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We're Jenny and Karen, and this podcast is our live classes, recorded as they happen. We blend on camera, share the recipes we make along the way, and answer the questions people ask in the chat. Most weeks it's Tea Time with the Natural Living Club, where we spend the hour with one oil you may never have met. Some weeks we replay a favorite class from our Thrive archive.
The show comes from the companies we run together. Aromahead Institute is where we teach aromatherapy, from first classes through certification. Aromatics International is where we source and bottle the essential oils we use in class, with a GC-MS report behind every essential oil lot. Thymely is our aromatherapy research assistant that answers from our own library and shows you its sources.
Whether you're opening your first bottle or have been blending for years, pull up a chair.
Hello everyone, welcome to Tea Time. I'm Karen and I'm your host today because Jenny is traveling right now. Not on our big trip, just on a small trip, but I am filling in for her. Today we're going to be spending time with carrot seed, 2 different carrot seeds that we have here, and I can't wait to tell you all about this. But before we do that, do you have your tea handy? I have a delicious, delicious tea. In fact, let me take a quick little sip.
Mmm, this is so beautiful. I have to show you. I'll show you what I'm drinking first of all. This is from Magic Hour Tea called Pisces, and inside of Pisces is some magnolia oolong. Can you see this? This is really beautiful. Jasmine pearl, there's green tea, butterfly pea flower, organic lion's mane, and some natural flavors. And as I steeped this, these little balls just turned into the most beautiful tea.
And then of course, with these beautiful pea flowers, it gave me a purple tea. So fun to drink. So tell me in the chat, what are you drinking today? Let me take a look over here, see what you're drinking. We have a lot to cover today, so put in your tea, your favorite tea drink today, or your favorite beverage that you're drinking. Whoops, where did my— oh, there we are, there we are. Okay, and hello everyone, you're coming from everywhere, I'm so excited.
Oh, some iced coffee with homemade pumpkin spice, beautiful. Coffee with lots of soy milk, I love coffee as well. Chicken bone broth, how awesome. Super boba, classic milk tea, awesome. Capricorn. Yeah, the— I love teas from everywhere. In fact, when I travel, I usually end up coming back home with a new tea from somewhere, so my cupboard is full of different kinds of teas.
All right, so today what we're going to do is we're going to get right into the presentation, but first I want to show you some things over in your Let's go over to our classroom on my computer, and then you're going to see this is where everything lives, in the classroom at the Natural Living Club. Okay, so we go into our Tea Time, and you'll see that week 1 was blue tansy, week 2 xanthoxylum, week 3 is now carrot seed.
So when I click on carrot seed, I have all of my information. At the end of this presentation, there'll be a Tea Time replay right here. There's the resources, which are the recipes, and then a really cool workbook that Jenny has put together for you. And she put these in here a couple of days ago, I believe. Maybe it was yesterday sometime. The time goes so fast, doesn't it? We have our Roadside Calm diffuser blend that we're going to be doing next up.
Actually, so if you have these oils— wild carrot, xanthoxylum, and vetiver— go ahead and bring those close. Now let's go over to our tea time presentation. Ready? This is on carrot seed. This is 2 different ways, 2 different carrot seeds, even though it has one Latin name. Tomorrow I go into a much deeper dive into my Thrive presentation on carrot seeds.
So today is a taste of what tomorrow will be for those of you who are in the Thrive membership program. So by the end of this presentation, I want you to understand why the words carrot seed on your bottle are only the beginning of the story. So let's look at our recipe. And 3 drops of Wild Carrot. This is going to keep us company while we're talking and going through our presentation.
3 drops of our Wild Carrot. Now this is way different, as you're going to see, than our commercial carrot or the cultivated carrot. Wild Carrot is earthy and slightly sweet and herbaceous. It supports our emotional balance. It's grounded. Mm-hmm. It's calming, especially in times of transition, and we are in a transition phase right now as we're going from summer and we've gone into fall. Xanthoxylum, you're well aware of.
If this is your first time here, I want to give you a special welcome. But last week we talked about xanthoxylum. It's a bright, spicy, subtly citrus oil. And if you've had any aha moments, be sure and put them in the chat. As we're talking about these oils, our xanthoxylum helps to clear that mental fog. It brings a lively, uplifting note to the blend. And then our 1 drop of vetiver green— this is a different vetiver than a regular vetiver.
It's green, and it is a deeply earthy, smoky, and rich. And it's a— if you're not really fond of vetiver, You will love Green Vetiver. It's one of the most grounding oils that we have. It anchors our blend and it settles overactive thoughts. So let's put this together. We'll make sure we get the right carrot seed. This is our Wild Carrot. 3 drops of Wild Carrot.
Mm, does it smell like carrots? Yes, it does smell like carrots, but a little bit different. So 3 drops. Come on. 1. It's coming. A little drop in there. 1, 2, 3. Sometimes a little bubble gets in the dropper part. And then 2 drops of our Xanthoxylum. And what else can you think of as we're putting this blend together, what it might be good for?
