Use of Essential Oils: Aromatherapy Store

Essential Oils can be applied in the following ways:                                            

Massage 

Essential oils are easily absorbed through the skin and work great when massaged into the skin. Add five drops of your favourite essential oil to your carrier oil and shake well. Rub the mixture between your hands and massage the area of your choice. TIP: if you rub the oil into the soles of your feet, it will penetrate every cell in your body in 20 minutes.

Inhaling 

There are two main ways that you can inhale essential oils. Place a few drops on a tissue or handkerchief and sniff. Alternatively, add a few drops to a bowl of very hot water, place a towel over your head and breathe in deeply for three to five minutes. Remember to keep you eyes closed. TIP: do not inhale straight from the bottle; some oils are so concentrated that they can burn the smell receptors inside your nose.

Compressors

Compressors are applied directly to a cut, injury, sprain, pain or used to rid headaches. Add five to 10 drops of essential oil to 100mls of warm water. Soak a cloth or cotton ball in the water, squeeze off the excess water and apply to the affected part.

Oil Burners         

Fill an oil burner of your choice (usually a small bowl above a tea light candle) with three quarters of water and add three to five drops of essential oils.  This is a wonderful way to fragrant a room and you still receive the benefits of aromatherapy through inhaling the perfumed air.

Baths 

Aromatic baths can be detoxifying, relaxing or reviving – it all depends on the essential oils that you use. Add two to four drops of oil to a warm bath and stir until the oil is evenly dispersed.  10 minutes in the scented water should do the trick. TIP: You don’t have to bath your whole body, why not try a foot or hand bath.

General uses of oils include:

• Cosmetic and perfumes
• Mediation
• Enhances the aesthetics of your environment
• Hydrotherapy
• Massage
• Spiritual healing
• Psychotherapy
• Holistic healing

Use of Essential Oils with Water

You can easily dispel your fatigue, revive your doomed spirits, and get red of foul body odour by dropping a few drops of essential oils in lukewarm bathing water. Your tired nerves and muscles can be soothed, pain dispelled, gives freshing and amiable look to your skin if you use such oil mixed with winter. You can use a few drops in sauna bath, to boost up your spirits.

Steam inhalation is another excellent source. Put in a few drops of essential oil (s) in a boiling pan or kettle and cover your head and face with a tea-towel and inhale the medicated vapours which will relieve you of chest congestions, trapped phlegm, nasal congestions and colds. It will also serve as a facial provided your skin is not highly sensitive to any of the ingredients. If you feel discomfort able by steam vapours, you can sprinkle 4-5 drops of the requisite essential oil on your hanky or shaving towel and inhale the smell to get rid of the said disorders, though your nose and mouth will be in direct touch with the oil, yet your eyes will remain safe. Such essential oils can also boost up your doomed spirits, give you a ‘lift’ and relieve your anxiety.

Use of Essential Oils with Vaporisers

In order to yield optimum benefits, pour water in a utensil which should be heated on burner/stove/candle. Main aim and purpose is to generate requisite heat so that molecules ofessential oils reach out to the room’s atmosphere. Pour a few drops in the hot water and let the vapours reach out to every nook and corner of the room. Purpose, behind such exercises, is to drive out bad/foul smell from the room so as to make it is better living, germ-free, foul odour free room. It will have soothing, refreshing, deodorizing, fragrant effect. Use of light-bulb ring is merely a luxury-it may have aromatic effect, but no therapeutic effect, so to say. Such methods create moods, fresh the air, make room environment more attractive to lovers, visitors, and friends and drive away undesirable germs. Geranium, Sandalwood, Patcholi. Oils may be used direct onto the skin as perfumes.

Use of oils in Massage

Depending on type of ailment, oils may be added to light vegetable oil/talcum powder, after seeking an herbalist’s expert opinion as to what kind of oil could be added to carrier oil, in order to get resignation from specific illnesses/disorder. A condensed list of therapeutic uses of oils is given below, care must betaken to see your skin in not allergic to smell and or local application of oil otherwise adverse reactions are likely to ensure.

Clary Sage

Mental fatigue, Nervous tension, depression, anxiety Premenstrual syndrome, menstrual pain, flatulence, indigestion.

Lavender

Flatulence, indigestion, colic, diarrhoea, high blood pressure, palpitation, breathlessness, headaches (especially nervous or/and tension headaches, flatulence, indigestion.

Rosemary

Muscular Aches and pains, Nervous tension, Premenstrual syndrome, headache, colitis, indigestion, flatulence, catarrh, congestion due to sinus.

Tea Tree

Catarrh, colds, Cough, Thrush, Cystitis, insect stings/bites, cold sores, Acne, Athlete’s foot.

Sandalwood

Bronchitis, Laryngitis, Sore throats, Acne, Eczema, cystitis, Insomnia, Depression.

Peppermint

Catarrh, headache and Migraines caused by digestive upsets and problems, Indigestion, flatulence.

Note : In certain individual carrier oil may suit one’s body but essential oils may not or Vice Versa. Unless suitability of carrier and essential oils has been clearly established, neither type of the oils should ever by used.

Cautions:

• German chamomile should not be used in pregnancy. It may cause dermatitis in some cases.
• Do not give peppermint to children below 12, and must not be used while Homeopathic treatment continues. Use in low duration.
• If you are suffering from Epilepsy, high blood pressure and during pregnancy.

Above-mentioned cautions apply equally to oral/local use, in massage, inhalation, infusion.

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When full body is massaged, stress should be laid on all the parts equally, of course keeping in mind tenderness of some specific parts. If there is pain and swelling anywhere in the body, the affected part should be massaged very gently. If there is no allegic reaction, do not forget to mix 4-5 drops of essential oil with the carrier oil so as to enhance its efficacy. No bleeding, open, punctured area of the body should ever be massaged. A little care will bestow immense yield but even slight carelessness can dispel doom-hence always use your discretion.