Essential Oils And Aromatherapy For Health And Wellness

Essential Oils: Blend your favorite oils for great effects

May 24th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Essential oils are often used in expensive perfumes as well as in cosmetics, and also to add flavor to foods and drinks.

Synergistic blends of essential oils sometimes work better than a single essential oil. The oils when blended together have a much more powerful effect than the same oils do when they’re used alone.

Essential oils are obtained from many different parts of certain plants and there are some such as orange oil that can be derived from different parts of the plant. Other plants include allspice, Juniper, Almond, Basil, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Camphor, Peppermint, Rose, Bergamot, and Thyme.

Essential oils are growing in popularity

Essential oils have been used throughout history for their medicinal benefits such as skin treatment and providing relief from cancer. Of late, there has been growing interest in essential oils usage, especially because of the increased popularity of aromatherapy, which is an offshoot of alternative medicine that claims that different aromas contained in essential oils can be used for their curative properties.

However, one should not apply these oils directly to the skin because they have a concentrated nature that can cause severe irritation or even cause an allergic reaction if used in undiluted form. It would be better to blend them with a base oil before applying it, and some of the common base oils include olive, hazelnut, almond as well as grapeseed.

In aromatherapy, organic essential oils are preferred, because the plants have been grown without chemicals.