Aromatherapy for Natural Beauty

In addition to essential oils, aromatherapy encourages the use of other complementary natural ingredients including cold pressed vegetable oils, jojoba oil, herbs, sea salts, sugars, clays and muds. Click here to learn about how to use aromatherapy along with skin care products!

Products that include synthetic ingredients are frowned upon in holistic aromatherapy. It is important to note that perfume oils also known as fragrance oils (and usually listed as "fragrance" on an ingredient label) are not the same as essential oils. Fragrance oils and perfume oils contain synthetic chemicals and do not provide the therapeutic benefits of essential oils. Click here to learn about different scents used in aromatherapy!

Aromatherapy for Stress & Moods

Feeling overwhelmed? Is the daily hustle and bustle of life making you stressed? Too much stress has been shown to be harmful to our health. Aromatherapy is a great way to de-stress and heal your body. Click here to learn about how aromatherapy can help you deal with stress!

Most people have strong reactions to certain scents. Some scents awaken desires for a certian type of food or remind us of a special person in our lives. Other smells warn us to stay away from something danagerous or unpleasant. Click here to learn about how the scents used in aromatherapy can help improve your mood!

Aromatherapy Precautions

The United States does not regulate the use of the word aromatherapy" on product packaging, labeling or in product advertising, so any product can be marketed as a product suitable for aromatherapy. There are quite a few products on the market that contain unnatural ingredients including fragrance oils and claim to be aromatherapeutic. It's important to look at the ingredient label when seeking true aromatherapy products.

Also, use caution with marketing claims that state a product is "Made With Essential Oils" or "Made With Natural Ingredients." Claims like these do not state that the product is only made with the ingredient(s) specified. Such products may contain heavy proportions of synthetic fragrance oils and only contain a minute quantity of essential oil to simply be able to profess the "Made With Essential Oils" claim.