Aromatherapy essential oils have a vast multitude of uses. While some use essential oils as a kind of spa treatment, infusing a bathtub not with bubble bath, but with various essential oils, others use essential oils to ward off mosquitoes. Inasmuch, some uses are more glamorous than others; what is clearly apparent is that the uses for aromatherapy essential oils are many.
The most common uses for aromatherapy essential oils are related to stress relief. Many scents are linked to this, including lavender, various mints, and other ‘calming’ scents. Essential oils can be diluted into massage oils and gels for a relaxing massage. Creams and lotions can be bought and self-applied at bedtime. Room or linen sprays can be sprayed throughout the house throughout the day, or in the bedroom prior to bedtime. Some hard-core believers extend the uses for aromatherapy essential oils to ingestion; taking a drop or two of peppermint or basil to calm an upset stomach. While some swear by this, it is not doctor recommended…at least not yet.
Other uses for aromatherapy essential oils include relieving itching from mosquito bites (and simultaneously discouraging future bites by repelling mosquitoes!), relaxing tense muscles, improving skin tonicity, and clearing out nasal congestion. Of course, if one asks a doctor about these supposed effects, different doctors will sing you a different tune, and they have to. Essential oils are not tested by the FDA, so while some doctors will repeat what they’ve read in alternative health journals on the uses for aromatherapy essential oils, modern medicine requires that they abstain from, say, prescribing three drops of pure basil essential oil.
