What is Aromatherapy?
Herbal Essence Therapy is the ancient art and science of using the healing power of aromatic essential oils, distilled from organic plant sources such as leaves, flowers, and roots. There are numerous chemicals produced by the plants and essential oils have many different effects on the body, mind and spirit. For example, these oils can be sedative or stimulating. Many are antispasmodic and most are antibacterial. Some oils help digestion problems , others help with regeneration of tissues, and others can be cooling or warming. These are just a few of the many example of how essential oils can benefit you. Essential oils have been used for thousand of years, it is not until now that we are discovering how beneficial they can be
in our everyday lives.
How can Essential Oils help?
Conditions that often respond well to this type of Therapy are: stress, insomnia, menstrual problems, menopausal symptoms, muscle spasms, low energy, tiredness and even stretch marks. Some examples of what some oils can help with are listed below: (These are 100% pure essential oils)
Lemon Grass: This oil affects the lymph nodes, good for tightening of connective tissue, helps varicose veins and hemorrhoids . Also helps diminish the apprearance of bruises. This leaf oil corresponds to the blood and circulation.
Orange: This is a calming oil, great for sleeping due to its relaxing properties. It softens the skin for a
velvety feeling. This oil is also used for diminshing color spots on the skin.
Lavender: This oil increases seratonin thus acts as a sedative. Like orange oil, it calms and soothes.
It also helps regeneration of tissue, great for stretch marks. It is good for skin irritations and itching.
Rosemary: Increases blood supply to the pancreas, stomach, liver, small intestine and gall bladder thus its good for diabetics to help lower blood sugar level. Wonderful for warming up cold feet and cold hands because it helps circulation. Also, helps to increase the abilirty to smell.
Tea Tree: Acts as a fungicide. Wondrful for eliminating fungus as in athlete's foot and nail fungus due to artificial nails (acrylic fingermails). Great also for decreasing acne.
These are just a few of the examples on how pure essential oils can help. These oils are so potent we always dilute them with a carrier oil, we use Jojoba oil. If applied to the skin undiluted they could cause discomfort or irritate the skin. The reason we use Jojoba is because it does not clog the pores, thus your own natural oils can also help to moisturize your skin. In additon, clogged pores do not allow toxins to escape from your body.
How can you benefit from this type of therapy?
We offer 3 ways you can take advantage of these oils. First, we can custom blend an oil depending on what your body needs so you can use at home. We will explain to you how you can use these oils such as in your bath, diffuser, compresses, body mist etc. Secondly, we offer Herbal Essence Therapy Massage using specific oils to enhance the therapeutic benefits massage will provide. And finally, Cosmo-Therapy stimulates the five senses in a one-hour session to help your body's ability to heal itself. Cosmo-Therapy uses Essential Oils, Color Therapy, Pure Tone Therapy, Precious Stone Therapy and Herbal teas all designed to achieve well being.
For more information on either the Essential Oils (under the products section), Massage or Cosmo-Therapy, please see the specific pages dedicated to these services.
