
The Cult of Essential Oils
Sounds Like A Cult
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Essential Oils - Are They Safe?
Stephanie Coontz: A thousand percent, especially marginalized people, women, people of color, like medical ence has not treated these people with equality. And so it really is the sort of situation that would inspire you to look to alternative sources of wellness. So while it's true that in germany, for example, lavender oil is used in capsule form to combat anxiety, and in the us, t tree oil is legitimately found to treat the i condition, blef ritis,. People are like, too impatient. They're like, no, i wanted to cure all these other things, yes, i want to wait. That's where the anecdotal evidence comes in
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