Skin rash may appear after contact with substance or irritant, the symptoms include skin redness, itch, become warm, bumpy, dry, cracked, red spots or blistered, swell and may be painful. The causes vary widely, may due to poison ivy, metals, solvent, dyes, textiles, detergents, dermatitis or medicine.

The aromatherapy essential oils recipe below is for general use involving red, inflamed skin rashes.It is an ideal cool compress for healing swelling and itching.

1/4 cup cider vinegar

1/4 cup witch hazel lotion

1~ 2 cups cold water

2 tsp baking soda

4 drops Lavender essential oils

2 drops Chamomile essential oils

2 drops Bergamot essential oils

basin

face towel

Add the vinegar, witch hazel and water into basin. To the baking soda, add the essential oils and mix well. Add the mixture to the water and stir well. Soak the face towel and wring the water from it, apply the towel to the rash. Change the compress once it becomes body temperature or begins to dry. Apply 3 times a day as needed.

Hair loss, I think nobody wants to experience that! What cause hair loss? It may cause of vitamin deficiencies, thyroid or pituitary deficiencies, chemical ingredient of shampoo, stress and many more.

Aromatherapy Essential oils is effective in treating hair loss problems because they nourish deep in the dermal layers of skin and in tiny blood vessels, where the hair follicle is located. If hair loss due to vitamin deficiencies, off course you need to improve nutrition intake beside aromatherapy. If due to medication or cancer treatment, i’m afraid you may not see the result using essential oil because the side effect of the medication is very strong.

If your hair loss due to stress, then aromatherapy essential oils will help, because essential oils adopting a good stress release. The result using essential oils will be visible within two to three months, this period is needed to allow several hair hair cycles to take place.

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Hiccups or hiccough, are intermittent spasms of the diaphragm that repeats several times per minute. The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest, it works perfectly most of the times. When you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it pushes up to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated. When this happens, it pulls down in a jerky way, which makes you suck air into your throat suddenly. When the air rushing in hits your voice box, you’re left with a big hiccup. In medicine, it is known as synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (SDF), or singultus.

Some things that may irritate the diaphragm are eating too quickly or too much, an irritation in the stomach or the throat, or feeling nervous or excited. Almost all cases of the hiccups last only a few minutes. Some cases of the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual and it’s usually a sign of another medical problem. Better check up with your doctor if you are facing any problem like that.

Here, is the aromatherapy essential oils recipe to cure Hiccups:

1 teaspoon vegetable oil

1 drop Chamomile essential oil (children) or Basil essential oil (adult)

Mixed the essential oil in the vegetable oil. Rub it on palms and hold over mouth and nose. Inhale deeply and slowly a few times. Then, rub oil over the upper chest area just below the throat, as well as the solar plexus area (area just below sternum)

Excess exposure to the sun caused Sunburn. The symptoms include redness and pain with slight swelling and inflammation.

Aloe Vera, which is anti-inflammatory and healing, has been used for centuries to heal burns. Lavender and tea tree essential oils are best to be added to make a first aid treatment for sunburn. The ultimate method to treat sunburned skin is to soak in a bath with an abundance of healing herbs, soothing essential oils and aloe vera.

Lavender and peppermint are ideal match to take to the bath for sunburns. Lavender helps to calms the skin while peppermint (small amount) is for cooling.

Honey can be used as a healing agent for dressing because it is anti-bacteria and anti-flammatory. When essential oils are added into it, its effect multiplied.

Aromatic After-sun Bath Recipe

1/4 cup of herbs: calendura,comfrey, raspberry leaf, slippery elm

1 qt boiling water

1/2 cup baking soda

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar or Witch hazel lotion

1/2 cup Aloe vera gel or juice

2 tbls. honey

2 drops Lavender Essential Oil

1 drop Peppermint Essential oil

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Scarring is the result of fibroblast cells repairing wound or skin inflammation. Wound will undergo several stage of repair, including cleaning and killing bacteria. The actual scars will only be seen after 3 ~ 7 days. It is then the fibroblast cells form collagen and elastin to close up the wound, however, if the wound is deep, fewer collagen and elastin fibers are present, giving the firmness and non- elastic characteristics to many scar.

By using specified aromatherapy essential oils, along with heat and massage, circulation can be increased to the scared tissue. Also long term use of nourishing and moisturizing carrier oils, including Vitamin E, and essential oils can have a reduceing effect on old scars.

Aromatherapy essential oils treatment is to apply the oils three times a day, for a period of 6 months. Here is the recipe for the treatment oil for scarring.

1 tbls Calendula infusion oil

1 tbls Hazelnut or Olive oil

1 tsp Wheat germ oil

1/4 tsp Rose hip seed oil

1/4 tsp Carrot seed oil

20 drops Lavender essential oil

5 drops Frankincense essential oil

800 IU’s Vitamin E (gel capsules)

In an amble glass, add in all the above, shake the mixture well, label it. To apply three times daily to reduce scars.