Aromatherapy Essential Oils

Aromatherapy essential oils should be diluted with a carrier oil before using on your skin. Most essential oils, especially aromatherapy oils, are highly concentrated and can damage your skin if you don’t use a carrier oil, which dilutes the essential oil but at the same time carries its basic essence.

Before determining what type of aromatherapy oil you are going to use on your skin, it is important to figure out your skin type. Does your skin tend to be normal, oily, or dry? Rose oil and lavender oil are best to use for normal skin that doesn’t have any problems.

What if you have a skin condition such as acne? Lavender and tea tree oil are good choices because those oils have been proven to clear up acne. If you want to rejuvenate skin cells and decrease aging of the skin, you can use lavender, rose and rosemary.

You should dilute these highly concentrated oils with a carrier oil like emu oil, shea butter, coconut oil, cocoa butter, aloe vera, chamomile oil, and ylang ylang oil. For example, if you wished to dilute lavender oil, you could use carrier oils such as chamomile and ylang ylang. The best ratio depends on who is using the oils. For general use, a 2% dilution is recommended. Senior citizens or those with sensitive skin should use 1%.

In addition to regenerating skin cells, most aromatherapy oils have been proven to play an important role in moisturizing the skin and helping to heal skin conditions such as acne or eczema. They may also prevent inflammatory conditions, and lots of other skin problems caused by environmental toxins.

While the use of aromatherapy oils on the skin along with the carrier oils to dilute the essential oil is important, a healthy exercise and diet program is also essential to ensuring properly nourished skin.

Stress is a big factor in problem skin. The use of aromatherapy essential oils may not only help treat the stress, but can improve the skin as well.

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