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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.
Essential Oil Chemistry 101: Blends, Basics & Beyond (Series Introduction)
Aromatics International / The Natural Living Lab live class
Originally recorded July 8, 2026
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Well, hello there and welcome to our Lesson 0 introduction event for our upcoming 6-week chemistry series. This is really Week 1 where we're diving into the foundations of what is an essential oil, some basic dilution guidelines. As we were putting together the course content for Week 1, Linalool, and then the subsequent weeks, we were thinking, you know what, if someone is just, um, brand who knew or needs a refresher on some just essential oil aromatherapy 101 basics, let's do a lesson zero and put it in the Natural Living Lab and then do a whole event on Chemistry 101 to just set the stage, set the tone, just get on the same page with the Aromahead, the Aromatics International approach to using these gorgeous, beautiful plant resources. So my name is Jenny. I am your, one of your presenters and one of your instructors for this 6-week chemistry series. Karen, who is my, who is my mom, who is so involved with so many things with our collection of communities, will be joining us for our Q&As on Mondays and potentially some of our workshops as we go through.
So we're really— I'm so thankful to have her joining us for those Q&As. So I want to kind of just again give you a warm hello. Some of you, this is your very first event with us. You're just finding out about the Natural Living Lab. You're just finding out about this community and the 6-week experience. And if that's you, I want to do a really la— so someone is saying, is this live or a replay? This is absolutely live and anything can happen. So please ask your questions. I love that you're here. You're a big part of how this comes together, and I would love to know if this is your very first event with us, if you could pop in a 1 just so we can give you a warm, Natural Living Lab welcome.
We're so happy that you're here. Hello, hello, hello. Hi, Mocha Dragon. It's so nice to have each and every one of you here. Now we're doing something special. We just started, we started last week where if you're able to make it, we know you can't make it live every Wednesday that we do our workshop. In our events and our teachings and trainings, but we're starting to do a new thing to just encourage you to come live when you can, just kind of carve out this time, come join the community, interact live, participate, contribute, start to imagine and dream what knowing more about essential oil work can do for your life in terms of your future. So we're starting to offer free gifts, a free gift for those of you who are able to attend live. Now this free gift, I'll tell you more about how to claim it payment and what it is a little bit later on in the presentation because I just want you to be able to be fully present with this time as we go into, as we go into our content today, as we look at Chemistry 101, some basics about what is a GC/MS report, how do I tell if my oils are pure, all of those things we're going to delve into.
So again, if this is your first presentation, if your first time with us, welcome! We're so happy that you're here. Everyone in the comments, everyone who is behind the scenes making this, series come to life, we care so deeply about you and progressing through and getting more understanding about essential oils. We love essential oils. We love connecting people with new products, new essential oils that can really bring meaningful change and meaningful healing to your life. So again, hello and welcome. We're so happy that you're here.
We're gonna go ahead and do some leaderboard prize giveaways, which is what we normally do. So if this is your first event with us, this is at the beginning of these events, we just give an extra special shout out and thank you for our We have two communities over on the school platform, which is where we're hosting our 6-week chemistry series. So today we're gonna give away two sets of leaderboard prizes, one inside of the Natural Living Club and one inside of the Natural Living Lab. So I'm gonna go ahead and make my screen full screen.
So let's go ahead and start with our Natural Living Club members. We've got some fantastic conversations over here. This group has been around for 3 years now, and we have so much content and love and support around anything pertaining to a natural life. Lifestyle. It's very aromatherapy forward, right? We're a lot of us are certified aromatherapists and practicing aromatherapists, but it's a space for us to come together and celebrate and just really delve into just all things living a more natural, toxin-free, healthy lifestyle. So that's the Natural Living Club in a nutshell.
Um, and so I want to go down and give a special, um, thank you to our top, uh, 10 leaders for the last 7 days. It takes a village to come in here and to encourage, to give advice, to start conversations. So all of these folks are getting a $25 gift card to go shop at aromatics.com. So a big thank you to Chris, Donna, and Angie, Amy, Joanna, Mia, Sandra, Catherine, and Wendy. You all are getting $25 to go shop at aromatics.com. Again, thank you.
Even if you're only able to come in for 5 minutes a week or, you know, 5 minutes a month, you're such a valuable part of the community. Everyone is equally valuable. I just want to give a special gift card to these folks because it does take a lot of time and effort to get in there and hop on that leaderboard. Okay, so this is the community we're hosting our Natural Living Lab in. This is where our courses will live for the next 7 weeks. This is where we are going to have our content live. It's really nice to have it live all in one space.
The Natural Living Club, we thought about hosting it there, but we have so many mini courses, we've got so much stuff happening in there organically, we thought that we would bring and put the Natural Living Lab kept— keep it going in, um, that we're going to have our 6-week series here. So I want to go ahead and do another, uh, 7-day leaderboard giveaway to these folks, a lot of the same folks. And thank you so much for being active in both communities. So a big thank you to Angie, Donna, Joanna, Carrie, um, Jeanette, Sandra, Wendy, Cindy, Elizabeth, and Teresa.
All of you are getting $25 gift cards as well. So thank you so much. I'm going to take a little screenshot of this so we know exactly, when we went live, who our leaders were on that particular community. And then over here on this particular community— wait, I don't want it to record. I want it to do a screenshot. So let's do that. Let's do it differently. There we go. All right. Um, so again, if you are on either a giveaway, uh, leaderboard giveaway, some of you are getting $50 today. So thank you so much.
Um, just contact team@aromatics.com and Michelle will get those gift cards issued over to you. All right. So a little bit more orientation. This is your orientation session. This is syllabus day, right? We're going through our recommended supplies for the 6-week series. We're getting oriented in terms of the weekly flow, in terms of what happens, when to show up, how to mark your calendars, how this whole thing works, especially if you're new. So, um, we earlier this spring, we hosted in this same space a 6-week Natural Living Makeover, and we were going to close out the group and just have, keep the conversation going over in the Natural Living Club.
But we decided because there's over, there's 5,000 folks in this group, we're like, you know what, let's go ahead and host the chemistry series inside of this group because there's so many more people to interact with around these important concepts and how to use essential oils safely and effectively for yourself, someone else in your life, potentially start a new career or enhance an existing career, just for fun, whatever it is. There's a lot of folks in here, so we're hosting it in this space. So this is our school platform. It's hosted by us, Aromatics International, the Aromahead Institute, the Thriving Aromatherapist.
