Michelle-Louise Nurse Aromatherapist

20/11/2023

This balm has been formulated to nourish and protect even the most driest of lips.

I spent 3 days infusing cold pressed jojoba oil with vanilla seeds and their pods. This was gently done in my double boiler. The house has been full of the beautiful vanilla scent!

This jojoba oil has then been gently warmed in the double boiler with candelilla wax and babassu oil. Candelilla wax has been used instead of beeswax making this a complete vegan product.

Babassu oil is similar to coconut oil in consistency and colour, however I feel it is more easily absorbed into the skin.

This balm contains no additives, colourants or perfumes. It contains the natural and subtle smell of vanilla.

Each balm is priced at £10.00

Keep posted for updates and photos on how this product is made.

Orders now being taken, please contact me if you are interested and/or would like more information:

07976270677

Or feel free to fb message me

Lots of love and light

x

14/04/2023

Thank you for a wonderful review

★★★★★ "Michelle provides an excellent service. I had consultation with Michelle and following treatment. I came away feeling very well cared for and in a much calmer state of mind. Michelle explains everything in a very calm and reassuring way which instantly puts you at ease. I would high...

19/11/2022

Autumn Goals 🎯

🍁 Prevent skin from becoming dry
🍁 Maintain moisture
🍁 Regular exfoliation
🍁 Light detox programme - cleanse

Those spring and summer salt scrubs are coming to a close as we head into the more drying and cool time of the year. Mixing things up now with sugar, warming essential oils and deep, moisturising herbal and vegetable oils.

Have you noticed changes in your skin, emotions and energy levels? I work closely with you to assess these areas and formulate products that can help support you as we move closer towards the winter.

Treat you and your skin this autumn 🌟

Permanent 10% discount for all NHS, Social Care Staff and Family Carers on all products and treatments

📞 +44 7976 270677
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🌐 msha.ke/mlaroma

30/05/2022

We have returned from a much needed and wonderful trip away to Rhodes in Greece 🇬🇷

Some absolutely beautiful landscapes explored, calm seas swam in and stunning local foods eaten.

Plenty of yin yoga devoured along the way too 🙏

I am now back and taking bookings for consultations, treatments, and products ☀️

25/04/2022

It's that fabulous time of year again in my garden!!! 👌

The lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is blooming and the first batch has been harvested, prepped and has started it's infusion journey.

To me there's something magical, light and entrancing about the scent of lilac. The fact that its presence is short makes it even the more special.

A bit about the lilac infused oil (being applied topically not internal use).

🌸 Astringent (causing contraction of skin cells). It helps to tighten the skin, improve elasticity and brighten dull complexions

🌸 Antibacterial - improve acne symptoms, reduce wound infection

🌸 Antifungal - Athlete's foot, ringworm

The scent of the infused oil is not as powerful as the flowers, however, the healing properties are captured during the infusion process.

Orders are currently being taken 💯

Blossoms are being infused in 75% sunflower oil and 25% apricot kernal oil

🌻 Sunflower oil (Helianthus annus) is great for all skin types. Excellent emollient and very soothing

🥭 Apricot kernel oil (Prunus armeniaca) is also great for all skin types. It protects the skin from free radicals and reduces inflammation. Great to support wound healing (and reduce risk of infection due to antibacterial properties in the lilac 🌸) and promotes skin barrier homeostasis.

Vitamin E oil shall be added to help preserve. Item to be kept in the fridge and will keep for up to 2 months.

Please contact me if you would like more information and to place an order.

Infused lilac oil is being sold in 50ml amber glass bottles with a pipette for £15.00

100% handmade with love 💚

25/04/2022

Beautiful, informative and grounding morning spent on a herb walk with the brilliant Jeremy from The Green Man, Herbal Apothecary yesterday 💚

Jeremy is such a wise and experienced soul 🙏 We learnt so much about the herbs we see growing all over our land! Can't wait to rustle up some yummy concoctions.

Jeremy has a lovely little apothecary in Upton upon Severn and I highly recommend a visit. You are guaranteed to take some new knowledge back with you.

