As interest in all aspects of natural health and wellness grows, the use of essential oils is becoming more widespread. However, many individuals that are just learning about aromatherapy’s possibilities sometimes don’t know exactly what essential oils are. Well here’s a little primer that get you started in using these wonderful gifts of nature in your own life! Pure essential oils are complex mixtures of aromatic compounds produced by plants. These are the essences that give plants their wonderful scents; it is these easily evaporated compounds that you smell when inhaling the aroma from a rose, or a pine tree, or a bunch of fresh basil.

Aromatherapy is an age old practice, which has helped millions of people. It involves the use of the essential oils distilled from natural products such as grasses and trees, and can help to treat a variety of conditions.

Therapeutic use of essential oils is beginning to be recognized in the United States as a valid modality for treating illness. There is still significant resistance to the science of Aromatherapy, but such is the resistance from the institutional-medicine/pharmaceutical-industrial complex to most ‘natural’ health treatments. ‘Big Pharma’ is THE industry with the highest average profit margins on earth — and is dedicated to producing, patenting, marketing selling new, unnatural (and therefore ‘patent-able’) chemical compounds that are supposed to answer every need of health and wellness. While some formulations do much good for the world (modern medicine has nearly eradicated several life-threatening illnesses from the planet), other medicines simply mask symptoms for a time, and others are downright dangerous.

Do you agree Aromatherapy has suffered from it’s New Age stigma long enough? It’s time to tell the masses what these little bottles of liquid jewels are all about! Here in the United States, common use of the term ‘aromatherapy’ has been skewed so much that only that ‘touchy-feely’ aspect of ‘feeling good from smelling something nice’ is it’s complete definition to most folks. If you happen to know better, this article may just be a refresher in the science of therapeutic essential oil usage, but one that may help you teach others the ‘why’ of ‘medical aromatherapy’ - if this concept is new, however, read on and learn - this may be important to you someday!

One of the best ways to relax in the evening or morning after a hard day’s work is to have aromatherapy done. This is a simple holistic way to relax and sooth the body. Aromatherapy is when someone takes oils and uses them in conjunction with a massage to create a perfect balance of relaxation. The essential oils used in this manner will soak into the skin, which, by the fragrance, can also have an effect on the mind and emotions.

Specialists in the field of armatherapy think synthetic fragrance oils are less desirable than plant derived essential oils as elements of perfume. However, synthetic fragrance oils are not effective therapeutically because even though they are copies of essential oils, these synthetic products have different structures and, cannot be enter the body.