So here in the community tab is where you can start conversations. Oh, I love this. I'm going to like this, Misty. You can start conversations. You can ask questions. These, this is your place to have a community connection, right? So if you go up to the top here, this is the classroom section. This is when, this is where your course content lives. That goes and matches each theme of the week, right? So your Foundations Course is now open. So you just click into the Foundations Course and you can go through the content here.
This is your welcome, just kind of getting acclimated to this particular lesson, looking at what's actually in a bottle of essential oil, the big idea here. We've got a glossary, ways to use essential oil, dilution guidelines. So we're not gonna go through this step by step. This is for you, it's open to go through. Here in the classroom tab. Now, I made a little adjustment. I decided yesterday, um, we had planned on opening each new module, each new lesson, on the morning of our live events, our live workshops, which would have been July 15th.
I decided to open them every Tuesday morning to give you an opportunity to, um, just kind of tuck into the material before we do our live workshop. So how this is going to go is, um, on July 14th, that's when your course on Linalool opens. You're able to go through the coursework and start engaging and interacting and learning. So Wednesday, which is July 15th, is our live event where we are right now for our Foundations course. But next week will be all about Linolol. It'll be your workshop and blending make-along for Linalool.
And then we're going to have a Q&A, coming up that following Monday will be on Linalool. So we're going to have a Q&A this coming Monday right here inside of the school classroom, or inside of the school community, where we're gonna talk all about foundations. So the makeover was a little different this time. The Q&A is going to, um, follow the live event content, and I have all of that in the calendar here inside of the Natural Living Lab. So you can kind of see, what's coming up. And I need to add this, go ahead and add this Q&A right here for foundations.
So, um, lesson are on, the 20th of, of July will be your lesson 1, Q&A. And all you do is join, click this link and it'll pop you into it. It looks like a big, Zoom call where you get to be on camera and you get to talk if you would like to. You can also mute your, your camera and you don't have to be on screen, but we would love for you to join us on screen. We'll give you an opportunity to unmute your camera, ask us questions. It's a really informal, great way to connect and just, I love those Q&As.
If you were in our makeover group, and let us know in the chat if you were in our makeover group. We had so much fun just interacting in the moment, folks asking questions. A lot of times because of the conversations, I would go back, after the Q&A and write up blog content, extra content, because it's nice to know what questions are out there and what you're wondering about and what's going on. So the Q&As are a fantastic way to just connect, and it's different than, the workshop like we're on right now. Again, you're able to be on camera, you're able to unmute your mic and ask questions.
So please, that's, we're going to have a lot of fun doing that. And I'll go ahead and add in because on the 13th, we're going to do a Foundations Q&A right here, and I'll add that in after this event. So if you would like to see where other members are in the world around you, you can, it's not exact location, it's within 10 or 20 miles so that it's safe, no one can show up at your house or anything. But it's nice to see where in the world our Natural Living members are.
So you can kind of zoom in wherever your location is. Yeah, here's pins are off by 10+ miles for privacy. You're able to go in and see, and we've had a lot of members in our Natural Living Club actually travel together and connect in real life. And it's just been such a wonderful thing to see these relationships, all of our relationships with each other, just deepen over the years. We've been able to support each other through a lot of positive and big life moments, whether they're sad or they're happy, whatever it might be. We have— it's a place to connect, to get advice on all levels of just walking together through this beautiful, hopefully all-natural life.
I'm gonna hop over here and check in your comments. I would love to hear in the comments, what is your one motivation right now to wanting to learn more about essential oil work? And we've asked this question the last 10 years of, of hosting these communities, of hosting these events. For me, it changes all the time because there's different people in my life that come to mind when I'm thinking, oh, you know what I wanna learn more about? I wanna learn more about ADHD support because my bonus human JoJo is starting her senior year and I wanna be able to help her with different inhalers as she's switching.
She's going to a brand new school her senior year, and I'm so excited for her, and I just want to support her in her journey. So one of my big things is to make some inhalers to really help her kind of show up into a brand new environment where you don't know anybody, and that can be a hard thing, also an exciting thing. We're going to talk about that. She and I are getting dinner tonight, so I'm gonna just really listen and pay attention so that I'm able to put together inhalers specifically for what she might be going through, whether she's excited or feeling a little reserved, whatever it might be. So that's part of my big reason to just continue to learn and explore, right?
So I would love for you, whether it's a big idea— maybe you want to start a new career and be a practicing aromatherapist and have clients, or maybe you want to learn more about essential oil chemistry and how these work because someone in your life has allergies right now, you know, whatever it might be. It could be a big thing, it could be something that's more personal to you. Allergies are a big thing if you're experiencing allergies, right? We can't, we can't just, just gloss over that. They're huge. So whatever you are drawn to, whatever is bringing you here, we would to know in the comments right now where you're watching.
Okay, great. So, more just better blending for myself and my family and friends. I love that. I know when you're able to reach for oils that have the specific chemical composition for the need you have at hand, you're able to get profound results with essential oil work, right? Whereas if you are just like, I love the smell of orange, let's try that, you can have some accidental success, and it's easy to have beginner's luck with essential oils because a lot of them are good for so many things.
But when you really want to dial in, okay, I've got a little infection on my toenail, what do I do with that? There's very specific oils to reach for because of the chemistry. So when you're able to really lean into that and you have that information and that knowledge base, it is just— there's nothing that you can't start to do, right? There's definitely a scope of aromatherapy. We don't want to say aromatherapy can cure anything in your life, right? But aromatherapy can absolutely either start the process of healing and complete it, or start the process and pair with another modality, whether that's acupuncture, Chinese herbs, Western medicine.
Maybe you're going through chemotherapy. Aromatherapy is fluid. Aromatherapy pairs so well with other things and is often the solution in itself. And we'll kind of talk through that as we go through this 6 weeks together. So I'm so excited to have you all here, and I'm so excited for all of these comments that are flooding in. After these workshops, I go through and read all of your comments, and I just, I have so much fun. That's one of my very favorite things of the week is to go back through and to see what you're talking about in the chat, because I wish I could be doing both things, presenting and just engaged in the chat.
