Aromatherapy uses the complex chemicals within plant oils to provide benefits to the mind, body and spirit. When breathing in the scent of essential oils, a person immediately notices its balance within the scent and its even and pleasant smell. Lavender oil is one of the most highly used oils in aromatherapy recipes because of its ability to diminish depression, uncontrolled emotions and irrationality, helping to bring peace and balance to an individual´s life. It contains linalyl and linalol acetate at 70%, a flowery and sweet smell, and terpenol, camphor and cineol at 4%. In comparing the isolated groups of chemicals, a person immediately notices the intense and powerful scent of the 4% group, while the 70% is sweet and delicate.
The mixture of these two chemicals within lavender oil provides an aromatherapy recipe that allows the floral smell to carry and penetrate, the delicate yet sweet scent of herb-like plants bringing your senses joy and tranquility. While these chemicals do not seem to be related, their balance is used in aromatherapy recipes to create that much needed normalizing, balancing and stabilizing mixture of scents through essential oils. Other balancing oils are geranium, clary sage, lemongrass, fir needle, juniper berry, melissa and petitgrain.
When a person understands the dominant characteristics of the scents chosen in essential oils, recipes that create synergy in providing much needed benefits are produced. The spirit, body and mind focuses on the dominant benefit of a particular scent when these oils are used alone, but a person who becomes experienced in the benefits of these scents will be able to create combinations that affect several areas of concern in an individual´s wellbeing. Creating aromatherapy recipes involves two important methods. The first method is to use an essential oil by itself, and the second method involves a combination of these oils that have separate effects but complement one another through smell.
Essential oils have what is called a top note or bottom note smell or benefit, and when creating aromatherapy recipes it is important to produce a middle note from the combination of those oils. The middle note produced should have a scent that is tantalizing to the senses and provides the symptomatic benefit that is required for the individual needing that aromatherapy recipe. The creation of massage oils and bath oils by mixing these smells are also possible, producing a scent that relaxes the mind, spirit and body while at the same time relaxing muscles and easing physical discomforts.
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