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Essential Oil Remedies For Acne - regain a smooth clear skin

December 9th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’re prone to acne, essential oils can help. Many of the oils have anti-viral, anti-bacterial effects.

Your first goal is a clean skin.  Use a gentle soap or cleanser and don’t scrub fiercely, and don’t wash a hundred times a day.  Washing after sweating is advisable, as sweat can clog your pores up. 

But washing too many times with harsh alcohol based cleansers get rid of all the natural oil (sebum) on your skin.  Your body responds by making even more sebum than before, which clogs up your pores.  There are many products on the market that are made of essential oil remedies for acne. 

Many essential oils have an antiseptic property, which means they can help clean your pores up and keep them clean.  They can also help diminish the acne you already have, or keep any burst pimples from infection.

Resist squeezing, poking, prodding, rubbing or scratching your acne. 

This not only can invite infection, but can wind up making your face have large red patches rather than small pink dots.  Instead, dab a dot of pure tea tree or lavender oil on the spots, either with a clean finger or with a cotton swab.  It is safe to do this several times a day, but if there’s any pain or swelling, STOP.

You can use a weekly steam cleaning treatment to really give your skin a massage. 

Fill a bowl with boiling water and three or four drops of tea tree, neroli, lavender, ylang ylang, grapefruit, bergamot, helichrysum or myrtle essential oils.  I recommend tea tree and lavender combined as one of the cheaper but effective essential oil remedies for acne.  Lean over the steaming bowl and put a towel over your head and the bowl for ten or fifteen minutes.  If you feel faint, come up for air.

The pleasant side effect of using essential oil remedies for acne is that the scents can often clam you down and trigger happy memories. 

This reduces one of the great causes of acne – stress.  Stress can cause sweat, which blocks your pores, or lowers your body’s self-defense system against acne.

Essential Oil Recipes - create your own

November 14th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

With many hundreds of essential oils available, you can find oils to enhance your physical, emotional and environmental well-being.

Knowing how to create your own essential oil blends is a useful skill. Once you become familiar with the properties of the oils, you will find yourself creating recipes for your own needs, and those of your friends and family.

You may find that a recipe you develop for a friend’s arthritis, for example, helps her more than over-the-counter medicine for example, and your blend of oils is completely drug free.

Creating your own essential oil recipes can be a lot of fun for many people, like playing or listening to music.  With your first essential oil recipes, stick with just three oils until you get the hang of it.  Otherwise, they’ll clash.  Also, considering the price of some essential oils, it’ll be a lot cheaper.

There are three kinds of oils that you need in your mix to make it the most effective.  These types of essential oils are called “notes”.  You need a top note, and a middle note, and a base note.  You can also make some good essential oil recipes with one top note and two middles.  Experiment and see what works best for you.  Note what scents bring about what kind of feelings brought up in you. It’s safer to blend essential oils with a carrier oil like olive or jojoba than just to use the pure essential oils if you mean to put the oil on your body.  It’s also a lot less expensive!  When burning oils for their scent alone, it is best to use the pure essential oils.

Top Notes

Top notes are like the lead vocals of an essential oil recipe.  They are usually the first thing you notice.  They also don’t last too long, letting the other notes take over.  Many fruity and floral scents fall into this category.  Common top note essential oils are lemon, bergamot, eucalyptus and orange.

Middle Notes

Middle notes are like the guitars in a band.  They are more subtle than top notes and tend to last a lot longer.  Spicy, floral and herbal kind of essential oils tend to fall into this category.  Some are listed as middle notes OR base notes, depending on what aromatherapy book you read.  Smell them and determine for yourself how long the scent lasts in your essential oil recipes.  Common middle note oils are lavender, geranium, patchouli, rose and rosemary.
Base Notes

Base note scents are the percussion and rhythm of the scent band.  They provide the beat that the rest of the band has to follow.  The base note oils linger the longest in you essential oil recipes.  Many spicy and woody scents fall into this category.  Common base note oils are sandalwood, cypress, frankincense and myrrh.  Some also list patchouli and even rose in this category.

Aromatherapy essential oils

May 25th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Aromatherapy essential oils not only make you feel great, they’re also beneficial to your health.

Studying the beginnings of aromatherapy will certainly go a long way in helping you in understanding how as well as why aromatherapy works the way that it does. You will find much to choose from at the various bath and body shopping malls that are stocked with different oils as well as scented items.

The main ingredients of aromatherapy essential oils are extracted from plants with the actual oil being obtained through the process of steam distillation, extraction as well as by mechanically removing them from plants. Aromatherapy essential oils have found use over the centuries are they used in aromatherapy candles, cooking flavors as well as incense, spiritual ceremonies, or for natural healing.

Aromatherapy essential oils are derived from plants such as juniper, sage as also rosemary. However, it would be wrong to consider aromatherapy essential oils as being omnipotent just because they are extracted from these plants. In fact, too much of these oils can actually be hazardous to the health and so one should know the product well as well as be careful while using it.

Aromatherapy essential oils have a number of uses including therapy benefits, emotional as well as physical and also spiritual uses, and they are very useful also when used for medicinal purposes. You can also use these essential oils to provide relief to sore muscles as well as stressed out moods. The wonderful part of aromatherapy essential oils is that they can help heal as well as provide relief, no matter what your situation is.

You can rub the aromatherapy essential oils on the skin (as long as you dilute them) to get the most from its potency which can even permeate the blood stream and let its magic do wonders for you there. Finding aromatherapy essential oils is not a problem, as every retail outlet will be stocking such products, especially those that specialize in natural products. If one makes use of a certified massage therapist, one may get maximum benefit from aromatherapy essential oils, which being pure as well as natural can really make an impact on your stressed out feelings after a hard day of work.

When using aromatherapy oils, although they’re natural, you need to read the instructions carefully. Some oils should not be used in pregnancy, for example.

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