Category: Natural Perfumes

Protect Honeybees

4/25/2018

International Bee Day 2018 is April 29. Let's add colors to bee’s lives in replanting flowers and plants they like. If you don’t have a garden, add some plants or flowers on your balcony and a small cup of water for bees.

Protect Honeybees
Latest reports were telling that agricultural plays an important role in the development of the health of honeybees. It was found out that the overall health of honeybees is greatly influenced by production in agriculture.
Many of our native plants require pollination to spread their seeds from plant to plant, and we depend on bees for agricultural production.
They also provide a way to reconnect with nature. By keeping bees in our garden and farms, it's a way for us to engage with our natural environment.

Everyone should contribute to the survival of bees
Bees are important not only for their production of honey but also for the survival of our natural foods. Bees and other pollinators are part of our important eco-system allowing us to enjoy fruits and vegetables.
Since regulators and politicians can play an important role in forbidding pesticides and promoting natural pest controls, then everyone has an important role to play in the protection of bees and pollinators.

Bees are important for our food production

The lack of fragrant flower fields on Earth is becoming a real problem for the bees.
Replanting flowers on the planet will also support the bee’s work.
The Perfume Industry should take a huge responsibility in the current decline of bees. Perfume used to be made from flowers and there were thousands of flower fields all over the planet giving work to millions of people. Since the chemical industry took over the cosmetic industry, flower fields have been replaced by synthetics and brands are giving consumers the image of flowers instead of real flowers.

Bees have a very powerful sense of smell, 100 times more powerful than a human’s.
Honeybees use their antennae to detect odor. According to research by the National Institutes of Health, published in the "Genome Research" journal, honeybees have 170 odor receptors, or chemoreceptors, in their antennae. This is high for an insect -- fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) have 62 receptors and mosquitos (Anopheles gambiae) have 79. The honeybee’s sense of smell is so sensitive that it can detect the trace of a scent in flight. This ability equips the bee to effectively and efficiently locate pollen-rich flowers. Once the scent is detected on the antennae, the bee’s hypersensitive olfactory path processes the information, enabling the bee to determine the relevance of the scent to their search for pollen. Honeybees use their sense of smell to locate other bees and for finding food as well.
In contrast to their highly developed sense of smell, the bee’s sense of taste is somewhat basic. They use their tongues, which contain taste buds, to detect sour, bitter and sweet -- the same range of taste detection that humans use -- but since they gather lots of information from smell, enabling them to taste before the pollen touches the tongue, they’ve effectively done all of the research necessary before the sustenance reaches their mouths. Since bees provide benefits to plants by means of pollination, plants have not evolved any defense mechanisms against bees. This means that no plants produce distasteful or harmful pollen.

In asking for Natural Perfumes, you can help the bees
In asking for Natural Perfumes, you can help change the whole perfume industry distribution chain. Asking for Natural Perfumes is, in effect, is asking the perfume industry to return to replanting flowers and plants instead of producing synthetic copies of flowers for perfumes in laboratories.

Creating our own little garden could also be a beautiful gift for bees.
Gardens are healing since plants have beneficial effects on human beings. Creating our own gardens in our back yards or on our balconies will help us to reconnect with nature and make a beautiful invitation for bees and other pollinators. Bees can also be thirsty, so add a small cup of water for them.
As strong thoughts are very powerful too, meditate for the bees and visualize them in their full happiness.
Join us every year on April 29 to celebrate Bee Day. Send us your activities for Bee Day and we will publish them.

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Donate to the International Perfume Foundation to support the flower field replanting program (World Perfume Heritage) for the bees.

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10 Best Ways to Reconnect with Nature

2/20/2018

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Today we are disconnected from nature and need to reconnect. Our bodies are calling us to react and we feel we need to reconnect.
The best way to Reconnect with Nature is to look for Nature in everything. This takes a little bit more time since we first need to determine what is natural and what isn't. To do this, products have to have traceability, which allows us to find true natural products before our purchases are made.
Here are the 10 Best Ways to Reconnect with Nature

