What is and what is not aromatherapy?

“and” why it is important to know the difference.

Aromatherapy is the practice of using naturally extracted essences of aromatic plants to promote the health and well-being of your body, mind, and emotions. These essences, called essential oils, contain the vital life force of fragrant botanical plants. Pure essential oils are the key to success with aromatherapy.

What aromatherapy can do for you?

Through essential oils, nature provides us with the network of therapeutic plant essences that have valuable healing properties. These highly concentrated essential oils are ideal for treating an array of physical, mental, and emotional problems. People around the world are searching for safe, effective, and environmentally responsible alternatives to conventional medicines and cosmetics. Those who have discovered aromatherapy have found exactly what they need to help maintain and improve their health and take care of their skin, hair and bodies, women, men, and children are all benefiting from the use of aromatherapy. Aromatherapy works with your body in a very natural, holistic way. By gently activating your restore balance to your body, mind and spirit. Aromatherapy complements almost any other type of therapy or healing practice, whether conventional or alternative.

Aromatherapy offers you easy ways to enhance the quality of your life and improve your health. Aromatherapy can prompt your body and mind to function more efficiently. It can help boost your immune system. Often you can prevent common ailments or illnesses with aromatherapy. If you do get sick, you can use aromatherapy to minimize the discomforts and speed up your recovery.

Aromatherapy can help you get back on your feet after the illness. It also makes a safe and effective first-aid treatment.

Aromatherapy can help you reduce and manage stress. Since none of us seems to be spared from modern-day stress, any reduction in stress will certainly improve or enhance the quality of our lives and restore balance to our lives.

Aromatherapy has a positive influence on the emotions. Many essential oils can help you regulate your moods. Some are uplifting and energizing; others are calming and sedating. Some work to restore balance.

You can make aromatherapy treatments for your skin, hair and body that will add a new dimension to your beauty or personal hygiene routine. These creations can be among the most natural and effective types of beauty treatments.

In addiction to offering a natural, holistic approach to enhancing health and well-being, the practice of aromatherapy supports the environment. Growing plants – lots of them for the production of essential oil helps the planet and helps us.

Everyone agrees that aromatherapy is a medicine. So you should practice it with caution. License is not yet required to practice aromatherapy but there are many skilled practitioners who can guide you through the aromatherapy experience.  

What is NOT aromatherapy?

The practice of using essences that did not originate from an aromatic plant was once alive is not aromatherapy. 95% of the products sold as aromatherapy counterfeits – pseudo-aromatherapy. These aromas derive from synthetic scents, and they offer no therapeutic value whatsoever. True supermarkets. Rarely, if ever do these products contain pure essential oils. Even if they do, these oils can accelerate absorptions of other chemicals and products. Read the list of ingredients of any product you are considering and think about whether you want them entering your body. What therapeutic value are essential oils if they are swimming in synthetic chemicals such as emulsifiers, stabilizers, surfactants, propellants, petroleum waxes, and preservatives?

Price of the product

Price can indicate whether or not the product is true aromatherapy. Think about whether ‘rose’ aerosol spray selling for $ 4.00 or a ‘lavender’ candle priced at $6.00 could possibly contain pure essential oil, when more that 150 pounds of lavender flowers will yield only 1 pound of lavender oil and approximately 5,000 pound of rose petals produce only 1 pound of rose oil. Most fruits, with the exception of some citrus fruits, do not produce essential oils.  Scents such as apple, banana, cherry, coconut, mango, papaya, peach, pear, pineapple, raspberry, strawberry, and watermelon are not essential oils. Scientists in labs synthesize these fragrances from petrochemicals or fossil fuels.

In conclusion, pseudo aromatherapy can cause the health problems, which true aromatherapy heals.

Have an aroma filled spring and summer.