Love is in the air! Or is that chamomile? 

The Miami Beach Botanical Garden and Soulful Essence are teaming up to bring you a workshop on essential oils and their effective and safe uses in everyday living. Learn how to create four essential oil mixes and aromatherapy blends to solve common, household problems, relax the mind and body, and bring a little green living into your home.

Essential oils are the concentrated essence of plants. These concentrated botanicals retain the therapeutic properties of the plants from which they are derived and can frequently provide an alternative to conventional medicines, cleansers and beauty products.

In this workshop you will learn how to make an essential oil based bug repellent, an essential oil cleaning concentrate, and a relaxing aromatherapy blend to be used on a diffusing stone and as a calming bath oil. You will also learn the principles behind the plants and which plant essences to use to create different effects.

The workshop will be led by Jessica Brantley. Jessica has practiced aromatherapy for nearly ten years and is the founder of Soulful Essence, Inc., a local aromatherapy company specializing in providing all natural, botanical based solutions for everyday living. Jessica’s believes it is critical to keep in close contact with nature every day. This connection to the earth helps ground and revitalize us. Through the use of essential oils and other botanical extracts, Jessica believes it is possible to achieve that goal simply and without fuss. With essential oils, no matter where you are or where you go, you can always bring nature with you.

Cost of class is $15/garden members, $20/non-members. All materials included.