Kathryn Brightbill is one of the wonderful employees at Dreaming Earth who’s agreed to do a regular blog post for us. Once a month or so, she’ll be sharing her reflections on her favorite essential oils and essential oil blends. We’re so happy to have her expertise and passion to share with you! Here’s her first post:

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Even though I’ve worked at Dreaming Earth Botanicals for going on five years, I still think of myself as an aromatherapy novice.  Sure, I’ve learned quite a bit about the aromatherapy field, but I still discover something every time I come into work that I didn’t know before.

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Dreaming Earth is my part-time gig. I work in the library at a small college full-time, I home-school my teenager, and I’m active at church, so I’m pretty busy.   People marvel. They say “I don’t know how you do it!”   Sometimes I don’t know either.   I do know that it helps to have one job that is like an afternoon walk in a flower garden in full bloom.  That is what it’s like working at Dreaming Earth. And I learn something every time I come in.   Like I said, lucky me!

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I thought I might start by blogging about my favorite oils, as I discovered them while working here.  My first “discover” was geranium. While mixing some Skatter one day, I was thinking how nice it smelled for bug repellent. I thought it was probably the Lavender, which has always been one of my favorite scents, but found that it was geranium.   Geranium essential oil is very green and lush… earthy and a little spicy.  It’s so fresh and summery that I started using it to clean with at home.  I add a few drops to some castile soap in hot water and I love the way it leaves the house smelling.  I use it in my candle diffuser, too.  It has anti-depressant properties and helps with skin aliments, as well as being a natural insect repellent.  Geranium is a great essential oil that is often over-looked.  It now stands next to lavender as one of my go-to all purpose oils.

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