Nutmeg is a popular spice around the world--some even call it 'The Spice of Life!' Join BeWellBuzz as we check out the health benefits of this fragrant spice. The nutmeg fruit is a drupe along with its sisters the coconut, peach, almond, olive, mangoes, cherries and apricots. Drupes are also called "stone fruit" because at center, beyond the peel (exocarp) and the edible flesh ... Continue Reading
Sandalwood Oil Benefits
(BeWellBuzz) When one hears the word 'sandalwood', the image that immediately comes to the mind is that of a woody and exotic smelling oil that is mostly used in fragrance products like perfumes, cosmetics, aftershaves, and incenses. The western world knows sandalwood (botanical name: Santalum Album) as an essential oil whose most valued characteristic is its fragrance. In ... Continue Reading
Benefits of Aromatherapy For Pregnancy
Aromatherapy offers many health benefits to pregnant women. You can use them during prenatal period, labor, and postnatal period to help you deal with stress, to prepare your body for labor and delivery, and get relief from fatigue and tiredness following a delivery. Using essential oil therapy during the prenatal, labor, and postnatal phases can: Promote ... Continue Reading
Aromatherapy Decoded: Essential Oils Use Chart
The true therapeutic essential oils are truly a natural solution to be used by anyone to treat common ailments or health problems. Essential oils are pure aromatic plant essences distilled from flowers, fruit, leaves, resins, roots, seeds, and wood. The are used for their healing properties all over the world. But there are important guidelines that everyone should follow ... Continue Reading
Sandalwood Essential Oils
Sandalwood oil (Botanical name - Santalum Album) is perhaps best known in the west as a sweet, warm, rich and woody essential oil used as is for a body fragrance, and as an ingredient in fragrant products such as incense, perfumes, aftershaves and other cosmetics. But the story of sandalwood, the divine essence, goes much further. Sandalwood has been a part of the ... Continue Reading