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Recognized internationally as a premiere essential oil school, Aromahead Institute seeks to make the study and therapeutic use of essential oils widely accessible to everyone. Aromahead Institute is changing the Aromatherapy educational paradigm through an inspired approach to online education and creating community through social media. Aromahead is known for its free innovative blending videos o

n YouTube, where we teach you to make baby powder, beeswax candles, incense sticks, cleaning products, facial cleansers, and much more. YouTube link: http://bit.ly/18qzu9V

Aromahead Institute is approved by the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA) and the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIIA)

03/08/2026

We rebuilt a perfume from the 1700s 🌿

Petitgrain has been distilled for its fragrance since then, and it was one of the original ingredients in the famous 4711 Eau de Cologne, first blended in 1792. This is Karen’s tribute to that original, with petitgrain at its heart.

Here is why perfumers reach for it. Most citrus oils flash bright and disappear within a few hours. Petitgrain has staying power, thanks to all that linalyl acetate, so it works as a bridge, carrying the citrus down into the floral heart of the blend.

And the lavender, rosemary and thyme are not filler. Pair them with petitgrain and you have the opening of the classic fougère, the fresh aromatic signature behind so many colognes since.

Makes 2 fl oz:
• 20 drops Petitgrain
• 9 drops Lemon
• 8 drops Sweet Orange
• 7 drops Lavender
• 7 drops Rosemary ct Camphor
• 5 drops Lime, steam distilled
• 5 drops Neroli
• 3 drops Bergamot
• 3 drops Thyme ct Linalool
• 1 tsp distilled water or hydrosol
• Perfumer’s alcohol to fill

Add the alcohol first, leaving room for the water or hydrosol. Add the oils, add the water, top to 2 fl oz, and roll gently. Then give it the one ingredient no bottle can supply: patience. Let it rest 2 to 4 weeks while the notes marry.

Safety matters here. The expressed Bergamot and Lemon are phototoxic, so keep them at the recipe amounts and do not increase them. The Lime is steam distilled. Spray this concentrated perfume over a small area rather than broadly on skin.

Save this for a slow blending afternoon, and send it to the friend who would love making their own cologne.

From Karen’s Petitgrain workshop for The Thriving Aromatherapist.

30/07/2026

Whipped body butter, and the freezer is the step everyone skips 🧈

Shea and cocoa butter want to go grainy. Melt them, let them cool slowly, and the fats rebuild in the same coarse pattern they had before. Freeze them hard and fast instead and they cannot. One member said it better than we could in the chat: “This completely breaks down the crystal memory of the fats so they cannot reform into grains.”

🧈 Release & Let Go Body Butter · makes 4 oz (112 g)
• 2 oz (56 g) Shea Butter
• 1 oz (28 g) Cocoa Butter
• 1 fl oz (30 ml) Sweet Almond Oil (Prunus amygdalus dulcis)
• 17 drops Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
• 15 drops Bergamot Mint (Mentha citrata)
• 8 drops Petitgrain (Citrus aurantium var. amara)

Make it:
1. Melt the shea and cocoa butters together, low and slow.
2. Cool slightly, then stir in the sweet almond oil.
3. Freeze until just solid, 20 to 30 minutes.
4. Whip until creamy. A little extra almond oil adds fluff, and any blender works. “Hand mixer seems to blend very well, as it whips in more air,” as one of you found.
5. Blend in the essential oils, then jar it.

Use it: smooth on after an evening bath or shower, wherever the day is stored. Shoulders, neck, feet.

Why these three oils: they all carry linalyl acetate, the soft ester behind lavender’s long exhale. Our current batches read 34.9% in the Lavender, 32.7% in the Bergamot Mint, and 51.1% in the Petitgrain. Bergamot Mint is not bergamot, by the way. It is in the mint family, and it carries no sun caution. Neither does Petitgrain, which grows on a citrus tree but is distilled from the leaves.

40 drops across 4 oz is about 1.7%, the mild everyday range.

🔖 Save this for the next quiet evening.
💌 Send it to whoever in your life cannot put the day down.

Free write-up, the rest of the Week 3 recipes, and the class replay in the Natural Living Lab: skool.com/natural-living-makeover-now (link in bio).

