The practice of aromatherapy incorporates the use of essential oils, hydrosols, and carrier oils. Aromatherapy is using naturally extracted aromatic essences (essential oils) from plants to support and protect health and wellness.1 The body has an amazing ability to heal itself. Essential oils may not heal your body, but they do help to point the body in the right direction to heal itself.
What Is an Essential Oil?
Essential oils are highly aromatic substances made in plants by special cells but at this stage the material is not yet an essential oil, but is called an essence. It becomes an essential oil only after it has been extracted by distillation. Distillation with either water or steam or by mechanical processing of citrus rinds or by dry distillation of natural materials. Following the distillation, the essential oil is physically separated from the water phase.2
How to
The
practice of 
aromatherapy is as easy as just smelling the essential oil from the bottle. You can also use a cool air diffuser for personal aromatherapy as well as creating a personalized environment for each room of the house. Or, how about putting your signature essential oil in your hair, on your clothing, or on jewelry designed to absorb the oil, releasing its aroma throughout the day.
The
practice of aromatherapy is as easy as just smelling the essential oil from the bottle. You can also use a cool air diffuser for personal aromatherapy as well as creating a personalized environment for each room of the house. Or, how about putting your signature essential oil in your hair, on your clothing, or on jewelry designed to absorb the oil, releasing its aroma throughout the day.Be aware that there are a lot of false advertisements as to the quality of essential oils.
Roberta Wilson says in her book The Essential Guide to Essential Oils, The Secret to Vibrant Health and Beauty “Anyone can sell anything and call it aromatherapy, and plenty of companies are doing exactly that. The result is that about 95 percent of the products sold as aromatherapy are counterfeits-pseudo-aromatherapy. True aromatherapy never uses synthetic aromatic substances.”3
Where are you purchasing your essential oil? How much did it cost? Is it labeled for aromatherapy?
There are many essential oil companies that add additives to dilute essential so that they can sell more and sell it more cheaply. Also, when a plant is grown with the use of pesticides and herbicides, those are also present in the essential oil produced from that plant. Always be sure that the essential oil you choose to use for aromatherapy is 100% pure unadulterated essential oil.
Where are you purchasing your essential oil? How much did it cost? Is it labeled for aromatherapy?
There are many essential oil companies that add additives to dilute essential so that they can sell more and sell it more cheaply. Also, when a plant is grown with the use of pesticides and herbicides, those are also present in the essential oil produced from that plant. Always be sure that the essential oil you choose to use for aromatherapy is 100% pure unadulterated essential oil.
Resources:
- https://naha.org/explore-aromatherapy/about-aromatherapy/what-is-aromatherapy/
- https://naha.org/explore-aromatherapy/about-aromatherapy/what-are-essential-oils/
- Wilson, Roberta, The Essential Guide to Essential Oils, The Secret to Vibrant Health and Beauty, Copyright © 2002 by Roberta Wilson, ISBN: 978-0-7352-1468-2, Page 50
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