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Science-based aromatherapy you can actually use, from Certified Aromatherapists. Each episode is a recording of one of our live classes — hands-on sessions where we blend in real time, share recipes to nourish your skin, home, and spirit, and answer your questions along the way. Whether you're brand new to essential oils or deepening a practice you love, you'll come away with practical recipes and the confidence to make them your own.
Hello and welcome! Welcome, welcome! We're so happy that you're here. We're going to have a lot of fun talking about linalool and all kinds of other things that are just going to popcorn inside of this presentation. My name is Jenny, and I'm Karen, and we're your presenters today. I'm so grateful that Karen's joining us. She has so much knowledge, and I'm— we're gonna have a wonderful time talking about how to really delve deeper into our essential oils and get more out of, uh, knowledge know how to apply these oils into our daily lives. Exactly, we're going to have so much fun because linalool is such a great topic to talk about.
Well, it really is. I would love to hear from you if you could please pop into the comments, what is one of your favorite essential oils right now? And you might be here for the very first time inside of our community, maybe you just joined this morning and you're like, whoa, this is brand new. Well, you've just found the most wonderful nurturing group of people that are also passionate about learning and living a more natural lifestyle. And when we are able to really get in and unlock what each essential oil can do for us based on chemistry, based on intuition, based on experience, it is a really profound journey that you're either continuing on or just starting.
So I'm so happy that you're here, especially if this is your very first time with us. Welcome. And we're just so thankful to embrace and have you inside of our group here. So welcome. So Ginny has the PDFs all ready to go in the classroom. They're open. You can find them under classroom. Make sure that you're looking under the Natural Living Lab. Right. So for this series, we've got two school communities where we talk and interact. We've got our Natural Living Club. And then for this series, everything is hosted inside of the Natural Living Lab.
So please make sure that you're inside of that free group. That's where your courses will unlock. That's where your Q&As happen. So we are, again, so happy that we have. It can be a little confusing to go back and forth, but I think it also creates a nice structure inside of the Natural Living Lab to have all the courses right there, the conversations specifically about essential oil chemistry. Inside of the Natural Living Club, we also talk about salads and sourdough and DIY shampoo and all of that. It's a complementary two groups that are very complementary for one another.
Yeah, beautiful. Well, you are here, uh, live. We've got just now we've got 304 people who are here live. Thank you much for being here. We love the live energy of these events, and of course we know not everyone can be here live all the time, or, you know, schedules are all different. But for those of you who are here, we have a special free gift just for you. We'll tell you about in a little while, and I can't wait to introduce to you your free gift. So that'll be great. Yay! Let's go.
All right, we've got all kinds of cardamom, patchouli, uh, we've got lavender, frankincense, all kinds of favorites. I know it's hard to pick a favorite, isn't it? And it can change every day. So that's an extra perk. Let's go ahead. I'm gonna pull up my slides here. And before I do that, we have prizes to give out. Let's not forget to do our prizes. So— Ah, good idea. I got too excited about linalool and I need to be over here giving out prizes. So I want to give a special thank you to our leaders inside of the Natural Living Club and inside of the Natural Living Lab.
So each time we do one of these events, we are doing our 7-day leaderboard prize giveaway. So anyone, whether you join today, you can hop on the leaderboard. That's why we're specifically doing the 7-day leaderboard. So here inside of the Natural Living Lab, a huge thank you to Donna, Denise, Mia, Chris, Angie, Julie, Joanna, Wendy, Elizabeth, and Teresa. Thank you so much. And even if you're just popping into the lab for just a few minutes, here and there, or you're in there for hours, thank you so much for just continuing to foster this community and these conversations.
So thank you so much to our 7. I'm going to do a little screenshot here so I know exactly who's here at the very second we gave our prizes out. All of you are getting $25 gift cards to Aromatics.com to go shopping. And over here in our Natural Living, uh, Club, which has been going 3 years strong, we've got so much content in here. A big thank you to Chris, Donna, Angie, Amy, Katherine, uh, Joanna, Elizabeth, Mia, and Carrie. So some of you are getting $50, which is pretty cool. Whoa, that's awesome. I know. It's pretty cool. So let's do a screenshot of this.
There we go. And you know what? What I just— let's go ahead. Devin, can you ask, um, Mina to randomly select our homework giveaway winner? That is one thing. We were so excited to talk about linalool that, um, Mina now gets to randomly select our kit winner. From our homework post giveaway. Ah, which is a big deal. We have over, uh, I'll just show you over here. It's pretty cool. So, um, it closed right as we went live and Mina is now randomly selecting the winner and we have just almost 800 submissions.
Oh, good luck, Mina. Good luck, Mina. Good luck, Mina. All right, let's go ahead and dive into our slides. Welcome. So this is all about linalool, and we've been talking about how there's so much more to every bottle of essential oil than just the name of the essential oil. There's so much more to frankincense, there's so much more to Ho Wood, there's so much more to basil, to lavender, because when you look at what's in that specific essential oil, there's so many specific chemical components that really make up that specific,
essential oil. And so this is one of the chemical components that we're studying all week. Lesson 1 is all about linalool. It's very calming. This is where stillness begins, and this is where we wanted to start and anchor the 6-week series. Beautiful slides. Thank you. Gorgeous. My favorite colors. Oh, I love it. I know. So this is where we're really beginning. Now, we opened just to kind of set more background knowledge, especially if it's, you're coming into your essential oil knowledge, you're building your essential oil knowledge for the first time or you need a refresher, we created a Foundations
Lesson 0 course inside of the Natural Living Lab. And that is just a great place to go through. It's just a really solid foundation to set the stage for delving into more complex essential oil work when it comes to chemistry. But we love making complex ideas ideas really easy to understand and really fun to learn. So week 1 really opens up linalool, which is the first molecule that we are really setting into. So again, if this is your first time with us, if you could pop a 1 into the chat.
