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Well, hello everyone and welcome! Hello, happy Wednesday! Happy Wednesday! It's all things d-limonene today as well as some extra bonus material that we're going to be chit-chatting about. We're so happy to have you here. We are going to be making a blend today with beeswax, so during this event you're going to see me turn this on before we actually make the product so that we have plenty of time for the beeswax to melt. There you go. All right, well, I'm just taking a second to get my final setup here with my slides and everything I need.
So Karen is going to welcome some folks from all around the world. If you haven't yet told us where you're tuning in from, Please let us know in the comments. We're so excited that you're here. We have Mina here on chat with us. Happy Wednesday, Mina. Lots of folks here. What is going on here? There we go. I just put some hand lotion on and suddenly my, my scroller was not working. You know, a fun tip that I've been doing. So our Aromatics International lotion, our unscented lotion, I absolutely love. I've been lately putting in a little bit of a carrier into the lotion to make it a little bit more just slick when I put it on.
My hair is fluffy today. I love it. You know, we are always going to have fluffy hair. We can't get away from it. Here's to fluffy hair. Fluffy hair. Fluffy hair team. I was looking for James Repentleblende to try to calm it down just a little bit. So the unscented lotion, I've been having so much fun. To me, the unscented lotion is so good for so many things, but when I put it on, it takes a— I don't know if you found this— it takes a while for me to rub it into my skin. It just takes a little extra time. What I've been doing lately to help it along is I've been putting a little bit of jojoba or argan oil and mixing it all in together.
It just adds a kind of a slicker. It just absorbs a little faster. That's a good tip. I thought about all of you this morning as I was getting ready. I was like, I do this, I should let them know. I spray a little hydrosol on and then put it on, and then it absorbs quite nicely into my skin. Oh, how nice. I didn't know you did that. Now I know. Well, it's kind of a new trick I'm doing. There you go. You know, since a lot of our shea butters, they're not water-based. Right. So with our whipped butters, which I love a lot, I like to put a little bit of a moisture down first and then put that on top.
And it's really working because I have very hard water up on the mountain where we live. Yeah. So, let's get back to my chat here. We're going to continue to say hello. We are recording. So we're very happy to have all of you here with us, and we are so excited to be doing some giveaways with you today. I'm just pulling up my slide deck while Karen says hi. We've got Kansas here. Hello, Janet! Welcome! Florida, we've got Chris from Florida.
Tennessee, Moon Sprite. Oh, I like that. Michigan is here. We've got Central California, Iowa. There we go, all kinds of folks. Orlando, Nevada desert. Oh, I bet you're having some nice hot weather there right now. You know, the weather all over the U.S. has been absolutely crazy, as you probably know from watching the news as well. We are going to pivot over to some giveaways.
Are we ready? Yes, always ready for giveaways. We're always ready for giveaways. So I'm gonna pull up my screen here. So here inside the Natural Living Lab, if you've just joined us for this experience, you're never too late, even if you're joining week 5 of 6. Each lesson is designed to take about 1 to 3 hours to go through, so it's really easy to catch up if you're just finding this this 6-week chemistry series. The whole goal of this is to give you a little bit more information and a little bit more confidence so you're able to make blends that get even better results with your essential oil work.
So we're so excited that you're here, and we like to give away some leaderboard prizes as a thank you for just being extra engaged, creating conversations, being extra nourishing to our group here. So I'm gonna hop over into our Natural Living Lab. We have 2 school groups going right now. We're gonna go into our Natural Living Lab, and these 7— or these 10 folks on our 7-day leaderboard are each getting a $25 gift card to go spend at Aromatics International.
We've got Donna, Mia, Cindy, Angie, Denise, Kathy, Chris, Joanna, Julie, and Wendy. Thank you so much for just getting in there. It really does take a village to interact with folks, to encourage, to give advice, to ask questions. So thank you so much. And again, even if you're able— only able to spend 2 minutes in the group, or maybe this week was just too busy, we're just so thankful to have you a part of this experience. We also have the Natural Living Club, which has been going on for about 3 years now, and I want to give them a big shout out over here.
We're going to go ahead and, uh, do our leaderboard prizes for our Natural Living Club as well. So a big thank you to Anne, to Amy, to Donna, Angie, Mia, Janet, Chris, Joanna, Carrie, Colette, and Wendy. We are so, again, so appreciative for all of the time you're putting in here. The Natural Living Club has 3 years worth of content. You can literally search just about anything and find an answer to just about anything inside of this group, which is fantastic. It is fantastic.
Yes. All right, so we have our homework giveaway winners. I'm going to head back over to the Natural Living Lab. And this is where we're hosting our 6-week series, and, um, we have our Lesson 1 homework giveaway. Now, I went through and, did a completely randomized— I put a link in and I said, here are all the comments, and it did a completely randomized giveaway because I want everyone to win. So I'm going to pull up the names of our winners here, and so the goal for this week was to go in and make some sort of blend that had some sort of linalool component in it.
So we had, oh, we have just about 783 comments. I think about 500 submissions came in, which is incredible. So I want all of you to win, although we're just choosing 3 folks to win. And what you're winning is going over to our online school, Aromahead Institute. We have short workshops, about 90 minutes, that Karen's been doing for years. They're so, so very valuable, packed with content. They're about $99 to $129 each. So all 3 of these folks are winning, um, a workshop of their choice.
Just email team@aromahed.com and Mina will pop it into your account. So, um, let's go ahead. I'm going to find my right Slack channel here. So our 3 winners, we've got Amy Vitale, Bonnie Johnson, and Margaret Janssens are our winners. Um, congratulations! We will pin that to the top of the post. You 3 are winning. Maybe you're maybe you're not, so when we tag you, you'll get a message that will go right into your inbox and you know that you've won. So we're gonna do a homework to, a Lesson 2 giveaway for, homework giveaway for Lesson 2 right after this, and what you do is make any blend that has any significant amount of d-limonene in it, and that's how you enter to win.
This week it'll be 3 different gift cards for $50 to go shop at aromatics.com. That'll be our prize for Lesson 2 homework giveaway. Awesome. Yeah, there we go. All right, so I, if you have any questions as we go, just pop them into the chat. If you have a specific question regarding any kind of essential oil product, a really fast way to get, the fastest way to get an answer to your question is to email team@aromatics.com. If you have an Aromahead Institute-related question, which is a course-related question, feel free to email team@aromahead.comtitute.
