Several years ago, way before I trained as an aromatherapist, I spent a Sunday afternoon tackling a very overgrown patch on my allotment.  Some parsnips that had been left behind from a previous season had gone to seed.  They were very tall and I removed them by tugging the huge stems after having snapped some of them in half. The following day my forearms had huge water filled blisters and it took me ages to work out what had happened.  I thought that I’d burned my arms on the oven, the blistering was so severe, but clearly that hadn’t happened Read More