Oh, there we go. We've got 1s coming in. That is so exciting. We love meeting new folks. We love meeting new friends. We have our community has been, just growing and developing. We're real friends here and we really spend time and we really hang out together inside of these communities developing relationships through questions, through just sharing, hey, this worked really well for me, or this is something that I feel challenged with. So if you are a first-timer, you are definitely in the right place and we're so happy to have you here.
And I just wanna remind you, those of you who had just now joined us, To find the PDFs, just go to the Natural Living Lab on school and look in the school section. Yeah, under classroom. Under classroom. I also popped them into the post that's pinned to the top. I did an update and popped them right there too. So there's two places you can find them. So you do have to be in the Natural Living Lab to find those. Yep. You have to be in the Natural Living Lab. On school. Yes, exactly. Oh, we had some people did all their homework.
Well, there you go. So my goal for this is that each lesson takes no more than 3 hours between reading all the content, doing the homework, and making the blends is my goal for this. So all of this content is coming from our 235-hour certification program where we do a real deep dive and spend a lot of time with chemistry around essential oil work, and you leave that program able to practice aromatherapy. So this is just a 2 to 3 hour kind of snapshot each week that kind of like can either refresh your work with essential oil chemistry or really get you started thinking in that way.
Yes. And I love how you kept this so that it is a simple glance at chemistry so that you're not going to be overwhelmed. Anybody, no matter what level you're at, will be able to gain and glean some fantastic information from this. Yes, I love it. And those of you who— this is your first time with us and you put in your 1, that's amazing. If you have just been, let's— if you've been here just for 5 years, 10 years, um, when is the first time you found our Aromahead Aromatics, um, community group?
Um, let us know in the comments too. It would just be fun to see because we've got so many folks who are here. All right. Awesome. All right. So, um, by the end of our time together, the idea is that you have a deeper understanding of linalool and whether you've gone through the classroom, the Lesson 1 yet, or done your homework yet or not. This is just a way to further meet linalool and to further get into the oils that we're talking about in this lesson. All right, so we would love to also know when you are going through— wait, let me look.
This— I want to tell you about this week's giveaway. That's the goal of this slide. So we've got this beautiful free gift. Do you want to tell us about this? It's— I love this. So anyone who's here live, and this will be available for you an hour after we're done with our presentation, there's no— this is a free gift for you. And all you need to do is go to aromatics.com and make sure you're signed in with the same email address that you are with your Natural Living Lab school account, and then you're able to get this free gift added to your cart.
So there's no minimum order. You need to place some order, but It can be a $10 order, it can be a $200 order. There's no minimum on this. And this is the free gift. Actually, what they do is they need to click the link that I'm pinning into the chat right now. Awesome. So Devin, who is over there just juggling, thank you so much, Devin. He makes all of these events happen so smoothly. Just click on the link that Devin just popped in and this will be your free gift that Karen's about to tell you about. So at Aromatics International, we have two types of inhalers. You can see one of the inhalers I have sitting here.
It's a type of plastic inhaler. And then we have this one. It's a little bit more gourmet. I love it. I love it. And inside is a glass container. Put this down so I can get this open. It fits in there quite snugly. Very snugly. And I have a little lotion on my hands. I know, I put lotion on my hands right before this too. I, I think I got it. You got it. I barely got it. I know we both put lotion on.
And inside here is a surprise. This is a glass container, and in this glass container, this opens up, and with all inhalers comes a natural polyester wick as well as organic cotton. And you can choose either one to put inside of your container with essential oils. So then you cover it like this, you put it back in here, and we'll be making one for you in, in just a few slides. I know. And what we would love for you to do, those of you who do decide to take us up on our free gift and place— and again, there's no minimum, you can buy a $5 gift or whatever.
Go on. The difference between these two is this one you can open it up easily enough take out this wick, pop a new one in, whereas this one is kind of a one-time deal. To get this new wick in here, you have to pop off this top with a kind of a kitchen butter knife, and it's not quite as handy. It's a little scrappier. So this one is really easy to use. It's called a reusable one. They're really fun to use. They're really fun to use. And what I would— what we would love for you to do is if you do decide to take us up on this free gift, again, no minimum order.
You can place an order for $5, $10, whatever. We'll pop this in as your free gift. I would love for you to take some time and just sit with the essential oils you have on your workbench for this, whether it's the kit that's optional that pairs with all of this course content, or whether it's oils you're using to substitute in. And we would love for you to put together your own personal inhaler for whatever you need right now during this next 6 weeks. We all have that big reason that's bringing us here, right? Whether it's We want to learn something more.
For us, the big reason bringing us here is to give you the gift of knowledge that you're able to take these concepts and make a real impact in your life. So whatever big reason it is for you, whether it's, you know, you want more emotional grounding right now, maybe you, you want more focus, whatever it is, we would love for you to put together your personal blend in this very specific inhaler and just have it for the next 6 weeks as we go through this experience together. So that's your free gift. That's one of them. We have other free gifts, as you know. That's just the first.
All right. So we are going to as well, and I know that Mina— did Mina pick our winner for the— Mina picked our winner for the gift. I— did you see me squirrel out of that hard job by forgetting? Because I was so excited about linalool. Thank you so much, Mina. Who is our winner for the gift? You want me to tell you? Yeah. Lorraine Morris. Lorraine Morris, you just won a complete kit for the Chemistry Series, which congratulations.
Oh, congratulations. Congratulations, Lorraine Morris. That's awesome. To each and every one of you who put in your big reason and you entered in the giveaway, thank you so much for doing that. It just creates so much goodwill in that others can really resonate and see themselves in what's bringing you into this group. And it's just such a collective way to set the tone for this whole experience. So, Lorraine, you are getting the equivalent. Maybe you already bought the kit. We didn't wanna make any assumptions. So you're getting a $425.25 gift card put into your aromatics.com account.
You can either purchase the kit or you can purchase whatever supplies you need. You need in your life right now. So congratulations. And I know why Devin's so busy over here. It's because as I was looking at the screen, I saw a bunch of lights. I did too. Did you put lights on us? Yay! That's celebrated. Look at all these congratulations coming in. So each week we're doing a big giveaway. So after our presentation today, I'm going to pop into our Natural Living Lab another giveaway prompt and another giveaway prize.
