Vote On Your Favorite Essential Oils With List.ly

A couple of weeks ago we shared our favorite five essential oils for fall. Of course, being a lavender farmer and beekeeper on the weekends, lavender is my favorite! (Here’s a picture of lavender and oil we distilled at Sherwood Lavender farm in July.)

Now we’d love to know what your favorite oils are and we’ve found a fun tech tool to use called list.ly! I can think of all sorts of uses for list.ly – list your favorite healthy kids snacks, favorite herbs, favorite body parts (for anatomy & physiology students!) … the lists could be endless. But the neat thing about list.ly is it lets blog readers (like you) vote by liking items and these votes are used to reorder the list!

I’ve created this list of essential oils that lets you vote for your favorites. Just click the like button to move your favorites up the list. This list includes just a few of the oils studied in ACHS’s accredited Certificate in Aromatherapy, Diploma in Aromatherapy, and available at the Apothecary Shoppe College store. If you studied with ACHS a while ago you’ll see some new items on the list like carrot seed (Daucus carota) and spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi). Let me know if you want to see the entire list!

Favorite Essential Oils

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Dorene Petersen

Dorene is the Founding President of the American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS). She has over 50 years of clinical teaching and lecturing experience in aromatherapy and other holistic health subjects. She has presented papers on essential oils and clinical aromatherapy at the International Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades Annual Conference (IFEAT) in California, USA; the Aroma Environment Association of Japan (AEAJ) in Tokyo, Japan; the Asian Aroma Ingredients Congress (AAIC) and Expo in Bali, Indonesia; the International Center of Advanced Aromatherapy (ICAA) at the WonGwang Digital University in Seoul, Korea; as well as the AAIC Expo in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Dorene is a founding member of the Aromatherapy Registration Council (ARC) and served as its chair until 2023. Dorene is also involved in the distance education community and has served as a volunteer, committee member, and standards evaluator for the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). Dorene is a travel junkie, and has led ACHS Study Abroad programs to India, Indonesia, Greece, and Hawaii! Founding President Dorene Petersen holds a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Otago University, New Zealand, a Diploma in Natural Therapeutics from the South Pacific College of Natural Therapies in Auckland, New Zealand, and completed specialized training in Chinese herbal medicine and moxibustion. She has also completed part one of the Advanced International Training Program in essential oils at Purdue University. In addition to her work as Founding President of the College, Dorene teaches courses for ACHS and leads the ACHS study abroad programs to Greece, India, and Indonesia, which explore holistic health, holistic nutrition, and therapeutic aromatherapy and distillation, among other topics.