Valerie ChambersHow To Use Essential Oils
Aromatic, Topical, and Dietary
Essential oils have enriched lives for thousands of years, offering a variety of benefits from cosmetic and dietary purposes to spiritual and religious use.
Extracted through careful steam distillation, resin tapping, and cold pressing, the purest essential oils are far more powerful than the botanicals from which they come.
You can access the power of essential oils in many ways, but the most common practices include aromatic diffusion, topical application, and dietary consumption. These methods bring the pure essence of health-promoting botanicals to your home, family, and life.
Extracted through careful steam distillation, resin tapping, and cold pressing, the purest essential oils are far more powerful than the botanicals from which they come.
You can access the power of essential oils in many ways, but the most common practices include aromatic diffusion, topical application, and dietary consumption. These methods bring the pure essence of health-promoting botanicals to your home, family, and life.
Uses Of Essential Oils
Essential Oils can be used in many ways, including:
- Inspire a positive emotional state
- Enhance your physical wellness
- Awaken spiritual awareness
- Purify your home
- And so much more!
Uses Of Essential Oils
Topical
What Does Topical Use of Essential Oils Mean?
Essential oils are popularly used in diffusers and other bath and beauty products, as I mentioned. However, you can also topically apply these oils to several areas of your body. What this means is that you can put your essential oil on your body.
Still, you want to be careful about how you apply essential oils to the body and where you put it.
In particular, I would suggest using a carrier oil when doing any type of topical application to the skin.
It is possible for your skin to break out or have an allergic reaction when using essential oils directly to skin without dilution.
So, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, and other oils should be used to dilute your essential oils for topical use.
Aromatic
Where Can You Apply Essential Oils On Your Body?
Overall, there are many great topical uses for essential oils for various parts of your body. Usually you will apply to the location that requires attention. Here are some popular places you can topically apply essential oils!
Many essential oils can be used in your back area. Rubbing essential oils in this area of the body can help reduce muscle tension, soreness, and pain dramatically. But, you want to use the right oils to get this effect.
I recommend using eucalyptus essential oil because it creates a nice cooling effect.
Black pepper essential oil is also nice for a back massage, as it causes a warming sensation on the skin.
In addition to these two oils, you can add other essential oils to the mix to enhance the smell of your massage oil and induce relaxation!
Dietary
Benefits of cooking with essential oils
You probably know that essential oils can be used in hundreds of different ways. But few people realize it’s possible to safely and confidently use essential oils in your household kitchen. Cooking with essential oils can unlock a healthful and delicious experience that most people never consider.
Let’s take a look at what the benefits are of adding essential oils into your cooking and how you can start incorporating them into your own recipes.
For example, ginger is a great carminative that helps promote stomach acid production and keep the GI tract healthy and moving.
Each essential oil has a unique flavor and health benefits that you can experiment with in your kitchen.
Dishes get instantly transformed and you don’t have to go out of your way to make it happen. You can create unique and interesting flavors like chocolate orange, chocolate peppermint, and chocolate tangerine by adding the respective essential oils to chocolate.
So, as you can see, using essential oils in cooking is simple, adds a unique nutritional aspect to your food and drinks, while also expanding your flavor possibilities to whole new level.
Apart from that, certain essential oils can actually extend the shelf life of your food due to antioxidant and antimicrobial effects.
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Information courtesy of Valerie Chambers