You studied xanthoxylum last week, and my first thought is I'm putting this together and I got one extra drop of xanthoxylum, is this is a very calming blend. Ah, see, good thing I checked. I don't have a cap on my vetiver, so I'm going to pour it very carefully because it's a thicker oil. So one drop. Whoa, isn't that cool? There it went.
I'm going to give it a little stir so that my vetiver, because it's a thicker oil, right in there, blend in. Put our cap on, turn it on. Mmm. Takes it a second. There we go. I won't run it very long this close to me because as it goes, it will permeate this entire area.
Even Devin over on the far side, he'll be able to smell this really well. I'm going to unplug this for a moment and plug it back in. I was kind of messing with it before we started, and I thought I did something. Okay, there we go. So back to our slides. Let me know if you've made this blend. In fact, let's go over to the comments. And calming blends in the day to set me up for a nap.
There we go. We're going— That's gorgeous. That is really beautiful. And towards the end of our presentation, we're going to see what we can do to make this blend a little bit more energizing if we want that therapeutic property. So let's go to our next slide. We have lift, we have earth, we have steadiness, we have all of this in our little diffuser blend. Now next week, our Green Vetiver is the oil of the week that you'll be studying.
All right, so here's our plan. We're going to meet the 2 carrot seeds, the garden carrot and the wild carrot. If you have them, I want you to smell them side by side while I tell you about them. And then after that, we'll take a quick look inside the bottles using our GC/MS reports. And it's going to be very easy and not complicated at all. I want to show you just enough chemistry to explain why these oils smell so different and why we use them differently therapeutically.
Then we're going to make 2 more blends, a simple carrot face moisturizer and then our Ember Glow grounding balm. In fact, I better turn my heat on. Okay, so if you only have one of these or none, that's just fine. You're going to get We're going to get to know carrot seed oil. So the garden carrot and her wild cousin. The garden carrot is Daucus carota.
It's a subspecies sativus, typically grown in India, but other places as well. This is related to the carrot that you eat, okay? The one that you cook with, the one that's in your kitchen. And what happens is they don't distill it the first year. They leave those carrots in the ground. And then the second year, those carrot tops go to seed, just like you see here in the picture. It flowers and then it goes to seed, and it's the seeds that are distilled.
On the right-hand side is the wild carrot that we also call Queen Anne's lace. Now look at the Latin name, Daucus carota, the same Latin name. We have subspecies carota. Carota. grown in France typically. Now look at those Latin names again because Daucus carota, the wild carrot, really isn't a subspecies because it's the original plant. So it's the garden carrot that's actually the subspecies, but we get these 2 confused a lot.
Early on in my aromatherapy days, I was confused all the time about the carrot seed. I thought they had the wrong picture when they were talking about carrot seed. It took me a long time to get this figured out. So the reason why we have a subspecies for our wild carrot is so that we can keep the 2 separated. And carota— so Daucus carota subspecies carota, okay? It's the same part as the Latin name, and that helps you to keep these 2 in track of what the other one is doing, which is which.
Actually, they're very closely related, but they have Very different properties. So where does this carrot seed actually come from, our essential oil? And just like I said in the name, it's from the seed. Takes 2 years for the cultivated carrot, and the first year the plant concentrated on growing that root, and the second year it flowers and it makes those seeds, and then they're harvested. And that's how they produce the oil.
If you've seen Queen Anne's lace growing outside, you may have noticed something really beautiful happening as the flowers mature. The flower head starts to curl inward and looks like a little nest, and inside are the seeds that will eventually give us this wonderful aromatic oil. Now let's clear up a couple of things because it's— carrot seed and carrot oil are very confusing. How many of you have found that as well?
You don't know exactly what you're talking about. Are you getting a carrier oil? Are you getting an essential oil? And why are the essential oils so different? So the first is our steam distilled from the seed on the left. It's our carrot seed, is a pale yellow, almost clear, and very aromatic. Both the wild and our cultivated carrot have a really strong aroma. Some people will say, I don't like blending with carrot seed because it takes over my blend, and it indeed will take over your blend, so we use it very cautiously, and one drop goes a long ways.
Now there's also a cold-pressed carrier oil from the seed. It's a light yellow fatty oil that's a carrier and really great for skincare. So 2 things come from the seed: our essential oil And our carrier oil. Then on the far right, and I almost was able to do this with you today, but you can do this on your own in your kitchen, and that is a macerated carrot oil. This is the root, okay?
This is not the seed, it's the root. So you take carrots, your regular carrots that you eat in the kitchen, and you infuse it into another carrier oil. And how you do this, you take it and you shred it, shred your carrots, spread them out really thinly. And if it is still warm in your area, you can put them out in the sun to dry. Let them completely dry. If you have a food dryer, that works as well. When they are completely dry, it might take a couple of days to dry, then here is a tip that I found recently.
