Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy: Essential Oil Active Ingredients

A single essential oil can contain several hundred different chemicals that together are responsible for its individual character, aroma and therapeutic action. The relative amount of each chemical in an oil can be a guide to its effect. Monoterpenes, for example, are stimulating, and esters are sedative, so oils rich in these chemicals have these … Read moreAromatherapy: Essential Oil Active Ingredients

Aromatherapy: The Basics and the Benefits

Aromatherapy is the most popular and fastest-growing branch of complementary medicine in the world. Not only is it relaxing, but researchers and medical professionals increasingly recognise its therapeutic value. You can find out simply and pleasurably just how beneficial aromatherapy can be by adding a few drops of lavender oil to the next bath that … Read moreAromatherapy: The Basics and the Benefits