Eugenia Essentials

Has something like this ever happened to you? I was driving along on my way home from work one day, enjoying the passing scenery even though I had driven this route a thousand times before. The late afternoon sun cast a pretty golden glow over the landscape and all the colors seemed intensified.  I noticed [...]

Referring to Jojoba as oil is a misnomer as it is actually a liquid wax. The shrub plant (Simmondsia chinensis) is native to the deserts of Arizona, California and Northwestern Mexico. The wax is expeller pressed from the seeds after labor intensive hand harvesting. Hand harvesting is necessary because the seeds do not ripen at [...]

The time is not far off when the air in Central Florida will be heavy with the intoxicating sweet scent of orange blossoms. One of the most fragrant is the bitter orange blossom. The bitter orange tree yields three distinct oils, one from the blossoms: Neroli; the rind of the fruit: bitter orange; and the [...]

This Valentine’s Day some lucky ladies will be receiving roses, “The Queen of Flowers.” The reputation  for roses symbolizing love goes back to ancient mythology where the 1700’s Spanish opera “La purpura de la rosa” or “Blood of the Rose” describes a scene in which Venus’ lover Adonis has been wounded by Marte (Mars) disguised [...]

It seems no matter where I have lived, when winter comes, I have been plagued with a mouse taking up residence in my house. The stories of me vs. mice are legend. One time in NY, I had left a box of white powder sugar donuts on the kitchen counter. I was in the living [...]