Melissa Pires Alves
Aromatherapy Certification Program graduate“my passion for aromatherapy began when I opened the first bottle of essential oil”
How science and love built Seventeen Y.
I'm a Research Scientist. I started using essential oils about six years ago.
My pharmaceutical and scientist side made me look for a better knowledge of aromatherapy. I started my journey to be an aromatherapist to be more confident about how to use the essential oils and to help others.
On August 2018, I created a social project called Beta Baby Box (BBBox). The project provides babies from low-income families with a baby shower with all the basic needs that every newborn deserves. The idea was inspired by my mother who loved to make baby showers to help families in Brazil. Her name was Elizabeth, but everybody called her Beta. She passed away in 2016, and I'd like to keep her caring to welcome babies alive.
Putting all passions together, I created a natural body care products, called Seventeen Y, helping me to get funds to the project.
Seventeen Y
Seventeen Y is a natural body care place inspired by essential oils. It was created to donate 17% of all profits to the Beta Baby Box Project. Seventeen Y makes authentic, pure, and natural products that have proven benefits for our body.
Seventeen Y is more than a body care place. It is a passion mixed with a sign of hope and recognition that each baby deserves to come to this world with a warm and lovely welcome.
Our story is just beginning, but we look forward to growing with those in our community and helping families to welcome their babies with basic needs!
My experience at Aromahead has been the most fun way to learn! I learned a lot with the program, and Shelia was a wonderful instructor! The Aromahead team put together an intelligent way to teach aromatherapy. I feel so blessed to choose this Institute to receive the Aromatherapy Certification. Serious, reliable, respectful, and fun!
What made the difference, in Melissa’s words.
Melissa is a scientist who chose this school on purpose. Here is why it worked, in her own words.
Learning that feels like joy
Serious science, taught in a way that stays fun the whole way through.
My experience at Aromahead has been the most fun way to learn!
An instructor who stays with you
Every certification student works with a real instructor. Melissa's was Shelia.
I learned a lot with the program, and Shelia was a wonderful instructor!
A thoughtful way to teach
The program is built with intention, from the lessons to how they fit together.
The Aromahead team put together an intelligent way to teach aromatherapy. I feel so blessed to choose this Institute to receive the Aromatherapy Certification. Serious, reliable, respectful, and fun!
A clear path, one step at a time.
Melissa is a graduate of the Aromatherapy Certification (Pathway 3), earning her Certified Professional Aromatherapist credential. It is a cumulative path: each step includes everything before it, and you can climb as far as you like, at your own pace. See the full path →
Start where Melissa started.
Melissa turned her science training and her mother's memory into a body care brand that gives back. Her aromatherapy education began the same way yours can. Your first pathway is free, and your Pathway 1 dashboard opens right away.