So that is going to be opening up in about an hour after we're done with our presentation today. That's amazing. Which is pretty cool. All right, so why we blend. So every blend starts with someone that you love, or it starts with something that you wanted, that you want to kind of solve in your life. A lot of us come to essential oil work because we need a solution for something, right? And we've been talking about our big reasons of why we're here. And we've been talking about our own individual reasons why we're here, and they're so unique, but also so similar in that a lot of times, I would say almost always, people who are drawn to essential oil work have such big hearts, right?
We really wanna serve, we wanna heal, we wanna be there for other people. It's, it's such a giving experience. It's such a giving world to be a part of. And that's why it's such a wonderful thing to be able to hang out like this on these events, inside of our different communities, because almost every single person— and I want to say every single person— has such good intentions and is just bringing such goodness into the world. That's so beautifully said. So every blend starts with someone that you love, right?
Even if it's a client that you've never met and you're sitting down and you're having the opportunity to do the intake where you're getting to know that specific person so you can make a blend specifically for what they're going through in their lives right then. It's just, again, it just starts with such good intentions. And it might even be a blend just specifically for yourself. Right, exactly, exactly. Which is, which is again, it's such a proactive way to take care of something that is on your mind. Maybe you're thinking about, oh, I got too much sun.
It's such a proactive way to just do something about something that needs a solution. Alright, so let's jump into linalool. Ooh, this is the fun part. This is the fun part. So if lavender has ever calmed you, you've already met linalool. So linalool is, again, one of the very specific components, not the only one, but one of the specific components inside of lavender that makes it so soft, so settling, and such a wonderful way to support so many things about our lives.
It belongs to the monoterpenol family. It's a 10-carbon skeleton with one small piece attached. And that, again, it's that little add-on that sets the whole family's personality. So when we get into chemistry and you can— yeah, go on. And we're talking about organic chemistry. Right. Right, because it has a carbon in it. And this is really, up there information. Right, it's advanced. It's advanced information, so just kind of flow with it.
A family— there's different chemical families, and this is just one of them that we're talking about, and linalool is in this family. It is, and every family has different characteristics, kind of like our own families in the world, right? And every person inside of that family has something in common, but also they're so unique, and that's very much much like the essential oils inside of a chemical family. And some essential oils can be a part of different chemical families at the same time, right? Which is pretty cool. So it's also a way to characterize, but it's not the complete picture when you're talking about a chemical family.
That's why we like to go and delve into the specific chemical component. And Jenny chose linalool, our monoterpenol family, first. And sometimes they're called alcohols, right, as well, because there's also sesquiterpenols, and then there's our monoterpenols that Jenny's discussing, and they're the most gentle of all of the different chemical families. So what a great place to start. Well, what a great place to start. And this is, uh, so the chemical components are so well researched in terms of there's so much study that has happened into really proving that it can help when you're feeling anxious.
It can help a racing mind at bedtime, and it is, again, gentle enough for delicate skin. And this is just a great way, a different approach to looking at essential oil work when you're really wanting to get the results you're looking for. So if you're wanting to calm a racing mind and you're reaching for an oil that's rich in linalool, chances are you're going to have such a greater result with your essential oil blend or your essential oil strategy, right? Versus reaching for an oil that potentially has 1,8-cineole in it, which is so good for so many other things, which we're going to be talking about in this 6-week series, but not necessarily to quiet a racing mind, right?
The caveat there is that all of these aromas meet us emotionally in different ways. Right? It's just like how we react to any other aroma in the world. So the caveat to that is that maybe an oil rich in 1,8-cineole does help your racing mind because you love the smell of eucalyptus, right? Right. So we also have that heart, art, and science when it comes to really bringing in the right oils for the right moment. And it's a great place to start in terms of chemistry, but that's not the final answer.
When it comes to putting it together. That's just one great approach, and then you layer in the other things into it. All right, all right, well, there we go. There we are. That, that is a really good, great introduction slide. And again, do you need to know that it has a little OH group? No, not right now. But our ACP students need to know that, right? Because it does have a function. That's why it's called a functional group. But for now, this is the information.
Just know that it's very gentle on, on the psyche as well as on the skin, physically, emotionally, mentally, and you'll see why. Well, and it's good to know the why, even if you don't just live in the deep science of essential oil work. It's good to be able to, to, you know, kind of tuck in, and it's good to be able to see that there is this depth and there is this solid foundation, because a lot of times in this, you know, world that we live in, essential oils have this stigma to them, right?
Where it's either light and fluffy, or it's kind of like considered snake oil, or someone is so excited about essential oils they're using them on everything and in every, everywhere and in every way. But that enthusiasm doesn't necessarily translate to a really grounded practice where you're getting results based on approaching it scientifically and in the different ways we teach folks to inside of the aromatherapy certification program. So I just wanted to show you the deep scope of how this can work. And now one of my apps wanted to update, but no, it's not the time.
Willow can wait. All right, so let's do some true or false questions now. True or false, and we're going to go through in the next two slides we're going to answer this true or false. So pop in true or false, and if you get it right, amazing, and if not, you're about to have a more deeper understanding for this particular question. So true or false, drop it in the chat. Every bottle of lavender carries about the same amount of linalool.
True or false? Every bottle of lavender carries about the same amount of linalool. True or false? Pop that in the chat. Pop that in the chat. And while you're doing that, Jenny, will these slides be in the classroom? They already are. Okay, slides in the classroom. I went ahead and did it ahead of time. So in Lesson 1, there is, I believe, the bottom page that I created. It has your event details and PDFs. And so I put in your workbook, I put in all of the content for Lesson 1, I put into a PDF.