Chat. So thank you for popping these in, and it really, I think, helps to— helps everyone, whether you're new to this community, whether you're new to us, whether you're a longtime member, a longtime contributor. I think these comments, when we're able to put ourselves out there and just see what you might have in common with someone else, it's a great way to continue building in our communities after the events, to say, oh, you know, Cindy was also dealing with that. I'm going to message— or not message Cindy, but I'm going to interact with Cindy and ask her a question, all of those things. So it's a great, a great thing.
Something I want you to know too is after we're done with our workshop today, and we'll talk more about the supply kit that pairs— it's recommended, it's optional— it pairs with this 6-week experience. Each week we work with a set of oils, we make recipes as we go through to get that hands-on practical experience with these products and these gorgeous resources. What I'm going to do inside of the Natural Living lab, we're doing a big giveaway. So we are going to, for the next week through, um, starting today, running through next Wednesday morning, which is July 15th, I'm going to ask the same thing.
I'm going to ask for you to pop in the big reason that you want to learn more into the chat. And our big giveaway is a full complete supply kit from aromatics.com. We're going to give you the value of that kit in the form of a gift card because some of you have already bought pot kits, some of you already have some of the supplies you need. So we're going to give you the value of the kit, which we'll talk about a little bit later, and give you a, um, give you a gift card to go and shop at Aromatics International and get the supplies you specifically need for your 6-week experience.
So don't let that stop you from going and shopping today and getting your kit, because you've got a good week to order your supplies so that they land on your doorstep, so we're able to hit the ground running with blending with linalool. Right? But I do want to do that big giveaway inside of the Natural Living Lab. It's just a fun way to create enthusiasm around this particular experience. So if you're not yet a member of the Natural Living Lab, definitely that's— you want to join. It's a free school group. Our Natural Living Club is $4 a month, $29 a year, and the Natural Living Lab is completely free.
And that's where the giveaway will be. Well, that's where the giveaway will live. One person, one, and it's so random. What I do, and it's so hard, what I do is I count up the number of participants and then I use a number generator and I just randomly select a number because I want everyone to get a kit. I want everyone to get a supply kit for this experience. So there you go. There's something pinned in the chat. If they just click that, that'll take them to the Natural Living Lab where they can join. Awesome. Perfect. Thank you, Devin. So there's a link pinned to the chat. If you're not yet a member of the Natural Living Lab, please join the Natural Living Lab so you can participate in all of this good stuff.
It's free, it's safe. We love the school community. It's different. It's not social media. It is very much a professional place that's a very safe place to interact, right? Where you're not getting a lot of advertisements. You're getting no advertisements, um, except offers from us that are just gifts to you. And it's a great place to just connect. It's not noisy. It's not like an addictive scrolling situation. It's an authentic place to connect and create community and connection and to learn. So there you go. Oh, good, Shelley. I'll— I'm so glad that you love the Natural Living Lab.
I sat down for about a week trying to figure out what we should name this, um, new space where we can continue to host free series in the future. And the Natural Living Lab seems like a big enough, uh, term where we don't need to change it for every upcoming series. It can just be this going forward. So there you go. All right. I want to let you know, cause you might be here because live attendees are able to get a free gift. So I want to tell you what your free gift is and how to claim it, but I also want you to still stay present as we go through our content today.
So your free gift, and there's no minimum to claim your free gift, it's just you're here. So we're going to pop in a link. You have to use that link for it to land in your cart for Aromatics International at aromatics.com. But we're giving away one pack of 24 plastic pipettes, which are so handy when you are blending and you're setting up your Workbench for this 6-week series coming up. So it's a $9 value, completely free. You just have to place some order, and there's no minimum.
You can place an order for $5. You can use up— maybe you've got a gift card, maybe you've got credit, maybe you already have something you can use. There's no minimum on this. So just make sure you use the link that we're pinning to chat. We just pinned it right now. So you want to click on that link. I'm going to click on it so I can show you what it looks like. You want to click on that link, it'll take you to your cart. And when you go— so now that I've clicked on the link, it knows that I'm here for this free gift during this live event.
So I want to make sure I've got something in my cart, which I do. And because I have not been in my cart since last week, it shows I have 2 free gifts. I don't, I just have 1 free gift. Um, so you just want to make sure that you've got something in your cart, and you are able to— the free gift will just pop up and show right there, which is pretty cool. Now you have an hour after we're done to shop, so you don't need to frantically shop right now. If you, if you want to, you can multitask however you want to go about it, but that is your free gift for today.
Now we do have another free gift for anyone who is in the Natural Living Lab. And in the Natural Living Club community, you're able to get a free Honey Myrtle 5ml essential oil on any order over $40. So you might want to game that a little bit, and if you are placing an order to get your free pack of 24 pipettes, you might want to just make sure it's over $40 so you're also able to get your free Honey Myrtle essential oil. And that's your Natural Living Club and Natural Living Lab gift of the week.
Now, one thing that we need to make sure that you do is we need to make sure that we know that you're in the Natural Living Lab. If you're in the Natural Living Club, we know that and you're already tagged for your free gift. So this is not a public offer. You have to be either in the Natural Living Lab or the Natural Living Club to get it, which means we need to make sure that your, that your account at Aromatics is tagged appropriately so your free gift will show up as an option for you. So a big part of today again is setting up our workflow, getting everyone into the right things.
So we need to make sure that you opt in to the free gift experience for the next 6 weeks. And every week will be another free gift available just to our Natural Living Club members and our Natural Living Lab members. So you want to make sure that when, um, we'll pop in that link too. We've got a lot of links happening on the screen right now. So it's aromatics.com/pages/NLLG. Awesome. Yep, that's great. And I'm going to pin that and create a post inside of the Natural Living Lab and inside of NLC so that you have all these links.
We just need to make sure that your account is tagged. So just make sure that you opt in to that experience and then you will be good to go. All right. If they received any emails from Aromatics yesterday or today, yeah, great. So if you received any Aromatics emails yesterday or today, we've got that opt-in email. So then we take that email, we take it over into our system and we tag it. So anytime you use your email in your account, the free gifts will show up for the next 7 weeks essentially because today is week 0 of 6, so 7 weeks.
