Aromatherapy for the Terrified!
Aromatherapy can be very confusing for the beginner. The number and variety of essential oils available today is bewildering if you don't know what to do with them. I personally collected quite a few simply because of the couple of words on the label that said... 'good for anxiety' or 'good for calming the nerves' and stuff like that. Once I got them home I was a little less confident about what to do with them. For the home toiletry maker essential oils can be a valuable tool but not necessarily the 'be all and end all'. You may have already been down the route of buying lotion bases to which you add your own choice of essential oil blend to produce a tailored product. From personal experience these can be less than satisfying. In fact it is only after using these base products that you realise the real difference is made by the base oils. much more than the essential oil blend. Of course if you are an aromatherapist then you will concentrate on the essential oils more than anything else but you will be wrong to discount the base oils in your formula. For the homemade beauty recipes the base oils are extremely important, the essential oils, simply the icing on the cake. If you have the knowledge to blend for therapy then more power to you, is what I say, but if you are a beginner then this is the guide for you. Forget that these oils are supposed to have therapeutic value and work with the scent alone. After all, whatever the therapy if you hate the smell it aint gonna work is it? There is plenty information on the internet about essential oils, especially if you wish to get in deep with them, but here you will find, a few simple, friendly pages that are aimed at the lay person... who if they wish to get more involved with aromatherapy, will progress on to a college course or more thorough book.
Some questions you may have about essential oils:What are essential oils? And do they work?You may be surprised to hear that essential oils are not 'oils' at all! How can I use them and what products should I put them in? If you are just starting out on your aromatherapy journey you may feel nervous about 'playing' with the different smells. Well I've made it a little easier for you. Essential oil blends for aromatherapy and skincare use are all here! Create your own perfume! Your signature scent, as individual as you are yourself is not such a far fetched idea. With even only a little knowledge and a very few oils you can begin making yor own perfume. Perfume page is coming very soon!! Not really interested in the 'aroma-therapy' side of things. Perhaps you just want a nice scent?
What about fragrances?
Don't discount a fragrance because you think it's synthetic. The world is seldom so 'black and white' and the world of cosmetic additives very often falls into the 'bit inbetween'.
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