That's the fastest way to get answers. I've got an inbox of 71 messages over 99 notifications, so I'm having a hard time keeping up, um, with everyone right in the moment. So emailing our different teams is going to be the fastest way if you have just a really quick question that you need answered right away. I'm, I'm getting to them as I can, but that's going to be the fastest way to get a response. That's a good pro tip. That's a good pro tip. Um, all right, so today again is all about d-limonene. Do you want to let us know what you're doing here?
This is hot over here, so be careful not to touch. Karen's melting inhalers. I am trying to melt the beeswax so that we're ready, right? I wanted to put a little weight on there to encourage, so I've got— I found something just sitting right over here that gives it a little weight. Yes, the inhalers have nothing to do with it. The inhalers have nothing to do with it. They're just— they look nice and they're just giving a little weight to this, adding some weight. Yes, I love it.
If you hear any snorts, you might want to Oh yeah, so I've got little Lucy Lou in the studio today. We're going to be making a blend for Lucy Lou after our presentation today. If you joined us for our Q&A— I can hold those, I can hold this— if you're joining us for our Q&A this coming Monday, or if you joined us yesterday— over, Lucy, come here, Lucy, over, Lucy Lou, come here, good Lucy— if you joined us for our Q&A this past Monday, you know that she has a little hotspot that I've been working on for a while now. We went and saw the vet, which she gave us some great advice.
We love our vet. Although we're gonna try a different aromatherapy blend, and we want to be very intentional and have her smell different oils and go through a protocol before putting a salve together for her. Right. So if you come to our Q&A this coming Monday, we'll tell you what we did, what we put in the salve, and by then they'll be many days into, we'll let you know how it's going. 'Cause it's an unproven blend, so we don't necessarily wanna share it today 'cause we wanna try it out first. We have about 5 oils we'll test with her. Yeah. So, yeah, stay tuned.
I know, I'm excited about that. All right, we do have a free gift for all of our live attendees today. So those of you who are live, when we are done with our presentation, 'cause we want you to really focus and stay present for our content, we will give you a special link and that link will give you access to your free gift as a thank you for being live. And there's, All you need to do is place an order at Aromatics International. There's no minimum. So it can be a $10 order, a $5 order. We'll give you a free gift and that will be available to you.
Those are these. Oh, you told them the free gift. I was going to keep it a secret. Oh. I love it. That's great. That might be these. I'm not sure. Well, your free gift for today, since we're on it. That's what moms are for, right? That's what moms are for. That's what moms are for. The free gift while you're here. Here, and we're ready to announce, is a pack of 4 of our a 1-ounce aluminum tin, and we're making a solid perfume today.
So that 1-ounce solid tin pack of 4 will be your free gift. Oh, tin, not aluminum. Thank you. Yes, well, I got all flustered. I know, I threw you off your game. That's fine, no problem. That's, that's the, that's the fun of these live events. It's not about being super organized, it's about being in the moment answering questions and just having a fun time. And are we sharing that link in the NLL or on— we're not sharing it inside of the Natural Living Lab. We're only sharing it here live. So those of you who are live will have that special link.
We can probably just pop it in now. Let's just pop it in now, all of you. Well, and you know, we have one of our members is driving right now and she's going to lose cell phone service, and she's only available the first part of our time together. So she—I was thinking about doing the link earlier just for you because you're driving, you're going to lose service. That was the reason why I did that. There was a reason. I just had that intuition about it. All right, well, we're popping in a link. Any order, no, there's no minimum, place a $10 order, we'll pop in the 4 or the 1 4-pack of 1-ounce aluminum tins so that you're able to make this recipe for 4 of these specific—we're going to make a solid perfume
very shortly and you can make that along with us. I think you are right, they're aluminum. I think they're aluminum. I think you're right. I'm going to check that out right now. We're going to check that out right now. They look aluminum. I also have aluminum little tins, so, um, so the other gift for anyone in the Natural Living Lab or Natural Living Club for the next week is a 5ml of our grapefruit essential oil, which as you know is full of d-limonene, full of incredible properties. It's an $18 value, and that is free for any Natural Living Club member, Natural Living Lab member, on any order over $40.
So if you place an order at $40, you'll get the 4 tins as your free gift for being live. You'll also get your 5ml of grapefruit essential oil free on any order over $40. We love giving away free things. Aluminum. Aluminum. Yes, there we go. We got this. We got this. We're so happy that you're here. Okay, so let's go ahead and kick off our slides. Again, this is all about Lesson 2 in our 6-week chemistry series.
The component of the week that we're really doing a deep dive with is d-limonene. It's bright, it's that Sunny Lift in our blends, and it's just that one molecule that's gonna get in there and really help with our mood right away. It does so many other things. We're gonna talk about the other properties d-limonene has as we go through our presentation together. Remember, all of this content is coming from our aromatherapy certification program, so each one of these lessons is designed to be about an hour long, hour to 2 hours to, to 3 to get through.
Our certification program is 235 hours. So as you can imagine, this is a cursory overview to either act as a refresher for this content or to just kind of get you interested in how learning the chemistry can really unlock a new level of expertise and transformation with your essential oil work. So that's the goal of this 6-week experience, is to just get you even more comfortable or to do a refresher and also to just come together. One lady yesterday inside of the lab shared a comment. She's like, you know, I haven't really been inside of the lab interacting and reading comments, she's like, this is where a lot of the learning is taking place because we were in there.
I was in there all day yesterday. We were just chit-chatting back and forth. I'm working on polishing my slides, working on future lessons, getting all that going, but also I'm in there chit-chatting with all of our members and we're sharing information back and forth. And it's a really key piece of the learning process. So if you're able to go in and skim through the comments, there's gold inside of the Natural Living Lab right now. Every time I try to talk with Jenny, she's like, "Oh, I'm just about done with my PDF." Always has a PDF going. I always have a PDF going, slides going.
