Indulge in Aromatherapy and awaken your dormant healing powers.

Never mind the science, enjoy the sensational results...

Aromatherapy is the practice of using Essential Oils to benefit us mentally, emotionally and/or physically.

• Feel Better

• Become Healthier

• With Relaxation

• With Concentration

• In Healing

• Reduce Pain

To actually get the benefits, we have to actually get the oil into our bodies.

We can make that happen in one or more of the following ways.

• We may put it on our skin, where the skin absorbs it and filters it into our bloodstream.

  The most common way to do this is by having an aromatherapy massage, or to rub it in ourselves.

• We may inhale it, and let the air get it to into our lungs; from there it filters into our bloodstream, where the benefits become apparent

• Heat the Essential Oil (and water) in an ‘oil burner’, and then inhale it from the air in the room.

• Have a bath adding a few drops of these precious oils and inhale the steam from the water.

It is often described as a NEW treatment, or a ‘New Age’ trendy fad, but it is, in fact, a very old and skillful art.

So, a brief history would be an advantage.

Some documented historical details produce a colorful account of Aromatherapy through the ages.

• Almost 5000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, aromatic oils were burnt as offerings to their gods, and they used Essential oils to embalm their dead Pharaohs.
  
  
• Cleopatra enjoyed it. She is said to have bathed in asses milk, and to this was added the most luxurious of aromatic oils to keep her looking young and beautiful.

  (By the way, if you want to use Essential oils in your bath, it is a good idea to mix them with a little milk first. That way the oils get into the water, instead of floating on the top!

• Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, wrote in his journals of the ‘beneficial aroma’ of many plants.

• It is believed that about 1000 years ago, an Arab physician, having discovered the benefits, devised a method of distilling oils.

  Some of these techniques are still used today! His written record describes ‘many plants and their aromatic benefits’.

• The Crusades brought Perfumes and Essential oils from Arabia to Great Britain.

• You may be interested to learn that during the Middle Ages, when the Plague killed so many, the ‘parfumieres’, (the ones handling the Essential oils), were immune to the Black Death that swept through the whole of Europe.
  

• In the 17th century, many of the women considered to be ‘witches', were really women knowledgeable in the different properties of plants and herbs and how to use Aromatherapy, amongst other things, to treat the sick.

• Until the 19th century there were countless and repeated recorded uses of Aromatherapy when treating sick and ill people.

As time went by, and us humans became ‘smarter’, we started to use many NEW, artificial concoctions, to replace the OLD Essential Oils.

During the 19th and 20th century many of the benefits of Aromatherapy have been forgotten, even though the ‘knowledge’ is still very much out there in books and records.

Modern technology has given us fragrances and scents, which have little or NO Aromatherapy benefits.

They are just chemical formulas, much cheaper to produce than Essential Oils, but have zero therapeutic value

Many compare the aroma of an Essential Oil to the scent of a Fragrant Oil and say that they smell the same; therefore they must DO the same thing.

The good Essential oils can be described as different oils, having different properties.

The Benefits of Aromatherapy come from the use of Essential Oils and products containing them.

The use of fragrant oils, or products containing them, have NO such advantages..

Different Essential Oils have different properties (i.e. they do different things to our body)

So… read a little about the Essential Oils and their properties before you use them.

It’s NOT the smell that does the job; it is the different qualities and properties of the plant source that provides the aromatherapy benefit to us.

In fact, it can be dangerous to use too much of some oils. Children and elderly people only need half the normal dose.

And remember, an Essential Oil that has been wonderful, and fantastic for you, may NOT be the best Oil for your family member, best friend or neighbour.

We are, all of us, totally unique, and have the right to be treated uniquely.

Aromatherapy is an art, and a science, so a little imagination and some grounding knowledge is a great help.

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