How Does Aromatherapy Work? Hint - it’s completely natural
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Aromatherapy - the use of essential oils - has been used for thousands of years. Small jars containing the remains of unguents mixed with essential oils have been found in Egyptian Pharaohs’ tombs.
But how does aromatherapy work?
Essential oils contain many components, most of which have never been studied, so we know little of how these components work, and they can’t be fabricated:
If you for instance took all the correct chemical components, which will include lavandulol, borneol, terpineol, geraniol and linalol, and try to make up lavender essential oil in a laboratory, you will not have an oil that can successfully treat burns the way that true lavender oil can.
Essential oils, like all organic compounds, are made up of hydrocarbon molecules and can further be classified as terpenes, alcohols, esters, aldehydes, ketones and phenols etc.
So the short answer to “how does aromatherapy work?” is that we don’t know - most of the components to each oil have never been studied. However, we do know that aromatherapy has verifiable effects, and that these effects have been achieved for thousands of years.
Try it yourself. Get a small bottle of pure lavender oil, and the next time you’re feeling stress, place a couple of drops onto a tissue, and inhale the fragrance. You’ll relax… but how does it work? 
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