So that's really exciting. Yeah, Karen caught in my slides just before we went live today that I had the wrong recipe in there, so we switched it out. We have the right recipe in there now. All right, here we go. It's not the wrong recipe. We just wanted to make the solid perfume with you, and it had the inhaler blend in there. For this week, which is The Right Recipe. They're all The Right Recipe. They're all The Right Recipe. We just wanted to have and showcase the solid perfume. All right, so we are so happy that you're here. If this is your very first live event with us, if you could please pop a 1 into the chat, we would love to give you a warm welcome from, from us, from our entire group of communities that we have online.
We are Aromahead Institute. We are Aromatics International. We're the Natural Living Lab. We're the Thriving Aromatherapist, and we are the Natural Living Club, a whole collection of communities. Each one serves a different purpose. We have our professional community, um, that's more professionally aligned with folks who are out there doing clinical work, all the way to just beginning to look at essential oils professionally at ThriveEO. We also have our Natural Living Club, which is fun in the moment. We're sharing all kinds of blends, sourdough recipes.
We're sharing different ways to take plant material and infuse it into olive oil. All kinds of things are happening in there. Look at all these first-timers. We're so thankful that you're here. We have had, we have people who've been in our community for over 20 years, and we have people who are joining us for the first time today. So that's pretty exciting. That is. Welcome everyone. I know I didn't get a chance to welcome everyone at the first, but somebody came on. It just kind of worked out, but I just wanted to really warmly welcome everybody. Yeah, no matter where you're from, because we're from all over. We're from all over. And inside of the Natural Living Lab and the Natural Living Club, there's a tab that says map and then you can see where all of our members are from.
We have about 100 new members joining every single day, which is really exciting. It's incredible to me that 7,300 people are in our group right now who have raised their hand to say, we're excited to learn more about essential oil chemistry, and that is incredibly exciting. It's a great group to be a part of. Yes, congratulations to everyone. Yes. All right, so one thing as you are coming in and saying hello is where in your day, specifically?
could you use a little bit more brightness right now? Or maybe you are at the top of the world, which is wonderful. Is it maybe the morning, you're waking up feeling a little bit sluggish? Maybe it's around 2:00 PM, that 2:00 PM slump, or maybe you are just feeling a little bit down in general, or maybe you're feeling great, you just want to keep that uplifting feeling going. So let us know in the chat where in your life, if you need, if you need to, could you use a little bit more sunshine? And that is where we're gonna be talking about d-limonene and how d-limonene can really bring that sunshine into your life.
You know, I think that's one reason why I love the citrus oils so much is we don't grow citrus oil in Montana. Right. Or citrus trees. We don't grow the oil, but it, and it's always so bright and sunny and I just love smelling all the citrus oils. Yes. When Vera said that she was using Pink Grapefruit, my mouth immediately started to water. I know. I love it. Well, and one question that came in that we'll talk about later is what's the difference between white and pink grapefruit?
We can talk about it now or we can talk about it later. Yeah, there is red, white, and pink grapefruit. There you go. There's all the grapefruits and they are, as you know, when you cut open a grapefruit, it's not the ripeness but it's the type of grapefruit that you're having. So some say that the white grapefruit might be the sweetest. But it just depends on the growing season as to which grapefruit actually is the most sweet, has the most— they differ a little bit, all of them.
Yes. There's a little chemical component in our grapefruit that, and it's not very much, usually like 0.03, 0.04, can be 0.20 even, that just determines how grapefruity that citrus is. Yes, that's, that smell is. So I love it. They're all interchangeable. They're all interchangeable. If grapefruit is new to you, if you haven't worked with grapefruit essential oil, if you could pop a 3 into the chat. If you have worked with grapefruit either once or twice or a lot of times, pop a 4 into the chat.
We'd love to know your background knowledge as we come into our discussion here today. All right, I think this one is a pink grapefruit. Oh my goodness, it's just amazing. Ah, I know it's amazing, and it's still amazing. We just went to heaven. We just went to— we just went to grapefruit heaven. I would definitely take advantage of your free gift. We'll give you a free 5ml grapefruit popped into your aromatics.com order on any order over $40.
That's the deal of the week, right? The deal of the week. The gift of the week. Yeah. And all of you who are here, Karen Revealed, are getting a— if you would like to get a free 4-pack of aluminum 1-ounce tins. Oh, aluminum tins. Stopped. Did it unplug? Oh, we've got little Lucy Lou below this. You want me— I'll do it. I'll crawl down there. So I'm gonna crawl down here. I'm like, is my handy little tea warmer warmer going off on me?
And I look down and it's just unplugged. There we go. All right, look at this going again. It's a good thing I started this early. Well, there we go. Um, all right, so, uh, let's continue on here. So we would love—Your homework for this week in Lesson 1, it was to make a blend rich in linalool. You don't necessarily need to go in order, so if you're just joining us, if this is your first time coming into the community, you can certainly jump into Lesson 2 with us right now.
I highly recommend the foundations, uh, Lesson 0 at some point. It just sets a really good foundation for the vocabulary, just the lens that we're going through, some just aromatherapy 101 basics when it comes to chemistry. And then each lesson builds on itself of course, but it's also a complete lesson on its own. So you can jump into Lesson 2, go back to Lesson 0, go to Lesson 1, and again, it's pretty quick work. I mean, it really takes about 15 to 30 minutes to read through everything quickly, and then you can go back through and read it and take your time, take some notes.
There's a PDF of all of the course— or all of the content in each lesson that's easy to print off and to put in a binder if you would like, or to save on your computer. And you can read it that way. I always like to highlight and mark things up. So whatever your learning style is, it's available for you in the classroom at each page, or you can print off the entire PDF. And there's a workbook that goes along with it with some extra activities and exercises to really ground and solidify the information. So we're going to do the same thing with Lesson 2. So right after our time together, I'm going to pop in— after we're done with our live workshop today, I'm going to pop in our Lesson 2 homework giveaway.
And that is again to put in and create any blend, essential oil blend, that's rich in d-limonene. You can make one of the recipes we have provided for you exactly as it is, or you can play around and create your own. Then just come and tell us about it in the post, and then we will randomly select again 3 winners at the beginning of our— or right before we go live next week to each receive a $50 gift card to aromatics.com, which is where we, we the sorcerers, specifically Karen, for all of the products over there, meeting the, with the distillers, really creating those relationships and inviting those oils into our aromatics collection.
