Licensed Esthetician Certified Aromatherapist
Kristina Daniels
Certified Aromatherapist • Licensed Esthetician • M.Ed.Counseling •
Resources
This is an attempt to provide additional information to those searching.
This is a place to start with a collection of academic articles on healing plants, the chemistry and impact from essential oils to endangered plant species used commonly in practices of skincare and aromatherapy.
I am involved in an Animist ministry program and seeking deeper connection to the creation (Creator) of life. As I come across articles, videos and philosophies I have included links.
This page includes information about the "Isms" tied to the ways in which oppression, the colonizing mind and privilege operates in the structure of American and International systems.
Because of the long standing violence that comes from human hands, please educate yourself and share resources. We can not choose the time we live in, but we can choose inclusion and not violence.
Ecology
/ēˈkäləjē/ noun
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
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If You Drink Water You Should Watch This! Amazing Secret of Water - Influenced With Sounds & Intent; The 5th Kind; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTIDNa2WVkA
Viktor Schauberger - Comprehend and Copy Nature (Documentary of 2008);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPrLGUGZsw&t=108s
It's true: The sound of nature helps us relax -- ScienceDaily;
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170330132354.htm
Prices Soar as Corporate Profiteers & Speculators Drive Inflation; It Hurts the Developing World; Democracy Now; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnHyzqrthkQ
Treeline: The secret life of trees; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCEaYInJbos
A call for governments to save soil; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00158-8
25+ Remarkable Ways to Conserve and Protect Soil Fertility; https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/remarkable-ways-to-conserve-and-protect-soil.php
The Uncomfortable Truth About Deep Sea Mining; https://youtu.be/X8jVHMzlQ2s
Mining for rare earth minerals; https://www.greenbiz.com/article/rare-earth-minerals-power-world-mining-leaves-local-and-global-footprints-land
Anti Oppression Resources
The rise of white supremacy and its new face; MY 2019; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnI9c4_xu8w
"Coded Bias"; a documentary on Netflix, 2022.
Moonchild: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert; Dec 20, 2019; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ymY0xG0LI
Roe v. Wade Cold Open - SNL; 5/7/2022; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLMp-1NdzR8
"Mrs America"; on Hulu; a docudrama about the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment).
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, If You're Nasty: Week In Review | The Amber Ruffin Show;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_k2jbHJGp8
“The Talk” That Every Black Family Has About Police | The Daily Show;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrDh_0dPAe0
Disability: Ask us anything; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR5AGD5-J00
Angie and Haley Present: Gaelynn Lea; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZr1vbS4rs
"What Was Ours"; Amazon Prime documentary; Director Mat Hames; 2017
Ilhan Omar on Ending War, Global Refugees, Russia Sanctions & Why More Saudi Oil Is Not the Answer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJmZIGeGVzw
If Prosecutors Represent America, Why Are 95% of Them White? | The Amber Ruffin Show;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKns6mBiVig
Hair salon for autistic children opens in Sheffield; BBC website; https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-south-yorkshire-60512007
How Billionaires Got $637 Billion Richer During The Pandemic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoR5sniTnv4
ABC James Baldwin interview; originally aired in 1979; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jXwWCyMJyc
"The Cotton Pickin Truth Still On The Plantation" 2020; Amazon Prime
China's forced-labor cotton market dredges up grim memories of American slavery; By Hayes Brown, Opinion Columnist; Dec. 17, 2020; https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/china-s-forced-labor-cotton-market-dredges-grim-memories-american-n1251563
Life inside the taliban; Vice News; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFi_Rgm-T8
"Intersexion"; a documentary on Amazon Prime
Why Can’t Hawaiians Afford To Live In Hawaii?; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvKsfcmO0M
Purposeful Steps Away From Ableism | Alyson Seale | TEDxChilliwack;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFVnlLnKjM
Your Privilege Is Showing | Lillian Medville | TEDxBeaconStreet;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4b_ojKx6UI
How does cost of living impact folks with disabilities;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBxARKlZEw
"How Not to Be an Invasive Species"; by ALEJANDRO FRID, 2019 published by Yes! www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2019/09/20/plants-native-invasive-species
"Gather" on Netflix; explores Indigenous American movements that aim to rediscover identity and reclaim sovereignty through ancestral foods.
www.nativefoodsystems.org
Why aren't there more Native American restaurants? | Sean Shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrui-OctNEkherman
2021, Vice, The Unstudied link between the Co-vid Vaccine and Periods; https://youtu.be/IGqDGeDssmY
1989 - American Indian Activist Russell Means testifies at Senate Hearing; Youtube; https://youtu.be/xVANRroxuOo
"Exterminate all the Brutes"; Written and Directed by Raoul Peck. On HBOmax
Documentary on Amazon Prime called, "Contact"; directors Martin Butler & Bentley Dean 2009. Witness how colonialism operates through video footage from the 1960's in Australia.
