If you have looked through my posts it occasionally read them, there is one issue I am quite fascinated by and that is a list of ingredients. Of course it is all perfectly reasonable to try and learn about what that list of inclusions within a product does, claims to do and it's reasoning for being included in the first place.
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One of my main areas of fascination is with essential oils and I have a few friends who are aromatherapists and whenever I have had a massage, facial or any form of treatment I am always keen to know what essential oils are used and why and a lot of my information comes from sites such as essential oils by New Directions Aromatics.
Once I began to understand the purpose of an oil, the more I would begin to notice them in everyday products that I use such as Optiat Coffee Scrubs, Beautitude Bath Oils and Mio Liquid Yoga to name just a few. Essential oils have been used for thousands of years in various cultures for medicinal and health purposes. In fact Essential oils can be used for everything including aromatherapy, household cleaning products, personal beauty care and natural medicine treatments.
I have the Anjou Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser but you can use them in so many different ways, for me it is the diffuser which sits in my bedside table unless the essential oil is already included within a product.
So I would use the following oils to help:
- To relieve Stress and tension - lavender
- Relaxation - Lavender/chamomile
- To aid sleep - lavender
- Colds and stuffy nose - peppermint, rosemary, lemon, eucalyptus
- Feeling blue - sweet orange, jasmine, rose,
- Get rid of bugs - Citronella oil in the summer is a god send to keeping those pesky flies out!
The actual uses of essential oils is quite incredible and there is pretty much something for everything, even the weird and wonderful ideas that people have come up with that are so strange that your inner-curiosity wants to give it go. For example did you know that a lot of household bugs such as ants, , beetles, mice, spiders and cockroaches do not like peppermint oil? Well I know some people reading this will be ordering the oil by the bottle to keep these critters out of there homes, I have never tried it but would be intrigued to see if it works!
Do you use Essential Oils and if so for a purpose?
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