Aromatherapy Recipes: create your own wonderful essential oil blends

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Creators of aromatherapy blends can choose from different recipes for a particular purpose. For example, a key ingredient for grief blends is rose oil. However, users can choose from a myriad of other ingredients, including sandalwood, frankincense, and cypress, meaning a recipe exists for every need.

Relaxation/ Easy Sleep Blend

5 drops chamomile
5 drops lavender
one ounce carrier oil (olive or almond)

Rub one teaspoon of this blend on arms or shoulders twice a day; it’s very calming.

Memory focusing blend - when you need to be alert

5 drops lemon
5 drops rosemary
5 drops basil

Mix. Add a drop or two to a tissue or handkerchief, and inhale deeply. (Don’t use this on your skin. If you wish to use it to massage your shoulders, add two the blend to two ounces of a carrier oil, like almond or grapeseed oil.)

Blends for everyone
Even if a user has active allergies, they can find a recipe that works around those allergies. On top of that, because ingredients include nearly pure plant oil, materials that generally irritate allergies like pollen are left out.

Better yet is the fact that users know exactly what goes into each relaxing mixture of natural oils. Today’s medicines include strange names and even stranger ingredients. The vast majority of these medicines include materials that most people don’t even know if they’re safe or not to use. Aromatherapy recipes allow users to utilize familiar plants, foods that many people eat everyday.

While not recommended as a substitute for modern medicine, aromatherapy can complement the benefits of many medicines.

Detoxifying ingredients, for example, can help blood pressure medicine by further increasing blood flow and removing blood clots. Other ingredients can help relax muscles if applied externally, perhaps enough that a person would choose those over pain relieving pills, keeping even more unknown substances out of the body.

The benefits of aromatherapy should not be overlooked even with all of today’s modern medicinal miracles. With aromatherapy recipes, users can enjoy all the benefits of aromatherapy at a fraction of the cost of already made kits.