To infuse it into olive oil or a jojoba oil. Some people use sesame seed oil. There's all kinds of different carriers that you can use depending on what you want your end result to do for you. But I like to do it into olive oil. And then you take the dried carrots that you've just dried, you take those, you put them into a blender or a coffee grinder. A coffee grinder works super well. And you grind it up into a fine powder.
Now you put that powder in a jar, and then you fill that jar with your carrier oil, stir it up really well, and then you let that sit for a couple of days, and you have your infused macerated carrot oil that you can make yourself at home. If you don't put it into the coffee grinder and make it into a powder. You can also use it just as it is, just dried. And then for 3 to 4 to 5 weeks, you would let that sit and infuse into itself.
Then you pour off the top part of the oil. You use a little filter and pour it off. But that— what is left, that carrot seed powder, what's left makes a wonderful facial mask. You could take that. It's already got some carrier in it, so you can take that, put it on as a facial mask, and it is really cool and really beautiful. All right, let's check in here and see. So you dehydrate the— not the macerated, but to make the macerated carrot oil, you dehydrate some shredded carrots.
Yes, that's correct, Robin. That's correct. Did I answer your question there? And then when you dehydrate that, you can pulverize it, make it into a powder with your coffee blender grinder, or you can let it just as it is dried. That takes 3 to 4 weeks compared to 1 to 2 days. Okay, so it's a really fun thing for you to try out, and that oil will be an orange color. So that's how we can tell the seed and the essential oil, they're both a light color, whereas our carrot macerated or carrot infused oil, carrot root, is an orangey color.
All right, so I don't have that recipe, Lisa, in a PDF because I just thought of it yesterday. I thought, ah, I should have made this for you guys, but it might be something that you'll have fun doing. But we'll pop that in. the chat over on Skool so that you can have what we're doing there. You can see how to do this and, and then report back if you do it. Tell us how it goes. All right, so let's go to our next slide.
And so again, seed or root infusion. Now I don't want you guys to be confused. So if it comes from the seed, whether it's the essential oil Or whether it is the seeds cold-pressed into a carrier oil, those will be a very light color, whereas the macerated carrot is going to be your orange colored. Now here's the favorite part, and before I give you any chemistry, I'm going to set my tea aside after I take another drink.
I am going to take the 2 carrots. I am going to take our garden carrot. Now remember what the Latin name is for our garden carrot? Sativus. We are going to see subspecies of sativus on our garden carrot. That is our giveaway. A lot of people will only put— a lot of people— a lot of places that sell carrot seed oil will have carrot seed on there, Daucus carota, and they don't have the rest of the Latin name. So you actually do have to look at the GC report to see which one you're given.
You can also smell them. There's a big difference. When I smell the cultivated carrot, I definitely smell carrots. It's a very strong carrot aroma, whereas my wild Carrot. It's way lighter, fruitier. It's gently floral. It's green. So our cultivated is warm, earthy, softly sweet.
It's rooted. So we've got the same species but very different aromatic personalities. We're going to look at the chemistry so that we can see What we're talking about here. What does this GC report tell us? Well, the GC report, for those of you who are new to this concept, it is a report that they do on a sample of the essential oil. And when they take that sample, they can see what's in— what that oil is comprised of, what chemical components are in there.
And our Sativus— which one is the Sativus? When I say Sativus, which one is that? This one. Is that the wild carrot or is that the cultivated carrot? The subspecies sativus is our cultivated carrot. There are a lot of components. There are 23 different components, but I am just going to show you 3 of them. The first one— and they are all sesquiterpenols. There are over 76% of sesquiterpenols in our cultivated carrot seed.
We have carotol, Over 70%. Now these will change slightly from batch to batch depending on the weather, where it's grown, when they harvest. And then we have daucol, which is a complement to our carotene, of 5%, and then a little bit of β-eudesmol of 0.76%. Okay, that is— that's an enormous part of this oil. So the carotol is the larger, heavier component, and this gives us a clue about what the aroma is that we are experiencing.
Remember how that garden carrot felt warm and earthy and lingering? Well, this chemistry helps us to understand a part of why the aroma unfolds slowly and why it stays with us. It stays with us for a long time compared to maybe a citrus oil. So when you smell the oil and you notice that deep, lasting quality, you can begin connecting your sensory experience with what you see on this GC report.
So in the cultivated or the garden carrot, carotol leads. Now, let's look at our— so this is our carotol. Let's look at our wild carrot. So we've got the same species, but a very different report. So here, our geranyl acetate, which is in a completely different family, it's an ester, it's 33% of our geranyl acetate.
