Aromatherapy Carrier Oils
Using the essential oils from plants and flower can be done in different ways to achieve healing effects. Treating a variety of illnesses and ailments can be done by either inhaling, ingestion or skin absorption and it is important to know a little more about the essential oils you are going to use before putting them into action.
The concentrated extracts from leaves, blossoms or roots of all different sorts of plants is what we call an essential oil, all of which offer their own benefits because of their unique blend of ingredients.
It is not advisable to just the essential oils straight from the bottle since they are highly concentrated and very powerful on their own and thus could cause irritation and other negative effects, so many times we blend them into either lotions, vapors, soaps, crèmes or a carrier oil to get the right amount of essential oils and therefore the best result
At this point our main focus will be on the use of carrier oils, which come in a high variety as well, all with their own qualities and uses. The benefits of an aromatherapy treatment are highly affected by the choice of essential oils and their carrier, the better suited for the problems you are focusing on, the better the results you will get.
Carrier oils are great to work with since in themselves they are very beneficial in the aromatherapy as well. Minerals, essential fatty acids and vitamins in the carrier oils play an essential role during the aromatherapy treatment, so they can be very helpful when dealing with a broad number of conditions.
Carrier oils are also known as base oils and they are derived from all different sorts of seeds and nuts and in some cases even from animals. Care must be taken when using oils in case of specific allergies like for example when people have allergic reaction to peanuts, but because of the wide variety of base oils, there are always other options.
Choosing the right carrier oils for your treatment
There are of course a few things you should think about when you are to choose the carrier oil or blend of oils, since they all have different texture and qualities so you want to use the carrier oil, which offers the effects you, are looking for.
Jojoba and rosehip oils for example give great results in facial treatments while peach and sweet almond oil are very versatile, used in a high number of applications. They are often used as the oil of choice in both facial treatments and massage, while other oils like avocado oil might be too heavy when used on their own.
A quality you are looking for when choosing base oils for your treatment is the absorption speed of every oil and their specific qualities that will have to match the skin type in order to get the best results.
The more you will learn about the use of carrier and essential oils, the more you will get to know all the specific possibilities and the more you will start to love aromatherapy, which is now so widely available in the world because of all the great healing properties.
