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Essential Oils Around the Home

Do you know how to use essential oils to clean your home?

 Have you become concerned that the use of environmental chemicals in and around your home may be toxic to your family’s health? Do you worry that the chemical-based cleaning products deemed safe by the FDA are actually to blame for the recent drastic rise in cancer rates, not to mention the increase in diagnoses of “new age” illnesses and chronic conditions such as thyroid disease, endocrine and hormone disruption, fibromyalgia, lupus, and chronic fatigue, as well as allergies and asthma in children?

Natural cleaning products needn’t be expensive or hard to come by...

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Aromatherapy Essential Oils

Aromatherapy Essential Oils

Aromatherapy is the ancient art of healing use of fragrant essential oils and herbs to promote natural healing and health. There are hundreds of essential oils on the market and each can assist in a different form of healing. Aromatherapy massage combines the relaxing and rejuvenating experience of a massage, with the benefits of aromatherapy. Like massage therapy, aromatherapy massage has been used for centuries to heal and soothe. It has become more popular in recent years.

Some of the most widely used essential oils used in massage oil include tea Tree, Lavender, Jasmine, Peppermint, Ylang Ylang and Rosemary. All have different healing properties. Tea Tree Oil is a time honored aromatherapy remedy for ringworm, athlete’s foot and other fungal infections...

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Essential Oils for Skin Care

Essential Oils for Skin Care

Natural skin care products and remedies are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s society. Beauty products and skin care products are advertising their use of organic and natural ingredients to promote the change. More and more women prefer these organic and natural ingredients and products because we have seen the harmful effects that chemicals can have on our skin, body and appearance.  Essential oils are the next great natural skin care product. Essential oils are extracts from plants and herbs that contain the essence, smell and properties of the plan from which they were extracted. In regards to skin care, essential oils are natural, non-greasy oils that tone, rejuvenate, and enhance the natural beauty of skin...

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Essential Oils Good For Stress

Essential Oils Good For Stress

Essential Oils For Stress Remedy A lot of people say that aromatherapy is the best stress reliever! Aromatherapy in the form of a massage or bath is equally relaxing. The sense of smell is the only sense that routes directly to the part of our brain that deals with stressful experiences. During an aromatherapy session, scent from a massage or a compress of pure essential oils makes sure that your senses are completely alert. The oil’s molecules enter either our sinus cavities or skin, pass through the membranes, enter the bloodstream and travel all the way to the brain.

Once these molecules are inside the body, they will head to your mind and cut straight through everything you are thinking at the moment...

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Hair Loss and Essential Oils

Hair Loss and Essential Oils

Hair care is important to everyone no matter their age or ethnicity. There are probably hundreds of thousands of remedies for treating hair loss. Depending on hair type, texture, scalp condition and heredity not all treatments work for everyone, but there is one that has proven effective for many.

These oils are highly concentrated and have been removed from the leaves, stems, flowers or roots of plants.

You have probably heard of or read about the use of Essential Oils for help with relaxation, meditation, immunity against diseases, but what about treating baldness, thinning hair, dry hair and scalp or dandruff?

Both men and women complain of these conditions.

There are approximately 400 essential oils. Lavender, Basil, Hyssop, Jasmine, and Thyme are a few...

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How Essential Oils Work

How Essential Oils Work

Aromatherapy has been gaining a lot of popularity lately and more and more people are enjoying the perils of essential oils. There are many skeptics out there but at the same time there are millions of people who swear about the beneficial effects of essential oils used in aromatherapy.

The way essential oils work is by stimulating the limbic system of our brain. Every oil has a different impact because every scent influences a different part of our brain. As a result of the impact on the limbic system essential oils give out benefits for different parts of our body.

The way essential oils are applied is through a massage. What happens then is that the oils are absorbed by the skin or inhaled. Then they travel through the blood stream reaching organs of the body.

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Researchers Uncover Inflammation Reducing Action in Many Essential Oils

Researchers Uncover Inflammation Reducing Action in Many Essential Oils

For much of mankind’s history, people have used herbal treatments to reduce pain and inflammation in joints and muscles. The bark of the Willow tree has given us ‘the wonder drug’ for pain reduction, which actually occurs due to a reduction of inflammation. Now, many professional therapists lay-practitioners are turning to essential oils for inflammation reduction and pain relief. Essential oils provide a very simple means of reaping the anti-inflammatory, analgesic potential of natural medicine, as all one need do is put a few drops of essential oil into a base oil and massage in for quick, sometimes long-lasting relief.

A quick look at the current research available on pubmed...

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Essential Oils Can be Found in Your Home

Essential Oils Can be Found in Your Home

Most essential oils are able to be found in our own bathroom cabinets which we use for many beauty and health reasons. For those who don’t own essential oils or have never tried these oils, maybe you need to hear about all the great benefits but just haven’t had the opportunity to try them. There are many articles and e-books available online on the topic of essential oil uses. Many people use them through aromatherapy methods, in baths, or as a skin massage oils. Essential oils not only smell great, they also taste wonderful in raw foods. Many of these oils aid in digestion problems while killing bacteria at the same time. To cook with essential oils, you don’t need to use very much. A couple of drops is enough for six people.

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Tea Tree Essential Oil

Essential Oils Must be Pure

 Essential Oils Must be Pure

Most scholars would find the term “pure essential oils” ridiculous. According to scholars, essential oils are natural and pure by nature. Many customers have been taken advantage of when purchasing essential oils with man-made chemicals added to them. This is why people are demanding pure essential oils.

Let’s first take a look at what pure essential oils actually are. Essential oils are the extraction of liquid from many parts of plants such as the bark, leaves, stem, or flower. Any plant has essential oils built into it. There are many different essential oils available. Cedarwood, Lavender, Jasmine, Peppermint, Rose, and Eucalyptus are a few of the available essential oils. Each of these oils comes from a process of complex distilling of steam or water...

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Peppermint Tea one drop of Peppermint Essential Oil equals 28 cups of Peppermint tea!

Essential Oils: Making Medicine or Just Smelling Nice

Essential Oils: Making Medicine or Just Smelling Nice

The great tide of Western medicine is turning: we’ve become so jaded with the obvious inadequacies and waste of our medical institutions, with a deep feeling that “something just ain’t right”, that Natural Medicine is quickly becoming mainstream. It’s about time! When did “Conventional” medicine become “Alternative”? Now plant medicine is quickly coming back in favor — folks are trusting the beauty and grace of planet Earth, and that she has all the medicine we’ll ever need. And with that, enter Aroma Medicine...

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