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Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

KC, Mrs E has asked me to get replacement pads for our plug in diffuser thing, but I'm sick of Johnson and Johnson being robbing gits! I'm thinking of using an aromatherapy diffuser - can you suggest oils for congestion? Plug in uses lavender and chamomile, but Amazon has loads of other options. Looking for a reasonably potent home bogey busting combo

Good gut instinct, Ed – and frankly, if you're buying a commercial diffuser, you're poisoning yourselves with all sorts of chemical crap, I'd honestly throw away the pads. I have one experience of them – I went to interview somebody in their own home, and he had four plugged in to his open plan living space **faints**


He agreed to turn them off, as my throat started “catching” the minute I went in. But it got worse, and I started coughing – he realised that there was another one plugged in immediately behind the chair I was sitting on. Confirmed me in my previous suspicion that they're chemically horrible.


Check out http://www.nealsyardremedies.com/
they're the classic organic providers (of essential oils – I don't know what they put in their diffusers).


As for which oils – off the top of my head, I'd recommend eucalyptus, or mint – something that feels like it will clear through. Tea tree, too. Clearing congestion, by the way - that's not what lavender or chamomile do, they're supposed to be calming, almost sedative, but not clearing. Chamomile tea, by the way, just with ordinary teabags – I don't like it, but it's brilliant for settling stomachs, and I do use it as “medicine”.

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rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...The shop was brilliant :beer: the actual craftworker was very willing to take what our mum had done and run with it to finish it, without unpicking anything. It was a real privilege to be able to see her workplace, the looms (computerised, 11 feet long!) and the different options she could offer. Hundreds, literally! And the town was amazing too, it's a third of the size of my town, but it's got ten times the shops, antiquey, specialised (like the quilter) and all sorts of things. I thought my town was well off, and it is, really - but this was special, it was brill.

Awww KC - that is just so lovely! How wonderful to know that your ma's quilt will be complete. Wonderful that there are places that will finish off crafty projects! Just told OH & we are both teary...

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Karmacat

Oh sweetie! I didn't mean to have that effect :kisses3::kisses3:

It's startling to see how beautiful the things are that she's done, and how much of it there is. I also have her art portfolio from when she was a 15 year old evacuee, and the designs in there are startlingly beautiful, and startlingly precise. I'll post a few on my personal blog eventually, but I need to scan them and give the scans to my brother and sister first, then distribute the actual drawings as part of the executor thing.

RT, let me know how you're doing - I prattle on endlessly on this diary, so there's not much else I can tell you about me but I'd love to know how you're getting on
:kisses3:

Suffolk_lass

Karmacat wrote: »

As for which oils – off the top of my head, I'd recommend eucalyptus, or mint – something that feels like it will clear through. Tea tree, too. Clearing congestion, by the way - that's not what lavender or chamomile do, they're supposed to be calming, almost sedative, but not clearing. Chamomile tea, by the way, just with ordinary teabags – I don't like it, but it's brilliant for settling stomachs, and I do use it as “medicine”.

We use Lavender, rosemary, eucalyptus and sometimes a bit of camphor oils - but in baths rather than a diffuser. Karvol decongestant capsules on a clean cotton handkerchief (or clean pillowcase) is the best remedy for sleeping with a snot-head-child (IMHO). Olbas oil is also good on a hankie for sleeping, I still use both, interchangeably. I take Olbas essential oil away in my toilet bag in the winter so I can use it on a hankie or in a bath, depending on what needs it - good for relaxing in as well as de-snotting.

Karmacat

Olbas, of course! Thanks for that, SL. Camphor too

beanielou

Good news on the quilt & the lovely town.

michelle09

Glad the shop was good in the end! Hope your neice likes the finished product.

earthgirl

Lovely news on the quilt and that it could be completed with no unpicking. Hope you got to the post. Mine is piling up too!

greent

edinburgher wrote: »

KC, Mrs E has asked me to get replacement pads for our plug in diffuser thing, but I'm sick of Johnson and Johnson being robbing gits! I'm thinking of using an aromatherapy diffuser - can you suggest oils for congestion? Plug in uses lavender and chamomile, but Amazon has loads of other options. Looking for a reasonably potent home bogey busting combo

Hi Ed - I'll jump in here - although I no longer practise aromatherapy for a living

I'd recommend Aromastones or Aromastreams if you want an electrical method of diffusing oils - the stones are hot and the streams run air through a pad with oils on. I use an aromastream in children's bedrooms - no heat.

I'd recommend myrtle over eucalyptus - similar aroma, but gentler. Good antiseptic and bactericidal oil. Gentler oil, so suitable for using around Miss Ed Benzoin is also quite a nice smell - think of 'Friar's Balsam' if you know that smell. Tea tree is the most widely known and probably widely used bug-busting oil Lavender, although most known for it's soothing properties, is also antiseptic, bactericidal and decongestant - a brilliant balancing oil and one to add to a blend to bring down the higher notes of something like tea tree

greent

Getting the quilt finished sounds brilliant, Kc x