67 episodes
Aromatic Wisdom™ Podcast with Liz Fulcher Liz Fulcher, Clinical Aromatherapist, Educator
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4.7 • 12 Ratings
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🌱 Liz shares 32 years of aromatic experience and knowledge through tutorials, personal stories, humor and inspiration in a warm and friendly manner. 🌱No matter where you are on your aromatic journey - from beginner to expert - you'll find something here that will take your aromatic knowledge to the next level! Be Happy, Be Well,Liz💕
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70: Essential Oils vs Fragrance Oils - What is the Difference?
Summary
In this episode, Liz uncovers the differences between two aromatic wonders; essential oils and fragrance oils, and takes a side-by-side look at the definition, production method, uses, and safety considerations for each.
What You Will Learn in Episode #70:
A comprehensive comparison between essential oils and fragrance oilsEssential oils production, uses, and safety considerations.Fragrance oils production, uses, and safety considerationsThe differences between essential oil and fragrance oil production and costs.
Smell My Life: Liz and her husband James shared a cold and cough.
Resources and Links
Article: Poor Sense of Smell Linked to Increased Risk of Depression in Older Adults
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69: How to Choose Your Guiding Theme for an Intentional Year
A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Guiding Theme for Personal and Professional Growth in 2024 or anytime you start with a "clean slate"
What You'll Hear in Episode #69
Liz realizes this is the 10th year of the Aromatic Wisdom podcast and shares her journey of starting the podcast as a novice and the joy she finds in podcasting.
Liz discusses her Guiding Theme for the year and shares how it relates to her work and personal life.
An explanation of the concept of having a guiding theme for the new year or any new beginning and explains its importance.
Liz discusses the process of choosing a guiding theme using a visual tool and provides six examples for a variety of areas in your life. Smell My Life: Liz shares a personal experience with creating a healing salve for a friend.
Coming Up: In Episode 70 Liz will break down the differences between Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils.
Resources and Links
Ezra DeWolfe Cuticle Butter Recipe which can be adapted by switching out essential oilsBlog post on this topic with a downloadable PDF of visual tool
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68: How Does Your Life Smell?
In this episode of the Aromatic Wisdom Podcast, host Liz Fulcher takes a departure from her usual aromatherapy discussions to read from a favorite book, "Until Today" by Iyanla Vanzant. The excerpt, "I'm willing to acknowledge there are things in my life that do not smell quite right," prompts a unique discussion on the metaphorical and literal meanings of the sense of smell in our lives.
What You Will Hear in Episode 68:
Liz explores the idea of life as a crafted fragranceLiz reads from Until TodayLiz invited readers to journal and encourages reflection on the balance and harmony in one's own life and unexpected aromas. Alongside the reading, she shares personal anecdotes"Smell My Life": Plans for a distillation party with a student
Links and Resources:
Until Today: Daily Devotionals for Spiritual Growth
Patreon.com/AromaticWisdom $5/mo
So sit back, take a deep breath, and tune in to this thought-provoking and aromatic episode.
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67: Essential Oils for Autumn - Ten Cozy Scents of the Season for your Diffuser!
Summary
What You Will Hear in Episode 67
Ten of Liz's Favorite Essential Oils for Fall Suggested Combinations for your Diffuser Suggestions for making your own blendsSmell My Life: Something bit Liz's toe! Links and Resources:
ASAKUKI 500 mL - my favorite essential oil diffuser EQUSUPRO Diffuser - I have this one in my bathroom Sweet diffuser, very affordable List of essential oil recipes for Fall inside of Patreon
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66: What is an Essential Oil Chemotype?
What You Will Hear in Episode 66:
Definition of essential oil chemotypeExamples of plants with different chemotypes Importance of understanding chemotypes for blending and therapeutic applicationsFactors that influence chemotypesGC/MS testing and chemotypes Safety and efficacy considerations when choosing essential oils with specific chemotypesAroma differences between chemotypes Smell My Life: Liz's new dresser and Spike Lavender (you can see images here: AromaticWisdomPodcast.com/66)Links and Resources:
Episode #33: Understanding GC/MS Essential Oil Testing Essential Oil Taxonomy and Nomenclature Part 1Essential Oil Taxonomy and Nomenclature Part 2All Aromatic Wisdom Podcast Episodes about CHEMISTRYReferences:
Composition of Essential Oils and Other Materials
Plant Morphology
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65: Poison Ivy Relief with Essential Oils and Hydrosols
In today's episode I talk about my encounter with a patch of poison ivy, the reaction my skin had and the remedies I used to heal!
What You Will Hear in Episode 65:
How I got into poison ivy and the reaction to my skinWhat is poison ivy and why do we get a reaction when we touch itMy IMMEDIATE ITCH RELIEF remedy The specific issues of poison ivy reaction that we address with aromaticsThe specific essential oils and hydrosols I recommendHow to identify poison ivy from harmless ivysSmell My Life: How Liz used essential oils to address ants in her kitchenLinks and Resources:
Tips to Identify Poison IvyDIY Recipe for Natural Calamine LotionEpisode 37: Essential Oil Sensitization: Are you at Risk?Episode 54: The Amazing Blue OilsEpisode 51: Peppermint Hydrosol Benefits and UsesMy favorite hydrosol supplier NaturesGift.com use the code "wisdom"References:
The Effect of Peppermint Oil on Symptomatic Treatment of Pruritus in Pregnant Women
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Customer Reviews
Thank you
This podcast is my absolute favourite! Liz is so knowledgeable and has a wonderful voice.
If you are a hobbyist aromatherapist this podcast will give you more confidence to experiment.
This has been such a comforting listen over the past couple of years. I have re-listened so many times!
Thank you Liz 🙂
So informative! I love it!
I was searching for a podcast that was informative and easy to understand - it took me a year but I found Liz’s! It has helped me so much with understanding chemistry for my last module of Clinical Aromatherapy and I contacted Liz personally to thank her! For me it gave me an even greater love and admiration of Essential oils and their power as well as a confidence to question those social media posts where the information is shockingly inaccurate. (We’ve all seen them!)
The Aromatherapy community is so wonderful and made even better for having someone like Liz in it! I feel blessed to be part of it... 🌺🌸💐🌷🌹🌻🥀
A gem of clarity
Only found this podcast (and the website) a couple of weeks ago, but have listened to most of the episodes more than once already (and am now working my way through all the blog posts on the site!). Such a wealth of knowledge condensed into easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets, and presented in a calm and soothing voice, without adverts. A pleasure to listen to - and I often find peoples' voices grating to the ears and nerves. It helps to carve a clear and simple path through a complex subject. I just hope there are more episodes to come.