Essential Oils Guide for Beginners: Top 50+ Essential Oils Recipes for Young Living, Stress Relief, Skin Beauty.
By Annie Ramsey
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There might be a lot of talk around you regarding essential oils and you are wondering what kinds of oils they might be. An essential oil is simply a liquid distilled from the flowers, leaves, roots, stems, bark and various elements of a plant. Most of the time, water or steam is used to distill these liquids. You may think that these essential oils have elements of oil in them due to the word “oil” but this is not the case.
Most of the essential oils are clear in color although there are oils like orange, lemongrass and patchouli that can either have the yellow or amber color. Essential oils carry the true essence of the particular plants they are derived from. They are normally confused with perfume or fragrance oils yet they are quite different. Essential oils are created from true plants while perfume oils are derived from artificially created fragrances. The perfumes do not have the therapeutic benefits of essential oils.
There are various methods in which you can get the therapeutic benefits of essential oils. Examples include inhaling them or applying them directly on the skin. You can buy the various essential oils because they offer different benefits. The great thing about essential oils is that you can blend them together to be able to get all the different benefits at once. You can also purchase essential oils that have already been blended. The only disadvantage is that you have no control over the blending process and so you just have to do with the oils included.
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Essential Oils Guide for Beginners - Annie Ramsey
Introduction
There might be a lot of talk around you regarding essential oils and you are wondering what kinds of oils they might be. An essential oil is simply a liquid distilled from the flowers, leaves, roots, stems, bark and various elements of a plant. Most of the time, water or steam is used to distill these liquids. You may think that these essential oils have elements of oil in them due to the word oil
but this is not the case.
Most of the essential oils are clear in color although there are oils like orange, lemongrass and patchouli that can either have the yellow or amber color. Essential oils carry the true essence of the particular plants they are derived from. They are normally confused with perfume or fragrance oils yet they are quite different. Essential oils are created from true plants while perfume oils are derived from artificially created fragrances. The perfumes do not have the therapeutic benefits of essential oils.
There are various methods in which you can get the therapeutic benefits of essential oils. Examples include inhaling them or applying them directly on the skin. You can buy the various essential oils because they offer different benefits. The great thing about essential oils is that you can blend them together to be able to get all the different benefits at once. You can also purchase essential oils that have already been blended. The only disadvantage is that you have no control over the blending process and so you just have to do with the oils included.
What are essential oils?
Essential oils are volatile constituents of plants. These evaporating chemicals are the things which provide the plants its aroma, the spicy scent of basil, sweet tart smell of grapefruit etc. The chemical composition of the essential oils differed from plant to plant and also depends on the region where it is grown.
Most of the essential oils are quite complex and are made up plenty of individual molecular components. Essential oils are extracted from the oil sacs in flowers, leaves, roots, stems, wood and bark. They differ from the regular vegetable oil which is made of different fatty acids.
These essential oils help us in fighting infections, initiate cellular regeneration and work as defense against fungus, virus, bacteria etc. They have the same structure which is similar to the compounds found in your blood and tissues and hence they are compatible with our body physiology.
Essential oils of therapeutic quality are extracted very gently which will draw the oil from a particular plant. Extraction method can be:
Carbon dioxide extraction- most gentle one and most expensive too
Pressing
Steam distillation
Solvent extraction.
Steam distillation is a common way and requires only heating to a little above the boiling point of water, which is enough for most of the essential oils.
History
Humans have used plants for healing for thousands of years and from this the tradition of using aromatic plant compounds in medicine began. The use of aromatic plants was documents in 4500 B.C, though it was the Ancient Egyptians who developed oils and plant aromatics. Oils were used for purification rituals and in medicine. In 1922, when King Tut’s tomb was opened in 1922, 50 alabaster jars were found that were to contain 350 liters of oil.
Over 200 references to aromatics, ointments and incense are mentioned in Old and New Testaments. Some oils such as Cinnamon, Cassia, Frankincense, Myrrh, Spikenard and Rosemary were noted for being used for healing the sick and anointing rituals.
The first distillation of essential oil in modern day was performed by the Persian philosopher Avicenna who extracted the essence of the rose petals through effleurage process. In Mid 1500’s many aromatic botanicals were distilled in Middle East and Europe.
The term aromatherapy was coined in the middle of the last century by French chemist Rene-Maurice Gattefosse.
There are about 300 essential oils in use today by professionals, and on average a household can do with 10.
Benefits of essential oils
Essential oils contain numerous benefits and we are going to look at some of them.
Are able to penetrate your skin immediately
One of the benefits of essential oils is the fact that they are able to penetrate through your skin and cell membranes immediately. It only takes seconds for them to diffuse through your blood and tissues. These oils have the ability to get through the brain-blood barrier in order to get to the amygdale and various limbic parts of the brain. These are the parts that are in charge of controlling our mood, beliefs and emotions. This means that essential oils are capable of changing these three in order to enable us cope with stress, anger and the various emotions we are facing.
They have oxygenating properties
Essential oils contain oxygen molecules. They can therefore transport this oxygen to other cells in our bodies that are deprived of oxygen and to cells that need nutrients too. The cells in our body need oxygen to be healthy in order to be able to perform their functions properly and essential oils help with