How To Use, Dilute, And Apply Or Ingest Essential OilsCorrect Essential Oil Applicationby a Certified Clinical AromatherapistTips and Tricks for Best Essential Oil Application How you apply an essential oil greatly affects what it does and impacts its healing capabilities. Essential oils are highly concentrated, in fact, essential oils are the most concentrated form of healing phytochemicals (natural biochemicals from plants) that we have. Due to this incredible concentration and their fast absorption rates, it’s important to understand how to properly use and apply essential oils for best results. The method of application you will use depends on what you're using the essential oil for.  
InhalationWhat are the best ways to inhale essential oils?
Inhalation is best for:
Best essential oils for inhalation: Respiratory blend - The #1 best blend of essential oils to support, boost, and disinfect the respiratory system boost, and disinfect the respiratory system Eucalyptus radiata - beneficial for the respiratory system, this oil opens and decongests Lemon - beneficial for the respiratory system, cleans the air, disinfecting Sweet Orange - beneficial for the immune system, supports the brain Spearmint - A strengthening and stimulating oil, also good for emotional release Lavender - best known as a calming and relaxing oil, boosts the immune system Focus & Memory blend - Naturally boosts brain function, focus, and memory Peace of Mind blend - Releases low-frequency emotions like anxiety, depression, fear, anger, and rage Release blend - Calms and balances the body, helps with sleep, also releases low-frequency emotions from the body  Topical ApplicationApplying essential oils is a fabulous method of application and useful for so many things! Remember essential oils are super concentrated substances, so you don't usually apply them to your skin undiluted. You will want to dilute essential oils with a good carrier oil.Carrier Oils Carrier oils are not essential oils, they are fixed fatty oils from the seed or nut like grapeseed oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, or jojoba oil. You use carrier oils to dilute the concentrated essential oils, like you use water to dilute concentrated orange juice. Hot Tip: If you're using the highest grade cleanest USDA certified organic essential oils, don't put them into a nonorganic carrier oil, as you would be introducing toxins to your blend that you don't want in there. So when using organic essential oils use only organic carrier oils too. That way you're getting the cleanest, purest form of aromatherapy you can use. It's critical when you're using oils for therapeutic use. The percentage of dilution you will create to apply topically depends on several factors. How old is the person? What are their health concerns? Where are you applying the oil? Is it for local coverage or for all over use? So it's difficult to give a flat percentage that will work for everyone. Here's a dilution chart for your reference. General Guidelines: .5 -1% dilution for children, pregnant women, ailing elderly 3% dilution for daily use and all over body massage 4-10% dilution for local issues, acute situations, and specific problems 5-20% dilution for pain, wounds, infections
Best essential oils to use for topical application are: Pain Ease blend - a special blend of essential oils for deep and lasting pain reliefLavender - best known as a calming and relaxing oil, boosts the immune system Tea Tree - one of the best cleansing and disinfecting oils Peppermint - a stimulating oil great for pain, inflammation, spasms, and focus Relax blend - a calming and relaxing blend, specifically calms and quiets the mind Release blend - calms and balances the body, helps with sleep, also releases low-frequency emotions from the body Digestion blend - a blend of effective digestive essential oils to help and ease digestive issues Wound Repair blend - a powerful blend of all the best essential oils that were used anciently for wound healing and scars Hot Tip: Adding essential oils to your moisturizers, lotions, creams, and healing salves is just another way to use essential oils topically. Mixing all natural essential oils into your favorite unscented lotions, creams, and healing salves will improve their therapeutic properties and make them smell amazing!  Natural PerfumesMaking and wearing natural perfumes is a luxurious and elegantly health promoting way to use your essential oils. Our pure USDA certified organic essential oils smell so good most people want to bathe in them anyway! The only problem is that essential oils absorb so quickly into the skin that the aroma or scent does not last very long. A way to make the smell last longer in a natural perfume is to mix the essential oil into a fixative to hold it on the skin for longer. You can use a lotion, cream, salve, or any other natural fixative agent for this.Natural Perfumes is best for:
Best essential oils to use for natural perfumes are: Jasmine - This Jasmine is a delightful floral that will take you back to fragrant Hawaiian nights Rose - Rosa damascena - the most medicinal rose oil in the world. You haven't smelled rose oil until you've smelled this one Lavender - best known as a calming and relaxing oil, boosts the immune system Tangerine - a bright, light citrus scent to boost your mood Red Mandarin - this is a must smell oil. It will make your mouth water and lift your mood like no other Roman Chamomile - our certified organic Roman chamomile is so powerful and potent, does not have an equal Ylang Ylang - known as the flower of flowers, this sweet and fragrant floral will knock your socks off! Sandalwood - this is just about the most highly prized and precious oil out there, but the smell is amazing! Cedarwood - lovely woody, sweet, and lasting fragrant Or make a combination of your favorites!  