Category: Essential Oils and Health
Help Fight Apathy With Essential Oil Aromatherapy
Apathy has become a major issue in society. As individuals, we are constantly bombarded with negativity from work, home, or even a simple outing. We are handed stress related issues in our lives and after a time we can become apathetic to even the most important aspects of our lives. Being apathetic only serves to … Read More
Proper Ways To Apply Essential Oils
Although essential oils are a mild, natural way to help fight off mental fatigue, stress, sore muscles, and other physical conditions, they are also very potent and need to be applied properly. After you have purchased the perfect essential oils for your condition, it is important to know how to apply them. If used without … Read More
Rejuvenate Your Mind With Essential Oils
With all the responsibility and worry that a person needs to juggle in today’s world, mental fatigue has become a hugely common. The fatigue that is suffered takes a toll on your energy and eventually even your mental health. Using essential oils in aromatherapy to help you fight mental fatigue will improve your memory, your … Read More
Use Essential Oils To Stop Panic Attacks
If you suffer from panic attacks, then you will understand the desperate attempts to rid yourself of the nasty attacks. Most people rush to a psychiatrist to obtain medicine such as anti-depressants or benzodiazepines to counter act the effects of panic attacks. Both these pharmaceuticals may work, but as most people know drugs can come … Read More
All About Essential Oils
HISTORY AND TRADITION Essential oil, the concentrated aromatic essence extracted from a plant, could be called the plant’s psyche, or its personality plus physicality. Essential oil is sometimes called the ‘soul’ of an aromatic plant. This life-force substance is commonly more thin and watery than oily, making the name somewhat of a misnomer. Consistency aside, … Read More
Using Aromatherapy During Pregnancy And Birth
The use of essential oils in aromatherapy has been used for centuries. Frankincense and Myrrh were noted in biblical times as a heavily useful meditation fragrance. It is well known that using essential oils can help alleviate a lot of the aches and pains that come with the day’s stress and anxiety. Although the term … Read More
How To Make Your Own Essential Oils
Essential oils are homeopathic ways to help mental issues, fatigue, stress, or even physical conditions. Essential oils are extracts from certain plants or fruits that are distilled and placed in a container. Packaged essential oils are highly potent and very concentrated. Below are basic instructions on how to extract, distill, and cultivate your own essential … Read More
Aromatherapy and Essential Oils
First and foremost, aromatherapy is not intended as a substitute for traditional medical treatment. More accurately, its an extension of a long-established practice of treating medical conditions with plants found in nature. Today’s aspirin evolved from experiments with the byproduct of the spirea plant at the Bayer & Co dye factory. An enterprising chemist, Felix … Read More
Essential Oils Buying Guide
TOP 10 LISTS There are more than 3,000 essential oils, of which approximately 300 are used in aromatherapy. Of those, there are 101 major essential oils traded on the global market. Only the professional aromatherapist or seasoned amateur would use all 101, rarely. The average arsenal of essential oils contains approximately one or two dozen … Read More
The Basic Essential Oils
BASIL Basil, sometimes called ‘sweet basil’ or ‘holy basil,’ is an aromatic herb with yellow-green leaves and tiny white flowers, yielding a watery, pale yellow essential oil. It has a sweet, light mint aroma with hints of licorice or anise, giving it a spicy, fThe ruity, balsamic fragrance. Oil of basil is similar to oil … Read More