Now remember, this is subspecies carota. Carota is part of that Latin name and really isn't a subspecies at all. So the wild carrot, the geranyl acetate, it is that most abundant component, which is completely different from the garden carrot because the garden carrot did not have this geranyl acetate. So we have 2 different species, But 2 very different chemistries.
Now let's put these side by side. So we've got our carotol, 71%, our geranyl acetate, 33%. So our carotol is warm, earthy, lingering. That ester, geranyl acetate, is bright, fruity, and gently floral. And they work differently energetically on our bodies as well. So let's look at this a little bit closer and put them side by side.
So we've got the aroma down pat, we've got the leading component down pat. Now let's look at the third one down, what this component offers. carotol is linked to strong antifungal and skin repair activity. An oil this rich Sorry, I had to turn my little heater off for my oil. An oil this rich is prized for skin that is mature, sun-damaged, or scarred, and for blends that support wound healing, eczema, and fungal skin.
Over on the wild carrot, geranyl acetate also has a component called α-pinene, and it also has some antimicrobial and antifungal support for surface cleansing, healthy skin flora. And as an ester, it's mildly calming and antispasmodic. It eases tension in muscles and in the mind. Just to give you an example, our Roman Chamomile also has a lot of esters in it.
So how does it feel in a blend? Our Garden Carrot is very grounding It settles a blend and it stays with you. Whereas our wild carrot, and that name alone kind of gives you a hint, wild carrot, it's very lifting, it brightens a blend and it moves through very quickly. So reach for that garden carrot when you want deep skin regeneration, mature, tired, or scarred skin, when you want that cooling and grounding and restorative function.
The wild carrot also works for purifying the skin, calms down the skin, especially if there's a blemish that you're— or irritated skin that you're working on. It's great in our cleansing blends or a facial soap that we might make, our hand soaps. Good to ease those tense muscles. It lifts those spasms, it unwinds the spasms, and it's a lift when your heart feels heavy. So just 1 drop is all you need, and for both of them, 1 drop is all that you need, maybe 2 drops with the wild carrot.
So in a facial oil, which we're going to make in just a moment, 1 drop. It also has, because of its chemistry, a much longer shelf life of about 8 years. It's also much cheaper than the wild carrot because it produces more essential oil when they press those cultivated little seeds. The wild carrot, tried in a balm, which we're going to make this balm as well, over your heart to get some calm and inspiring moments.
It has a shelf life of about 4 years, and again, that's because of the chemistry in each of our oil. All right, so which one would you reach for? Okay, I hope you have a really great idea now that what you would use one over the other for. Let's take a look at our questions, make sure I'm not missing anything pertinent here. And I'm going to turn off my diffuser while we're— it's a good time for me to turn this off because we're going to get ready to start blending.
Okay. Move this over to the side. Okay, now tomorrow again we're going to go way beyond what we've done here, but this gives you a really good idea of how to use these different essential oils. Now, okay, I can see everybody's well taken care of on the chat. There we go. So before we start blending, there's another thing that you might see on the internet first. Is carrot seed a sunscreen?
And it is not a sunscreen. Although it's a beautiful addition to skincare, it's not a replacement for your sunscreen. They don't— sometimes they say that the essential oil has a 38 SPF, and that simply hasn't been proven yet, so we can't say that. And why is the carrot— or why is my carrot seed oil orange? Because it's not carrot seed oil, it is carrot root macerated oil.
All right, so what about pregnancy or breastfeeding? This is a little bit of safety information. So when in doubt, choose an alternative, and we usually will avoid carrot seed during breastfeeding and pregnancy. Now let's get to the fun part here. Let's make our carrot face moisturizer. I'm going to bring over my ingredients.
Now we do have specials I'm going to tell you about towards the end of this presentation, so don't order anything yet because I have some things that you need to know about. We'll move this over. We're going to use our argan oil, our rosehip seed oil, and we're going to make a 1 fluid ounce blend. Now we're going to put 1 drop of our carrot seed oil, which is our cultivated or our garden carrot seed oil.
Just 1 drop in here. And the rosehip seed is really beautiful on the skin. It pairs with our carrot seed, and it pairs really well with our argan oil. Putting both of these together— now maybe you don't have these carriers on your shelf, but you have a different carrier. Jojoba oil on its own is beautiful on the skin, so you could substitute one or both of these with This is so easy to make, and you can have it on your shelf and use it every day.
So we'll put just half and half. We don't even have to measure because this is a 1 fluid ounce up to the neck. Part of this in here, and you can play around with your percentages. I have a little bit less than a half, so I have mostly 3/4, not quite 3/4 of our rosehip seed oil. Put that in.
This is going to be beautiful. I can't wait to use this. Right up to this neck, or right below the neck, and then one little drop of carrot seed oil, and you're going to have a gorgeous blend. There we go. If you happen to get 2 drops in here, that's still going to be okay. You want to make sure you label this blend with what is in here, when you made it.