It's a, it's a pretty amazing collection. There's a question on grapefruit and thyroid. Let's do it. So over the years we've gathered a lot of information, and it's over on our Thymely Aromatherapist in, in the membership program. Yes. So I just popped it in there really quick because my first instinct was to say, no, it's fine to do grapefruit with thyroid issues. And it indeed is. Those with thyroid issues like Hashimoto's or thyroiditis, there's no specific contraindication for grapefruit for topical use, for aromatic use, you know, in an inhaler or a diffuser.
Um, but we would use them a little bit lower. There's just no evidence at all out there about that. Now grapefruit juice, it's not the essential oil, it's well known for its ability to inhibit certain liver enzymes, but that's not the essential oil, okay, which is the CYP3A4 for those of you who are into the science of this. And it's— but it's not— it's with the ingestion of the grapefruit juice. It's not for a topical blend or an inhalation blend.
So I like to have correct information out here because there's so much information going around. This person said this, this person said this, I read this, I heard this. We need to have the backup for it. Yes, I love that. Well, and if you are again new to us, we've been working on our Thymely Personal Research Assistant. Which we've got Thymely Lite and Thymely Premium. And because there were questions around that, because I was referencing Timely and saying, oh, Timely and I wrote this answer, and I was answering a lot of questions yesterday inside of the community.
Someone was like, what in the world is Timely? So I wrote up a really great description of what Timely Lite and Timely Premium is, and it's living inside of the Natural Living Lab right now as a blog post. So feel free to go through and peruse that. Thymely is a personal research assistant Thymely Premium can search all of the content we've ever created. And humbly, we have the largest body of content in the entire world when it comes to aromatherapy. We've been creating content regularly and a lot of content since the mid-'90s, and it's all available inside of Thymely, and it's searchable, which is pretty incredible.
And the way to have access to Thymely Premium is you have to be a member of the Thriving Aromatherapist community. Thymely. Right now we're just waitlisting. Right now we don't have it open for new members, although Karen and I were just talking before. You can see I have 71 direct messages right now inside of the Natural Living Lab. A lot of those are pertaining to how can I get access to Thymely Premium because it's one of the most powerful tools we have in aromatherapy available today. So we have created a super special link if you would like to become a member of Thrive.
We will sneak you in between membership enrollment times. So just email us team@aromahead.com. Mina has a super special link that she'll give you if you would like to become a member and have access to that. A yearly member are open. A yearly member. With that. For sure, yes. And Mina, you can go back and forth with Mina. So right now it's closed to the general public, but if you wanna sneak in, 'cause Thymely Premium, we're talking about it so much, I think it's, I want you to be able to have access to it if you would like. So just to clarify. Okay. Grapefruit essential oil does not interfere with thyroid.
Right. Okay. Medication or thyroid in general. Right. So, okay. There you go. Should we go back to our slides? And I do, sparkalicious, I've got an eye on the comments, is such a great word. We add sparkalicious to all of our— Sparkalicious. Yes, we do. That is because we absolutely love what we do. We love sourcing the oils. And I think that comes through. Oh, it does. So Karen is super, super particular. If you go up to her cabin in the woods, which is right below our lavender field or above our lavender field, Underfield, high up in the mountains of Montana.
Um, she always has many different samples from many different distillers on her table while she's working. She's smelling, and so she will have maybe 4 or 5 different distiller options to choose from, and they all have strong GCMS reports. They're vibrant, they're beautiful, great ethics. They really align with our mission and vision, but one will smell really, really good, and that's the one Karen sources. This. So it's, it's a few things that go into it, and every single one is smell tested. And Karen has my favorite nose for oils.
So favorite nose over here as well. Okay. All right, well, let's go back to our slides again. If you have any questions specifically about Thymely, I don't want to derail our content here, just email Mina, Mina or team@aromahead.com, and Mina has a super special link for you. All right, let's go back over to our slides here and make that full screen. Okay. Oh, Lucy, over here! Lucy, Lucy, over here! Lucy, oh, we're gonna make Lucy's blend after this, so that's why Lucy's at work with me today.
I'm gonna— we are— we're ready, almost ready. So when you're ready, we're ready. I'm going to turn this way down. Should I pop over to that specific slide and make this since we're ready? And then come back. So I'm at slide 3. We'll come back. Let's just pop over to the recipe and we'll go back to slide 3. Let's just go ahead and make it. Well, this, this is the Bright Energy Solid Perfume recipe. Yes. And, um, it calls for jojoba.
We're using beeswax. This is gorgeous. Our beautiful grapefruit, blood orange, palo santo, and lavender. Now notice that this lavender is from last week. It's from our monoterpenols. Yes. So this is a progressive, perfume, and we do that throughout the 6 weeks. We kind of pull in what we've already learned, add it to what we're currently learning, in some of the recipes. The only thing we need to look at is grapefruit.
Now grapefruit is phototoxic, but it's very mildly phototoxic. In fact, 24 drops per ounce before there's any phototoxic reaction. So we would never put 24 drops in 1 ounce. That's a very large amount. Probably the maximum we would ever put in would be, you know, 15 drops if it was one straight, straight one oil in your blend. So, but we don't do that. And the blood orange is not phototoxic.
A good substitute for blood orange would be sweet orange. There you go. Right? Yeah. So, um, palo santo is something that Jenny might be talking about. It's a very unusual monoterpene oil in that it comes from the wood and not a citrus oil. Mm-hmm. And it has that grounding effects, to it with that, even though it has a high d-limonene in it. It's very interesting. Okay, so let's make this blend. Let's make this blend, and we're going to use this specific, I would say, structure of the blend when it comes to a liquid, our liquid wax with jojoba and our beeswax, except we're going to use olive oil and different oils
when you make Lucy Liu's Hot Spot blend, which we'll tell you about on our coming up in our Q&A. We'll tell you what we did and how it worked, or how it's working, on our Q&A coming up this Monday. So stay tuned for that. So we're going to take this— what we love to take a specific recipe and then just swap out oils. That's one great quick way to do it. So what I did is I took our beeswax from over here on our little— and I'm measuring out 0.1 ounce or 3 grams of beeswax.