So I hope that is not too much information. That's a lot of free stuff which I'm really excited about. All right, well let's tuck into chemistry for a bit. I've got some slides here. I want to give you some basic foundations so that we can really be on the same page when it comes to some basic Aromatherapy 101 knowledge, okay? So it's just a surface-level view of the course content that pairs with the Foundations lesson inside the Natural Living Lab.
So there's a lot more information, there's a lot more detail to go through. So this is just your introduction to the Foundations lesson inside of this 6-week experience. All right, so let's go ahead and set up your workbench. The whole goal of this 6 weeks is to go from, if you are thinking, am I doing this right? We want you to think, oh no, I've got this, I am doing this right, and have a good path forward and grounded in science, grounded in the science, the art, and the heart of aromatherapy work.
Okay, so again, you came to us for a reason, and I love seeing all of your comments come into chat, right? There's one or maybe many reasons just bringing you here, right? So maybe you want just more calm in your life. Maybe someone you love is going through an experience that you really need some support around. We've had a lot of members experience some really heavy loss lately inside of our Natural Living Clubs particularly. And so a lot of folks will say, you know what, my uncle, for example, has been in hospice.
What do you recommend for this, this, and this? And then 100 people weigh in with different ideas and support, and suddenly you're held up in terms of however those individuals and however we, however I pray and keep you in mind and just send positive vibes out and love to you. It's just a great additional way to get that support for these big things outside of just an aromatherapy blend. And you know, some folks who find us, a lot of folks who find us actually, they think, oh, I wanna learn more about essential oil work.
And then suddenly a year later, they're certified aromatherapists out there setting up a practice, clients and really putting to use their knowledge base to create a very meaningful career. And so if that's something that you are thinking about, just know that there have been 35,000 people who have gone through our certification program ahead of you that have come to a free series just like this or a free training and have really fallen in love with what these beautiful essential oils can do in terms of uplifting our own lives.
And a lot of folks do turn this into a career. So if that's something you're thinking about, there's a lot of people in the chat right now who are out there doing just that, and they're out there seeing clients. Okay, so, um, we are going to start with week 1, which kicks off again. Your course will open next Tuesday, July 14th, and the first workshop, like we are in right now, will take place on Linalool on July 15th. And then that following Monday will be your Q&A on Linoleum, and that's how the flow will go.
Week 2 is all about Limonene. That'll be on Wednesday, July 22nd. Week 3, linalyl acetate. That will be our live event, our live workshop, July 29th. Um, week 4, 1,8-cineole for that open, a clear, fresher breath will be on Wednesday, August 5th. On August 12th will be our workshop on α-pinene. Now all of these will be, all of these will also be available via replay and they'll live while we are doing this series. They'll live right there inside of your, um, course content.
So you're able to access it. We know not everyone— it's summer here in our hemisphere. We know not everyone is able to attend live all of the time. Of course, we would love you to. We've got a community that's ready to interact. We've got— it's so much fun to interact with your questions and your comments. You bring so much to this experience. We want you to be live as much as possible. We know that's not always realistic, so there's replays for all of these that you have access to as well. And you can also So as long as someone reminds me to press record, listen to all of the, um, recordings of our Q&As as well.
I missed one during the makeover, so now everyone reminds me, press record, and I love it. All right, so Week 6 is all about β-caryophyllene, which is that deep support. It's so warm, it's so rooted. That will be our final workshop on Wednesday, August 19th. And then the following week, we're gonna look at next steps. Now that you've gone through this 6 weeks together. What to keep learning, how to apply the knowledge, what you might be interested in exploring next. We're going to have a really amazing event exploring those next steps together.
All right, so here are your 3 true or false questions for our presentation today. So we are going to revisit these questions at the end of our presentation together, and then you will be able to answer these if you're not yet sure. Some of you probably already know the answers to these. I bet the majority of you do, but some of you might not be sure. You'll be able to confidently answer these questions at the end of our presentation today. So hold these in your mind. True or false? Question 1: Lavender essential oil is made of a single ingredient, lavender.
All right, question number 2, true or false: If a gentle blend smells nice, doubling the drops make it— makes it work better. True or false? And then our final question of for today, question number 3: To use a lab report on your oil, you have to read and understand every line of it. True or false? All right, those are your quiz questions for today. Okay, so the big idea that I want to start with as we are getting into our chemistry series is an essential oil is not just one ingredient, right?
It's an entire blend of components made by that specific plant, right? So inside every bottle of essential oil is literally dozens up to hundreds of specific chemical components, right? So Lavender, and there are so many types of lavender. My mom and I had the opportunity to do a sourcing trip to Greece last fall, and we were walking around the Isle of Crete, and lavender wasn't blooming right then.
We went to a specific farm where they're growing just countless types of lavender, and let me tell you, I am so familiar with the lavender we have here in North America. I am very familiar with lavender growing France, I was just blown away by the different types of lavender that I had never before experienced the aroma of that plant. And we were able to take a little bit of the green leaf because again, it's not blooming. It was October, but I was able to tell and smell the nuances between the different lavender, types of lavender.
There's just over 40 different types of lavender in the world, probably so many more. And I was able to smell, and it's such a— the aromas are so nuanced, and the chemical composition of each lavender is just a little bit different from each other, right? Spiked lavender is dramatically different than Lavandula angustifolia, for example, right? And those are things we're going to tuck into during this series. So lavender's softness, Lavandula angustifolia to be specific, because there's so many types of lavender, Lavandula angustifolia softness comes in large part from two different components: linalool, which is our week 1, uh, component, and linalol acetate, which I believe is our week 3 component. So they work together, linalol and linalol acetate, to come together to really— that's why lavender works the way it does. That's why it comes in and just is able to calm your central nervous system, because of that linalol and that linalol excitate, right? And calming your nervous system is just one of the many things lavender does, and that's why I love looking at the specific components because it really does give you a vocabulary to talk to the skeptics of it in your life who are like, "Oh yeah, that's just an essential oil," right?
