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Aromatherapy Car Air Fresheners - choose your essential oils carefully

October 20th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you spend a lot of time in your car, consider using aromatherapy car air fresheners - essential oils which will help you to be wakeful and alert, yet relaxed and good-humored behind the wheel.

In short, aromatherapy can relieve driving stress. In addition to stress, drivers face fatigue and car sickness. 

Aromatherapy car air fresheners use therapeutic grade level of essential oils in a diffuser or ready made hanging freshener. 

These essential oils are powerful enough to work on your nerves.  On the one hand, it’s great to know that scents like lavender and marjoram can help you calm down.  On the other hand, you can’t risk falling asleep behind the wheel.  If, however, you adore these scents and they make you feel happy and safe, then you can consider having them in your aromatherapy car air fresheners, but only in combination with other scents. 

Scents that can help put you to sleep are:

lavender
marjoram
chamomile
sandalwood

Scents are incredibly effective in helping your mind stay alert.  If I had a bracing, stimulating, blow your head off aromatherapy air car freshener in my car that fateful morning, I would not have fallen asleep.  You might need to experiment with your aromatherapy car air fresheners to find the scent that helps you revive but does not give you a headache. 

These WAKE UP scents include:

Eucalyptus
Bergamot
Rosemary
Lemon
Pine
Motion Sickness

If you are like me, after a while in the car you get motion sickness.  There are some scents that quickly help to relieve nausea.  These scents can often be found alone or in combination with other scents in aromatherapy car air fresheners.  These scents can include:

Lavender (useful both to wake up and relax)
Peppermint
Ginger

If you don’t want to buy commercial aromatherapy car air fresheners, you can make your own.

Just drip four or five drops of your chosen essential oil on a cotton wool ball, and place it on the dashboard.

Aromatherapy Candles - set the mood

October 11th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Aromatherapy candles are candles that are infused with essential oils, which are what make these candles work.  These essential oils are derived from such things as plants, flowers, and bark.

Aromatherapy candles come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and are filled with various essential oils.

These candles can be used to fragrance your home - not only do they add wonderful scents, they can change the mood of everyone in your home. Use aromatherapy candles to welcome, to relax, to energize - the choice is yours. Some clever realtors will burn aromatherapy candles when they show homes: they use essential oils as a sales device.

You can purchase aromatherapy candles from a wide range of web sites.  These sites will provide you with a listing of essential oils that are in the candle and what their therapeutic effect is.  Of course, aromatherapy candles can also be purchased from such stores as Bath & Body Works and Bed, Bath, and Beyond.  Whenever you purchase these candles just make sure that they contain essential oils and not fragrance or perfume.

How do the candles work?

These candles work because they are volatile and thus they are able to release their scent into the air at higher temperatures and thus the therapeutic vapors of the essential oils are emitted.  Once they are in the air you are able to inhale the healing scent.

Aromatherapy candles are made from bees or soy wax, but the soy are the most popular.  They should not be made out of paraffin as this can be harmful.  Real aromatherapy candles should also be made of pure essential oils.  Without the essential oils the candle will merely smell nice, but it will not emit any healing scents. 

The therapeutic effects of these candles range from helping you fall asleep to energizing you.  If you choose to purchase a lavender or tangerine candle it will help you to release your tension.  On the other hand, if you want to relieve your tension, then you should get a chamomile candle. 

Of course, these candles can also be used as a memory aid if you purchase ginger aromatherapy candles.  In order to elevate your mood you will need a bergamot candle, which will make you feel happier.  There are also candles that can calm your mood, alleviate your stress and enhance your memory.  Since you will probably want more than one type of candle, you will be glad to know that these candles are inexpensive.

Most of the time all you have to do is light these candles and enjoy them.  However, you can find a lot of great accessories to help you enjoy these candles even more.  For instance, there are some great candle holders available that will to the look of your home’s décor.  Of course, this only increases the scents that add value to the ambiance of your home.  For this reason a lot of people enjoy using these candles in their bathrooms.  You will discover that the decorating and atmosphere options with these candles are absolutely endless.

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