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✨ Awesome Announcement! Essential Starr joins Lavender Hill Botanicals 🌿

✨ Essential Starr Transitions to Lavender Hill Botanicals

Continuing the Legacy of Light, Love, and Botanical Beauty

Dear Friends and Valued Customers of Essential Starr,

We are delighted to share some exciting news! Effective October 21, 2025, the Essential Starr product line — including our beloved blends and essential oils — is joining forces with Lavender Hill Botanicals, part of Windy Hill Farms, owned by the wonderful Chris and Katie Miller family in the beautiful Amish countryside of Pennsylvania.

After 30 years of creating, formulating, teaching, and sharing the gifts of nature through Essential Starr, it brings me great joy to see these products continue to blossom in such loving and capable hands. When I met Katie earlier this year and visited her stunning 80-acre lavender farm, I was immediately touched by her passion, her craftsmanship, and her beautifully curated farm shop filled with lavender treasures.

As we spoke, it became clear that our visions were aligned — to share the healing power and joy of essential oils with integrity, purity, and heart. Together, we saw how Lavender Hill Botanicals could expand to include many of the signature blends you've come to love from Essential Starr, alongside Katie's exquisite lavender creations.

This transition feels perfectly timed — arriving with the season of harvest and light, coinciding with Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights. It's a beautiful symbol of illumination and new beginnings, which has always been at the heart of my work with essential oils.

Please know that I'm not going away. I will continue to collaborate with Katie during this transition, ensuring that our formulas maintain their quality, integrity, and energetic signature. I will also remain available for essential oil consultations and guidance, continuing to share my 30+ years of aromatic and herbal experience.

The Essential Starr 5ml essential oils will still carry the familiar label, while the blended products will now appear under Lavender Hill Botanicals — the perfect evolution of our shared vision for natural beauty and holistic wellness.

Thank you, dear friends, for your years of loyalty, inspiration, and trust. We look forward to seeing you continue your aromatic journey with Lavender Hill Botanicals — where the legacy of Essential Starr will shine on in new light.

With warmth and gratitude,

Patricia Starr, LMT, RA, SET, SCI

Founder, Essential Starr

📱 941-735-9266

"Where the Essence of Nature Continues to Bloom"
— Lavender Hill Botanicals & Essential Starr Partnership
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The Beautiful Citrus Family

The Sunny nature of essential oils, specifically of the Citrus oils group is one reason why people feel so attracted to aromatherapy. For this reason, citrus oils and specifically Bergamot oils are used in the perfumery and food industry (ie. Earl Grey Tea, Candies, cookies, etc.) These aromas has to do with the "happy" character of this special botanical group. They are found, to particularly be extremely helpful to alleviate stress, nervous exhaustion, depression and also physical ailments originating from these. (Note: we use caution with this group due to its photo sensitivity. )



: * Immune System Booster
  • anti-septic for wound healing
  • Adjuvant for digestive problems
  • helps with skin issues
  • helps with cystitis
  • Anti stress, and anti depressant
  • Sedates and Revitalizes
  • helps with burnout syndrome
The Science
Adriana Nunes Wolfenbüttel, chemist and PhD in Pharmaceutical Science presented in the Botanica Conference on the Physiological and psychological efficacy of Citrus essential oils during inhalation. with a six month extensive study of the Bitter Orange and Sweet Orange essential oils with human volunteers.
Pro inflammatory cytokines (IL-2, 6 and TNF alpha) increased in the test group by 64%, neurotransmitter markers (Dopamine) of well being increased by 58%, and the protein marker of food satiety sensation (Leptin) increased by 85%. In addition the hormone marker (cortisol) decreased by 92%. Anxiety and Stress levels decreased substantially in the test group, whereas the placebo and control group anxiety levels increased.



Application:

These oils are used widely in the cosmetic and perfume world -- however, they are usually the synthetic component, which was used in the study we have here as the placebo.... in all cases, performed poorly in the study compared to the natural essential oil.
  • use in diffuser - for sure 10 - 12 drops
  • 10 drops in a potpourri
  • topical use should always be used in dilution with creams, lotions and/or carrier oils.

 

Chemical constiuant note:   Limonene, one of the major compounds of the Citrus oil group, has given rise to a number of interesting research studies in the context of cancer therapy.

Note: these oils are best used in a synergy (combined with other essential oils to give maximum effect). Here is one of our specialty blends:
                        Calm and Tranquil Blend:   consist of:
Each one of these oils have a very special attribute that both uplifts and protects
Remember -- when our senses uplift us -- our immune system is naturally bolstered up.

For a Thanksgiving treat -- you can add clove oil and/or cinnamon leaf.
Posted in: citrus oils, essential oils for immune system

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