Charlotte Pearce - Essential Oils for Beginners: Aromatherapy Recipes for Weight Loss & Well-Being

Essential Oils for Beginners: Aromatherapy Recipes for Weight Loss & Well-being

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I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, Essential Oils for Beginners: Aromatherapy Recipes for Weight Loss & Well-being .

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to use various essential oils to help you achieve your weight loss goals, reduce stress and solve minor skin and hair problems.

If you use essential oils, you can be sure that the products you use for your well-being are completely natural. Further, since essential oils are very concentrated, you only need to use a small amount every time so you can save money in the long run.

Read through this book, if you have any queries afterwards feel free to drop me an email at EssentialOilEnlightenment@Outlook.com

Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!

Before we discuss how essential oils can benefit your well-being, let us first discuss what they are. This is important because too many people mistake artificial fragrance oils for essential oils then experience unpleasant complications after using them.

Essential oils are hydrophobic, i.e. water-repelling or do not completely dissolve in water, substances distilled from various plant parts like leaves, flowers, stems, bark, roots, or the whole plant. Chemically speaking, they are not true oils because they do not contain fatty acids unlike olive and coconut oils. They are only called oils because they resemble oil in the sense that they are hydro-phobic. However, they are not necessarily oily or greasy. In fact, some essential oils can resemble water in appearance because they are colorless and not viscous. On the other hand, some essential oils can feel oily when applied on the skin and have a thick consistency.

They are called essential oils because they contain the essence of the plant. If you look at the chemical composition of any plant, you will see that it contains water, cellulose or the plant fibers which give it structure, and its essence or what makes it the plant that it is. You can consider the essence to be the concentrated nutrients of the plant.

To make essential oil, you must first boil the plant to extract its essence then further boil the water to distill the essential oil. This is a difficult process which is why most people opt to buy their essential oils rather than make them even if they are fortunate to have a garden which supplies them with various plants and herbs. Sometimes people will simply boil the plant and use this tea for various purposes, or they will infuse oils with the plant to extract some of its goodness. While these methods can be effective, the amount of plant essence in the tea or infused oil is very minimal. Hence, it might take a while before any improvement is seen. In contrast, since essential oils are concentrated, it can take as little as a few days to see improvement.

Each plant can only give a small drop of essence. For example, to make 10 ml. of lavender essential oil, you need about 150 grams of lavender flowers. This is why essential oils tend to be on the expensive side especially if they are organic. However, since you only use a small amount every time, you will actually be able to save money in the long run. You only need to use at most 3 drops at a time depending on what you are using the essential oils for. A 10 ml. bottle which generally costs around $20 can last about a year or longer.

Before you go out and buy essential oils (well discuss brands later in the book), you have to take note of some important considerations:

First, it is very important to understand that just because something is natural it doesnt mean it cannot do any harm. People too often forget that most poisons and irritating substances are 100% natural like snake venom, poison ivy and poison oak. So what is the advantage of using natural products?

When you use natural products, you can be sure that you are not contributing to the destruction of the environment. Natural products break down naturally to be reused by nature in some other way. This is not to say that all artificially created substances are non-biodegradable, rather you can be 100% sure that you are not contributing to more non-biodegradable waste than necessary unlike when you use non-natural products.

You might ask, Is that all? The truth is, yes, that is the gist of it. Anyone who says that natural products are safer is only trying to make you buy their product. Natural products are not necessarily safer because they can still result in irritations especially if they are used incorrectly, and people can still be allergic to them. However, do not think that using natural products is not worth it just because you only get one advantage, and it isnt even a direct advantage to you. Nowadays, nobody can afford to not care about the environment. By using natural products, you can help to save the environment even in a small way.

Second, you have to ensure that you are buying true essential oils rather than artificial fragrance oils. The latter are oils which have been artificially scented. They are used for cheap soaps and other bath products, and sometimes for oil burners and scented candles. To the untrained nose, artificial lavender fragrance oil can smell like true lavender essential oil, so it is possible to be duped into buying them.

This is very dangerous because if you are going to use this oil on your skin or if you intend to ingest it, you might hurt yourself. The oil base used for these artificial fragrances might be extremely irritating to the skin and it can contain impurities which may poison you if you ingest it.