Add the following essential oils to 2 fluid ounces of distilled water:

6 drops lavender
1 drop clary sage
1 drop chamomile
4 drops lemon

Pour into a spray mister bottle. Essential oils and water will separate, so shake the bottle vigorously before spritzing this refreshing blend onto clean skin.

Creative people including artists and writers use their senses – sight, touch and smell – to draw inspiration for their work from the world around them. The attitudes and emotions that aromatherapy inspires can positively affect the creative process.

Two oils that are especially supportive of creative work are clary sage and bergamot.

Clary sage oil coffles from a robust plant with colorful spires of white, pink and blue flowers. A field of summer blooming clary sage is a striking, bee buzzing, impresionistic tapestry. This visual feast is replicated in the essential oil with its warm-herbaceous, sweet-mown-hay aroma. Clary sage is euphoric, powerful, radiant, warm, lively, comforting and strengthening.

Bergamot oil is expressed from the peel of the bergamot orange which grows throughout the rocky Italian countryside of Calabria. Bergamot's fruity-citrus, spicy, sweet, floral aroma is refreshing and balancing. The oil is versatile, adaptive and inspiring.

Invigorate your daily routine by using energizing oils such as basil, black pepper, clary sage, cypress, eucalyptus, hyssop, nutmeg, oregano, peppermint, pine and rosemary. These dazzling scents can infuse our lives with the aromatic forces of nature.