Elizabeth Jones is a leading educator, healer, formulator, and advocate of using therapeutic essential oils for integrative medicine. She and her husband, Larry Jones, a chemist, own Elizabeth Van Buren Inc. offering quality products to practitioners, spas, hospitals, and stores nationwide. Every essential oil sold is GC/MS tested for purity.

Elizabeth's educational background

• The Master's School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. graduated
  in 1959
• Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. B.S. degree
  in 1963
• Experiment in International Living, Florence, Italy. One year study 1962
• University of California, Berkeley, Ca., Secondary Cred., Master's in Education 1972
• Botanical Aromatherapy, Marcel Lavabre, PIA, Kurt Schnaubelt, Aromatherapy and the Brain, Pierre Franchomme, Aromatherapy, Robert Tisserand, Fragrant Nose, John Steele

She is the Director of the College of Botanical Healing Arts, a state approved 501C3 non-profit with a 390-hour program to graduate Essential Oil Practitioners. It provides a curriculum rich in science, energetic healing, and an experiential clinic.The graduates of the school are using essential oils for their own clinical practice, teaching classes at the College, setting up stores with natural perfumery, administering them in hospice and nursing practices, and using them as integrative medicine to heal family, friends, and themselves.

Elizabeth released her own book Awaken to Healing Fragrance in 2010. She is one of the authors in World of Aromatherapy , edited by J. Rose and S. Earle, Frog Ltd., Berkeley, Ca. 1996. She promotes the use of plant energy in the form of essential oils, herbs, nutrition for her own community and nationwide. Elizabeth has been a speaker at many conferences such as Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy in San Francisco (2005) on Essential Oils and Viruses and Mammoth Lakes, Life and Wellness with Andrew Weil (2006) on Mind/Body Health.

President – Larry Jones
Larry Jones, co-owner of Elizabeth Van Buren, Inc. and founder of Spectrix Labs, Inc. has over 30 years experience in the chemical industry, including 7 years at Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical and 9 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz Chemistry Board. At UCSC, Larry ran the central research lab specializing Mass Spec and other analytical techniques. In 1991 Larry joined his wife, Elizabeth Jones, at Elizabeth Van Buren, Inc., acquired a GC/MS and established Spectrix Analytical. Spectrix is now one of the few labs dedicated to essential oil, wine, flavor and fragrance analysis. Larry has given lectures and workshops on the value of analysis to uplift the awareness of essential oil purity and quality for therapeutic use.

Elizabeth Van Buren Staff Bio’s

Operations Manager – Larry J. Machado, Jr.
Larry comes to Elizabeth Van Buren with a MBA degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from San Jose State University. He is a Certified Senior Industrial Technologist (CSIT) by the National Association of Industrial Technology, Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgt) by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and a Certified Quality Engineer in Training (QEIT) by the American Society of Quality Control.

Sales Representative – Patty Jacobsen
Patty is Elizabeth Van Buren’s east coast representative and is a native New Yorker. She received her Essential Oil Therapist Certification in July 2009 from the College of Botanical Healing Arts.

Sales Representative – Katie Novak
Katie is Elizabeth Van Buren’s west coast representative. She received her Essential Oil Therapist Certification in July 2010 from the College of Botanical Healing Arts.

Production and Shipping – Nick Kirkendall
Nick has 9+ years experience in the Production department of Elizabeth Van Buren where he has acquired and developed a working knowledge of essential oils and aromatherapy. Nick grew up in San Jose, attended San Jose State University, and in his spare time enjoys reading, writing, bicycling, and crossword puzzles.