I believe everyone experiences the pain associated with sore muscles from time to time, whether it’s an injury or just a strenuous workout. Muscles can hurt after a day of work out, especially if you aren’t exercising on a regular basis and then really go for it.

We use to let “the time” to cure the pain slowly. But, actually essential oils are wonderfully healing when used to treat pain such as muscle aches, strains, backaches and headaches. There are many simple, easy-to-make aromatherapy treatment recipes that you can create at home to combat the everyday stress of life and ease your aches and pains along the way. We can use simple essential oils for aromatherapy to reduce the swelling, pain and promotes faster healing.  The sooner it is applied, the better.

Essential oils which suitable for the purpose including chamomile, ginger, jasmine, lavender, marjoram, cypress, rosemary.

Cramp Relief Oil Recipe
* 12 drops lavender oil
* 6 drops marjoram oil
* 4 drops chamomile oil
* 4 drops ginger oil
* 2 ounces of your favourate carrier oil or vegetable oil

Combine ingredients. Apply throughout the day as often as needed over the cramping area. This formula is also excellent for the lower back pain that sometimes accompanies menstrual cramps.

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There are many essential oils suitable for daily use in our daily living. Anyway, if you are new to essential oils and would like to getting started with Aromatherapy Essential Oils, I would love to suggest you these two basic essential oils that are very popular in aromatherapy that should ideally be present in almost every household - Lavender and Tea Tree. These oils have innumerable uses and can be used with any kind of dilution.

Lavender Essential Oils - This oil calms, soothes the skin, balances oil production, helps to heal blemishes, stimulates circulation to skin, reduces inflammation of acne and soothes nervous system.

Lavender has often been called the ‘medicine chest in a bottle’ for its broad range of applications. Every home should keep Lavender on hand, even if no other oil is used, as it is so very effective on burns. Its anti-inflammatory action is responsible for the beginnings of modern aromatherapy, as Dr. Jean Valnet discovered Lavender’s healing properties after being burned in a laboratory accident.

Lavender is considered to speed wound healing and reduce scarring. The oil is also pleasantly calming, and can be used to reduce stress in a variety of situations – a commonly used technique is to apply Lavender oil ‘neat’ (undiluted) to the soles of the feet of patients recovering from almost any ailment

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Perfume and scent have always exerted an extraordinary power over the senses and emotions. If you choose to use pure essential oils to make your own very special aromatherapy perfume, beside smell good, it actually helps to change moods.

The fascinating aspect of working with essential oils is that each essential oil has an individual character that contributes to the overall fragrance of an aromatherapy mood perfume. You may refer essential oils reference guide for each essential oil’s properties. Choosing your own choice of essential oils according to the mood you desire is great. Deciding to create a special perfume to help stimulate a particular mood is like opening a box of fragrant spells. It’s full of surprise!

We are captivated by scents: they move us emotionally and arouse deep feelings. Using sensual essential oils for Perfumes awaken sensual instinct, bring back nostalgic reminiscences and allow the imagination and fantasy to run riot. Poetry and the other arts have always celebrated this evocative power of perfume to move our emotions and bring us into the realm of the senses.

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Patchouli, this fragrant herb, with soft, opposite, egg-shaped leaves and square stems, grows from 2 to 3 feet in height, giving out the peculiar, characteristic aroma of patchouli when rubbed. Its whitish flowers, tinged with purple, grow in both axillary and terminal spikes. The crop is cut two or three times a year, the leaves being dried and packed in bales and exported for distillation of the oil. The best oil is freshly distilled near the plantations. It is popular in production of perfume and soap, and it is widely-used both in Asia and India.

Essential Oil of Patchouli is thick, the colour being brownish-yellow tinted green. It contains coerulein, the vivid blue compound found in matricaria, wormwood and other oils. It deposits a solid, or stearoptene, patchouli alcohol, leaving cadinene. Its use is said to cause sometimes loss of appetite and sleep and nervous attacks. The Chinese, Japanese and Arabs believe it to possess prophylactic properties.

Botanical name: Pogostemon patchouli, Pogostemon cablin

Plant origin: Shrub

Extraction Method: Distillation

Aroma: Pungent, earthy

Odor Intensity: Medium

Evaporation: Base note

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Neroli oil is a plant oil similar in scent to bergamot produced from the blossom of the bitter orange tree.

Neroli has a refreshing and distinctive, spicy aroma with sweet and flowery notes. It is one of the most widely used floral oils in perfume industry. It is a non-toxic, non-irritant, non-sensitizing, non-photo-toxic substance. More than 12% of all modern quality perfumes use Neroli as their principal ingredient and it is most of the synthetic components available on the market.

As an essential oil, used in aromatherapy and aromatherapy massage, Neroli is considered to have a soothing effect on the nervous system.Traditionally, neroli oil was used not only to relieve tension, it increase blood circulation too. A solution is made by adding three or four drops of the essential oil to one cup of either sweet almond or wheat germ oil. The oil is then fixed by adding grapefruit seed extract, but if the solution is to be used on children or pregnant women, only half the quantity of essential oil should be used.

Botanical name: Citrus aurantium

Plant origin: Flowers

Extraction method: distillation/ solvent extraction

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