Now this, if you had previously printed off this PDF, the recipe PDF in your course, in your classroom, it was originally 0.2 ounce and 6 grams, but that was for, for a 2 ounce, and we changed it to a 1 ounce instead of 2, so it is 0.1 ounce or 3 grams. So I simply weighed it out on my scale, and now I've melted it It's all melted. Make sure it's not too hot.
When you add in your jojoba, you might— it might solidify a little bit. And we'll just get that to grams again. And now we're going to add our jojoba oil, 0.8 fluid ounces or 24 mL. So we don't have that in grams, so I am going to grab a— would you like me to grab something? Graduated cylinder? This is only 5 mL, so I need one that will hold almost, 30 mL. Should we do 5 and then 3?
Here we go. Okay, I'll use this large one. Oh wow, there we go. That was supposed to be a prop, but we're going to use it today. So 30 mL is 1 ounce. We're going to go slightly below that so we can fit everything into our 1 ounce tin. So we're going to go just probably 28 or 24 mils. So right to here. Now we can get rid of that weight scale, and I'll just blend right here.
Okay, pour our jojoba in. You can also use like sweet almond We go 24. Now we're going to add this into our little beeswax. Now when I was eyeballing this, I thought it'll never fit in this little container. I also thought that. I was like, I think, I wonder how this is going to work out for us.
Sometimes we figure things out on our live events in real time. Time, but it worked out great. Now since this is already hot, it's going to melt very, very quickly. I sure can. How about the tins? Okay, and we're just gonna let this melt all the way. We have a little glass stir rod that will just make sure it just will solidify for just a little bit Jojoba oil is actually a wax in itself.
It's a liquid wax. We always call it oil because it looks like an oil. Just gonna stir this up. Now while this is melting, did you wanna continue on with your slides while we do this? Well, yes. Now I'm just looking at different comments in here to just make sure we're in the moment here with any kind of questions that are happening. Okay, 'cause this will be melted probably in about about, I would say, 3 minutes at the most.
Okay, that sounds good. We can just kind of hang out and linger here. That's true. So what we can do in the meantime, put this right over here on my wood. Okay. And I'll move this off to the side. There we go. And I'm going to pour, um, these other beeswax pellets back in. And set this back over here where our kit is, and we'll start putting our essential oils in here.
Devin read our minds. Thank you, Devin. Sure did. Devin's a good mind reader. So the recipe— let me bring that up. I got it. I got it. I'll pull it over here. Okay, it calls for 8 drops of grapefruit, 6 blood orange, 4 palo, and 2 lavender. So what we're going to do is you might want to change this recipe up depending on your— what you're smelling. You know, we could even put them right into the tin potentially, and then glass stir rod it in.
That's okay. Okay, right here would be best so that we can smell it really easy. That's great. And see what we're doing here. That's great. Now we're going to start with the Palo. I'm going to put 1 drop of Palo in. And then we'll put 1 drop of our grapefruit, and we're just going to get a sense of what these oils smell like together. Okay, and then we'll put in 1 drop of our blood orange.
And with the way that it is, you're going to smell the palo santo a lot stronger than you will the other oils because it's a heavier oil even though it's a monoterpene. And then 1 drop of our lavender. So just a quick note on the Palo Santo here, um, as we are putting this together, the Palo Santo is a beautiful, beautiful oil and it comes— this particular distiller in Ecuador actually waits for different branches of the Palo Santo tree to drop naturally to the ground because the tree is so precious and so he goes through and takes those branches and that's what's used to distill.
So no tree is harmed in the process. It's a really beautiful relationship with the tree in that particular region. I know, and it's, it's an oil that you like to tuck in. Yeah. What do you, this is 1:1:1, same, same number of drops. And what we're doing right now is kind of modeling the drop-by-drop method. So if you were thinking, oh, I want this to be more lavender, heavy, or I want it to be— you can— this is kind of the drop-by-drop method. You can also follow the recipe exactly, or you can customize the aroma for yourself.
That's beautiful. So I know that I'm going to love the grapefruit in here. Yeah, I'm going to put the next 7 drops in here. So it smells a little bit peppery. Beautiful though. Palo Santo coming through. And then 6 drops of our Blood Orange. And this is where you get to be a perfumer, right? This is where you're really just dialing in the aroma that you love or the person you're blending for just loves.
6. But one extra drop of Grapefruit or of the Blood Orange. Now you saw the— I don't know if you could see the Blood Orange when it came through, but it's kind of an orangey color. Yeah. Definitely the citrus in there. Oh, it's beautiful. Now the palo santo, I'm going to add one drop at a time because it's a stronger one and I don't want it to take over my blend. Now this will change aroma within the next 24 to 48 hours, so I usually like to make my blend up if I'm doing it for a perfume, and I might wait before I add it to my carrier.
There you go. Mm, I can definitely smell the Palo, but it's not taking over. To me, that's perfect. If you love Palo, I would keep layering in. I'm going to put one more drop. That's great, that's great. So that's 3 total drops. That's really nice too. And I'm going to do the 4th one. Okay. On here. I think the citrus can handle 4 drops of Palo. I think so too. Now our lavender.
I'm gonna put the lavender in. It's really lavender being a little—oh, there you go. Okay, we've got top notes here. This one is kind of a top note because of the d-limonene, but it's also kind of a— almost a base note as well. There you go. Now we'll put one more drop of our lavender in. Swirl it around. Whoa, that other drop of lavender really balanced that whole blend out.
It really did. I love it. Every time we layered in, I'm like, this is beautiful, this would be good as is. And then every time we added something else in, it's like, no, that's gorgeous. Okay, keep stirring this up a little bit. Keep stirring it up. I'm hopping into our, uh, just a few little pieces I want to get totally melted.
Any questions on what we're doing so far? Well, we are— anytime you are wondering about a recipe that we're blending with, you can find all of that information over inside of the Natural Living Lab. And so Since some of you are brand new, you can find in the— under the community tab is where we have different conversations. Different things are happening over here. You can create a conversation, you can add to a conversation. I try to—I can only pin 3 posts at one time, so I try to have the most relevant posts pinned at any given time, but I can't always do that.
