The Insider's Guide to Wellness And Beauty Boosts With Essential Oils

Essential oils can bring

About noticeable improvements

In the way you look

Aromatherapy can support your health and well-being, but it’s most pleasing effects

Come to light when you use it for hair, facial, skin, nail, and overall body care.

Essential oils don’t just smell good. They can also bring about noticeable

Improvements in the way you look. Making your own creams, lotions, balms, and other

Personal care items is one sure way to know the products you’re using contain only

Natural ingredients, including pure essential oils.

If you don’t already have a natural foods store at which you shop, look for one in your

Area. You’ll find ingredients like castile soap, rosewater, raw cocoa butter, raw honey, and

Vegetable glycerine at your neighborhood co-op grocery story, public market, or natural

Foods store (in larger cities, try Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s).

It may surprise you to find how easy it is to mix your own beauty products—and once

You begin using these natural ingredients; you may find it more economical than buying

Expensive department store products loaded with chemicals you cannot pronounce.

Perhaps best of all, you can customize the scents of your homemade bath balls, bath

Salts, deodorant, lip balm, and lip gloss to suit your senses, selecting just the right

Balance of scents from the suggested lists in these recipes

For oily, combination, or acne-prone skin, use essential oils with an astringent effect.

Place a few drops of this astringent onto a cotton ball and smooth it over your face,

Paying special attention to the T-zone area.

2 ounces rosewater

1-ounce witch hazel

2 drops sandalwood essential oil

1-drop cypress essential oil

1. Pour the rosewater into a 3-ounce glass bottle.

2. Add the witch hazel, followed by the sandalwood and cypress essential oils, and shake

Well.

3. Let the solution stand for 36 hours.

4. Shake the solution again, and pour it through a coffee filter to remove the oils sitting

On top of the mixture.

5. Discard the filter, and pour the remaining solution back into the bottle.