PDF, so you can print it. A lot of folks are really enjoying putting their binders together, which is very exciting. So you can print off your workbook, you can print off your homework PDF that goes with your workbook, and then I put the slide deck in there. So that's already in there. So the answer is 2 slides away. The answer is 2 slides away. And I see everyone is on the same page here. Oh, well, there you go. We've got A+ students. And even if you don't get the answer right, it's just fun to put yourself out there and try, and then we can go through the right answer in just a moment. Check out this slide.
I love this slide. So same molecule, linalool, 5 very different bottles, which is so handy because not everyone likes the smell of lavender, right? Some people love it, some people are neutral, some people like it tucked into blends, some people can't handle it at all. So it's really nice that we have a lot of variety when it comes to this specific molecule. So here are GCMS numbers pulled— I had it pulled straight from the Aromatics database.
So for each of these specific oils is the small batch number, which we fervently believe in working with small-scale producers because you have a lot more control over the quality of the oil and you know exactly what's in that bottle of oil. And it's so fascinating to me how these numbers from the same distillers will fluctuate year to year based on growing conditions. So this Howood batch 109 is 98.33% linalool, which is incredible, right?
Next year it might be 97%, it could be 99%, and it's really interesting to go through, and at aromatics.com you can and you can compare batches from the last, I believe, like 5 years. I'm not sure how far we go back, but you can compare batches year to year and it's just so interesting to see the fluctuation and it's never too dramatic. And, but it's, yeah. Yeah, we, I usually have 4 batches of lavender. 4 batches. That's what, that's what I was thinking. So when you're looking for linalool, Ho Wood, incredibly rich in linalool at 98.33%.
Coriander, it's not in your kit, but it's one of the recommended oils in terms of substitution. Basil, chemotype linalool. Now there's different chemotypes of basil, but basil, chemotype linalol, 55.85% in your kit. Thyme, chemotype linalool, 36.9%, and lavender at 26%. And 26%, we look at this inside of Lesson 1, Even though it might seem like a lower number, that's still a significant amount of linalool to work with.
That's a large chunk of linalool. So part of it is, how much linalool is enough linalool, right? And 26% is a, is a really great number to be working with when it comes to that. And one thing to keep in mind as you're looking at this graph, notice that Ho Wood is 98%, so that means there's only, less than 2% of other chemical components in that oil, whereas lavender having 26% has a lot of other chemical components in that oil as well.
Right, which— and when you get into wanting to put together a blend like we're going to do that's really rich in linalool, this is where you can pair in and layer in multiple oils rich in linalool to get an even more vibrant experience with that component, which is pretty exciting. That's where we're getting into some aroma math, is what we call aromatherapy math, which is great. All right, so when you are looking at again how to accomplish and how to solve a specific challenge, or, or you're really wanting to usher in that calm with linalool, this is how you can be sure that you're doing that by choosing oils
that are rich in this molecule. All right, so the answer, every bottle of lavender carries about the same amount of linalool, is false. So here are some different batches for linalool and they, for lavender, and they vary. There's 26.5%, batch 101 has 30%, so it, it is very dependent because our plant material is so alive and vibrant, and that plant is a different plant.
That plant has never existed before, even though it's lavender year to year, and that plant, when it's distilled, creates a different amount of chemical components in its final product. That's right. Yes. So your homework for tonight is to pull up— optional homework, it's optional homework— to pull up your own lavender GC-MS report. And find the linalool line and to look and to see what number your specific batch of lavender has.
Now there are well over 40 different types of lavender. Karen and I talked about this earlier in our event last week, we had the opportunity to go to Greece last fall and do an essential oil sourcing trip, and it was just profound. We went to a farm, we were able to, it was October, so we weren't able to see the lavender flowers, but we were able to smell the leaves of different lavender plants, lavender that I've never smelled before. And they all smell different. They all smell different. And the chemistry for each one of those plants, for those varietals, is different.
And it can dramatically differ. We have an entire training that's free for our Natural Living Club members posted in class, in the classroom, where it's just comparing two different types of lavender, Lavandula angustifolia and Lavandula latifolia, which is typically known as lavender and spike lavender. And they have the, the Venn diagram, there's so much they have in common, but there's so much they have that's very different and very unique, and you would reach for a different bottle of lavender depending on the situation that you're in.
So if you are in the Natural Living Club, feel free and please take advantage of that training that we have posted there inside of the classroom. Okay, so should we check in on comments? Yes, I'm just looking up, there's a question there. Can rosewood be a substitute for ho wood? Oh great, absolutely. And again, rosewood is a beautiful oil. It has over 88%, sometimes even more than that. Sometimes it's up even higher than that. So it's the difference between the 10, you know, a 10% difference between the two is very minimal when you look at the whole scope of the oil.
So rosewood is definitely a great substitute. It is on the unsustainable list. However, there are many farms now who are growing sustainably, who have a rotation plan with their rosewood. So that makes a huge difference. Thanks. So the rosewood we have at aromatics.com is sustainably sourced, and so we feel really good about using that rosewood. A lot of rosewood in the world is not sustainably crafted, and so it's just really important to know the supply chain and to have faith in that everything has been done in the way that is in the best interest of that particular tree.
And our distiller, we are so lucky to have found this distiller They create such a beautiful product in terms of the rosewood, and it's such a wonderful oil. It's one of my favorite oils for sleep. It's one of my favorite oils to really calm and settle a restless mind. And it's, again, so it's just such a relief to know that we can still use rosewood and it's still a sustainable essential oil when you know where you're getting it from. Okay. How's our comments doing?
Let's check our comments. So grosso lavender is different than Lavandula angustifolia, and it will have more of your camphor in it, more of your really excitable essential components. Yes. Like spike lavender. Right. So it's different than the Lavandula angustifolia, but still a beautiful oil. It is, it is a beautiful oil. It's fair to say that it's a hybrid. It can't necessarily— there's a specific way you have to grow the grosso, and when you go to Provence over in France and you— I forget this name of the specific town and region, it starts with a V, but that's the region where you see just all of
those lavender fields that just goes for miles and miles, and it's just a dream to walk around them, which we've done, and it's wonderful. Typically, that's the grosso. That is growing right there. And it does create a beautiful essential oil, but it's a plant that humans have been more involved with. It's not just growing naturally. And I'm pulling this from memory. I should have looked this up. Well, it's not, it's not on Grosso, so. Right. It's not on Grosso, but the reason we prefer Lavandula angustifoliae true lavender, is because nature that's, it just grows.
