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Therapeutic Colognes

Harking back to my days at Penhaligons, I have longed to make colognes and perfumes from real essential oils and aromatics but without using alcohol. My colognes are vibrant, dynamic and wonderful to use on the skin as they offer emotional support and harmony to help combat the stress of our busy lives. Made from aromatic water and essential oils, the resulting complex is light, fragrant, potent yet subtle. The gentle healing properties revitalise, give inner unity and balance the mind and body. Knots Elementals: Therapeutic Colognes

Neroli – Citrus aurantium
Fresh, delicate yet rich, warm bitter-sweet floral. Encourages lightness, lifting of sorrows, calm, regeneration, peace and emotional balance.

Lavender – Lavandula angustifolia
Floral, herbaceous, sweet scent with balsamic woody undertones. Encourages security, compassion, clarity, comfort, dispels negativity and gently lift the spirit.

Geranium – Pelargonium graveolens
Flowery rose, sweet, soft and green with minty overtones. Encourages adjustment, regeneration, balance, tranquillity, lifts depression and offers a warm hand of comfort.

Rose – Rosa damascena
Floral, rosy, tenacious, fresh with a hint of lemon. Encourages sensuality, happiness, patience, inner freedom, eases tension, sadness. Powerful tonic gentle yet euphoric.

Verbena – Lippia Citriodora
Refreshing woody qualities, lemony smell. Encourages balance for the nervous system, a clear head, helps with anxiety, reduces stress levels, dispels listlessness and apathy and promotes restful sleep.

Eau de Cologne
A bouquet of citrus oils with a hint of cardamon, the herbaceous notes are refreshing, delightful and discreet. Encourages optimism and a sense of purpose.

Wobble cologne
Herbaceous, floral, clean and fresh a complex of blue yarrow, rose and lavender aromatic waters and respective essential oil with eight flower and gem remedies. To combat shock, panic, mental stress, tension, desparation, fear of losing control and a state of confusion. Dispels unwanted thoughts, encourages steadiness, clarity, strength and calm, soothes and wraps round a cloak of protection.

You can also have your own personalised cologne created for you.

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Editorial

KNOTS ELEMENTALS BESPOKE SKINCARE WORKSHOP, TEDDINGTON


"As you sit arround her kitchen table, Barbara Sargent, founder of Knots Elementals, talks you through the properties of various base and essential oils. After an hour of concentrated note-talking, I attempted mixing a few drops of neroli, lemon and jojoba, and manage to create a divine-smelling shampoo. My fellow students are less smug: "Mine smells like stuffing", complains one, who has overdone the rosemary.

Indeed, home blends are fallible, but as each dose can be mixed individually, the cost of getting it wrong is tiny. Next, we are taught how to mix body moisturisers, along with all aspects of aromatherapy, such as how to create a mood or banish a skin problem. Sargent's enthusiasm is infectious, but as I trundle home with my exfoliating scrub, hand cream and few oils - all for about £21 - I wonder if I will still be mixing my own body scrub in a fortnight. However, it takes only 20 seconds to mix, so maybe I will manage.

A few weeks later, my main dilemma, apart from which oils to use, turns out to be what to do with the half-empty bottles of shop-bought products that still line my bathroom shelves.

Best bit: Sargent is a former operations director at Penhaligon's, so you are guaranteed good insider tips. And then there are the very cute glass mixing pots."

Beatrice Aidin, THE SUNDAY TIMES [JANUARY 13, 2002]


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