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Aromatherapy Recipes: create your own wonderful essential oil blends

December 16th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

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.

Aromatherapy - Blending Essential Oils

June 19th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Blending essential oils is a lot of fun, whether you’re experienced or not.

Blending is simply the combining of different aromatherapy essential oils, carrier oils, absolutes, CO2s, herbs and sometimes water for the purpose of achieving different results.

Once you understand the theory behind blending, it’s something you’ll easily be able to do on your own. If you’d prefer not to however, you’ll have no trouble finding retail and Internet-based outlets selling aromatherapy blends.

Aromatic Blending versus Therapeutic Blending

The difference between the two main types of aromatherapy blending is simple. The goal with aromatic blending is how a blend smells. The goal with therapeutic blending is to create a mixture that will alleviate some type of body ache or pain, or relieve the body in some other way as in reducing stress. Although the focus with therapeutic blending is different, aroma is still a factor to consider. The therapeutic blending will be a wasted effort if it’s too pungent to be used!

Not all combinations will complement one another. That’s probably one of the most important things you need to realize before you begin aromatherapy blending. Sometimes the properties of one ingredient will overwhelm the other and therefore should not be mixed or only small amounts should be added into a blend. You don’t have to experiment yourself to learn which essential oil properties work together and which don’t. Most of this is common knowledge. You’ve just got to research it.

However, should you want to experiment, it’s better to limit the number of essential oils you combine to three, sometimes four until you’re more experienced with the process. That amount is easier to control.

Don’t shake, don’t rattle, just roll. The jar containing the essential oils you blend should be rolled between the palms of your two hands, that’s the most effective way to blend.

Be sure to document your work. After all, you are experimenting and when you create the most awesome blend, you’ll want to recall the ingredients as well as the proportions. And likewise, when disaster strikes and you create aromatherapy blends that are harsh and as a result, cause significant irritation, you’ll know what NOT to do next time.

Go green but use amber or blue bottles to protect the oils from light. Amber or blue aromatherapy bottles can be reused, if they’re sterilized first. 

Contraindications, in other words, any factors that would prohibit use of a certain ingredient, must be identified and avoided. Pregnancy for example, is a period during which blends containing rosemary should not be used. Allergic reactions are also contraindications. Since some people are allergic to certain nuts they definitely should not use oils containing that nut. Contraindications are a matter of personal safety and should be taken seriously.

For safety as much for tracking, always properly label and store your aromatherapy blends as well as the individual ingredients in a cool, dark area away from pets and children.

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