A lot of times when you're enthusiastic about an essential oil or people in your life, we all have someone in our mind that, that comes to mind, they're so enthusiastic about essential oil without potentially that deeper knowledge base that comes with it. So enthusiastic Enthusiasm can be so good in terms of you're excited about something, right? But there's a crossroads right there in that you also need to pair it with additional knowledge around each of your essential oils so that you're able to do good and create profound change instead of creating a profound discomfort, because enthusiasm does not equal knowledge about how to work with your essential oils. So that's why we're here, either to do a refresher or to build a brand new knowledge base around how to use these essential oils safely and effectively. So this chemistry-first way of seeing your oils is the same lens we use inside of our aromatherapy certification program, our Essential Oil Specialist program over at the Aromahead Institute. We are the largest online aromatherapy school in the world.
We've been going since the late '90s, and we have collectively in our aromatherapy certification program over 35,000 students, although in all of our programs we have so many courses and so many different paths in terms of beginner, intermediate, and expert. We have over half a million students globally worldwide, which is pretty exciting. So you're joining a strong force of folks who are, who have been dedicated and committed to this way of thinking about essential oil work, meaningful essential oil work since the '90s, over 30 years.
So there's a lot of depth here and it really is comforting to know there's a lot of depth, a lot of experience in that's backing this 6-week journey. Okay, so we always want to honor our plants. Lavender is such an important concept throughout all of history, right? Whenever lavender first evolved or was created, that is the moment that it became important to humanity. So this goes beyond the traditional uses of lavender, traditional folk medicine, traditional um, traditional herbology, all of that, this takes it into a moment where it can meet us where we're at exactly in this moment of history, in this moment of time, right? Which is very exciting when you delve into that chemistry. So one thing to keep in mind is that different plants actually create something called a chemotype, and you know that because there's a CT in the Latin name of the essential oil on your bottle, right? So basil is one of those plants. Rosemary is one of those plants. Thyme is one of those plants that depending on its growing environment, it's the same genus, it's the same species, it's the same plant, but if it's growing high up, let's say since we're talking about Crete, if it's growing high up in the mountains of Crete versus down at the sea level of Crete, that can create a chemotype. And so when you distill each of those plants, the chemical composition can be very different because of growing conditions, elevation, environment, all of that. Every year it can change. So that's why it's so important to do what we call GC/MS reports, right? Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. These reports, um, we do batch testing on all of the essential oils here at Aromatics International.
Most essential oil companies do, not all. So make sure whatever you have in front of you, make sure that you're able to either ask or get the GC/MS reports as we go through the 6 weeks together, because it's important to know specifically what is in your bottle of essential oil. We love to work with batch-specific GC/MS reports. It just makes it way more accurate, and you can really dial in. And this becomes especially important when you get to that clinical aromatherapy level. We've got a lot of, we've got a lot of practitioners all over the world.
One comes to mind, Jackie over in England. She is the director of a hospice department in terms of bringing aromatherapy therapy into the hospital setting and working with hospice patients who are at the end of life, they're transitioning, so their skin is so fragile, their health concerns are so nuanced that she's able to really dial in. And she is absolutely looking at the GC/MS reports, and it matters if it's 35% linalool in lavender, or maybe that batch is 42%.
That really matters when it comes to looking at a very acute situation where a patient is in an extremely fragile state. And so the chemistry allows us to be very specific and very intentional. Do you need that when it comes to making a diffuser blend because folks are coming over for Fourth of July? You don't necessarily need that at all, but when you have that depth of knowledge, it's surprising how many times in life you're able to be like, oh, okay, I'm not just going to put together peppermint, lavender, and orange for my diffuser, which is a home run.
I'm able to put together thyme, Chemotype, linalool. I'm able to put and then pair that with honey myrtle and pair that with spike lavender, right? You're able to really dial in what you're asking your oils to do, and it smells amazing, and you're getting a more accurate, specific result. So that's an important thing, that there can be different chemotypes, which means that the GCs will vary wildly. So it's important to be able to have familiarity with these chemical components.
And this is just the start, right? This 6 weeks is just an introduction and a start to how to work with chemical— with chemistry, to how to blend by chemistry. You, when you really want to dive in, there's so many different routes to take to become an expert in essential oil work, working with chemistry in this way. So please be gentle with yourself. Please be kind if you are thinking, oh, chemistry is a lot. Just a quick pep talk, you know, the human mind takes between 3 and 5 times with a new concept to start to feel comfortable with it.
So if you're reading through Foundations, you're like a little bit on edge, you're like, okay, this is brand new, I am a duck out of water, that's okay. That's the human experience. It's not supposed to sink in immediately and concretely. That's how our minds work. That's how we learn. So just go back through it again, read it again, and it's going to be even more familiar and more familiar. And we're going to repeat important foundational concepts each lesson, so we're going to repeat important things multiple times.
So by the time you're done with your 6 weeks, you're going to feel more comfortable and ready to take whatever next steps you would like to take. So just a little pep talk on how we learn and to be kind and gentle to yourself during this process. Okay, so here is some basic terminology. This is in your foundations course. We're not going to go through each one of these here on this slide, but it's again to create a vocabulary, a working vocabulary together so that we all know the importance of a Latin name and what that is. So for example, one kind of lavender is Lavandula angustifolia.
Angustifolia, whereas spike lavender is Lavandula latifolia, and Lavandula latifolia has a little bit of 1,8-cineole in it, which Lavandula angustifolia has no 1,8-cineole in it, or very trace, trace, trace elements. It doesn't impact depending on specifically the region it's growing in. So go through and familiarize yourself with the vocabulary terms, and I'll show you in a minute, I made a workbook to pair with, it's a workbook, a PDF to download to pair with the Foundations course.
It has extra quiz questions, just extra learning activities to continue to ground and develop out your knowledge base and familiarity with potentially these new words. Okay, so sometimes with aromatherapy and essential oil work, it's all about inhalation. Other times it's all about that topical application or a more topical experience. So a personal inhaler, a diffuser, simple inhalation— like if you just put a drop of oil on a tissue or something like that, you just take a quick breath from the bottle— those are all inhalation.
They get right into your limbic system. Inhalation is one of the fastest ways to get these chemical components into our bodies, delivering results. You can also wear or soak in different— there's different modalities. You can do a body or massage oil, a roller bottle blend, a bath soak. You can do a lotion blend. These are— this is not a comprehensive list. This is just some basic introductions to how you can work with different essential oils. In terms of modality, you can make a room or linen mist. We're going to make a lot of these over the next 6 weeks together, which is going to be a lot of fun.
