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We’ve all been there—you’re walking through a department store and some overly-enthusiastic salesperson has sprayed you with their newest fragrance.You barely have time to register that you’ve been doused in an overpowering scent before you’re quickly ushered away from the cloud of stench. I often ride in taxis and good old Uber. The drivers almost always have an “air freshener”..... Freshener?

It is an area that can create an incredible impact on you and your family's overall well-being with a teeny tiny bit of change. A hard fact to wrap our minds around is that the government really has no idea whether most of the chemicals we use in our cleaning products are safe.

When you think of candles or air fresheners, how do they  make you feel? Snuggly? Warm? Cosy? Which memories are coming up?Often, WHAT you feel when burning candles is linked to your memories and how they smell. The limbic system - that is the center of your brain - which connects emotions and memory -  is strongly linked to scent. Scents are connected to memories, whether good or bad. Smelling them can bring back those same feelings that are imprinted on your limbic system. We are all familiar with certain things that we smell that trigger a memory. Of course there are options...

Before the development of scientific medicine, people had to rely on the earth and their own common sense. They simply experimented with the plants around them. Throughout the years, the same experimentation with plants has occurred and has led to the discovery of many powerful drugs that are still in use today.