28/07/2026

Some oils are louder than others. 🌿

Palo Santo is one of them, so it goes in one drop at a time. Smell as you go and stop when it is present without taking over. One more drop of Lavender balanced the whole blend.

Save this for your next custom blend.

27/07/2026

Two molecules. Same atoms. Completely different oils 🍊🌲

We've said d-limonene every day this week. Here's the part we never explained: the d.

There are two versions of limonene. Same formula, C10H16, just built in mirror. Karen put it perfectly in class: it's like looking at a left hand and a right hand. And they don't smell alike.

So we went and counted, across all 153 of our essential oils that have a batch on file.

🍊 d-limonene turns up in 119 of them. Highest in Blood Orange (90%), Grapefruit (86%), Sweet Orange (86%) and Lemon (59%). But here's the fun part: Palo Santo runs 60% and it's a wood, Elemi 45% and it's a resin, then Spearmint 21%, Frankincense 20%, Black Pepper 12%.

🌲 l-limonene turns up in 6, and every one is a conifer: Engelmann Spruce (19%), Scotch Pine (12%), White Spruce (9%), Siberian Fir (5%), Black Spruce (4%), White Pine (3%). Our Component Blending course studies it as one of four antioxidant components in conifer oils, and as a skin pe*******on enhancer. It's far less studied than its twin, which is exactly why we don't hand it d-limonene's reputation.

Two oils ignore the neat rule entirely. Douglas Fir is a conifer carrying the d form at 15%. And Black Spruce carries both at once, in the same bottle.

So read the letter. On a GC/MS report it sits right there in the name, and some reports write it as a plus or a minus instead. Ours spells it out.

One more worth saving: monoterpenes oxidize, so keep these oils cool and dark and don't let them sit for years.

Save this one, and come take apart a new molecule with us every week, free, in The Natural Living Lab: lab.aromahead.com/chemistry

25/07/2026

Bright meets calm ☀️

Every blend you reach for again and again does two things at once: it lifts you, and it lets you land. That's not luck, it's chemistry.

This week in Blend by Chemistry we're on d-limonene, the bright molecule in grapefruit, orange and lime. That's the LIFT. Last week's molecule, linalool (the soft one in lavender and Ho Wood), is the LANDING.

Pair a bright oil with a calm one and the whole blend feels balanced, not one-note. Here's the easiest way to try it, straight into the diffuser where sun is never a concern:

🍊 4 drops Sweet Orange
💜 2 drops Lavender

Turn it on. Sweet Orange lifts the room, Lavender softens it. Bright, then calm, in about six drops.

Save this for your next blend, and come learn a new molecule with us every week, free, in The Natural Living Lab: lab.aromahead.com/chemistry

24/07/2026

Sun-safe citrus, level two 🍋‍🟩☀️

You already know some citrus oils and strong sun don't mix. Here's the part even seasoned blenders miss, straight from this week's class.

1. It stacks, and not evenly. One drop of bergamot fills your sun limit as fast as a dozen drops of grapefruit, so you count the whole blend, not each oil on its own. The three recipes on the swipe already do the math and stay sun-safe. Save them.

2. Know the numbers (drops per ounce, on skin):
• Grapefruit: up to 24 (15 is plenty in a blend)
• Cold-pressed lime: up to 4
• Bergamot: just 2
• Sweet Orange, Blood Orange & steam-distilled lime: no sun limit, wear them freely

3. It's the extraction, not the fruit. The reactive compounds live in the peel, so cold-pressed lime is phototoxic while steam-distilled lime is completely fine. It's the same reaction behind "margarita hands," and behind a cold-pressed oil on your skin in the sun.

4. Diffusing? Zero sun concern. Phototoxicity only happens when a phototoxic oil is on your skin and then meets sunlight. In a diffuser or inhaler, the rule doesn't apply.

5. On skin, give a phototoxic citrus about 24 hours before strong sun, or apply where clothing covers, or wear it in the evening.

Building a blend with more than one citrus? Thymely, our research assistant, can help you keep the whole recipe sun-safe, so you're never guessing.