Not only are we going to make blends together on Wednesdays, we're going to talk about the rationale behind each oil in terms of its chemistry, and it's going to to be just so much fun. So this is again just an introductory overview on different ways that you can work with your essential oils. All right, so dilution made simple. Now I'm really blitzing through this. So as a reminder, all of this is in your Foundations course inside the Natural Living Lab. So when we, when it comes to dilution, we always wanna start with the concept of less is more.
So if a 1% dilution, which is about 6 drops in a 1 ounce of a carrier, which is a lotion, jojoba, argan oil, those sorts of things. It carries it into your skin, helps deliver the oils into your skin. Um, a 1% dilution is about 6 drops. A 2% dilution is about 12 drops. A 3% dilution is about 18 drops. And this is generally where we like, um, beginner to intermediate aromatherapists to live. You can get a lot done with these dilution guidelines.
It's safe, it's effective, you're gonna see those results right away, and you're not gonna have those un— potentially uncomfortable results because you want your dilution. These oils are so strong, they are so powerful, we wanna make sure our dilution guidelines are front and center so we're having a good experience with these oils. Once you layer into clinical aromatherapy, that's when you start to dance around with a 10% dilution or a 15% dilution for a short period of time for a very specific reason.
You need a lot of information when you start to look at potential internal use of aromatherapy, which— it's an exciting time to be an aromatherapist. It's an exciting time. We are at the frontier of partnering with Western medicine, with Chinese medicine, to then create these, um, these interdisciplinary approach— approaches to health and healthcare that we are all just contributing to and all figuring out more and more. It's so much more research is coming out, um, daily on ways to partner and ways to use aromatherapy as a standalone robust way to treat, um, and to protect your health.
And so it's a really exciting time, and a lot of, um, advances are being made in clinical aromatherapy work that, that is outside the scope of our 6-week series. But I want you to see where it can layer into, and the sky is the limit in terms of figuring out, um, the more advanced techniques, how to either partner with Western medicine or how to be its own standalone clinical solution for really acute challenging situations. So I'm really excited to see and to participate in those conversations.
So you almost always— a couple of rules to carry with you— you almost always dilute your oils. Almost always dilute your oils. You're going to have a better experience with them. It's going to not create any kind of sensitization on your skin. You almost always want to dilute your essential oils. The things that come to mind, if a really itchy bug bite is driving you crazy, one little drop of Lavender on there just once is going to feel very soothing and very helpful. Those are the little instances where you can bend the rule, but almost always dilute.
Inhalers and diffusers, they don't get diluted. The drops go either on the wick or in the water. And we're going to continue to talk about this as we make our blends. Every one Wednesday that are centered around linalool, b-caryophyllene, α-pinene, those sorts of chemical components. Okay, so there's another cheat sheet that I'm going to give you a copy of these slides inside of our classroom section or inside of— I'm going to give you a copy of these slides.
This will live inside of the Foundations. I'll put the replay in there for this event and I'll put the slide deck right there as well as there's 3 PDFs. That support this event that I'll show you when we're done with the event. So you'll have a copy of these slides, and I created a workbook and I created all of the course content in a PDF form so you're able to print it out and you're able to highlight and keep it in a binder if you would like to. So this is another cheat sheet. For example, a 10 mL, you would do 2 drops, 4 drops, 6 drops, and that would be a 1%, 2%, 3%.
Now those of you who access to our Thymely, which is our personal assistant that we created, it can search and think. If you have access to Thymely Lite inside of our app, you're able to ask questions about dilution as well. If you have access to Thymely Premium, which is a part of our professional Thrive membership program, you can also ask math questions, which I am loving so much because math and chemistry are things that I learn and I really think about, and I think hard about them, ways to make them easy to understand and to learn, because they're not easy to understand and to learn for me.
I'm much more of a humanities— I love to write, I love to read, I love to create content around our essential oil work. Math and science, I really think about, and it's something that I'm always stretching to learn more. It doesn't come easily to me, which I think makes me the perfect teacher for you, because I love taking concepts and making them really easy to understand. So if you're intimidated about math or science, you're in good hands because we're going to work together to make sure they feel easy and accessible when it comes to aromatherapy math and aromatherapy science.
So you'll have this cheat sheet in your slides inside of your Foundations course, as well as the PDFs that you can print and keep handy. Okay, a little gentle reminder, we've— and I want to keep clicking along because I don't like to go over an hour for for these events. Stronger is not always better. So if you have 12 drops in a 2-ounce bottle and that's just 1%, that's plenty. That can be plenty depending on the person, depending on the reason you're blending. All of these things come through conversation and discussion, which is another reason I love aromatherapy.
It's a reason to sit down with someone and to ask them questions and to draw them out and to meet them where they are. A lot of times when our bodies are experiencing a physical ailment, there is an emotional parallel there, right? If you're going through, let's say, a tough season— maybe a divorce, maybe your kids are going away to college, you know, a big, a big life moment— a lot of times that emotional trauma or that emotional reaction of sadness, of depression, is going to have a physical manifestation.
So when you're able to sit down and talk to someone, it's not just, there's a lot of pain in lower back, right? It's not usually— it's not only physical. It can be only physical. Maybe you sprained your ankle and that's just an only physical situation. But a lot of times our body speaks our mind. There's a book on that and I love that book, Our Body Speaks Our Mind. And the physical ailment is also paired with an emotional one, and essential oils are perfectly suited to meet both at the same time. So not only do you have pain and inflammation relief with lavender, with that linalool, linalyl acetate.
You have that emotional relief when it comes to depression support, anxiety relief in those same chemical components. So it's one oil that can be there and present for that physical ailment and that emotional one, which I love so much about aromatherapy. And it allows you to have those harder conversations, you know. It allows you to have that, how can I be here way for you as a client, as a friend, as a daughter, as a mother, as a cousin, whatever. It's a way for you to really connect with people, and I love that aromatherapy can create that language and that reason to sit down and have those conversations.
And so when you need to see, do I need a 3-ounce or a 3% dilution, a 1% dilution, it all depends on the who, what, why, where, and when of a blend, right? Always wanna know who am I blending for? Age matters. Kids are different than, than older folks. It matters depending on what they're going through, different aromatic preferences. If it is a multifaceted emotional challenge, physical challenge, then you would calculate and choose different oils for different things.