Inequalities in Health Care regarding Covid 19; Interview with a Canadian Dr.; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo7g83bIqAY
The Next Question hosts' interview guest, Brene Brown; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHRvVuzRT0
How much do people know about LGBT History? Find out by watching this cool video shot across the pond. This one features UK history, what do you know about US history... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HasDzYc2P8
Martin Luther King Jr. Saw Three Evils in the World, Racism was only the first. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/martin-luther-king-hungry-club-forum/552533
What Really Happened at Standing Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1yD2J8vHAk
LGBTQ+ Community Debates 2020;Vice; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utW1ItcMeJw & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safLwed9SSo
A conversation about Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott
Megan Ming Francis, Ted Talks Getting to the root of racial injustice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s
White people for black lives; https://www.awarela.org/white-people-4-black-lives
"Notes from the Field", HBO live one woman show about the school to prison system, Actress Anna Deavere Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3uVnftc_Vo&t=449s
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
https://adata.org/learn-about-ada
Anti Violence, Anti-oppression resource page
https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/anti-oppressive-practices/
Study Guide; The rights of Indigenous People
http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/edumat/studyguides/indigenous.html
The NDN; Mission and Campaigns
https://ndncollective.org/values-and-principles/
Change keeps Happening; 1/6/21; Rev. Warnock wins GA Senate Seat; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVTTmM5jdrE
Natives react #29, An empowered way to change the story; CNN calls Native Americans, "Something else" ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWAg8PV2Inc
Sexuality and Disability: Forging Identity in a World that Leaves You Out | Gaelynn Lea | TEDxYale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akGYugciSVw
The NY Times presents the 1619 Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrfV7w3EyGI&t=355s
Why protests are happening around the world for George Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izO-Y_7Y0Uo&t=8s
We Cannot stay silent, Hasan Minhaj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FE78X-qdY&t=17s
Ava DuVernay, press conference about the 13th amendment (13th amendment doc is free on Youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUgQdpSDSN8&t=192s
Lyla June, Healing Women and Nature, through a Navajo Lens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQiihDC__E&t=4s
Hidden perils of white supremacy in the trump era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ck3G8HpyPI
How Structural Racism Works, Tricia Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1vsOJctMk
White Fragility, Dr. Robin DiAngelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU&t=2s
Rep. Al Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emDhfmB6GhI&t=4s
Trevor Noah, the Daily Social distancing show, Brianna Taylor; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWBppiSkr1M
Why are black and white funeral homes still separate? Ask a Mortician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-0iAzFIcI
The Bail Project
Racial Capitalism
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theolympian.com/opinion/op-ed/article234689597.html
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI
Aging Woman Syndrome; Stefana Serafina
http://www.rebellesociety.com/2017/01/17/stefanaserafina-aging/
We should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc&t=57s
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot
Energetics and Spirit Resources
This is a collection of alternative views. I do not endorse any person listed nor do I claim any one thing as truth. The truth is something you decide for your Self. I list information to offer varied perspectives.