And I can see when I'm blending this, I can see right through the bottle that the essential oil still takes a lot to blend in the essential oil. With the carrier. And I always give it a little bit of a shake as well, then I can tell that it's blended up really nicely. So I'll tell you more about rosehip seed oil as we go forward because we do have a special to tell you about on the rosehip seed oil as well as some carrot seed oil.
Now we're going to do a second recipe. We just did this. Our second recipe is the Ember Glow Grounding Balm, and I'm going to move things around a little bit. And our— let's come back to me here. I have a sneaking suspicion I need to do something here.
There we go. Okay, so we have our Ember Glow Grounding Balm, and while we've been talking, I have melted our beeswax. And what I did— move this over a little bit— this is my really special tea maker because there's 2 sides on this, and you can do several of these at one time if you wanted to. This is on my Amazon store, our Aromahead Amazon store. But I measured out— turn this on.
I want to make sure I'm in grams because it does grams and ounces, and it only calls for 3 grams of beeswax, which isn't very much. I want to show you how much this is. That's already 4 grams. There we are, 3 grams of beeswax. for 1 ounce of our salve. And this will make a— or balm— this will make a light, easy-to-put-on-your-skin balm.
And then I just melted it. And I turn this on. This goes up to 180. And when you're doing small portions like this, this works so well. And just as I was talking this unmelted— or yeah, unmelted, hardened again. So I'm going to put this off to the side and we're going to talk a little bit about this recipe. This is a recipe that I created last week and I had it in the newsletter that comes out every Saturday.
If you're not on that newsletter, you make sure you get on the Thriving Aromatherapy It's a newsletter. Every Saturday one comes out with a recipe, all kinds of great information, some musings that I always put in there about what has gone on in my week. So, and it's also on our recipe app as well. So we are going to put in some apricot kernel oil. If you don't have apricot kernel oil, again, you can use jojoba You can use Vanilla-infused Jojoba.
You can use just about any carrier that you want. The apricot seed oil has kind of a beautiful almondy smell to it, so it contributes to the blend. Mmm, beautiful. And along with this, we're going to now use our wild carrot because we want that uplifting benefit to this blend. And now we're also going to use Cedarwood Atlas, which is very, very grounding.
It brings depth, it brings steadiness. And then I chose Red Mandarin because it's a little bit sweeter than our Green Mandarin, and I thought that the red went really well with our carrot. It reminds us of orange. Okay, so right now, if you don't have Cedarwood Atlas, There's another one that you can use, Cedarwood Deodar. This one is almost completely interchangeable with Cedarwood Atlas. It has a little bit lighter aroma, but very close to the Cedarwood Atlas.
You can also use sandalwood, patchouli, something that brings it down. Cedarwood— Cedrus virginiana would be another good one to use. And this is going to be hot, remember, but it's all melted and it is hot. Let me see if I can tip it up. Actually, I'm going to put the almond oil in first. And this is a 1-ounce tin, so I'm not even going to measure out. I'm just going to pour right into the tin.
It will sort of start to solidify again. Because we're putting a cold liquid into a hot liquid. Give it a little bit of a stir, and we'll let that sit there just for a minute while it continues to melt. I have a little paper towel that I put on to protect my surface, and then as soon as that's melted, we'll put in our drops.
So I'm going to go over to your comments and see what's happening, what's happening on the chat. All right, um, get down here. This tea warmer goes up to 180 degrees. It does, um, 170, 160, 150, 140, 130, and then 180 is the top. on it. So I use this all the time.
My grandson came up and he had fallen, had a bicycle accident, and had quite a severe scrape on the side of his leg, and it was hurting him. So I quickly made a salve with beeswax and jojoba oil, and I put lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, in it, and he had a salve within 5 minutes. It was really handy, and I was able to melt it On my tea warmer. I have one here at our studio, and I always have one at home as well.
So carrot seed oil is great for dry skin. Exactly. And well, thank you for bringing this up, Stacia. There is carrot seed hydrosol as well that, that Aromatics International carries, and it is great for toning the skin and would go really well with either one of our blends. Um, let's see here. So the recipes, you're going to find the recipes over in— let me see if I can bring it up here.
We've got the recipe right here, but the recipes are on a recipe card on a PDF over in the Natural Living Club. So we could go over here to our Natural Living Club, click on Recipes, and here we have it. All the recipes: the diffuser blend, the carrot face moisturizer, or special—what do you call it? a serum.
Ember Glow Grounding Balm, and a little bit of information here too. So that's all in your course. Natural Living Club is where you want to find all that information. Okay, um, and ginger— yes, you can put any kind of citrus in here. Sweet orange would be beautiful as well. Um, blood orange would be gorgeous in here, and Um, and thanks for bringing that up, Chris.
