Aromatherapy

Household Cleaning and Freshening

If you've got to clean house, why not reap the benefits of aromatherapy while you're at it! If you've ever tackled household chores, you know that the smell of some products is overwhelming. If used without proper ventilation, many can even cause sickness.

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Uses – Massage

Massaging essential oils into the skin is a commonly used aromatherapy technique and one that'll enable you to reap tremendous therapeutic benefits. If you've never had a massage, you don't know what you're missing. After a massage session, you'll feel amazingly relaxed and rejuvenated....

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Uses - Skin and Hair Care

More and more of today's skin and hair care products are made using essential oils and the people using these types of products are benefiting in several ways. Not only are they giving themselves top-notch skin and hair care, they're also reaping the benefits of aromatherapy....

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Uses – Garden

Aromatherapy could not exist without plants and consequently, the garden plays an important role. It's the area used for growing the plants whose aromas can then be extracted. With a bit of planning and routine maintenance, anyone can reap aromatherapy benefits right in their own back yards....

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Uses Cooking

If you consider yourself more than a beginner when it comes to cooking, you're likely already incorporating principles of aromatherapy into the foods you create. Using ingredients like infused oils and flavored butters not only adds a tremendous amount of flavor to your meals, these types of ingredients cause your smell receptors to come alive....

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Uses – Bath and Douche

Aromatherapy involves using the aroma of different plants to help soothe the mind as well as the body. The aromatherapy bath happens to be a very effective method for relaxing tired, stressed bodies...

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Buying Products and Ingredients

Once you venture into the world of aromatherapy, you'll quickly realize that as with the many tantalizing scents, there are also numerous purchasing sources. You likely will have heard of some of these companies before, but many names will be brand new to you....

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Understanding Diffusion

To be effective, essential oils must be disbursed throughout the environment. In the world of aromatherapy, the proper term for this type of disbursement is diffusion....

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Aromatherapy and Resins

The term that is more commonly associated with aromatherapy resins is incense. Resins, or incense, have long been an important part of history. Widely used for ceremonial purposes in many ancient eastern and western civilizations, use of incense today, while still popular, is not nearly as common as is the use of perfumes and products containing fragrances. ...

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