Aromatherapy means "treatment using scents". It is a holistic treatment of caring for the body with pleasant smelling botanical oils such as rose, lemon, lavender and peppermint. The essential oils are added to the bath or massaged into the skin, inhaled directly or diffused to scent an entire room. Aromatherapy is used for the relief of pain, care for the skin, alleviate tension and fatigue and invigorate the entire body. Essential oils can affect the mood, alleviate fatigue, reduce anxiety and promote relaxation. When inhaled, they work on the brain and nervous system through stimulation of the olfactory nerves.The essential oils are aromatic essences extracted from plants, flowers, trees, fruits, bark, grasses and seeds with distinctive therapeutic, psychological, and physiological properties, which improve and prevent illness.
There are about 150 essential oils. Most of these oils have antiseptic properties; some are antiviral, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, antidepressant and expectorant. Other properties of the essential oils which are taken advantage of in aromatherapy are their stimulation, relaxation, digestion improvement, and diuretic properties.
Aromatherapy for Children can also prove very beneficial through massages. Though massage is the most common form of giving aromatherapy treatment to the child, there are many ways of giving aromatherapy treatment as well. Aromatherapy can be used for young babies while their baby baths and also as remedies for childhood diseases. Thus, there are many situations where aromatherapy for such young babies can work.
Elevating our moods by aroma oils and curing the diseases are the obvious preferences with Essential oils. But there is one more application in which Aromatherapy is gaining more and more popularity. Today,millions of beauty parlors across the world are employing aroma oils in their beauty treatments including Aromatherapy Massages. These beauty treatments cover the beautification of women from head to toe.
Thus, Body Care with Aromatherapy includes the entire body care including Aromatherapy Baths. The treatment can be as easy as taking a bath with aroma oils, where one can relax and rejuvenate at the same time.
Then we have the Face Care with Aromatherapy, that provides relief to all the possible facial problems. And lastly there is also Skin Care by Aromatherapy, which, takes proper care of your skin and pampers it naturally. Such Aroma oils can be employed to treat skin diseases and problems in different manner for different types of skin. Not only that one can effectively fought wrinkles, cellulite and acne while having other holistic cures at the same time. Different aroma oils with different recipes are given for dry, oily, combined and mature skin.