Combine Aromatherapy with Hydrotherapy for Exponential BenefitsAromatherapy BathsWhen adding essential oils to your bath it's critical that you first mix the essential oil into an emulsifier so that the drop of oil doesn't float up to the top of the water and lots of the oil's benefits are lost. To avoid this first mix the essential oils into a good sea mineral salt. We highly recommend the Dead Sea Mineral Salts available here due to their amazing and beneficial percentages of minerals they have for your body.Here's my favorite recipe for an Aromatherapy Bath: 1/2 to 1 Cup Dead Sea Mineral Salts 10 to 15 drops essential oil 1 to 2 Tbsp.organic carrier oil Mix the essential oil drops into the carrier oil and then mix into the dry sea salt Add the aromatic salts to your warm bath water Enjoy! The salts will emulsify the essential oils so your body can absorb them and receive their beneficial properties My very favorite essential oils to use in the bath is a blend I formulated just for this called the Bathing Oil blend. In over 14 years of studying essential oils, this is by far my favorite smell of essential oils of all my blends! It boosts your immune system, is calming, is emotionally releasing, and smells amazing! But you can use any essential oils in your bath that you choose. Aromatherapy Foot BathsIf you don't have time for a full bath or a full bath is not an option, try a foot bath! This is a great option for our elderly loved ones. Your feet absorb essential oils very well and your whole body will benefit from the essential oils used in foot baths. Just cut the recipe in half:1/4 to 1/2 Cup Dead Sea Mineral Salts 5 to 8 drops essential oil 1 Tbsp. organic carrier oil Mix the essential oil drops into the carrier oil and then mix into the dry sea salt Add the aromatic salts to your warm foot bath water Enjoy! Best essential oils to use in baths and foot baths: Bathing Oil blend - an amazing smelling blend to use in your baths (and other applications) to boost your immune system, calm your mind, boost healthy brain function, and relax your body Immune blend - a super immune boosting blend of essential oils to support your immune system Pain Ease blend - a special blend of essential oils for deep and lasting pain relief Lavender - best known as a calming and relaxing oil, boosts the immune system Roman Chamomile - our certified organic Roman chamomile is so powerful and potent, does not have an equal Eucalyptus globulus - the strongest of all the eucalyptus oils, powerful, opening, and bright Rosemary - a lovely smelling and immune boosting oil that will also boost your healthy brain function IngestingIngesting is by far the most controversial method of application. I'm going to tell you that you can ingest certain essential oils for amazing results, but listen closely this is critical information: You can ONLY ingest an essential oil if it is USDA certified organic. Let me explain...Because essential oils are so very concentrated if they are not certified organic then they are NOT safe to ingest because of the risk of them containing highly concentrated toxins. Think about it: If a plant is nonorganic when it is harvested and distilled there are toxins on that plant from toxic and synthetic pesticides, herbicides, larvicides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers, and sewage sludge. Those toxins on the plant go through the distillation process and end up concentrated in your essential oils. All of these toxic and synthetic chemicals are prohibited in certified organic farming. So if you're using certified organic essential oils you are guaranteed that the plant used to make the oil has NEVER been exposed to any of those toxins. Isn't that the kind of plant you want your essential oils to come from? You CANNOT risk ingesting nonorganic essential oils because then you will be also ingesting very concentrated toxins that are very harmful to your body and cause all sorts of problems! So if you're going to ingest essential oils you must be absolutely sure that they are certified organic or you CANNOT ingest them. How do you tell if an essential oil is certified organic? It's super easy! Look right on the label for the USDA certified organic seal. If the USDA certified organic seal is not right on the label - you cannot ingest that oil. Period. No matter what that company told you about their purity, if the USDA certified organic seal is not right on the label, then the oil inside is not organic - don't ingest it. Again, remember that essential oils are super concentrated and when it come to ingesting essential oils less is more. Not every essential oils can be ingested, and when ingesting you need to be trained in how to do it safely. If you're not familiar with ingesting essential oils, then don't ingest any of them unless you have consulted your medical doctor or a certified clinical aromatherapist. One Last Thought...We all want to use the purest, cleanest, most effective essential oils when we use them therapeutically. If you feel this way then you want to be using USDA certified organic essential oils. Certified organic essential oils are guaranteed by the USDA that they have never ever been exposed to harsh toxic biocides that are extensively used in nonorganic conventional cultivation. It's the only way that you can be absolutely sure you're getting truly clean oils. For the highest quality oils make sure the USDA seal is on the label of the bottle of oil you are using. The highest quality cleanest essential oils have the USDA seal right on the label (on every label). Everything else is just wishful thinking and fancy marketing. Don't be fooled and don't settle for less. Enjoy using your essential oils! Holly Draper Certified Clinical Aromatherapist Internationally Registered Aromatherapist Copyright © 2018-2022 Holly Draper. All Rights Reserved. |