The Mystical Experience - In Sufism, Judaism and Christianity; Feb 2019;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3Oau9Q4uQ
Freedom is Clarity - Shunyamurti Classic Teaching; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTU-YsZk7RI
First scan of a dying human brain shows life flashes before eyes;
https://youtu.be/pWoG_Bul1cE
The World is Unreal—as is Death - Questions and Answers with Shunyamurti;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLFgbKs8uoI
On The Road With Thomas Merton; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6eNmGxnbQ
Sister Joan Chittister: Change the World; Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations Podcast; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md9b9bCDhWI
Be Free of Ego's Chaos: How to Raise Your Vibrational Level ~ Shunyamurti Teaching;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj57Ohgx4Jw
War and Peace Within | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1jpeo3w6U
Releasing OLD LOVES & LOVERS - Alberto Villoldo; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYLUasj4FnY
Paula Hurlock "Humans Are Electromagnetic Beings That Must Spend Time In Nature To Fight Anxiety"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO_zqB2H73o
Bring the world to a blissful conclusion - Shunyamurti Teaching;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGj5y7jQ_w
Mei-lan Maurits | Sound Healing | Heart Chakra | Peaceful Music;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byjioo9pZtA
Caroline Myss - It is the Age of the Unthinkable; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6UbD9cua14
Caroline Myss - Organic Divinity Welcome Message; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkftkbhXecY
A System Built on Lawlessness and Lies Cannot Last - Shunyamurti Teaching;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XxO7Kwh-k
Using meditation to overcome fear of death; a podcast by the big D;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWR8vv9dGOA
Magic Path of Intuition by Florence Scovel Shinn, Narrated by Mary Muse; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGyJoTLo1E
Compassion cannot come from misery; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8QDrk3oBA
You're here to help the Earth heal; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkvX2Vfyp74
Your Uniqueness is Your Power, with Helle Weston | Deja Blu Podcast EP.50; https://youtu.be/Tzv-nETJKU4
LUKIS MAC | SPIRITUAL HUSTLER PRACTICAL | SPIRITUALITY...; https://youtu.be/y1Wu6Cm9lXI
Heal yourself with breath; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4On8FOt57cs&t=18s
Reality is Not What it Seems - Shunyamurti Teaching; https://youtu.be/tGcJC2xOiog
Win the Battle for Salvation - Shunyamurti Teaching; https://youtu.be/F7y_nlD_Xwg
The Human Spirit is Rising—Now Our Divine Spirit Must Be Activated; https://youtu.be/KbR7jx_yM3g
Dua Lipa Asks Stephen How His Faith And His Comedy Overlap; https://youtu.be/pUaWDqDOWPk
How Sacred Geometry is embedded in Your DNA - Secrets of Geometric Art; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mynr7uik5-0
Giving back to mother earth- Alberto Villoldo; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1RkAC81lxE
Honoring ANCESTORS - Alberto Villoldo; https://youtu.be/HGHrVhIxvws
Finding INNER PEACE w/ Matias De Stefano | Live Awakened with Jose Reynoso; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXAQhnAJYOM
Sadhguru & Lewis Howes talk about karma abundance and perspectives on healthful living; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK67fAV3zLs
Radiate grace in 2022, Caroline Myss; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7E4NSP3mJA
How To Open Your 7 Chakras As Explained by CarolineMyss; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VjVHIE7ia4
Humility,Karl Sagan; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8GA2w-qrcg
What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbSsILLh28
Skincare Resources
Want to support small business owners, committed to natural skincare, with backgrounds including aesthetics, product formulation and aromatherapy, who are committed to animal safety and plant sustainability? Some of these lines are handcrafted, producing small batches for sustainability and using recyclable packaging. Other lines promote inclusion for groups under represented and often overlooked in the beauty industry. Check out some of these resources.
Veronica Lorenze, former Professional make up artist, and creator of the The Vamp Stamp, and eye liner that can be applied by self (using a stamp method for application) or applied by another to produce cat like, lined lids.
https://www.beautyindependent.com/beauty-industry-overlooking-people-with-disabilities/
Kohl’s Kreatives, Trishna Daswaney designs makeup brushes for everyone, and if you have a motor disability, there are tutorials and support available.
https://www.kohlkreatives.com/shop/the-flex-collection
Ayele's approach to beauty is not a one size fits all approach, and I agree with this. Its why ingredient knowledge is so important (based on ingredients, the cleansers look amazing). https://ayele.co/collections/cleansers
Klur, is a skincare formulator and a former esthetician. Her vision is to create a brand that reflects the values of clean, ethical and inclusive beauty. Her products represent a minimalist routine with incredible ingredients, both luxurious and sustainable. https://klur.co/pages/about
Angie Watts began her journey into skin care by creating an eczema formula for her daughter. Her Deep Cleansing oil is worth checking out if you are into the oil cleansing scene. (I love her cleansing oil!) https://www.angiewatts.com/
The owner and formulator for Herb' N Eden is inspired by nature and farmers markets. The detox deodorant kit is something that can boost your health and her soaps are all natural and plant based. https://www.herbneden.com/
Indigenous-owned brands a part of beauty’s inclusivity conversation
Pradosbeauty.com; Proudly Indigenous. Unapologetically Beautiful. If you love make-up, check out the brush collections!
https://www.laurelskin.com/; Laurel organics begins with plant medicine for the skin. This skincare line focuses not only on healing the skin slowly and naturally, but focuses on the importance of working with the land.
https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/the-rise-of-disability-friendly-beauty-brands
DVINITI skincare looks beautiful! She is using flowers in her oils, and self care is a key principal of her business. https://dviniti.com/
Sia Botanics is a skincare line local to Tucson, Arizona. Using fruits from the desert, they use a wholistic approach, with no plant wasted. This Vegan line uses a new container called an eco tube and its made from sustainable sugarcane.
