Making Scents with Essential Oils
25 Oct 2014
Pure essential oils have been used for centuries to heal and beautify.
Here are ways to incorporate aromatherapy into your daily life.
By Brigitte Mars Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils distilled from the leaves, flowers, fruits, roots and barks of plants for healing the body, mind and spirit. Humans are said to have an estimated 10 million cells for detecting scents. Fragrance molecules in the air we breathe travel along a neurological pathway to receptor sites in our brains, and eventually into our bloodstream. In plants, essential oils help repel predator insects and attract beneficial pollinators. In the body, essential oils are believed to interrupt the oxygenation cycles of bacteria. Essential oils can kill germs, bacteria, fungi and viruses (but not friendly intestinal flora), and bacteria don’t appear to develop a resistance to essential oils.