Think before buying. Who is making it? How is it made? Where does it come from? Can we trust it?
Read labels. If you see chemical terminology on the product, don’t buy! A natural product is a complete product with a name and it does not need labelling using chemical compounds. A rose is a rose, a lemon is a lemon. If you see chemicals formulas on a products label it means it is probably not natural, it is probably coming from a laboratory and was processed. You can do the same exercise with food, with perfumes...
Eat fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and wild herbs, cereals that are not GMO processed and not polluted by chemical pesticides.
Eat honey, since bees are producing the best food made with flowers and plants.
Breathe Nature. Learn how to breathe. From yoga classes, you will learn how to breathe, using breathing to massage your internal organs. The sense of smell is the most essential sense, and is the first of the senses developed in newborns. We breathe about 23040 times a day but we don't pay attention anymore to the benefits and importance of breathing.
Walk in Nature at least once a week.
Buy perfumes from Certified Natural Perfumers only. Do you know that perfumes goes to your blood much faster than any medicine you swallow ? Don’t look for brands, look for perfumers! Look for Natural Perfumers that only use natural materials, and they should be certified. Breathe the power of nature. Natural perfumes are the easiest way to reconnect with nature as it brings you the beneficial power of flowers and plants directly in your lungs and organs. Make sure they are certified by the International Perfume Foundation*
Grow your own fragrant garden. Use the herbs and the plants in your food and understand how they can improve your health. Feel the beneficial power of plants and the energy they will provide you. If you don’t have a garden, spend some time growing a plant inside your house. The care you will give it will help you to reconnect with the vibration of nature.
Take a Natural Perfumery 6 months extensive course, learn about the healing power of nature. Your garden is your next pharmacy. In the past many women were perfumers and healers at the same time. They cultivated their garden and obtained the essence of plants and flowers through distillation, maceration or enfleurage. You can learn all these techniques and become a natural perfumer!
Join the Natural Perfumery Teacher’s Academy and learn how you can help others in sharing this ancient knowledge and become a Teacher.

*The International Perfume Foundation has existed since 1995 and has always promoted better practices in perfume making, and the use of naturals in perfume. This organisation spent 20 years lobbying institutions against chemical lobbies...
Other related article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/21/access-nature-reduces-depression-obesity-european-report

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Your Garden is your next Pharmacy, Become a Natural Perfumer !

1/16/2018

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Your garden is your next pharmacy. In the past many women were perfumers and healers at the same time. They cultivated their gardens, obtained the essence of plants and flowers by distillation, maceration or enfleurage. You can learn all of these techniques and become a natural perfumer.
Take a Natural Perfumery 6 month extensive online course and learn about the healing power of nature.

Students taking this course in Botanical Perfumery can have confidence in being instructed in a curriculum that has been thoroughly reviewed and approved by the International Perfume Foundation (IPF), the leading authority on natural perfume's health benefits, history and heritage for more than 23 years.
Students completing the IPF Certified Natural Perfume curriculum will receive a Certificate of Completion from IPF.
After completing the Natural Perfume curriculum students will receive a year's Membership to IPF. Graduating students will be able to apply to IPF for Natural Perfume Certification and join the growing family of IPF Certified Natural Perfumers.
The Natural Perfume Academy is registered and recognised by The International Perfume Foundation.

To Apply: http://www.naturalperfumeacademy.com/mod/page/view.php?id=3481

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Rosemary Moore Director of Healing Garden Programs

9/13/2017

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Rosemary Moore, Director IPF Healing Garden Program

IPF is pleased to announce the selection of Rosemary Moore as Director of the IPF Healing Garden Program.

Rosemary, an IPF Certified Natural Perfumer and garden expert from the English Gardening School and Garden for the Soul, brings a life-long commitment to improving people’s lives through reconnecting people with nature and healing gardens.

As part of the International Perfume Foundation’s Reconnect with Nature Campaign, we have developed the IPF Healing Garden, which involves working with plants, flowers, and soil allowing children and adults to experience the senses, to reconnect with nature by growing and utilizing their own Healing Gardens, and to benefit from the many healthy features of nature and gardening.

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Fragrant Plants to Protect You from Mosquitoes

6/7/2017

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Mosquitoes are insects that have been around for more than 30 million years. And it seems that, during those millions of years, mosquitoes have been honing their skills so that they are now experts at finding people to bite. Mosquitoes have a battery of sensors designed to track their prey, including:

Chemical sensors - mosquitoes can sense carbon dioxide and lactic acid up to 100 feet (36 meters) away. Mammals and birds gives off these gases as part of their normal breathing. Certain chemicals in sweat also seem to attract mosquitoes (people who don't sweat much don't get nearly as many mosquito bites).
Visual sensors - if you are wearing clothing that contrasts with the background, and especially if you move while wearing that clothing, mosquitoes can see you and zero in on you. It's a good bet that anything moving is "alive", and therefore full of blood, so this is a good strategy.
Heat sensors - Mosquitoes can detect heat, so they can find warm-blooded mammals and birds very easily once they get close enough.

Something with this many sensors sounds more like a military aircraft than an insect. That's why mosquitoes are so good at finding and biting you.

Fragrant plants confuse mosquitoes’ chemical sensors and stop them from finding you. Natural Perfumes are your best friends to protect you from mosquitoes! This is one more reason for creating your own Healing Garden! Choose your plants.

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Protect Honeybees

10 Best Ways to Reconnect with Nature

Your Garden is your next Pharmacy, Become a Natural Perfumer !

Rosemary Moore Director of Healing Garden Programs

Fragrant Plants to Protect You from Mosquitoes

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Protect Honeybees

10 Best Ways to Reconnect with Nature

Your Garden is your next Pharmacy, Become a Natural Perfumer !

Rosemary Moore Director of Healing Garden Programs

Fragrant Plants to Protect You from Mosquitoes

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Copyright 2021 Creezy Courtoy

Copyright 2021
Creezy Courtoy