https://www.siabotanics.com/pages/about-us
Botnia lots of wonderful things happening on this farm to bottle company.
https://www.botniaskincare.com/product-type/face-wash/
Oil cleanse techniques; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMdF5Of0SJM
Integumentary Information
Stratum Corneum layer
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ics.12042/pdf
Natural ingredients
http://naturalingredient.org/?page_id=506#faq
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796020/
Resource list of Herbal Farmers (see Rosalee De la Foret)
https://www.herbalremediesadvice.org/Herb-Farms-Wildcrafters.html?utm_sq=fdw1taimmz
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Child labor and the Truth about Shimmering Cosmetics; Refinery 29
Truth about where Hair Extensions come from; Refinery 29
Sacred Trees, endangered resources used as ingredients in natural products
Baobob Trees National Geographic;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaO6a6RpjpQ&t=2879s
Baobobs in Danger; https://www.worldbook.com/wbblog/Baobabs-in-Danger
Climate change and Baobos; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/climate-change-baobab-africa-tree-of-life
United Plant Savers, Sandalwood; https://unitedplantsavers.org/sandalwood/
Sandalwood; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWRuzoFQRg&t=221s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWksU7wkvME
Frankincense; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGS_tefY2-o;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQE1wJz2_0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hkvGtsilE
Pregnancy and Natural Skincare
Hyalauronic acid and pregnancy/breastfeeding; https://www.skincarebyalana.com/blog/guide-to-skincare-while-breastfeeding/
Living libations blog on pregnancy and breastfeeding, safety of products; https://livinglibations.com/pages/on-the-birth-and-being-of-babes
Pregnant and Breast Feeding skin; https://www.theskincareclinic.com.au/pregnant-and-breastfeeding-skin/
Sunflower oil better for neonatal
skinhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22995032/
Aromatherapy - Cognitive Sensory Resources
Clanton Melissa A.; Menopause: understanding and managing the transition using essential oils vs. traditional allopathic medicine; A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Diploma of Aromatherapy 401 Australasian College of Health Sciences; https://files.achs.edu/mediabank/files/melissa_clanton.pdf
International Federation of Aromatherapists; Aromatherapy and menopause;
https://ifaroma.org/application/files/2115/2111/3746/Aromatherapy_and_Menopause.pdf
Myung-Haeng Hur,1 Yun Seok Yang,2 and Myeong Soo Lee; Aromatherapy Massage Affects Menopausal Symptoms in Korean Climacteric Women: A Pilot-Controlled Clinical Trial; 2007; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2529395/
Treatment of long loss of smell and Parosmia after COVID-19, complete guide;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuH77z3b5ZY
Influence of Fragrances on Human Psychophysiological Activity: With Special Reference to Human Electroencephalographic Response;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198031/
Olfactory Cortex Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2009;
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/olfactory-cortex
Effects of odor on emotion, with implications by Mikiko Kadohisa;
MINI REVIEW article; Front. Syst. Neurosci., 10 October 2013
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00066; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00066/full
Olfactory nerve; Physiopedia; https://www.physio-pedia.com/Olfactory_Nerve
Anthony Wright, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School; Chapter 6: Limbic System: Amygdala; Revised 10 Oct2020;
https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s4/chapter06.html
Threatened essential oil species
https://www.learnaroma.com/single-post/2019/12/09/Threatened-Essential-Oil-Species
Endangered trees and Essential oils
https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/the_environmental_impact_of_essential_oils/#:~:text=One%20solution%20to%20large%2C%20corporate,rosaeodora)%2C%20atlas%20cedarwood%20(Cedrus
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https://www.earthtokathy.com/threatened-endangered-essential-oil-species/
Conservation with attention to essential oils
https://www.aromaweb.com/articles/essential-oil-sustainability.asp
Priyanka Singh and Aditi Chaturvedi1; Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332115/
Cold Flus and Inhalation of essential oils
https://academic.oup.com/jac/article/47/5/565/858508
Essential oil articles for pain and neuropathy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4282389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054390/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244484974
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26996621
Linalool_in_Essential_Plant_Oils_Pharmacological_Effects
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935278/
R. Gatefosse Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiQSTM7zJ8
Resource list of Herbal Farmers (see Rosalee De la Foret)
https://www.herbalremediesadvice.org/Herb-Farms-Wildcrafters.html?utm_sq=fdw1taimmz