So it's a whole wonderful puzzle to put together and we teach you how to go about that we start to go through how to go about that in the 6 weeks. And of course, it's a craft that you continue to develop and refine over your lifetime, but this 6 weeks is going to give you a foundation to start down that journey or to revisit or to refresh or to continue to build your, essential oil chemistry knowledge base. All right, so which carrier do I use? This is something we're going to go through in our series together.
Different Carriers bring their own gift to the blend. So a lot of times I'll just use a carrier all on its own for a specific reason. I was down in San Diego for the Fourth of July visiting a whole bunch of new friends, meeting a whole bunch of new people, and we were on this dock for the Fourth. It was gorgeous, and we were able to paddleboard and kayak. And I have this thing where if I don't have to, I don't want the extra chemicals of sunscreen my body. So I was like, I'm not going to be paddleboarding that long, right?
I'm just gonna go out for 10 minutes. Well, I was out with my boyfriend Adam, and we decided to go way around the cove So I was out for like an hour, and my thighs were so sunburned, and I was like, oh, if I could only have my Lavender Hydrosol. If I could only have all of these things, um, this would not peel. This would— this sunburn would not be an issue. What I did have is my very favorite face cleanser of all time, which if you've been around, you know what this is. But it's, 1 part aloe, 1 part argan oil, and randomly this time— and I rarely put essential oil in— I put in 1 drop of lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, into this, into my face cleanser.
And I was like, oh no, what do I do for this burn? And that was the perfect thing. So I just put on that aloe, argan, single drop of lavender, just made me every hour and my thighs are almost healed up and I'm not gonna peel and I'm so excited about that. So those carriers of aloe and argan just really came through for me in that moment. I'm sure that drop of lavender helped as well, but your carriers are a whole nother realm of care and healing that you can bring to yourself and those around you because each carrier is its own big personality and its own— brings has its own set of solutions to a specific situation. It's so much fun to learn about our carriers, and then combining that with essential oil work is just a really, it's a really fun thing. It's a really fun and rewarding thing to do, especially when you're starting to see really meaningful results. Okay, so we love, we want you to use whatever essential oils you feel comfortable and you love using, right? We love our producers here at Aromatics International. They're the producers and the oils we know and we love, right?
You can know and love whatever oils, whatever company you'd like, but we love our producers that we partner with at Aromatics International. They're usually co-ops of folks. They're usually family orchards, family businesses all around the world. We have producers in over 60 different countries with all of our aromatics.com products, right? And so Karen is, um, you know, calling Morocco to get more argan oil, and they only press it once a year. And it's a co-op of women who go through and they harvest the argan, um, nuts, and they do the cold pressing, and then that's our argan for the year, right?
So we love working with small batches because when you have an argan oil from one specific place in Morocco, it's not argan oil from many different producers put into one bottle. So for us, we love— and if you can see, we're just— we love education and we love being able to layer up into that clinical level. And so when you need to be so precise when it comes to the exact amount of linalool in your blend, 35% versus 30, 42% is a big deal when you're wanting to get very, really specific.
That's why we love small batches of our essential oils, our carriers, and our hydrosols because we're able to really control the quality of that product. It's not just, um, Eucalyptus radiata from 5 different producers into one bottle that maybe, um, one of those producers distilled in November of 2024, maybe another one is from November of 2026, right? We know that our Eucalyptus Radiata is distilled in a very date just from one producer, so we know that it's as pure as it can be, it's as powerful as it can be, and we're able to really control the specific ingredient because a lot of our customers at Aromatics.com are clinical workers and they need that precision and they need that trust that the product they're using is pure, as pure as it can possibly be, and is perfect to put on in that advanced situation. Situation like Jackie over in England working in hospice care, it needs to be precise and as pure, as pure as absolutely possible, right? So that's why we work with small batches and we, we really advocate for working with single origin products.
It's not as big of a deal when you're making soap and you're giving away soap to all of your friends and family for the holidays. It's when you want to be super precise with that quality when it comes to the situation you're blending for that it becomes even more important of a conversation. So just make sure that you keep track of as best as you can. Make sure you keep track of the distillation date because that starts the moment shelf life. Every oil has a different recommended shelf life based on the family it comes from. So our monoterpenes have a shorter shelf life than our sesquiterpenes just because of the different composition, chemical composition of those specific families.
And so you want to make sure that you are working within that recommended shelf life, which begins for us at the moment of distillation, not when it arrives in your mailbox. From, from the moment it's distilled, you can have an oil that was distilled in 2024 that still has another 2 years of shelf life. But a lot of companies will start that calculation from when it comes to your door, even though it was distilled 2 years prior. So we like to be, again, extremely precise because our oils are going out into the world and are being used in very, precise moments.
And we want to make sure that we are your ally and we are in that moment with you for the positive. Okay, I'm gonna go a little bit faster here because we are getting to the end. So I'm going to skip through the rest of these slides, but they will be in your replay, they will be in your replay page in your Foundations inside of the Natural Living Lab. I also dying to check on comments and to see how things are going over there. So, um, skim through here. Again, your free gift, which is live for another hour.
So those of you who are live, you're getting this free gift. It's on each— it's a pack of 24 plastic pipettes, which are so helpful for when you're in your workshop and you're putting your blends together. Pipettes are— we have a whole like bouquet of pipettes over here. We love having a bouquet of pipettes. It was something that someone mentioned in the Natural Living Club maybe a year ago where this specific club member. Whenever she used like a pipette of rose, she would put it in her pipette. I'm just going to grab it, put it in her pipette bouquet.
So this is our current pipette bouquet that's going on different live events that we've done. It just smells so good. It's like its own little, its own little basket of flowers, because each one of these, you know, we would— we pipette— we've, you know, piped out— I don't know how to say the verb of a pipette. We've dropped out, um, different essential oils, and so they all smell. This is our pipette bouquet, and you can start one of your own. So on any order, there's no minimum. Just place an order for $5.