Our baby Otter thoroughly enjoyed it 😊

02/04/2022

One plan for my home birth.... To utilise what planet earth offers to ensure a smooth and timely natural labour.

I was successful in growing Salvia Sclarea (Clary Sage) from seed during my pregnancy in 2021. My goal was to grow enough crop to harvest, dry out and make tea.

This tea I drank throughout my whole labour (not during my pregnancy - this herb and oil is contraindicated during pregnancy).

My labour was smooth, uncomplicated and carried out at our home unmedicated.

My labour was also tough, gruelling and painful. There was vomit, roaring and at times some serious self doubt as to whether I would be able to bring our baby earthside.

Thankfully my active labour was very minimal and we had the birth we dreamed of.

Now to share the Clary sage science....

Clary sage is reported to increase salivary oxytocin concentrations. Oxytocin is the wonderful hormone that stimulates a uterus to contract and helps to improve the progress of labour (often referred to as the love hormone). Oxytocin plays many roles in our lives but for the purpose of this post I am relating it to pregnancy.

As well as drinking through lots and lots of this herb steeped as a tea during my labour I also had an oil blend containing clary sage rubbed into my lower back.

My whole labour time was less than 14 hours with my active labour being 4 hours.

For my first birth I didn't expect things to happen in such a smooth and timely manner. I feel the herb both as a strong tea and an oil blend worked powerfully for me and my baby that night 🙏.

More Salvea being grown and this experience has pushed me to start experimenting with homegrowing more medicinal herbs organically.

31/03/2022

These salt scrubs have been absolutely wonderful to make 😋

It has been so rewarding to interact with medicinal plant material. I have been greatly missing the foreign sea swims and cleansing of my skin and have found a salt scrub application twice a week to have a really profound effect on my skin and wellbeing.

Some benefits of exfoliation:

🌿 Lymph is stimulated and aids blood circulation

🌿 Skin is brightened

🌿 Cellular regeneration is supported

🌿 Enhances immunity

🌿 Nutrient exchange is improved

Some benefits exfoliating with sea salt:

💮 Not processed, it is simply evaporated sea water. No additives.

💮 Manually exfoliate but also detoxify - they are able to bring toxins away from the body and ease in anti inflammation.

💮 Great for over worked, trained and tired and aching muscles

💮 Great for itchy, dry and problematic skin - care being taken with delicate skin.
And... It just feels absolutely scrummy anytime of day ❤️

🔶 Product made after consultation and discussion around safety - if using essential oils. Made to order.

🔶 Products made within 3 days.

Natural Sea Salt is one ingredient I use for body scrubs. I will share more information on other key ingredients and their benefits in coming posts.

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21/12/2021

✴️ FACIAL AND/OR FOOT REFLEXOLOGY ✴️

° 10% Discount for all treatments booked for January 2022

° Treatments must be booked by 31.12.21 midnight

° All treatments include a consultation

° Essential oils are used - no pre blend

° Treatments occur in Cam, Dursley

👀 Try something different this New Year 👀

15/12/2021

💕 Thank you to everyone for your on going love and support during this time nurturing baby Otter! Your flexibility and continued loyalty has enabled me to continue to practice and be the mummy I want to be 💕

I look forward to seeing you over this festive period 🎄

21/11/2021

The outdoors with my gang ❤️🦦❤️
Tortoise almost 10 weeks old! 🦦👀👀👀👀

10/11/2021

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To all the lovely and supportive people who have offered so much throughout my first 2 months of maternity - a massive thank you ❤️.

I am now steadily starting to book clients in from next Wednesday (17th November). This is being done around baby Otter and my partner being off work so slots are a little bit more limited.

Super excited to be working with you again 💙. All treatments and consultations at present are taking place in Cam, Gloucestershire.