Sometimes you have to go a little bit below to find but the top 3 are the ones to look at first. Um, inside of the classroom are the different lessons, and they unlock every Tuesday morning, or sometime on Tuesday. They unlocked a little bit later yesterday morning, which was Tuesday, because I jumped out of bed and ran to meet with our photographer to start working on our lavender photo shoot we're gonna do tomorrow evening, and I did not have my computer. So as soon as I got back to my computer, I unlocked lesson. So there was a couple-hour delay for that, but next Tuesday we'll be right bright and early.
It's getting there. It's getting there. Um, over here in the calendar tab is where you can find links to the different events we're doing. So different Q&As you can find here, the different live workshops like we're on right now. Um, you can look at the map over here for where all of the members are. So maybe there's a member in your neck of the woods, wherever you might be. You can also go to here in our leaderboards. This just gives you an indicator of a great person to reach out to or to interact with if you do have a more in-depth question.
Those folks are just so engaged and they're so helpful in terms of contributing and answering questions and creating conversation. Are you ready? We're ready. Okay, great. Well, Jenny gave you a little hint too. You can blend directly into your tin. So you can put your beeswax right in the tin, put it on your tea warmer to melt. And I use a tea warmer because for a little small amount, because it works so well. Um, there's also a little white thing that goes on here to protect the heat, but you put your tin on there.
And let me turn this off. Is that going to be too hot? No. Not too hot, but be careful because it could be too hot. And we're just going to pour it all right directly into our tin. Okay, now we have our essential oils all done, ready to pour in. So we'll just pour them in. And at this point, it's important— you want to— I want to get that last little drop on there. Come on.
You want to stir this up so the essential oils are very well blended in your blend, in your jojoba and wax. Okay, so you just give it a good stir, stir it up a lot till it really— everything is blended in. You stir more than you think you would, right? Yes, exactly. Sometimes we use, put a little drop of German chamomile in here just so you can see how long it takes to stir up that blue into it.
Okay, there we go. We're done. We're done. That's just gonna— that's gonna solidify. Put the lid loosely on like that. You just let it set. So what you would do if you wanted to make more than the 1 ounce is you would just do Aroma Math and times everything by 4, and then you can have 4, and then you can keep 1 and give 3 away to friends or family or whatever it might be. Um, that's another thing I've been using Thymely Premium for all the time is to do a lot of aroma math for me.
It's quick and it's super accurate. And people will love this little perfume. And then when it's done and solid, um, I take it, I put it on my pulse points, I might put it behind my ears, I might put it here, I might put it here. If it's an evening blend, I like to put it here too so I can smell it as I get lulled into sleep. Oh, I love that. Um, I'm going to wake your computer up because I want to see the comments. Karen's got them on her computer. I have them on mine, but I go back and forth between slides and comments.
Right, let's get this back. All right, so some tips: melt low and slow, add in your drops. You don't need to rush this. It also doesn't take that much time. So a lot of times when you're starting to get into more advanced aromatherapy blends like we're doing right now, or formulations, there can be an intimidation factor. But the first time you make it, you'll go through the process and you'll see how easy and simple it is to make. If you don't have this nifty tea warmer, and, um, you can easily melt this, especially if you're making larger amounts.
If you're making like 4 ounces, I use a hot water bath, but you can with the 1 ounce too. You just get a little glass container like a little Pyrex, add your beeswax in there, put it into a hot water bath like a double boiler situation. You use your Pyrex as your double boiler, and you just make sure that the water does not come up above your container because you don't want water in your beeswax. There's no water in here, so it has a nice long shelf life.
If we introduce water into it, it may only have a week or two shelf life. So, um, and then wait till it melts, add your jojoba in there, give it Stir, same procedure, you're just using a different way to melt your beeswax. I know, that's fantastic. Um, all right, so I'm going to go through, um, let's talk about, uh, phototoxicity on slide 17, and then I want to skip back to in general what d-limonene can do, um, in addition to being bright and uplifting.
So our, uh, citruses, which are, um, where a lot of our d-limonene oils, um, come from, tend to be, uh, can be phototoxic. So you need to just make sure that you are aware, especially when we're in summertime here in our hemisphere— not in the other hemisphere, but in our hemisphere we're in summertime— um, just keep a running list when you are looking to do different substitutions, you're blending with the citruses, that it's just important that some citrus oils carry compounds that are reactive to the sun or tanning heads.
So for about 24 hours. So if you do put on a blend that's over the recommended dilution and you go out into the sun, there's a potential to get a phototoxic chemical burn. And so we want to avoid that at all costs. And when you're working under— when you're working within the right dilution, just make sure that you know what those are for bergamot, for grapefruit, make sure that you know what they are for lemon, etc. Then you'll be just fine and you'll have a very experience. Um, I was watching, some random doctor show online, you know, just some background noise.
And one of the patients they were seeing on this particular show, which I will remember the name in a moment, but they called, that this patient came in and it was referred to what is called margarita hands in the medical world. And they'd been making lime margaritas by the beach. Yeah. Yes. And they just had chemical burns all over, and I was like, oh my goodness, that's what we talk about all the time when we're looking at essential oil safety around our citrus oils, because you don't— we want to avoid that at all costs. So bergamot is not on our list here, but bergamot, only 2 drops can you add to a 1-ounce blend like this to avoid the phototoxic properties.
But if I add 2 drops of bergamot in here then I'm not going to be able to add any other citrus oil that does have phototoxic properties. So what I could do is add grapefruit and 1 drop of bergamot, but there is a way to figure that out. You have to do kind of do the math because it's cumulative. If I have 3 different essential oils with phototoxic properties, I usually would just keep out the bergamot as that takes up my citrus allotment.
So you just have to be aware of that. A quick, quick little story. I was just over in England, and in my group there was someone who makes products, and some of their topical products, and he said he used bergamot. And I said, oh, do you use regular bergamot? He's, oh yeah, yeah. And I, and I just had this feeling. I said, did you know that bergamot is phototoxic? He says, no, what do you And I said, that means you can only add 2 drops of bergamot to your 1-ounce blend.
He's like, but, but I'm adding other oils in there, surely that helps. And I said, no, no, it doesn't. So even though there's products, and if you see bergamot on that label, not everybody understands the appropriate way and the safety of blending with citrus oil. So that's why I'm really glad that you're learning this information. I just, thank you for saying that. I just, yesterday I was grabbing, when I was taking a break from working on all of our content and hanging out with you, I was in my office downtown Missoula and I ran across the street and grabbed just a bowl of soup and a sparkling water to run back up.