It grows naturally. Whereas the grosso has been, humans have had to get involved to make that specific variety. Yes, to make different variety. Yes. For sure. And you know, if someone doesn't like lavender, you have this chart that Jenny just showed you, you have options instead of using lavender, you can use coriander or sweet basil or one of the other ones that are high in that linalool. We use lavender specifically because it also has lavandula, or it has esters in it.
I wanted to say Lavandula angustifolia, but it also is full of esters, and that's why it's lower in the linalool because it has a large percentage of esters. So we use that maybe for a different reason than we might use an oil that has has such a high percentage of linalool in it. And someone just put in genetically altered. Those were the words I was just— they were not in— I couldn't come up with them. They're genetically altered. Thank you so much for popping that in.
That is exactly, that is exactly what has happened. And you know, it's also a beautiful oil, right? It's just, um, we have prioritized— we love Lavandula angustifolia when it comes to— that's closest equivalent and it's just a, a more natural oil. Right. Because of the plant. Right. And, and it's more like a, the grosos are more like a, and there's several different types like the grosos, more like the spike lavender, which has, um, really uplifting and energizing components in them versus the
esters and Yes. And then we've got our cashmere lavender, which is from India, and it's gorgeous as well. I love the cashmere lavender for sure. I love our high mountain altitude lavender that we personally do in our field, in the field. I should have brought a picture to show you. It is, it's on social media. I sent a picture to Devin. He put it on social media. On Saturday morning. On Saturday. That'll come out Saturday morning. It's the most beautiful purple right now, right up.
We did a hike yesterday with the dogs and it's just a deep, deep purple. It's so gorgeous. Yeah. All right, well, let's go ahead and make our blend for today. So we're gonna be working with lavender, ho wood, basil, chemotype linalool, and putting together an inhaler, which I love. Get on this right slide, Kayla. Yeah, well, now you're on the right slide. So formulators, to your stations. If you want to blend along with us, you are welcome to.
So again, when you are working with your oils either for the first time or the 50th time, it's always good to smell each one as you go through and you're layering into your blend. And you'll often notice and start to put together how different oils tend to dance when you put them into a blend. And you might be like, oh, I love lavender and lime, and I love orange and white pine, whatever it might be.
And you start to put together things that really aromatically really love each other. And again, that depends on the nose that is loving that experience, right? All of our noses are different. We're all drawn to different aromas. That's what makes the science and the intuition come together when you're blending for other people. So let's go ahead and put this blend together. All right, so looking at the slide here, you can see that we have Lavandula angustifolia, that's lavender, and many times we'll use the Latin name, especially for lavender because of the different types of lavender and we wanna make sure we're getting the angustifolia.
5 drops of our Ho Wood, 3 drops of our Basil Chemotype linalool. So now you can see that we are testing out and experiencing Little Loule in a very big way. Mm-hmm. Okay, you can smell, if you smell each of these oils, you'll smell the linalool in each of these oils. Absolutely. And one thing I meant to mention a little bit earlier, and we have a slide on it later, is that anyone inside of the Natural Living Club or inside of the Natural Living Lab, on any order over $40 this week, we are giving you a free 5ml of our Thyme
Chemotype linalool, which— there are different thymes and they do really different things. And this specific, uh, Thyme Chemotype linalool is something you can substitute in our linalool blends or any of the recipes that we're coming up with, or we have for you in this series. And it is such a unique oil in that it has that—let's smell it. And I want, you wanna talk more about it? So the Chemotype linalool is much gentler than the Chemotype thymol.
Thymol is a hot, fiery oil, whereas our thyme linalool is a very gentle oil and one that we would choose to use for children, mm-hmm, especially ages 5 to 10. Who might be dealing with a cold and flu, might be wanting to support the immune system. So we don't use the words boost the immune system. I have many, many times. Yes, but the correct terminology really is, is to support the immune system one way or the other.
It's very gentle. It's very gentle. It smells gorgeous. I smell the linalool in it for sure. For sure. And once, and I imagine if you've got your linalool oils right in front of you, you also can start to smell, even though basil smells so much different than ho wood, you can start to smell that chemical component in there, which is pretty cool. That means you're becoming an advanced formulator. Now thyme, thymol doesn't have linalool in it, and it's a very sharp, very medicinal smelling essential oil.
This one is on the other end of the spectrum with it and is right in line with all— with lavender and our Ho Wood and basil. So one thing we know, right, is that all of these 4 oils have linalool in a significant amount in them, right, in their GC/MS reports, in their chemical components. Now what we couldn't do is, if you would like to, you can start to smell the caps and put together a blend from these 4 that you really like in terms of your favorite aroma.
So we're going to open these all up. Now when you put 2 oils together, they create an entire new aroma. I love that so much. Mm, Thyme Chemotype linalool, and lavender just by itself is just beautiful. So you've got that linalool there, and it's going to smell much different if you add in Ho Wood, right? You're asking another player to come in and create— and now this is an entirely different aroma, right?
And that's beautiful. I love it. They're beautiful. I love this. I know. And then we could ask basil to come in and play, and that creates an entirely different aroma. So then you can kind of see how you can dial it in. We know we're getting the linalool We know we're getting that calming effect because we've got the science there, and now we're blending for an individual and meeting them where they're at aromatically. All 4 of those to me are a bit muddy. What do you think? They are. It's too much.
I only want 3. If you're blending— my favorite is the thyme and lavender just together. If you're blending for somebody who's new to essential oils or yourself, you'll probably find that Ho Wood is the strongest smelling essential oil because it's the one that has the most linalool in it at 98% in this batch. But when you're adding the basil, the lavender, and the thyme together, you're still getting a very high percentage of linalool. Mm-hmm. And you can see how, you know, when you're first starting off as a beginner, it is so much more enlightening to know you're working with linalool in a blend and you're gonna get that result.