Make sure you use the link that we've provided. That's how you get your free gift. It can— again, no minimum spend, and we'll send out your pack of 24 pipettes, which is a $9 value, which is awesome. Now, if you pair that with your Natural Living Club or Natural Living Lab free gift. We're giving— I love honey myrtle so much. It smells beautiful. It's one of those oils that isn't as well known, but it has— I could have a whole hour presentation on honey myrtle and why it's just one of my very favorite oils.
A free 5ml on any order over $40 if you're in the Natural Living Club or the Natural Living Lab. So that is a little something just for you for being here. And that link that we're giving you to get your free gift of the 24 pipettes. That is live for another hour because we wanted you to have some time. We got some feedback that half an hour last week was not enough time to go shopping, and we heard you, so we're giving you another hour, um, to go and put your order together and to claim your free gift.
And if you are enjoying the free gifts, if you could pop in, let's say, a 4 into the chat so that we know you like that, and we'll keep this going. Pop a 4 in, and then we'll come up with another free gift for next week if that's something it's exciting. Okay, we've gone over how the next 6 weeks is gonna work. If you have any questions, you can just come over and ask them inside of the Natural Living Lab. I'm not gonna go over the answers to these quiz questions because I want to hop over in— well, we can. So the answer to question— quiz question number 1: Lavender essential oil is made of a single ingredient, lavender.
By now, we all know that there are dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different chemical components in every batch of lavender. And I do want to show you— I'm gonna just— we're gonna leave the slide deck for now because I have other things to show you. Inside of the Natural Living Lab— oh good, I saw comments coming in, I'm coming back over to those. Inside of the Natural Living Lab, I pinned a post that says 3 free printables. If you click here, you can go down here. And someone popped into my DMs and she was like, Jenny, can you please print— can you please make the foundations or every lesson in the 6-week, uh, series printable?
I was like, I can, and I did yesterday. So I made all of these yesterday. So I created this is your— so this is all of the content in the Foundations lesson in a printable form where you can print it off and mark it all up, which I love to print off and mark all up and highlight. There's a workbook that pairs with this, so you can go through this workbook, there's extra information, there's quiz questions, there's different activities to help ground that information, to help ground that knowledge.
And then this is the complete recommended kit and recipe guide. So I went ahead and put in all of the recipes even though the lessons aren't yet unlocked, just the foundations. Lesson 0 is unlocked, and again next week Lesson 1 on July 14th, which is a Tuesday morning, we'll unlock. This is your complete guide to each one of the products we recommend for each one of the lessons and why, a little bit about that product. I also went ahead and included all of the recipes for each week.
So if you are putting together, okay, I have half the supplies, or I have a third of the supplies, I need to buy more, or I'm just not in a position to buy right now, then you know what recipes are coming up. So you're able to get some little substitutions in there. You're able to— maybe you don't have the recommended supplies for week 1, lavender, sweet basil, or ho wood. You're able to find other oils rich in linalool to substitute in. So I just wanted you to have the complete roadmap for all of the recipes for the next 6 weeks so you're able to put together any order you would like and get whatever supplies or the complete kit over to you as we start in earnest lesson 1.
Now next week. All right, so are there other questions or comments? I am just so excited to be kicking this off. It took so much more work than I thought to put this together. So we were gonna— we were going to do this series a couple months ago, and we're like, no, we want to do this right, we want to go in depth. So we just paused and we took our time and we put this together, and I could not be more more excited for the experience you're about to have in the next 6 weeks. We are gonna have such a great time.
So if you could again mark your calendar, and I'll pop it into this calendar in the Natural Living Lab, our first Q&A on the Foundations Lesson 0, um, course or lesson will be this coming Monday at 11 o'clock Mountain Time, which is 1 PM Eastern Time. And I'll make sure to put that information inside of calendar. And I am again so happy that you're here choosing to learn with us. If you're a first-time student with us, welcome. If you've been with us for 15 years, thank you so much for giving your wisdom and expertise into this community.
We could not do without you. Let's talk about the kit. So this is the complete supply kit that if you get this kit, you have everything you need to make all of the blends for the next 6 weeks. You can blend right along with us. What I like about getting the kit is that you have the oil right in front of you as we're talking about it, as we're blending it. You have that tactile experience of smelling and blending along. So it takes it from that theoretical to that practical when you're, when you take and you're working with the oils and you're blending along.
So I really encourage you to get the complete kit. It's a fantastic Fantastic set of oils that you can do a lot with by the time we're done with our 6 weeks together. And the recipes that we are going to make, you can make again and again and again. So these will be supplies that can really boost up your workbench and can keep you blending for a long time. Each one of these products, I have a description of that specific product inside of the PDF that's pinned in the Natural Living Lab.
Here is the bundle right here, um, that allows you to save up to 30% if you get the whole bundle. Now we're giving away a gift card that is the equivalent of the 30% off of the whole kit. So inside of the Natural Living Lab, I'm going to ask again, what is that— what is one reason that is bringing you into this experience that makes you want to learn more? Maybe it's a friend, yourself, family member, whatever it might be, a new career, enhancing an existing career.
I want you to pop into the post I will Create this afternoon. It's our giveaway post, and I'll randomly select between now— well, I'll randomly select next Wednesday morning one person to win the $425.25 in a gift card form to either buy the full kit or to put together— maybe you already have the full kit— to get extra supplies, to get extra things, aromatics.com, for fun. So we're giving away the equivalent of a complete kit at the 30% off value.
So $425.25, you're able to hop in and participate in that giveaway post inside of the Natural Living Lab sometime this afternoon. I'll pop that in. All right, I want to check in on your comments because I haven't been able to. How's everybody doing? Thank you again so much for being here. When we're done with this event, I'm going to go through and read all of your comments. So thank you for contributing and popping that in. And yes, this replay will live inside of— it will live on our YouTube channel forever. Also, it will live inside of the Foundations course.
I'll create a page, pop in a link to the replay, and put the slide deck PDF as well as those 3 other PDFs I created. I'll pop that right in the replay slide or replay page inside of that class. All right, we've done it! Thank you so much for being here. I cannot wait to see you Monday for our first Q&A. We talk about anything you would like to— bring your questions around Foundations Aromatherapy 101. Bring your questions. Karen and I will be ready to interact with you and to hang out and to have a cup of coffee or cup of tea and just have a good old aromatherapy chat.
Alright, bye for now and come on over to the community and let's keep interacting.