Lots of background projects in the making also 🎊... Keep posted for more info 🙏

Love and light

X

20/09/2021

❤️ Our babe naturally disconnected form his cord and placenta yesterday ❤️.
Due to the weather being forecast to be beautiful today, we preserved the placenta for another 24hrs and carried out our burial ritual this morning.
Throughout my pregnancy I became more and more involved with the placenta, its power and its importance to our babe's life. Spiritually for us, it didn't feel comfortable to cut the cord and detach the babe from the organ. We wanted this to happen naturally - 🌸 lotus birth 🌸.
She became to be known as babe's best friend, 'Alice', and we even surprised ourselves at how easy it was to adapt to nurturing our babe with cord and placenta attached.
A lot of salt, thyme and our homegrown dried out lavender kept Alice healthy and drying 🌼.
We have planted her in Tom's grandmother's Acer Tree that we were given. Our intention to give thanks back to Mother Earth for this journey and to tie Grandma and babe together in spirit.

30/08/2021

🌿Salvea Sclarea - Lamiaceae Family

Super excited to have made my own Salvea Sclarea dried herbs for tea! Homegrown from precious seed this year 🌱. I have then dried them out & chopped them up ready to be used when we need them medicinally.

🤓 Salvea is derived from the Latin 'salveo' meaning I save or heal, because some species have been highly regarded medicinally.

🔹 first rate remedy as a hot infusion for colds
🔹tea mixed with cider vinegar makes an excellent gargle for sore throats, tonsillitis and laryngitis
🔹beneficial for mouth ulcers and infected gums.

🏵️ The essential oil is obtained through steam distillation of the fresh partially dried flower stems and leaves.

Main components = esters (especially linalyl acetate 75%) and the alcoholic monoterpene linalool up to 20%.

These components contribute to the antispasmodic, anti inflammatory, nervine, anxiolytic and anti depressant activity.

🔸Low libido
🔸Amenorrhoea
🔸Stress related conditions
🔸Anxiety
🔸Depression
🔸Compassion, kindness & gentle support
🔸Estrogen like quality & it is used to ease premenstrual symptoms.

🤰Natural uterotonic ~ stimulate uterine contractions. Could be used as a natural method to improve the effectiveness of contractions in labour. It calms the nervous system and acts as an analgesic so to promote relaxation during labour.

⚠️ Potent oil and should be used correctly to to prevent hyper stimulation or other side effects.
⚠️DO NOT USE IN PREGNANCY PRIOR TO 37 WEEKS
⚠️ AVOID IF CONSUMING ALCOHOL OR NARCOTICS AS IT MAY LEAD TO NIGHTMARES AND NIGHT TERRORS
⚠️ AVOID IN HORMONAL CANCERS
⚠️AVOID IN HYPOTENSION.

✔️ It is always recommended to discuss your requirements, concerns and health issues with a highly qualified Aromatherapist prior to undertaking any treatment.

25/08/2021

Feeling super heavy, wide and quite uncomfortable as we approach 37 weeks together 🤰.
I wasn't quite prepared for how active babe would be over night. This greatly impacts how much I can achieve each day.

We enjoyed a beautiful bbq on Sunday followed by half an hours weeding... This was the limit 😳.

Thank you to the people in my life who care so dearly for us and have helped me to slow down and accept being "off my feet more". We are so highly active that I have really struggled at times to let the day time rest and sleep flow.
Now to mentally prepare for taking much needed time away from work! 🌸.
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31/07/2021

Today we became a tribe ❤️.
Today was my blessingway - we came together, empowered and supported each other and you all devoted so much love to me as I step into this role of bearing and raising a child.
With its roots in Native American tradition (Dine Navajo) a blessingway creates space to come together to form a support circle for the expectant mother and bless the way ahead for her.
"It is a web woven of the most cherished women in her life" ❤️🕸️❤️.
I am so grateful to all the powerful women who helped to create today share the experience. Tash and Oli Raeburn you created a very sacred and safe space that was filled with so much love and abundance. The ceremony was perfect and I loved all the rituals.
Thank you for such delicious and healthy and nourishing foods and drinks 💖.
I feel so incredibly blessed and supported by all of you 💕🙏💕.