When you make an oil or a butter, I do spritz where I'm going to put it as a moisturizer. I spritz it first with a hydrosol. If there's no hydrosol available, I'll pat some water onto my skin, and then it absorbs in a lot easier into your skin if you want that moisturizing effect. So carrier oil It's not the same thing as essential oil. A carrier oil is a fatty oil and it carries our essential oil.
The essential oil is very concentrated little droplets that are on the plant, and when they're distilled, you get the concentrated essential oil. Then you have the water portion, which is our hydrosol or our hydrolat. Okay, it looks like we're melted here. Give it a little stir, and I'm going to turn this off. And then we'll put in our 5 drops of our carrot, and this is going to be the wild carrot.
And again, if you get an extra drop or 2, we have room for that. 5 drops of our Cedarwood Atlas. This is also a really great perfume. Did my air come on? 5 drops of our Red Mandarin. Give it a nice stir.
Wipe off your utensil right away and then it will be nice and clean. And then use your, um, some kind of a paper towel or something to move this because it is very hot. We're going to put this right down here. Oops, I could have done that a little more gracefully. There we go. Wipe it up. Move this off to the side because we're all finished with that.
I'm going to gently cap this and then I'll show you what it looks like in just a little bit. It doesn't take very long for that to start to solidify. All right, so that's our recipe. Let's go back to our slides. We just made that. And now what I'm hoping that you'll take home with you on this is it's 2 important things. These are 2 very different oils.
The garden carrot, which is subspecies sativus, it's warm, it's earthy, it's lingering, and carotol is the star of the GC/MS report that we looked at today. And then on our right-hand side is the wild carrot, Daucus carota subspecies carota. It is bright and fruity and gently floral, and it's made of esters. Geranyl acetate leads that report. So we have 2 very different experiences.
So most importantly, you might have a carrot seed bottle Without it saying what it actually is. I think on our carrot seed right now, the carrot seed just says Daucus carota, and I do not even have the sativa on here, but the new labels will have that on there. The wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace, is a little bit off as well.
So, Know that when you get those bottles. Okay, but from this deep dive that I've done, it made me go into our advanced graduate program. We're now studying both of these oils in our advanced graduate program. Um, did a deep dive into— um, I thought everybody had it backwards, and I discovered that I had it backwards. So now we're rectifying that. Okay, so are you ready to go a little bit deeper?
Tomorrow we're going a lot deeper with carrot seed oil. We'll look at the components that shape these oils in a much deeper way. our Thriving Aromatherapist membership program is a special membership program, and every month we have a live event on a specific oil, and all through the month we have different articles that come about. In fact, let me see if I have this up.
I'll show you that in just a moment. But something else I want to show you, and we're going to— we have enough time that we're going to practice with this just a little bit so that I can show you some things. We are going to talk about, and I want to show you Thymely Lite and Thymely Premium. You've heard about these before, we've been talking about these. Well, if you haven't met Thymely yet, this is our aromatherapy research assistant.
This is information from the Aromahead Institute and Aromatics International. This is not information that you get just off of the internet. It is our own educational information. So this works like you ask it a question, which I'm going to show you, and you get some answers to it. So Thymely Lite is $49 a year, and with that we have a new thing that has just happened, and that is on your phone. If you have a phone, iPhone or a regular phone, then you can have a recipe app on here which I use all the time.
Unlimited questions is included in this, over 2,300 vetted recipes plus essential oil profiles and carrier oil profiles. And you also will get your Natural Living Club membership free of charge next time that you go to renew. This is a brand new thing. with 10% off at Aromatics International when you go to shop. Thymely Premium is included in our Thriving Aromatherapist membership.
Okay, that is where we have our Thrive Live, our monthly deep dives. We have also 3 continuing education credits each month for those in the Thrive. And hang on, 30% off at Aromatics International. On your products, on your essential oils. To me, that's unheard of, but a lot of professionals are in our Thriving Aromatherapist community, and this really helps them out a lot as they make blends for their clients.
But we have a lot of people who also are making blends in their own household and for themselves, and it also gives you 15% off of the Aromahead courses. So the idea is really simple. You ask, you learn, and then you follow the source as deeply as you want to go. We're going to play with this a little bit, but first I want to tell you about a few little specials. What we're going to do with Thymely is we're going to pop in one of the recipes that we just did, ask it some questions about that recipe so you can see what it does.
So this week's special is for everyone. This week's gift for everyone, you can choose your carrot seed, 5 mL of carrot seed. Do we know which one that is, Devin? Yes, it's the, it's the common one. It is the garden carrot seed, 5 mL of garden carrot seed. Or you can choose to have the rosehip seed oil, either one. It's up to you which one you would like to choose. And that is if you place an order You can select which one you want to go, and that is from Tuesday to Tuesday.
So it started yesterday and it goes until next Tuesday. Or if you are a Thrive member or a Thymely Premium member, and if you are one or the other, you have both. So if you are a Thrive member, you already have Thymely Premium. That is already yours. So you can choose the 5 ml carrot seeds You can choose a 1-ounce trauma oil, or you can say surprise me, I want a surprise. So September's gift can be claimed until Wednesday.
