The Chelsea Flower Show is the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship annual event, where the world’s most celebrated designers and growers come together to create the most famous flower show on the planet. It is breathtakingly beautiful, creating an explosion of colours and scents; a truly Enchanted Garden that disappears after only six days.

And this year - for the first time ever, aromatherapy was represented at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show by the UK’s very own Aromatherapy Trade Council (ATC). Located in the Continuous Learning Area, their educational theme for the show was ‘The Use and Benefits of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants’.
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In this modern high-speed, hi-tech world, it can be reassuring to find that sometimes the old fashioned way of doing things is still the best. Infused oils are a great example of this; they employ a time honored way of directly harnessing the natural healing properties of plants that in many ways has still yet to be surpassed in both efficacy and cost.
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It was recently estimated that in the United Kingdom more working days are lost each year through back problems than through any other physical ailment. Around 90% of the population experience back pain at some point in their lives, and a huge proportion of working adults suffer some form of back pain every year. I suspect that this percentage would apply to most people in the western world.
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Sweet orange oil is the most commercially important of the citrus oils and is produced in very large quantities. The majority of oil production is destined for the flavour industry where it is used in juices, soft drinks, candies and pharmaceutical products.

In the early 1900’s the perfumery industry used vast quantities of this oil in fragrance formulations for soaps, detergents, toiletries and perfumes, but over the years sweet orange met the same fate as most of the other citrus oils and was replaced by synthetics.
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