Base oil or vegetable oil also known as Carrier Oil, is used to dilute essential oil and absolutes before they are applied to the skin in massage and aromatherapy. They are so named because they carry the essential oil onto the skin. Carrier oils do not contain a concentrated aroma, unlike essential oils, though some, such as olive, have a mild distinctive smell. The carrier oils used should be as natural and unadulterated as possible. Organic oils should be used where possible. Cold-pressing and maceration are the two main methods of prod...

The origins of aromatherapy date back  thousand of years. Essential oil must be treated like medicines. Aromatherapy is a form of altemative medicine that uses volatile plant materials, known as essential oils, and other aromatic compounds for the purpose of altering a person's mind, mood, or health. Many such oils are described by Dioscorides, along with beliefs of the time regarding their healing properties, in his written in the first century. Distilled essential oils have been employed as medicines since the invention of distillation in the eleventh century, when Avicenna isolated...

The Agarwood that we carry is plantation-grown in Trat province, located in the east of Thailand, which was originally one of the richest areas of naturally occurring agarwood trees. While thereare still wild agarwood trees to be found in inaccessible forest regions, they are extremely rare and very difficult to obtain. By purchasing agarwood products from cultivated trees, we are not doing damage to the last remaining wild agarwood trees, nor to the forests in which the precious agarwood trees grow. The odour of agarwood is complex and pleasing, with few or no similar natural analogues. As a...