Is that next Wednesday? Today. That's good through to today. Okay, so, and on top of that, a gift for you, those of you who are joining us live I want to show you— let's come back to me here. I'm going to show you, you'll also get a free dropper, which works really well in, like, the blend that we just made for your face.
They work really well to take the cap off that comes with it and use this. Oh, that's great. Instead, I use these all the time. They're very, very handy. There's 4 in a pack. And just for being here live, if you were to place an order of any amount, you will get these in your order. But before you do that, you have to— let's go to the next slide. And you have that until 3 PM today Mountain Time, which is 5 o'clock Eastern Time.
So this is the link. that you need to use to get that free gift. So I would put this link in, copy this link, and aromatics.com/products. So it's in the chat, the first pinned link in the chat. Just click that, it'll take you right to the page. Devin's on top of it. It's the first pinned link in the chat. Click on that and you're automatically there to receive your free gift.
So you go to the link and you add that live event for being here live, and you add that gift, you add the products that you want in your cart. And remember, there's no charge for these dropper caps. And then you choose whatever gift that you want with your order. Okay, now remember, the droppers are just until 3 PM today. Now let me see if I've left you all behind or if you're right with me. Okay, so let's— we have a lot of love for Thymely for sure.
All right, we'll go back and we'll look at where those recipes are again. You have to make sure you're in the Natural Living Club. The Natural Living Club is where the recipes live. Okay, so let's go down here. So you've got the free caps and you've got the free gifts that you can choose upon checkout. And before we go any further, let's look at this week's leaderboards.
So on Skool, we have the leaderboard, and these are the people that go in there and they're in there commenting and helping you with your questions. We have 10 people who came up with— on the top 10. Chris Pressler, Donna Keane, and Rika S are top 3 ones. We've got Angie close behind, Alicia's close behind, Kimberly. You're all up there. You all have spent a lot of time, and this is just an extra, extra special gift.
It's a $25 gift card. to Aromatics International. And do we know if these got put into their accounts already? I believe that they did, yeah. So those of you who are on the leaderboard and have this $25 gift, these— and if you have an account at Aromatics International, this $25 gift card has already been put into your account. So all you have to do is click Add your gift card to your order.
So you're, you're all very special to our community, and this is just an extra thanks for those of you who put so much time into making this community so awesome for all of us. Now there's 3 more winners that I want to talk about. Let me get over here to my next slide. These are the homework winners. So Jenny puts homework over in the Skool platform, and she had a xanthoxylum homework winner.
She's just put in— you can also do the carrot seed homework that will choose winners for next week. But our xanthoxylum homework winners— and thank you to everyone who made a blend and shared it. And these were chosen automatically. I did not choose them, and there's a special thing that goes through and does the choosing for us because I want every one of you to win. and you are all winners because you have this event that you can come to every single Wednesday, plus some special deals. So congratulations, $25 to Julia Barta.
She blended a few drops into her body lotion. She used it to massage her leg. It was simple, it's practical, and exactly the kind of everyday blend that we love to see because blending does not need to be complicated. You can— we made 3 blends today in this little short hour that we have spent together. $25 to Teresa Edwards. She made the Gentle Insect Bite Relief Spray, and then she kept going. She made a Tension Headache Lotion, an Overwork Pain Relief Stock Bottle, and she said, seriously, the Gentle Insect Bite Relief is amazing.
And then $25 to Deb Marshall. A relaxing diffuser blend is what she made. 3 drops of xanthoxylum, 2 drops of lime, and 1 drop of clove. Well, clove met her nose first, then lime, and then she got a hint of warm peach with this combination. Now doesn't that want— just want you to, you know, make you want to blend this blend? A hint of warm peach. How amazing.
Okay, so let's go back. Do we have any questions? Let's go back. I'm going to go back a few slides here. I want to answer. Okay, this is the link that Devin pinned up at the top that you need to click on, this link, to get your free droppers. And then the Tea Time Specials is the carrot seed, 5 mL of carrot seed, or you can choose a rosehip seed oil.
To qualify for the carrot seed— which I got the wrong carrot seed, it is the cultivated carrots— or the 1 ounce of rosehip, to qualify for that gift you have to have at least a $40 order, and then you choose that free gift at checkout. Okay, and there's a time limit on all of these. Every week there's a different special going on. If you're a Thrive member, you can also choose a carrot seed, a trauma oil, or a surprise gift.
Okay, and then again over in our— this is Natural Living Club. See that? Natural Living Club. If you go up on the top to Classroom, go down to Carrot Seed, click Carrot Seed, and that is where you're going to find the replay as well as the recipes and a workbook that Jenny made especially for you. Now let's have a little bit of fun. We have just a few minutes here. I want to go over to chat.
