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SUSTAINABLE SOURCING The integrity of our ingredients is vital to us, and we actively source every essential oil and plant extract that goes into our products. Our raw materials are native to some of the most wild and remote places in the world. We work with the farmers who produce them to ensure our ingredients are grown to the highest degrees of purity, quality and ethical standards. We support fair trade, organic and traditional agriculture and believe plants grown without chemicals have more benefits and fewer side effects for the skin and body. We continue to nurture our passion for essential oils, looking for new sources and new ingredients to use in our products. As with everything we do, we always use our experience to make sure the ingredients we select will bring real benefits to people’s wellbeing.

But a growing body of research indicates that smell strongly affects how we think and act, that it can make people buy more, favour certain locations, and even respond more ethically and charitably.

"They are small behaviours – it's not international peace – but they can have a significant effect on interpersonal relations," says Avery Gilbert, a research psychologist specializing in smell

Researchers found that people acted more fairly and generously when they were exposed unconsciously to that fragrance.

The reader is not a textbook requiring arduous study. It is a review of old aromatherapy topics from a 21st century perspective and a casual introduction of many new and exciting topics.