Probably you want to know what are essential oils. This piece of writing aims to explain more about essential oils and also provides definition of essential oils.
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The controlled use of essential oils to maintain
and promote physical, psycological and spiritual well being"
is the science called Aromatherapy.
Essential Oils are the soul of any aromatherapy treatment. These
oils are "highly concentrated and volitile aromatic liquids of
various mixtures of natural chemical compounds obtained from plants".
They contain hundreds of organic constituents that combine together
to work on many different levels. Ironically and in most cases, they
are 75 to 100 times more concentrated than the oils in dried herbs.
Some of the chemical compounds found are dormant compounds.
Although they do not have an active role, their presence is
important as they might help in negating some of the side-effects
caused by the active compounds. An example of this could be an oil
contains a chemical compound that is highly irritating to the skin.
A non-active compound or buffer modifies that effect and the
chemical compound loses its irritable potential. Unwittingly, it is
the active compounds that most of the pharmaceutical companies try
to reproduce.
The chemical mixture that forms an essential oil defines the
different properties associated with that oil. While an oil may
increase sugar absorption in the blood, another might decrease it.
Natural oils are incredibly complex in nature, even though it is
possible to analyze their chemical composition. They are virtually
impossible to be reproduced in lab conditions. The therapeutic
properties of the oil are the resultant of all the constituents
working together rather than the sum of its parts.
