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A Brief Introduction to Aromatherapy
Commonly associated with alternative and complementary medicine, aromatherapy is the use of essential oils and other aromatic compounds from plants, to affect someone’s health or mood.
Its main areas include:
* Home Aromatherapy (self treatment, perfume & cosmetic use)
* Clinical Aromatherapy (as practiced by licensed professionals)
* Aromachology (the psychology of odours and their effects on the mind)
The [...]
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Aromatherapy & You
Aromas are inescapable! Think about how you encounter them on a daily basis from roses in the garden, a cup of steaming mochacchino or soothing jasmine tea, basil that permeates spaghetti sauce, and fresh citrus juices. Noses detect hundreds of scents a day, and of those, the aromas of plants, fruits, barks and roots are [...]
Essential Or Aromatherapy Oil?
If your supply of oils is running a little low, when you order your next batches, will you be purchasing essential oils, or aromatherapy oils?
Whilst aromatherapy oils may appear cheaper, you should know they are a LOT less concentrated then essential oils, so you will (depending on their exact application, obviously) end up using more [...]
Aromatherapy Spotlight on Lavender Essential Oil
Imagine a flower being able to calm your nerves, reduce inflammation and swelling, promote faster healing for minor burns, decrease muscle pain, alleviate insomnia, and work as a natural bug repellant? That purple colored flower named lavender, which is derived from the Latin word lavera meaning to wash, is one of the most versatile essential [...]
Using Aromatherapy with Children
Aromatherapy and essential oils can be a wonderful way of supporting your child’s health, happiness and well-being. Essential oils can be very therapeutic and nurturing to both your child and you, the caregiver.
Essential oils are pure aromatic plant essences they are distilled from flowers, fruit, leaves, resins, roots, seeds, and wood. The are used for [...]
Tea and Aromatherapy
Often I am asked why we offer so many teas and scents at ScentbySpirit.com rather than focusing on one or the other. For me the answer seems easy, but the more thought I put into it, the dawning realization is that maybe some people haven’t made the connection. In an effort to connect the dots [...]
Aromatherapy Spotlight on Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
Ylang ylang, pronounced ee-lung ee-lung, is as exotic sounding as the tropical regions from where these fragrant flowers originate. The name means, flower of flowers and the abundantly sweet flowers are prettily colored pink, mauve or yellow, colors frequently seen during sunrise and sunset. These trees flourish in the tropics; the islands of the South [...]
Understanding Aromatherapy
In the 1920’s, a French cosmetic chemist named Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, was one day making fragrances in his laboratory, when he accidentally burned his arm. He then thrust his badly burnt arm into the nearest cold liquid, which turned out to be a tub of lavender oil. To his surprise, the pain was decreased dramatically and [...]
Treating Arthritis Symptoms With Aromatherapy
Did you know that the word arthritis actually refers to over 100 different diseases affecting areas in and around joints of the body? Actually, arthritis also can also affect other parts of the body besides the joints. The skin, liver, heart and kidneys are all vulnerable to certain types of arthritis. It causes pain, loss [...]