Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Heal Your Mind, Body, Spirit
Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is a type of alternative medicine that uses essential oils (and overall the power of smell) to enhance your well-being, and balance your mind, body, and spirit. Most commonly, this done through smell, or topical application of the oils to the skin. Different oils have different uses, and benefits. For example, essential oils can be used to improve sleep quality, uplift mood, increase energy, reduce anxiety or depression, provide pain relief, reduce inflammation, and more. So yes they can tend to both physical ailments and emotional well-being! That’s why they’re such an effective self care tool.
Essential Oils and Well-being Benefits
Mood boosting – sweet orange, peppermint, grapefruit, lemon
Mental clarity – rosemary, juniper berry, clary sage, basil, lemon
Calming/Reduce anxiety – lavender, chamomile, ylang ylang, bergamot
Stress relief – rose, lavender, jasmine, cedar wood,
Cleansing – peppermint, tea tree, eucalyptus, clary sage
Grounding – frankincense, sandalwood, cardamom, myrrh, patchouli
Anti-bacterial – tea tree, grapefruit, cinnamon, eucalyptus, thyme, lemon
Anti-inflammatory – peppermint, spruce, lavender, bergamot