Make your own Aromatherapy products

Aromatherapy has been around for thousands of years. It’s a natural way to help your body physically and emotionally. Essential oils are concentrated extracts taken from the roots, leaves, or blossoms of plants.

Essential oils stimulate the powerful sense of smell. The odors that we smell have a major impact on how we are feeling. We have the potential to distinguish between 10,000 different smells! That’s why those air freshener commercials show a powerful pleasant emotion…because that’s what smells can do to us.

It is believed that smells enter through the fine hairs lining the nose to the limbic system, the part of the brain that controls our moods, emotions, memory and learning.

They can also be massaged into the skin or even taken by mouth (although this is less common and should be done only when instructed by a trained professional). Whether inhaled, absorbed, or ingested, essential oils are gaining new attention as an alternative treatment for infections, stress, and other health problems.

When you make them at home you know exactly what’s going in them. This eliminates any unwanted ingredient, or worse an unknown ingredient.

Learn more about aromatherapy and how to make your own essential oils, balms and lotions at the aromatherapy site.