Essential Oils: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide

Essential oils are in their prime. Essential oils are extracts that are derived from plants. They work for many different health ailments. Essential oils can help with anything from lowering anxiety levels to being used as household cleaners. There are many great reasons to use essential oils but first, it is important to know what they are and how to use them.

Essential oils help to promote health and wellness. They function in order to help with mood disorders, stabilize moods, and can even help with heartburn. Essential oils also function to help with many household functions such as using them with a diffuser to use them to add a nice scent to household cleaning supplies. 

Essential oils work because they contain active compounds that are released to give a plant its natural scent. When we extract these precious oils, then not only do we respond emotionally to them but also in a biological manner. These scents create a spark in our memories and lead our brains to reduce stress levels while our bodies calm down. 

Another benefit of using essential oils besides their nice smell and their reduction of our daily stresses is that they are being shown to have more antibacterial and microbial properties than previously thought of. Essential oils are now being used to help promote health, build immunity, and to kill toxins such as bacteria and fungus. 

One of the greatest misunderstandings of essential oils is how we need to use them. Some essential oils need to be properly used in order to avoid toxicity and to ensure that we are receiving maximum benefits from them. Listed here are some things to consider when learning how to properly use essential oils:

You will always want to make sure that you dilute your oils before use. It is highly important to dilute them before you use them on your skin. Your skin is likely too sensitive to take an undiluted oil and you also may have an allergic reaction if you use undiluted oils. There are several types of oils too that require a base on your skin first. For example, if you need a carrier oil, then you will want to place something like coconut oil on your skin first and then place the essential oil on top of it. This will reduce skin sensitivity while also give you the benefits of the oil. 

When it comes to diffusing, it is very important to pick the right diffuser. The aromatherapy benefits that come from choosing the right diffuser are vastly better than if you use the wrong type of diffuser. There are diffusers that are designed to work for essential oils. It is important to use one of those diffusers in order to get the most out of your oils. When diffusing, you’ll also want to place the drops of oil onto a cotton ball rather than directly into the diffuser. This allows the oils to be diffused in a way that doesn’t end up vaporizing the plastics in the diffuser. It is also important to remember not to diffuse essential oils for more than a thirty-minute period at a time. 

Quality is of utter importance here as you want to be sure that you are only purchasing high-quality essential oils in order to receive their maximum results. Many of the cheaper essential oils have been diluted with olive oil or another type of oil, which makes their benefits less effective for you. You can test the quality of your essential oils by dropping some on a piece of plain paper. If you see grease on the paper after a full day, then your essential oils have been diluted with other oils and aren’t pure. If it has gone away, leaving only a very small ring or nothing at all, then your oils are pure. It is a great idea to research your oils before you go shopping or to find the right brands online in order to be sure that you are only purchasing high-quality oils. If you already have oils at your house, then you can test them using the paper method. 

As you can see, there are many things to consider when it comes to purchasing and using the right essential oils to receive maximum health benefits. There are many ways to ingest or inhale essential oils and it is important to make sure that you are properly using the ones that you buy in order to prevent toxicity or overuse of them. Make sure to do your research before purchasing essential oils and always look for the purest brands that you can find in order to alleviate purchasing ones that have been mixed with other types of oils, making them less effective.