Hi Everyone, 

This month we are proud to celebrate our 16th year in business! Where does the time go?

A Little History
I fondly remember ordering my first batch of essential oil from England,  preparing for my little home-based clinic where I was offering aromatherapy consultations, treatments and massage. Although that part of the business did not do as well as I had hoped, a lot of people were asking to buy the essential oil. 

After a while I decided to have a label printed for the bottles I was selling. This meant that I had to come up with a business name. I combined the first part of my last name (Greenwood) with part of the name of where we live (Comox Valley) and came up with Green Valley Aromatherapy (rather than Comox Wood).

I went into business so innocently. I had no business plan, no idea what was in store, just a passion for essential oils and aromatherapy and the knowledge that aromatherapy would one day become part of the daily lives of everyday people.

I had a price list made up for the 57 essential oils I had in stock. Then I had some business cards made up and waited for customers, who had no idea where to find us. We needed a retail shop or some type of outlet but it turns out that shops can be expensive to set up so we decided to set up a shopping cart website which was fairly novel in those days. This is when I consider the business to have really started. Tthe day after our website went "live" an order came from Japan! I was so excited!. I was completely unfamiliar with computers so this was like magic to me.