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Ancient Wisdom has been our trusted and well-tested supplier of oils and bases for over 3 years. As therapists we use oils on an everyday basis, so we tracked down a supplier who could meet our demand for high quality and ethos: we found it in Ancient Wisdom.
Organic when possible, ethically picked ingredients, ensuring that the employees in developing countries are well paid and looked after, the oils and bases resonate with good quality from their core – now that’s what we call a truly holistic product.

Mandarin
Mind: its refreshing aroma has an uplifting quality and helps banish depression.
Body: A tonic to the digestion, has a stimulating effect on the liver, helping to regulate the metabolism. A mild oil used often on children, it is a cheering oil often used in blends for pre menstrual tension.
Aroma is delicate, sweet with floral undertones.

Marjoram
Mind: a calming effect on the nervous system, strengthens the mind, excellent for hyperactive people.
Body: excellent oil for rheumatic aches & pains, painful muscles and period pain. A good tonic to the heart, and eases headaches, migraines and insomnia. Benefits all chesty complaints such as bronchitis and asthma.
Aroma is warm and slightly spicy.

Marjoram Spanish
Mind: Calming and uplifting.
Body: Antiseptic qualities and thus also bactericidal. Has a balancing effect on the digestive system, also being a diuretic. Helpful for hypotension.
The aroma warm, penetrating and slightly eucalyptus type odour.

May Chang
Mind: Uplifting and eases winter blues.
Body: Good for skin care, especially oily skin, good as air freshener, great if you add to the bath, refreshing and deodorizing.
The aroma is fresh and lemony.

Myrrh
Mind: seems to give a lift to feelings of weakness, apathy & lack of incentive. Cools heated emotions.
Body: has a ‘drying’ action & effective against excessive mucous in the lungs. The best treatment for all mouth & gum disorders, like ulcers & gingivitis. A good oil for balancing the hormonal system.
Smoky, gum-like & slightly musky.

Neroli
Mind: soothing in highly emotional states, hysteria & shock. Rather hypnotic & somewhat euphoric.
Body: it has a tranquillising action on the sympathetic nervous system making a good remedy for insomnia, and emotional depression due to pre-menstrual tension. It promotes a calming effect on the intestines & can be helpful with colic. Aroma is floral.

Orange
Mind: spreads a little bit of sunshine on a gloomy thoughts and depression. Reviving. Dispels tension and stress.
Body: Quels the feeling of butterflies in the stomach. Good for bringing down temperatures and cold conditions. Assist in reducing insomnia.
The aroma is zesty, with a refreshing citrus fragrance..

Patchouli
Mind: seems to banish lethargy & sharpen the wits.
Body: a good tissue regenerator helping re growth of skin cells & forming scar tissue. Is cooling to inflamed conditions & heals rough cracked skin, sores & wounds.
A strong, earthy & exotic aroma, yet sweet & spicy too.

Peppermint
Peppermint
Mind: Cooling nature relieves anger and hysteria.
Body: Good travel-sickness and nausea tonic. Reputably good with breathing difficulties. Ecellent for aching feet; revving them. Scanty menstruation and painful periods responds well to this oil.
Sharp, menthol fragrance.

Petitgrain
Mind: Calms anger and panic, refreshes the mind and gives assurance when feeling down.
Body: Seems to slow the body down, so eases breath and muscles. Due to its immuno-stimulant properties, it can aid after states of illness. Its deodorising effects can revive the body.
The aroma is woody yet floral.

Rose
Mind: Soothing, uplifting for the heart, ultra feminine oil – gives a woman positive feelings about herself.
Body: Clams PMT. Helpful with sexual difficulties. Combats sluggish circulation. Relieves nausea, vomiting and constipation.
Aroma: Deep, sweet and flowery – an exquisite perfume

Rose Geranium
Mind: Lifting depression and relieving tension.
Body: stimulates the adrenal cortex and helps to balance the nervous system, anxiety and has a regulatory effect on the hormonal system, clearing sluggish and oily skin, while assisting with healing.
It has a sweet and rosy smell with a mint overtone

Rosemary
Mind: Stimulant for the mind, improving memory and clarity.
Body: Effective for mental fatigue, circulation problems, pain relief for the muscular system, decongests the respiratory tract and is a skin and hair booster.
Crisp and clean, powerfully refreshing herbal smell.

Sandalwood Amyris
Sandalwood Amyris
Mind: Relaxing & sedative. Calming (great aid for meditation).
Body: Aids sleep. Relieves itching and imflammation. Helps to stimulate the immune system.
Aroma: Woody sweet and exotic, subtle and lingering

Tea Tree
Mind: Refreshing and revitalising (especially after shock).
Body: Assists the immune system to fight off infectious disease: fortifying the body. A urinary tract antiseptic, alleviating problems such as cystitis.
Fresh and sanitary, rather pungent..

Ylang Ylang
Mind: Relaxing & sensual, reputable aphrodisiac. Regulates adrenaline flow.
Body: Balances hormones, seadative quality brings down blood pressure. Excellent for sexual problems. Good tonic for female reproductive organs.
Aroma: Sweet, floral, exotic & pungent.
Aroma is floral