapy products and has just launched in ...

There was a time when Sunday afternoons meant hair oiling. We would sit cross-legged on the floor while nani warmed up oil in a little steel bowl, the smell filling the whole house. Her hands were ...

Essential oils smell great, reduce stress, treat fungal infections, and help you sleep. They are concentrated extractions from plants. A process called distillation turns the “essence” of a plant into ...