Most of today's aroma's have very calming therapeutic properties hence today's blog title. My house is a very serene place to be this morning.
This mornings alchemy includes our new range of luxury bath milks.
Our Serene Angel luxury bath milk is a fabulous blend of nourishing goats milk and oatmeal, soothing dead sea salts and epsom salts, lashings of mango & tucuma butters, a light drizzle of kukui nut oil and essential oils of relaxing lavender and geranium, grounding petitgrain, calming neroli absolute and for added indulgence pink lotus absolute. Our milk has a scattering of delicate pink rosebuds.
Serene Angel Bath Milk
Serene Angel Bath Milk
Also made this morning as part of our luxury bath milk range is our new Illumina Luxury Bath Milk again with goats milk, oatmeal, dead sea salt, epsom salt, mango & tucuma butters, kukui nut oil and essential oils of clary sage, lavender, jasmine, geranium, neroli absolute, pink grapefruit and lemon and scattered with pretty marshmallow petals.
Illumina Luxury Bath Milk
Hopefully by tomorrow there will be items in our new Folksy Shop.
Had a busy day on Wednesday making new products during the morning and taking mum to a hospital appointment in the afternoon. It was a routine hospital appointment - mum has Lupus.
Lupus is an overactive immune system and is incurable. It is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body from internal organs, to skin and joints.
In healthy people the immune system fights off foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria but in Lupus the immune system cannot tell the difference between foreign invaders and healthy tissue and so creates autoantibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue. Lupus can be life-threatening and can also mimic other conditions. Lupus is not contagious and is not like HIV or AIDS. It is estimated that around 5 million people worldwide have a form of Lupus.
There are four types of Lupus:-
Systemic Lupus (which mum has) - this is the most common and the most severe. Serious complications can include inflammation of the kidneys requiring dialysis or transplant, pulmonary hypertension, stroke, seizures, inflammation of the brain and nervous system, inflammation of the lungs (the lining, the blood vessels). Lupus can also cause inflammation in the blood which can be extremely dangerous. When sufferers are having a flare of Lupus (when the disease it at its most active many develop a red mark on the face across the cheek and nose this is known as a malar rash or as the red mark resembles a butterfly it is often referred to as the "butterfly" rash.
Cutaneous Lupus - this affects the skin and causes a red, raised scaly rash to cover the body. The red marks are circular in shape. Some systemic lupus sufferers can develop cutaneous lupus as happened to mum last year.
Discoid Lupus - this also affects the skin and may can experience hair loss.
There is also drug induced Lupus.
There is no cure for Lupus and treatment tends to be steroid medications or immune suppressants.
Lupus can also be very difficult to diagnose initially as it does mimic other conditions.
It is also difficult for Lupus patients as many nurses and doctors are not fully educated on the condition.
The national centre for Lupus is based at the Louise Coote Lupus Unit at St Thomas' Hospital, London.
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