Friday, February 8, 2008

Aromatic Plant Oils - Skin Care Wonders

You must seen essential oils listed as a part of your beauty products. Do you know what these really are?

They are not actually oils but the liquid distilled from the leaves, stem, bark and flowers of various plants. They are the extracted essence of the plant. These oils are volatile or rapidly evaporating and leave no oily feeling or residue. There is a very big difference between an essential oil and a perfumed oil, as only an essential oil is a pure and natural plant product, while perfumed oil has a synthetic fragrance added, which is usually artificially created to smell like the natural fragrance but does not have any healing properties.

Aromatherapy uses these fragrant oils to help create a sense of well being and promote health. The oils are often combined to form blends which often work better than just using an individual oil alone. The oils are vaporized in an oil burner, or an aroma stone vaporizer. Vaporization of the various blends help to create specific moods, a peaceful atmosphere and soothing fragrance.

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