My story

People ask how someone ends up writing product pages about essential oils in two languages. The short answer is that I started asking what was actually in the bottles, and never quite stopped.

How it began

Two things brought me here. One was a liking for simple, natural things in the house — the sort of thing most households used before there was a separate product for every job. The other was plain curiosity about the plants themselves: where they grow, what a distillation actually is, why the same species smells different from one valley to the next.

What made it doTERRA rather than anything else began with the smell. I liked it, straightforwardly, before I knew anything else about the company. What kept me was less romantic: every batch is tested, and the results are published against the batch number printed on the bottle. You can look up the oil in your own hand. That is not something you can do with most things you buy, and it is what made me want to find out what is really inside these little bottles.

Why this site exists

Almost everything written about essential oils in English and German is written for the American market, then translated. The bottle that arrives at a European address is labelled under different rules — different sizes, a different position on food use, different safety wording on the same oil. Follow an American recipe with a European bottle and you can be doing something the label in your hand does not permit.

So this site does the unglamorous part: every oil in the range gets its own page, with the bottle size, the article number, whether it is labelled here as a food flavouring, whether it makes skin sensitive to sunlight, and the safety wording that comes with it. Nothing invented, nothing borrowed from a different market.

What I offer

Two things. Information — the pages on this site, free, in English and German, written to be read by someone deciding rather than someone already sold. And help choosing: if you are looking at a shelf of seventy-eight bottles and want to know which three are worth starting with for what you actually do at home, that is a conversation, not a catalogue.

Beyond that, the part I enjoy most is the exchange — swapping ideas about what works, what was a waste of money, what someone tried that I would not have thought of, and building something out of that rather than handing over a list.

If that is useful to you, write to me.

What I do not offer

Medical advice. I do not diagnose anything, and I will not tell you that an oil treats, prevents or cures a condition — it would not be true, and in Europe it is not permitted. Essential oils are pleasant, useful ingredients for the home and for cosmetics. If something needs a doctor, it needs a doctor, and no amount of lavender changes that.

I am also not doTERRA. This is an independent site run by a Wellness Advocate, not an official doTERRA website, and the links on it are referral links — if you order through one I may receive credit, at no extra cost to you. Where this site and doTERRA’s own shop disagree, the shop is right.

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