So when you layer up to that clinical level, that's when you start putting together the percentages. And so you would wanna be really, really, really exact. You'd actually do the math to see in a blend the exact number of linalool. And when you're working with that kind of precision, you're working in an advanced acute care type of environment on that clinical level. So we've got a lot of practitioners here that work on that clinical level. Who can speak to this. And it's just, I love the range that essential oils can provide us.
They can provide us just that beginning solid success with just a little bit of information all the way up to that precision with that clinical work. Now let's look at the recipe again if we can. Notice that we have 8 drops of Lavender, 5 of Ho Wood, and 3 of our Sweet Basil. Maybe lavender is my favorite oil out of all of these, and it's good to lead with that one. Maybe basil is my second favorite one. I would switch the Ho Wood and basil around.
Or maybe basil is my number one, then I would switch the basil up to lavender and maybe lavender down to the basil, right? So you can get creative with how you put these together. For today, we're going to follow this recipe so that you experience linalool. Yes. And you will be able to experience the emotional and physical properties when you're smelling your inhaler. And I'm going to use the one— let's do it— one so they can see how to use this one.
Let's do it. Okay, so I take this all apart. And again, this is your free gift. Those of you who are live, just click that link. This is your free gift. There's no minimum spend. You just have to place some order, $5, $10, or $40, and get your free Thyme Chemotype linalool as well. Now I can pop this directly in here and just add the oils on top. I can put the oils directly in my little bowl, or the third way is I can just put the oils right on top of the wick in the bowl and then let the wick absorb any extra drops that I might get in the bowl.
That's my favorite way. Yes, and I like to put evenly down the wick. So 8 drops, I just start dropping. And we had a question inside of the Natural Living Lab that said sometimes you use a bowl, sometimes you just drop right in there, and then sometimes it just comes down to preference and how much time that you have. And how much time do you have? Second one is our 5 drops of Ho Wood. I'll do the same thing, just go right down. If you get an extra drop or two Don't worry about that.
Yeah, especially when you are doing an inhalation blend, it's not as, um, you don't need to be as precise. If you get an extra drop, that's okay. It's when you're working with that topical and you're layering into that clinical setting that you wanna be extremely precise. We usually use 15 to 18 drops in an inhaler, but these inhalers will, they'll easily hold 20 drops as well, but there's really no reason to have more than 15 to 18 drops. Drops, right? And for children, we even drop that down even lower, 5 to 10 drops maybe.
So last one, 3 drops of our Sweet Basil. There we go. And then from there, we just take this, and I am— sometimes I'll use a tweezers, make sure I just absorb everything out of the bottom, and I'll just pop this right in the glass, put the top on, screw it on nice and tight, pop it in the base, and then you can just smell it.
One nostril goes to one side of the brain and the other nostril goes to the other side of the brain, so we like to get them both in. And this is very strong. I can smell it really vibrantly. That's beautiful. Okay. Okay, so this one that we have here, sometimes I'll put it right up into my nose, but this one is just as effective, um, and you can change out the wick anytime. Then you just put the cap on, keep the cap on so that your oils stay fresh. Now maybe like 2 or 3 weeks goes by and you think, "It's not as strong as I want it," then you can refresh your wick, put your essential oils on again.
And after doing that a couple of times, just pop in a new wick. Mm-hmm. And there's reasons to use both, right? That's such a, um, this specific inhaler you can just reuse again and again. Um, whereas if you are blending for someone or yourself who has a cold and flu, you're definitely just gonna wanna throw that away or recycle it. Right. You don't need to use it again because you're sick and that's been your help to get over being sick or to not get sick. So there's different reasons to use different ones. And even for yourself, when you're using this for yourself, um, and you're using it very consistently, I just spray it with a little bit of alcohol and clean off the outside every week or so.
Mm-hmm. That's optional, but I've, I find I like to do that. Right. And again, with that linalool, it's such a great inhaler to have on hand. Again, if you need to have a hard conversation with someone in your life. Maybe you're in the pickup line and you just need to be not in that pickup line. Maybe you're stuck in traffic, you just need that like, okay, I need to calm, I need to ground, I need to center. This is a fantastic inhaler to have on hand and in your purse.
So this will be kind of confusing information for sure, especially if it's the first time that you've heard it. But it, since it is the first time that you've heard you're, you're getting a base of information there. So for now, don't worry about all of the little tidbits and this and that. Just know that linalool is what we look for in our lavender and in our Ho Wood and sweet basil because it has certain therapeutic benefits that are well researched, and maybe we want those specific benefits.
And so now we know what to look for in an oil to get those benefits. I love it. And again, when you're learning something new, it takes, you know, 3 to 6 times to hear the same information before you start to settle in and feel comfortable and even confident with it, right? So whenever you're learning something new, which is always good to do— when you're learning something new, it means your brain is firing, it means that we are growing and learning as humans. It's always good to be learning new things. So it's— what a wonderful thing to be able to help our mind stay sharp and also be learning things that's going to help ourselves and those around us.
So now when you ask yourself, what's a good substitute for— I think I saw Ho Wood on here— what's a good substitute for hawood? Now you know, because Jenny showed you that slide that has all the different percentages of linalool. So we want something for Ho Wood, we're just looking for something with linalool in it, and anything above 20% is a good chunk of linalool. Yep, it's a great chunk of linalool, and that's why we wanted to kind of go over how much linalool is enough linalool, right?
So 26% with that specific batch of lavender is a great percentage of linalool to be working with to get the result you're looking for. And thank you for popping that in, Chris. Always label your inhaler. I get several inhalers around because I might have an inhaler for cold and flu, maybe one for digestion, maybe I have one because I'm traveling and I don't want to get sick, and suddenly I have a handful of inhalers and I forget what's in them.