And I was like, you know, I really want some lip balm. They had some natural lip balm right there, so I grabbed it and I took it with me. And I looked on the ingredients and all it said, it was beeswax and it had natural essential oils in it, but it was just lemongrass. And I was like, well, what chemotype of lemongrass? And then it was just peppermint. And then I started to think, oh, I know, I hope they got this within the right dilution. I started to overthink my quick, my quick lip balm purchase because I hadn't had, I hadn't had a chance to make any. They weren't in my office and I just needed it super quick. And then I was, I was overthinking my purchase.
But you just don't know. You don't know if the folks who are formulating are aware of all of these nuances. And that's why it's so nice to know how to make your own products. Yes, for sure. Um, let's hop over to the comments really quick. Um, we're not going to have time to go over every slide, but like we've been doing, I'll make sure to put the slide deck both inside of the classroom— I'll put it inside of the classroom so you have access to that, to those slides, so you're able to go through and see. It was from the pit! Thank you, Samantha. Margarita Hands was from the pit, and I was like, I wish I could record this little segment because it's so relevant when we're talking about out lime.
And there are two different types of lime: steam distilled and cold pressed. And steam distilled is— which one is phototoxic? I always get them confused with lime. Oh, uh, the cold pressed is, is phototoxic. The cold pressed is phototoxic. The steam distilled takes out that furanocoumarin phototoxic property. So steam distilled lime is fine, cold pressed phototoxic. Very phototoxic, but smells It's not— you can use 4 drops of that in a blend versus bergamot is the 2 drops, so it's a little bit more, but we use so much lime that we get the steam distilled and the smell is very vibrant,
it's very beautiful. Someone was asking the shelf life. I'm just gonna demo what we're talking about with Timely Light to help you out. So if we go to D-Limonene, your Lesson 2, which we're on right now, I'm gonna go down to this week's recipe So right now we are making down here the Bright Energy Solid Perfume. Someone was asking the shelf life of this blend. I can copy this over, I can take it over to— this is the Thriving Aromatherapist, this is where Thymely lives.
I can go to Timely Aromatherapist and I can say right down here, what is the shelf life of this blend? And I'm going to copy and paste it in, and Timely is going to calculate it for me, which is pretty cool. Your screen— can I? If I go plus? Yeah, I'm scared too. It didn't work last time. Let me try again. I'm not scared to, I just want to make sure I don't lose this particular— you have to click on, on the— click on Command plus.
There we go. Okay, so Timely is telling me, um, that the shelf life of this particular perfume is determined by the ingredient with the shortest shelf life, which we know, right? But this gives us a really quick breakdown of the typical shelf life. And of course, it's all dependent on how you take care of the products on your shelf or how they've been treated before they get to you, right? So if you're working with a jojoba from the natural food store, we don't know the age, we don't know when it was pressed, but it has a very generous shelf life.
If you're working with an essential oil when you don't know the distillation date, you don't know how it's been taken care of before it gets to you. Um, that's why we love and are very biased about our products, Aromatics International. We know the distillation date, we know it was carefully taken care of in our hands and carefully shipped off to you so you can take care of it and get the most generous shelf life from it. So grapefruit has a short shelf life, typically 1 to 2 years. Blood orange, about the same. Palo Santo, 3 to 4. And lavender, 4 to 5. What I'm absolutely loving about my experience with Timely Premium here inside of the Thymely Aromatherapist is I would want to— if someone was to ask that question inside of one of our communities or to send me a DM, I would go through typically and verify all
of that just to make sure I'm giving the most accurate information, even though even though it's top of mind, I want to make sure, right? I would have checked Palo Santo shelf life and all of that, whereas I can go right here to Thymely and it grabs my own content we've been creating for over 30 years now and creates an answer for me. And so the conclusion is this particular solid perfume will be about shelf life of 1 to 2 years because of the grapefruit and the blood orange oils. So it's just a great resource to just quickly confirm either your intuition or to learn something.
So I just kind of wanted to model that for you in terms of what it can do in its capability. There is a version of this, Thymely Lite, in our Aromatherapy Recipes app, which is right here. And it's— Thymely Lite is a version of Thymely Premium in that— I'm sorry, I'm going to keep that open— in that it searches all of the information inside of the app. So Thymely Premium searches the entire database over 30 years— courses, blogs, content. Thymely Lite searches all of the content inside of the app, which is very robust as well— 2,000 recipes, endless essential oil profiles and carrier profiles.
So you can ask the same type of question within the recipe app for a more simple answer, but still a great answer. And all of this series recipes are already loaded in the app. And all of the recipes for this series, the 6-week chemistry series, are already loaded into the app, so which is great. And that's why you were able to bring it up on, on Thymely Assistant, the aromatherapist. Yep. Thymely aromatherapist is because the recipes are already in. Yep. In there so it can easily access them. And we started over at the Aromatherapy Recipes app that you're just looking at, which I love how it can give you in the recipe, you click on something you need a substitution for it.
I love that too. What can I substitute for this? I mean, somebody just asked me, what they could substitute for Palo Santo, if juniper berry would be good. So juniper berry would be beautiful in this perfume. It'll have a different aroma, but it'll be beautiful, uh, as well. You can do the Cedarwood Atlas would be a little bit closer, or Cedarwood Deodar would be a little bit— Diodora would be a little bit closer than the Juniperus virginiana. The Juniperus virginiana would give you more of a forest aroma in there, which would be gorgeous too.
I one time took juniper berry, which I love the smell of juniper berry, and I just sprinkled it on the floor of my car 'cause I wanted an immediate air freshener, and then I took off driving, and I was like, I realize I'm driving around in a gin and tonic. This is not at all what I want. I never get pulled over, but what if I do? This will be very suspicious, and I'll have to tell Mr. Officer or Miss Officer, whoever. Uh, this is juniper berry essential oil because it was the most vibrant gin and tonic smell in the world that I drove around with for a solid week.
