Understanding The Benefits Of Essential Oils

BENEFITS OF ESSENTIAL OILS

 Each essential oil has its own properties for healing, relaxation, and mood alteration, and this post provides information about more than 60 of the most popular oils and the benefits you can enjoy from each one. You can use an essential oil to add a few drops of your favorite scent to your bathwater or you can turn to essential oils for aromatherapy. You can add one or more essential oils to your massage oil or you can take advantage of essential oils’ medicinal properties. However you use essential oils, you’ll find that they’re a welcome addition to your personal recipes.

WHAT IS AROMATHERAPY? 

Anytime you use a fragrant plant extract in your bath, as a massage oil, as an inhalant in your home, or for health or healing, you are practicing a form of aromatherapy. The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy defines this practice as “the art and science of utilizing naturally extracted aromatic essences from plants to balance, harmonize, and promote the health of body, mind, and spirit.”1 An essential oil contains volatile organic compounds extracted from the source plant, and these may be able to improve your health.

The essential oils used in aromatherapy may relieve stress or stimulate the body’s
energy levels. They may promote relaxation and restful sleep. They may also have an
effect on depression, high blood pressure, anxiety, chest and nasal congestion, infection,
and a wide range of other common ailments.