So popping a little label on here, the date that you made it, the name of, you know, name your inhaler, this is called the Common Sinter inhaler, and then jot the ingredients on there so that you can remake it again. Yeah, I know. It's great. So in your Lesson 1 on linalool, there are 2 more recipes waiting for you. We've got the Calm and Restore Evening Body Oil. The base, the carrier is sweet almond oil, layering in 4 drops of lavender, 3 drops of Ho Wood, 3 drops of Basil chemotype linalool.
Then we have our Deep Calm Bath Soak, and it's been so fun to see your comments inside of the Natural Living Lab. Those of you who are trying these recipes out, a lot of folks have been giving foot rubs to people in their homes with this specific body oil to help with sleep. The Deep Calm Bath Soak, 3 drops of lavender, 2 drops of ho wood, 1 drop of Basil chemotype linalool. And if you get your free gift on any order over $40, if you're in the Natural Living Lab or the Natural Living Club of the Thyme chemotype linalool, you can substitute that in for any of these oils.
And in this Deep Calm Bath Soak, it's also a 15ml of jojoba and 2oz of Pink Himalayan Salt. I just wanted to show you on the Calm and Restore Evening Body Oil, that is what this little 30ml glass amber bottle is for. This holds 1oz or 30ml. It's the same thing. So you just put your carrier oil in here. We have sweet almond oil, but you could use jojoba. Mm-hmm. Look and see what you have on your shelf.
Mm-hmm. And use that as your carrier. We love using sweet almond oil. It's so gentle on the skin and it absorbs quite quickly. Jojoba does too. So you can take your choice and then you just drop your essential oils right into this. You'll put the lid on. Make sure that you gently blend it up so that all the oils are dispersed throughout your carrier, and then label it. Yes. And then you just pour it in your hand, rub it around, put it on a specific area.
Or since it's an evening body oil, and we have 7, 10 drops, that's considered a 2% blend. You can use that every day, and you can put it anywhere you you want. Your arms, your legs. I like to put it on my neck in the evening and around. It's so calming and it's so good to fall asleep smelling these beautiful oils. It really is. And then it's, you know, we all kind of wake up in the night and go back to sleep. Those— that aroma stays with you.
And again, if one of these oils isn't your aromatic first choice, there's ways to substitute out to make a linalool-rich blend that you absolutely love the aroma. So some people love basil, some people are on the fence about it. Same with Ho Wood, so same with lavender. So it's fun to play around, and once you have the total number of drops, you're able to substitute in and just make sure you stay to that total number of drops, but you can play around with how many drops per oil in that particular blend.
So now linalool has a lot of other properties besides just being calming. Right? It has a lot of therapeutic properties, and some of the researched ones are it is an airborne antimicrobial. Yes. So all right away I think of a diffuser blend that gets into the air and, you know, someone's coughing in the room or there's germs going around and you want to get rid of them. It's very pain relieving as well. Linalool is a fantastic pain reliever, so video that will help you when you choose an oil for one of these specific reasons.
It's also— helps to reduce swelling. So maybe you have a swollen arm from an injury, or maybe you have swollen legs even, and you want to get things moving a little bit and get that fluid that causes that inflammation to decrease and dissipate. These linalool ones would be great to put in a blend for that. Antibacterial and antifungal. These are ones that you can— and as you— we go through, you're going to learn more about which oils now you would pair with these to get some of these other benefits.
So we layer it in one week at a time until you have a full portfolio of these different chemical components and the essential oils that go with them. It's an antispasmodic. So if you have muscle spasms, it's a good one to put in your blend for muscle spasms. And antiviral. So in your inhaler, I mentioned going on trips and, and wanting to make sure I don't get a cold and flu from somebody who's also traveling on the plane.
Inhalers are perfect for that, right? They really are perfect. And there's all kinds of different reasons that we might use these linalool-rich oils, but these are researched properties. And be sure and access your PDFs in the school platform because that's where a lot of this information is. Yep, absolutely. And you know, it's, it was, it's been such a fun challenge to put this whole series together.
Our goal is that each of these lessons serves as an introduction into the chemical component, right? But as you can tell, there's so much to learn. We've really focused on calm, we've really focused on grounding, but as you— as Karen just went through, linalool also has so many other therapeutic and emotional energetic properties to it. So again, this is just a snapshot from our aromatherapy certification program, and we've got so many certification program students and graduates who are here with us on this event and in our communities.
And so, um, it's been a fun challenge to put together content that's really easy to digest for someone who's reading it for the first time, but is also a good refresher for those of you who are out there practicing. So we are open to feedback. We hope we've hit the mark with that, and our goal is that, um, going through each lesson will take between 1 and 3 hours depending on your background knowledge to read, to go through the homework, to digest it, to spend time with your oils and to get to know them slowly and meaningfully
but in a really in-depth way. So again, if you're really enjoying this, at the end of our 6 weeks, we have so many ways to keep learning and to keep growing and making your knowledge even more accurate and more in-depth. So we're really happy that you're here. Well, I have one comment I just wanna read that really kind of puts this together. Bringskall1, thank you so much for sharing. Thank you for popping this in. Having to smell the linalool in the different oils was absolutely genius. Thank you. I had an epiphany. I love that, yeah. I never realized these oils had such a similar but different scent.
Mm-hmm. That's true. I love it. And it's because of the other components that we're going to be learning about, because linalool in lavender, we can't wait to show you about the esters in there. I know, that's pretty cool. All right, I'm going to— we're at the top of the hour, so I want to make sure— so there's, um, we are not going to get through all of our slides. I tried to do a better job of pacing it out so that we would hit all of our slide content because we had too many slides for Foundations and now we're going to have too many slides for Luna Lovegood.
But you'll have the slide deck and you can go through and read and read through that. I do want to talk— we, we said we had our Q&A for our Foundations lesson on Monday, and we're going to have our Q&A around linalool this coming Monday, and a link can be found in your calendar tab in your Natural Living Lab classroom. It'll be, it's a school, it looks like a Zoom meeting. You have the opportunity to come on camera and ask a question, unmute your mic.