So there you go. Here's our perfume. Oh, there you go. Our perfume has solidified. It's not totally solid, but it has solidified. And I would let this set probably for another hour or two before I would, uh, use this. Isn't that beautiful? It's gorgeous. If you, if you were to use avocado oil instead of jojoba, it would be a light green color as well. There you go. Well, as we're wrapping up, because we've got about 3 minutes left, if you— if anything stood out to you from our presentation today that resonated or was like, oh, that's something new, or that's something I remember now, if you could put in your aha moments into the chat.
What I do after each event is I download the chat and I read through everything and it helps me as I'm creating presentations, as we're creating presentations for next week and so forth, right? So your input really matters and what's resonating with you really matters so we can do more of that type of content. So if you have any kind of aha moment or something that stood out to you, pop that in. That would do us a huge, that would be a huge favor to us. Back over to the slides, I just want to remind you that those of you who are here live, we want to do a huge, uh, we want to thank you and we want to give you a pack of 4 1-ounce aluminum tins free on us.
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I did want, that was gonna be how we're gonna end the show today. So slide 10 is how we're gonna end our time together because d-limonene brings other things to your blends. As you're using this perfume that we just made, you're getting a lot of other things happening at the same time. There's a lot of benefits. Our d-limonene, our oils that are high in d-limonene, which are all of our citruses and our Palo Santo, it slows the growth of a lot of different common germs. You know, a lot of different bacterias, for instance.
It very, uh, brings a lot of comfort in. It helps calm inflammation. So it's a great massage. Now, the perfume I would not use as a massage because it's a higher dilution, but your other blends that are in your recipe PDF that Jenny has made for you definitely could use as a beautiful massage oil. It helps to calm things down, not only your emotions but certain areas that are a little bit inflamed are good to use. Any of the citrus oils do well in cleaning products.
In fact, I love the cleaning products. Just imagine some of your grapefruit in a spray or a scrub that you're making for your home. Your home just smells amazing. So you're bringing that upliftedness. It's also getting rid of some of the germs that are, that you're trying to clean away. And those are any of the citrus oils. Um, their lemon specifically is great for degreasing, and I always have that in my kitchen. Um, skin— it's a good teammate for skin.
Yes, it supports clear, healthy-looking skin, helps other ingredients to absorb better. So d-limonene is a component that when you add oils that have that in it with your other blends it absorbs more easily into your skin. I love that. Those of you who are able to hang around, we're gonna do one more slide because I have— I put in and I told someone I would, I would pop this into the slide, the difference between l-limonene and d-limonene. So the presentation is, is over, but we're gonna keep presenting because I definitely want to make good on that promise and talk to you about the differences between limonene and d-limonene.
We will be going live next Wednesday, July 20th, to talk about Lesson 3, which will open Tuesday morning on July 28th. Our upcoming Q&A this Monday, we will talk more about— bring your questions about d-limonene and we'll spend time. We had such a great conversation. It started off around linalool and then it ebbed and flowed, and that's— it's great. We want those conversations to ebb and flow. So bring your questions to that Q&A and we'll follow up on what we did for Lucy Lu. Here it is. So there are two different types of limonene, and we wanted to kind of go through and explain the two different types since we talked about it inside of the Natural Living Lab.
It was a great question and we wanted to address it here. So you have your d-limonene that we find in our citrus oils. They're bright, and also our Palo Santo, called d-limonene. Now, in our conifer oils, it changes to l-limonene. Now, that sounds like, well, what does that mean? It just means like you're looking at a left hand and a right hand, okay? They're— they, they do have different aromas. That L-limonene does give us a different aroma.
So there's— sometimes we'll see that as a plus or a minus on different reports. Reports. We have like l-carvone, for instance. There's, there's different ways of saying this for some of the different oils, not just limonene, but some of the other ones, linalool as well. And that's basically it. So they don't necessarily have— we can't assume they have the exact same properties. So when you're looking at your GCMS report, what we've been going over is d-limonene.
l-limonene, again from the conifers and the grasses, it is an understudied chemical component. Respiratory. Right, it's great for the respiratory. We do know about it, but d-limonene has been studied more, and so we are more cautious about making claims on the L-limonene, but we do know a lot about the L-limonene, but this is our lesson on d-limonene, and so we wanted to just highlight that there is there is a difference there. And we're getting into advanced stuff right now, right? Which we spend a lot of time in our certification program.
We spend a lot of time in our courses and in our different experiences that we do throughout the year. But we wanted to highlight that 'cause it was a question that came up. Can we spend a little bit more time on comments? Oh, let's. As we say goodbye. Yes, let's get over here. Love using Citrus Cleaning products. That's great. So, okay, well I'll put a copy of these slides into the classroom. Specifically, let me show you where they live. So here I am, I'm in Classroom, I'm in Delimiting.
Down here, the very final page, Workshop on Demand. You'll be able to click this in about 10 minutes and you'll be able to watch the replay. YouTube does that automatically. Here are your two— you've got your PDF of all of the content for Lesson 2 and then the workbook that goes along with that. And I will put a copy of the slides right here. When we are done with this particular, um, presentation. We are so happy that you are here today. Thank you so much. We can't wait to keep interacting inside of the community.
I'll put up the prompt and the Lesson 2 homework giveaway in a couple of hours right here inside of the Natural Living Lab, so you're able to start chiming in and, uh, and doing that. If you have any specific questions, email. If it's an aromatics question, team@aromatics.com. If it's an Aromahead question, team@aromahead.com. Jenny, these slides are absolutely gorgeous, and I'm sorry we didn't get through all of them. So if you have time, make sure you go through the slides. And I continually, I'm putting in too many slides for the hour allotted, so I'm going to be real, uh, conscious of that next week and try to make sure the slides match the time.
But you know what, sometimes it's tangents are good, and we just kind of let this, let the flow happen and keep it fluid based on questions that are coming in. Yes, yes. All right everyone, thank you so much. We'll see you inside of the Natural Living Lab, inside of the Natural Living Club. Don't forget, you have 55 more minutes to go shopping to claim your free, um, pack of 4 aluminum 1 oz tins as a thank you for being live. But use the link. But use the link. Um, and then of course, anyone over the next week, regardless of whether you're live or not, your free gift on any order over $40 is a 5ml grapefruit, which is great.
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