{"id":3639,"date":"2013-08-14T20:42:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2013-08-14T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T01:42:39","slug":"oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/3639\/","title":{"rendered":"Oils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So lately I&#8217;ve been having fun with some new hobbies related to essential oils.  It&#8217;s fun to collect them and research their qualities.  They smell great and can be used for several different things.<\/p>\n<p>One is aromatherapy.  I&#8217;m no doctor, but some of the plant oils do have medicinal effects if used correctly.  It&#8217;s no replacement for real medical treatment, but some minor sicknesses and infections can be treated naturally.  For instance, eucalyptus oil is a good expectorant and great for treating colds.<\/p>\n<p>Not all oils have medicinal qualities, and some are even poisonous or skin irritant.  Some are incredibly anti-bacterial or anti-viral, others just smell good when diffused in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Another application of essential oils is perfumery.  I have mixed one perfume so far, and Alice and Jill have been wearing it.  I hope to make lots more!  This is a fun hobby that is almost like making music&#8230; the blending is highly subjective and yet somewhat formalized.  The end result is a &#8220;chord&#8221; of smells &#8211; and there are infinite combinations!  A professional has about 30,000 separate scents to work with (mostly synthetic), but you can make perfumes that smell good with just &#8220;naturals&#8221; too!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, today I made my first foray into soap making.  This is somewhat similar to perfumery, except your &#8220;blend&#8221; of oils is used to make your plain soap smell good!  Then you can get all artsy with the visual presentation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_13041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_13041-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1304\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_13041-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_13041-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So lately I&#8217;ve been having fun with some new hobbies related to essential oils. It&#8217;s fun to collect them and research their qualities. They smell great and can be used for several different things. One is aromatherapy. I&#8217;m no doctor, but some of the plant oils do have medicinal effects if used correctly. It&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}