And so we'll be talking more about linalool specifically on Monday's Q&A coming up. If you are able to make it, if you could pop a 4 into the chat, we can't wait to see you there. We had a question come up about linalool and shampoo specifically this past Monday. So we put a slide in here looking at linoleum that we wanted to talk to you about. So I'm— I looked at this question as well and I was a little bit puzzled. Did some research. There isn't any research out there that substantiates not using linalool on the scalp.
And the question we got on Monday was, um, I've heard you shouldn't put linalool in shampoo. And we were like, interesting. Our instinct is that it's fine, but let's research it. And so we did that. And as you can see, there's a lot of, of essential oils that have linalool in them. The big, um, question here is— or the big answer, I should say— is It's because linalool actually has a longer shelf life, 3 to 5 years, sometimes even 6 to 7.
Um, the big thing is any essential oil should not be put on the scalp if it's oxidized, right? Okay, that's the, that's the main thing. And I'm wondering if that's what that course was trying to get across, because there's no research to substantiate not putting essential oils with linalool on the scalp. Yes, so we wanted to follow up, um, with that specific answer, and then we made sure to put a slide in here so we had, um, you have a place to refer to it if that is something that you were thinking about.
But I would go back in that course, whoever put that question in, and say, where's the reference for this? And sometimes it, it can't just be one reference, it needs to be several different references in, tests that are, are very reliable as well. As a reminder, thank you for being here live. You have a special gift, and this, uh, link that we have here for you is how you claim your gift, which is a free Aroma Inhaler, and it is a $10 value.
We can't wait to pop it in your order. There's no minimum order for that. You just click the link in the chat that we have here Or what I would do right now, cuz this happened last event, is copy that link and, um, paste it somewhere because as soon as we're done with our live event, the link will go away. So make sure that right now you take that link and put it somewhere, either create a new window or copy and paste it somewhere. That's the link to use, or just click it and open up a new window is the best way to do that. That's the link that you use.
To claim your free gift. Again, there's no minimum, but if you do want to spend $40, you'll also get your free Thyme chemotype linalool, which is just such a beautiful oil to be using. And that link is pinned right to the bottom of the chat. Mina also just put that link in again, or Devin did. And so yes, copy and paste that or click on it. Keep it open in your browser. There's any issues issues with the link, they can always reach out to team. Right. If there's any issue at all with the link, just reach out to team@aromatics.com and we will help you out.
Now, we— you have another— as soon as we're done, you'll have an extra hour to go and shop, so it's not rushed. And it's just a special thank you from us. So just to say thank you for being here live. It creates such more of a robust community experience. You're able to hang out with folks in the chat. You're able to ask questions. We're able— it's just the collective energy that comes together. So thank you so much for being here. Well, this was so much fun to be presenting with you. This was so much fun. Thank you so much for doing this with us. Again, if you are enjoying these weekly live gifts, pop in a 4 so we can keep them going.
We love getting feedback from you because we love creating an experience that you're loving. And so the more we know, the more we're able to continue that. So let's go ahead again. I don't have time to do all of these slides. Let's go to this slide. So this is— today is our live workshop on linalool. This coming Monday will be your live Q&A on linalool. And then Tuesday morning, your next lesson, Lesson 2 on D-Limonene, which is bright and sunny, will open on Tuesday morning.
And then next Wednesday On the 22nd of July will be our workshop on D-limonene, and that is the flow of how this works over the next 6 weeks. Someone asked why the link goes first— the— why the link to the Natural Living Lab goes to the Makeover, and that's the exact same group. We just decided since there's so many members, we did a 6-week Natural Living Makeover inside of this lab group. This spring, there's so many people in here, we were like, let's go ahead and do the chemistry series here.
So we renamed it the Natural Living Lab so we can keep doing different series in this group throughout all of time, hopefully. Okay, well, thank you so much everyone. If you could just really quickly before we sign off, something that's really stood out to you from our workshop today, maybe something you learned for the first time or was something that you remembered or it was a refresher for you, if you could just pop in an aha moment into the chat, something that really stood out for you today in terms of something that you learned, we would love to know.
We take this chat after and Kieran and I go through and read all the comments since we're not able to catch everyone when we're presenting live. So thank you so much. Angie's saying, pro tip, fill up your cart before showtime. I love it. I know my cart's pretty full right now. And if you are having any issue, um, when you click that link. Let's just go ahead and do the workflow while you're— while you are. Okay. So Devin is working on the link at the moment, so just give it a moment and Devin is fixing that link.
It's popping up for me and you know, when we have different browsers and whatever. It could be, it should just vary between Chrome and Safari and whatever. So if you're having any issue at all, it popped in for me. That did for me too. Yep. So it'll just show up as live event gift right here. And then when I go to checkout, because my order is over $40, I am going to have the option. I'm actually going to have the option of popping in, or my Thyme linalool will just pop right in here and show as— it'll show as zero because it's a free gift since it's over $40.
Okay, All right everyone, show up during their checkout process. Okay, there, a box will show there. So the account I have to demo checkout is not tagged to the Natural Living Lab, so I'll tag it and make a note so Time, it will show up right here. Um, so yeah, so the link is now working. so it'll show up at the top right above my email address. I click that and it will add Time to my account since my order is over $40.
So you do have to click the box. Yeah, you have to click the box to add it. Yeah. All right, well, let's hop over to the comments because I want to see all of the takeaways here. This is fantastic. Again, if you have any issue at all, Just email team@aromatics.com. And again, you have an hour from now to shop and claim your free gifts, which is pretty exciting. All right, everyone, we're going to sign off. Thank you so much for being here. You're such a valuable part of this experience in this community. And we can't wait to go through this journey with you. So thank you so much for learning with us.
And we're so excited that you are here learning and helping us learn along the way as well. We all learn from each other during these experiences, which is one of my favorite things. And remember, this is just the beginning. It's just the beginning. All right, everyone, thank you so much, and we will see you Monday for the Q&A on linalool. Bye for now.