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Lea’s interest in essential oils began in January of 2013, with this blog post on her Nourishing Treasures website: Learning About Essential Oils - who’s in? The response was overwhelming.

A few days later Lea shares the conclusion of her month-long crash-course researching essential oils, revealing her opinion on the only way to know if a brand of essential oils is worth purchasing in this blog post: The Ultimate Quality Test (psst, I need your help!). The response was very positive, and through the generosity of people of the LAEO Facebook Group, donations were raised to cover the first round of 3rd party GC/MS testing for Myrrh. Tests results are posted here: Round 1 Results: Myrrh.

In April 2013 Lea took the Vintage Remedies Aromatherapy Course, further heightening her desire to learn more about essential oils.The following month Lea enrolled in Aromahead Institute’s Aromatherapy Certification Program, immersing herself in the fascinating world of essential oil data sheets and GC/MS reports.

Seeing that her interest in essential oils was creating many blog posts, Lea decided a separate website (from Nourishing Treasures) was required, and Learning About EOs.com was founded on July 22nd, 2013. The first blog post was the 3rd part testing results for various Tea Tree essential oils, which generated much global interest.

Lea Harris graduated from Aromahead Institute’s Aromatherapy Certification Program the following week, on July 30, 2013.

“Using Essential Oils Safely,” Lea Harris’ first e-book on essential oils, was released August 2nd, 2013, and is largely based on the final report she submitted as part of her aromatherapy course. You can get this FREE e-book by subscribing to our newsletter.

Results for our 3rd party testing of Peppermint generated much interest, as out of the 13 bottles, 10 were found Not in Compliance - two of which also contained a synthetic additive, ethyl vanillin.

Lea graduated Aromahead’s Advanced Graduate Program on October 20th, 2013.

In September 2013, Lea began writing regularly for Natural Herbal Living magazine.

On December 30th, 2013, the Using Essential Oils Safety facebook group was created, gaining 8,000 members in the first two months.

Deepening her studies, Lea completed over 400 hours of education through Aromahead‘s Scholars Program in February of 2014, making her a Clinical Aromatherapist.

Lea joined as a Professional Member of Alliance of International Aromatherapists in March 2014, and is a volunteer of their publications committee.

Not to stop at aromatherapy, Lea enrolled in and graduated as a Certified Herbalist through the Herbal Academy of New England‘s online Intermediate Herbal Certification course in April 2014.

On April 30, 2014, Using Essential Oils Safely reached 10,000 members.

On June 6, 2014, Using Essential Oils Safely reached 20,000 members.

On July 23, 2014, Using Essential Oils Safely reached 25,000 members.

On September 2, 2014, Using Essential Oils Safely reached 30,000 members.

On October 6, 2014, Using Essential Oils Safely reached 35,000 members.