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The Aromatherapy Guide to Using Essential Oils for Health, Beauty and Wellbeing

Aromatherapy Guide

Although the contemporary practice of modern aromatherapy originated within the last decades, the use of essential oils in the practice to heal mind, body and spirit can be traced back to all the major ancient civilizations of the world. Aromatic plants played a central role in the healing arts of early humankind.

Our early ancestors learned through trial and error, and through observing which plants sick animals ate to help alleviate their ailments and so forth. And this highly prized healing wisdom was passed down from one medicine man to the next, together with new discoveries and innovations. This knowledge was eventually transmuted into the herbal medicine we know today.

Now in the modern world, a renewed interest in natural, plant-based healing led to the development of modern aromatherapy. In the 1920s,a French chemist by the name of Rene Gattefosse was doing some experiments with essential oils and discovered their great potential in healing. He burned his hand in a laboratory accident and he plunged his arms into some lavender essential oil which miraculously healed his wound and that led him to further research essential oils, and to use the term aromatherapie for the first time in a scientific paper in 1928. This heralded the arrival of contemporary aromatherapy as we all know it today.

This site is to introduce you to aromatherapy and explains how to choose and use essential oils for health, beauty and for the general wellbeing. Here, you could find everything you need to know about aromatherapy, including skin-care treatments, massage techniques, how to create perfumes to suit different moods, simple remedies for common ailments and meditations for relaxation.