Esther's Days of Purification is found in Esther 2:12 as she was prepared for the King with six months of oil of myrrh and six months of sweet spices. As you can see, Scripture gives us very little information about the spices and oils used to transform Esther from an orphan girl to a bride fit for a king. To find out more, apothecary, Cynthia Hillson, did much research into Biblical botanicals which led her to a historical study of the ancient spices transported and sold by caravan on the Incense Trail and the Spice Route of Queen Esther's day--a time when these beauty treatments were considered more precious than gold.
Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purification's accomplished, to wit six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
In this book, Cynthia unveils the an..
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