See if I can make this a little bit bigger. Okay, this is— I'm all signed in for chat. This is what it looks like when you go into Thymely Aromatherapist. You can go to your profile, you can go to your pantry because this is connected to Aromatics International, and every time you buy something, it's going to show up in my pantry. Now mine is really old because I haven't bought anything for a while. But it will show you bergamot essential oil, what the batch was that you got, when it was distilled, when it expired.
You could buy it again. And get this, you can say, if you have your essential oils in your pantry, what can I make from my pantry right now? Or what is missing from my pantry for a good sleep blend? There's all kinds of things you can ask, and then it saves your So you can go back and look at your chats. I want to start a new chat, and let's go over— I want to view— I want to exit full screen, and
I want to go over to our— Chat. Let's go into here, our recipes. Let's look at our Roadside Calm blend. I'm going to copy this and I'm going to put it over in, in this chat, and I'm going to say I made
this recipe. What are the best therapeutic properties of this blend? And I'm going to paste my blend on there. I'm going to ask and see what it comes up with. Those of you who are in Thymely Aromatherapist, you could spend a lot of time in here asking different questions. My blend— I'll wait for it to get done here.
Gives you a lot of information. My blend of wild carrot, xanthoxylum, and vetiver green brings together a unique synergy of a therapeutic property, especially for emotional balance, grounding, and mental clarity. It also has analgesic, which is pain relief, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, antifungal, and anti-anxiety. Goes on, tells you about the emotional, tells you about, you know, xanthoxylum, tells you about vetiver green, goes into the synergy of the blend.
And I would like to switch out one of the oils and make this more energizing. What oil do you suggest. Okay, remember, this is coming from years and years of Aromatics International and Aromahead Institute information. All right, so this gives us some really good ideas of what we can do.
Say, what to switch if you do vetiver, um, deeply grounding. Replacing it will shift the blend toward more energy and brightness. Or wild carrot and xanthoxylum both offer emotional balance but are less overly energizing than some classic citrus or mint oils. So I might consider sweet orange, and it tells you why, grapefruit, lemon, peppermint, and then a recommendation here with a new recipe.
So you kind of see what happens here. You can put in things like, well, What happens if I don't have a specific oil? What is a substitute? And I'm going to just go up here and let's see if I can do this on the fly. I want to go into a window so it doesn't recognize me. Okay.
And if you were to go to— whoops, that's my lavender field, by the way, that you just saw— um, askthymely.com, you— this is what you'll see. It will give you all kinds of information. You can join. And when you join, you know, when I think about— let's go down here. Gives you all this information. Then at the bottom— Somewhere down here.
Here we are. When I think of $49 a year for Thymely Lite, it still gives you a ton of recipes. You get the app that goes on your phone and a lot of substitutions, including the— going forward, the Natural Living club membership. So if you have Thymely Lite, next time you go to sign up for Natural Living Club to renew, you will not have to pay on that. But $495 a year, if you are an aromatherapy student or you are doing a lot of blending, this will pay for itself in no time flat, especially with that 30% savings off of essential oils.
Now You're saying, ah, you're trying to sell me something. What I'm trying to do is show you a remarkable tool that my son Jaren has come up with. We were just talking about it on the way down here, how it is just life-changing in the aromatherapy world, and there's nothing out there like this. All right, so that is everything in a nutshell. You can always go to these specific places and you can look them up and see what's happening.
All right. So let's see what else I have. Let me see if there's any other questions I haven't answered— asked. If I have the app and it uses Thymely Lite, are the actions she is showing now included? What I was showing you when I was asking questions was the premium, Thymely Premium. But Thymely Lite also will answer some light questions for you. It doesn't access near the information, but it accesses quite a bit of information.
Let's see here. Let me see. Okay, I hope that makes sense. Does anybody else have any questions? It's about time for us to go ahead and sign off. Let's go back to my screen here. I want to thank you guys for a really special time together. I can't wait to share more with you.
Those of you who are in Thymely Premium or ThriveEO, it's the same thing, you get the same benefits I'm going to see you tomorrow with some exciting things that we're going to continue on with carrot seed oil. In the meantime, in your Natural Living Club, you'll find the recipes, you'll find your book that you can fill in, get more information, smell your oils, get curious about what's inside them. And most of all, Jenny and I long for you and wish for you to experience the oils for yourself.
And that, guys, is a wrap for today. Oh, I want to show you this really quick before we sign off. I wanted to show you our finished product. This is our finished balm, and look, you can use it as a perfume. Oh, that's so pretty. Let's smell it. That is really gorgeous. By changing out the carrier oil into maybe a vanilla jojoba, it'll change the aroma of the whole blend.
There's a Peru balsam you could add in here. There's so many things that you can do, but it is a gorgeous, gorgeous grounding blend. So have fun and we'll see you next time. Bye.