For thousands of years, people around the world have benefited from the power of essential oils.

And there are some essential oils used by these ancient peoples that are still prized today.

These oils have fantastic stories and histories behind them. And today we're going to share those with you. Welcome back to

Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting, useful, and simple

everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field. If you like what you hear today, rate, review, and

subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today we are so excited to

talk to Emily Wright, Dutera founding executive, about the new ancient oils collection and why she loves it so much.

Emily, thank you so much for being here with us today. We are so excited to talk about this

collection. I'm so excited. This is kind of a dream come true for me. Perfect. Well, with the

holidays fast approaching, we are thrilled to have this

ancient oils collection available to us. Can you tell us a little bit about probably the most

famous oil in this collection, Frankencents? Absolutely. I love to talk about frankincense.

So you look at how frankincense. It's been highly prized by civilizations

as diverse as Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians, and even the Kushites. And of course,

we know the most famous history of frankincense is as the gift of the frankincense and mer resin

given to the baby Jesus by the magi, which we know

they traveled for maybe even up to multiple years in getting to the Christ child to bring

these sacred, precious gifts to them. And so when we really look at what frankincense is,

it's likely symbolic of his royal birth, and even deity, and then

Murr is symbolic to his mortality. So these gifts that were given were very specifically

chosen, and both were used as powerful medicinals at this time in antiquity.

So for millennia, frankincense resins have been sought after by kings, queens, rulers, people of high positions.

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