Save this for your next summer blend, and send it to a friend who loves citrus. We dig into this kind of thing every week, free, in The Natural Living Lab: lab.aromahead.com/chemistry

23/07/2026

Bright Energy Solid Perfume ☀️ (save this one)

A pocket-sized citrus scent you blend yourself, built on d-limonene, the bright, sunny molecule you meet the second you peel an orange.

Gently melt:
• 3 g (0.1 oz) beeswax
• 24 ml (0.8 fl oz) jojoba

Take it off the heat, then stir in:
• 8 drops Grapefruit
• 6 drops Blood Orange
• 4 drops Palo Santo
• 2 drops Lavender

Pour into a 1 oz tin, let it set, and swipe it on your pulse points.

Why we love it: grapefruit and blood orange are almost pure d-limonene, that fresh, uplifting lift. Palo Santo adds a warm, woody depth, and a little lavender rounds it all out. It is blended well within the sun-safe range for grapefruit, so wear it and go.

Save this for your next blend, and send it to someone who loves citrus.

Every recipe from our free 6-week Blend by Chemistry series lives in The Natural Living Lab: lab.aromahead.com/chemistry

22/07/2026

Three citrus oils, one shared molecule 🍊

Grapefruit, Sweet Orange, and Blood Orange all lead with d-limonene, 86 to 90 percent of each bottle, which is exactly why they all read as bright and fresh. The few percent left over is what makes grapefruit smell like grapefruit and blood orange like blood orange.

Blend all three and you layer that brightness, each one covering what the others miss. That is the whole idea behind blending by chemistry.

We do it live today, Wednesday at 11 AM Mountain / 1 PM Eastern, free on YouTube with Karen and Jenny. The lesson, the replay, and the recipe all stay yours in the free Natural Living Lab: skool.com/natural-living-makeover-now

This week's member gift: a free 5 ml Grapefruit with any $40 order, through Tuesday, July 28.

21/07/2026

A wood, built on citrus 🌳🍊

Palo Santo smells warm and resinous, nothing like a grapefruit. But hold their GC/MS reports side by side and the same molecule tops both: d-limonene. About 60% in the wood, 86% in the fruit.

That is the bright, uplifting note in every citrus oil, the reason a few drops of Grapefruit or Sweet Orange can make a whole room feel lighter and more awake. It turns up in dozens of oils at wildly different amounts, which is why "a bright citrus oil" tells you almost nothing until you read the number.

Worth saving: Grapefruit is mildly phototoxic, so on skin keep it under about 4% and skip strong sun for a day (a diffuser or inhaler is always fine). Sweet Orange is clean; Blood Orange is very low risk.

We go deeper live tomorrow, Wednesday at 11 AM Mountain, and blend with the three citruses together. Free and open to everyone in the Natural Living Lab: skool.com/natural-living-makeover-now

This week's member gift: a free 5 ml Grapefruit with any $40 order, for Lab and Club members, through Tuesday, July 28.

20/07/2026

Last day. The Week 1 member gift, a free 5 ml Thyme ct Linalool with any $40 order, rides along through tonight for Natural Living Lab and Club members.

Slide 1 is why it's this bottle, from last Wednesday's class: two very different oils share the name Thyme. One is hot and fiery. This one is its gentle twin. Same plant, different chemistry, and the difference is one word on the label: the chemotype. Once you can read it, you can never be surprised by a bottle of Thyme again.

The lesson, in a bottle: batch TYL-117 was GC/MS tested at 36.9% linalool, the exact calming molecule Week 1 taught.

That's not a marketing line, it's a lab report. Every oil we pour is tested batch by batch, and every report is published, so you know precisely what's in your bottle. Once you can read one, you shop differently. That's what this series teaches.

Three easy ways in: two drops in the diffuser with Lavender for a quiet evening, one on an inhaler wick with Ho Wood for the settle-into-work hour, one in a teaspoon of unscented body oil at the end of the day. All molecule, no perfume.

🎁 Free 5 ml with any $40 order, through tonight. The Lab is free to join, and that's the one step: skool.com/natural-living-makeover-now
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P.S. It's member Q&A day in the Lab: Karen and Jenny, live at 11 AM Mountain. Bring what you blended this week.

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