Enjoy the Fragrant Essences of the Earth

The Snow Lotus collection of artisan essential oils represents my professional standard of excellence for oils intended for clinical and home-care aromatherapy. As I began working with the oils in the 1980s as a medical herbalist and acupuncturist, I became aware of the need to have absolutely pure and highest-quality oils for my clinical practice and seminars. This initiated what has become a more than twenty-year journey around the world in search of traditional grassroots producers.

My search was for distillers that worked in the time-honored artisan way, living with the very source of the plant materials. In my estimation, there is no better way to collect the distilled fragrant essences of our earth, Gaia, in all of its amazing aromatic diversity. This endeavor also supports small indigenous family businesses across the globe in a web of relationships that are eco-sustainable

and based on fair trade.

Snow Lotus is now a part of the widening global movement for a wholesome economy based on planetary support of cultural and biological diversity.

In addition, I will specifically select only full-spectrum essential oils whenever possible. The plants are steam distilled in the traditional manner for an extended length of time, using low-temperature steam and low vapor pressure. Only these time-tested techniques manage to produce the most exquisite oils possible. These oils will retain almost the entire range of the plant's chemical components and will thereby closely maintain the whole rich spectrum of fragrance found in the living plant itself.

These small, full-spectrum artisan distillations are in sharp contrast to the large-scale commercial operations that produce chemically standardized oils intended simply as cheap fragrance materials for the perfume and food-flavoring industry.

Whenever possible I will only select oils distilled from organically-grown or ethically harvested plants. Eco-wild oils, as we call them, are from plants wild-crafted with concern for regional biodiversity and sustainability. These are arguably even more potent therapeutically than any obtained from cultivated plant sources.

In the case of absolute extracts, such as Rose, Jasmine and Champaca absolute, I select only those of impeccable quality, and preferably from organic plant sources. Our absolutes are entirely safe for the same types of applications as the essential oils themselves. Those absolutes available at a 10% dilution are in a base of pure jojoba oil, a thin, penetrating oil that itself nourishes and revitalizes the skin.

Essential oils have profoundly enhanced my life in many different ways, as well as added a rich new dimension to my clinical practice. It is my pleasure and honor to be able to share these fragrant jewels of the earth with you. Please enjoy them and benefit from their remarkable healing effects on body, soul and mind!