Essential oils. Properties of essential oils. Essential oil use table

The article will introduce you to the useful properties of essential oils and methods of their use.

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Essential oil is a healing substance that is extracted from different plants. In appearance, this is a liquid organic mixture that issues a rather pleasant smell. They make essential oils from different parts of plants: roots, leaves, stems, flowers and fruits. These transparent substances cannot be dissolved in water, but diluting them in alcohol, benzene, honey, cream and wax can be quite easily.

Many people confuse essential oils with plant. Of course, they visually have similarity. But if vegetables are never absorbed and always leave behind a fat trace, then the etheric, over time, completely evaporate.

Useful properties of essential oils

**Due to its unique properties, essential oils are widely used in cosmetology, medicine, cooking, and home aromatherapy.**

Aromatic substances that are extracted from medicinal plants can become an indispensable assistant to a person in the fight against old age. Their main advantage is naturalness. They will gently put the body in order and reduce the risk of new problems. In addition to the fact that aromatherapy can improve health, it has a beneficial effect on the emotional state of a person. A correctly selected tool will help you relax well, and if you need to cheer up.

Properties of essential oils:
• increase the overall tone of the body
• help reduce inflammatory processes
• have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system
• contribute to the normalization of pressure
• have a mild painkillers
• improve the mental state
• enhance excitement and potency
• The skin puts the skin and nails in order
• Fight cellulite

The use table of the properties of essential oils

Name	Properties	Application
Anise	It has antiseptic properties and fights with bacteria on the skin. It also helps to increase immunity very well.	It is used in medicine and cosmetology.
Lavender	It has a beneficial effect on the nervous system and effectively removes inflammatory processes on dermatological cover.	It can be used as a massage tool and added to the bathroom.
Lemon	This fresh citrus smell helps to fight headaches, nausea and dizziness. He also whits the skin perfectly and makes it more elastic.	On its basis, you can prepare various masks, creams and lotions. It is indispensable in aromatherapy and cooking.
Rose	It helps to remove pigmentation, evens out the color of dermatological integument and improves blood circulation in the epidermis.	You can add a couple of drops to care products or prepares home creams based on it.
Nutmeg	He strengthens his hair well enough and fights dandruff. An indispensable tool in violation of metabolic processes and muscle pain.	It is added to hair masks and in anesthetic ointments.
Oregano	Relieves headaches, dulls hunger and improves mood.	It is used for strict diets and unloading days.
Orange	It puts in order the nervous system and relieves skin problems well.	It is added to creams and masks, and is also used in aromatherapy.
Melissa	It has antiseptic and immunostimulating properties. It also helps to fight nausea and increased anxiety.	You can add to herbal teas.
Fir	Fights with oily sheen and narrows pores.	It is best to use in therapeutic inhalations for the skin.

Application of the properties of essential oils in medicine

**Inhalations with essential oils will quickly save influenza, runny nose, cough and stomatitis.**

People know about the miraculous properties of essential oils from ancient times. They tried to disinfect their places of residence and temples with the help of these substances. Over time, people realized that with the help of aromatherapy, some diseases can be treated and began to use it for medical purposes.

Modern medicine is also widely used by fragrant oils to get rid of all kinds of pathologies. Doctors love him because it quickly eliminates the symptoms of the disease, while not having an additional negative effect on the internal organs of a person.

Methods of effect on the body:

• superficial. This method of application involves applying a certain type of oil to the skin. Once on them, it begins to slightly irritate the epidermis and thereby has an antimicrobial, antiseptic and healing effect. If the oil is not applied to dermatological covers, but simply spray, then it will have an insecticid and repellent effect on the body

• Internal. You can take in pure form or add to teas, herbal, decoctions and compotes. After the essential oil gets the digestive tract, it begins to activate appetite and increase blood circulation. In addition, the fragrant substance will rest the nervous system, neutralizes inflammatory processes, will help the body get rid of excess fluid and establish the liver function

What essential oils to use for health?

Some people do not really believe in the healing properties of essential oils. They believe that the disease can be defeated exclusively by pills, micro and injections. Of course, if the disease is serious and, for example, surgical intervention is required, then there can be no talk of the use of aromatherapy.

But if you have a banal cold or some kind of chronic disease has worsened a little, then you can try to get rid of the problem with the help of essential oils. With proper use, these aromatic substances can relieve the disease in a matter of days and, in addition, will increase the general protective properties of the body as much as possible.

So, let's figure out what oils can be used to treat diseases.
• eczema: Rose and eucalyptus.
• SARS: Mint, rosemary, fir and sage.
• SLEET PROBLEMENTS: Jasmine, bergamot and basil.
• Coughing: Lime, cedar, eucalyptus and mint.
• DISTRACTIONS DISECTIONS: Pine, dill, lemon and calamus.
• Runny nose: Lavender geranium, rosemary and coriander.

Application of the properties of essential oils in cosmetology

**Cosmetologists love essential oils for their regenerative, relaxing and tonic properties.**

All women know that essential oil is the main remedy that helps maintain beauty and freshness. It helps to restore elasticity to the skin, makes healthy nails and strengthens the hair. But perhaps the most important advantage of such care is their availability
Each woman will be able to afford one two bottles of funds that will extend her youth. Having brought home a miracle land she will only need to use it correctly. Very often, the fair sex is lazy and add fragrant substances to ready -made masks and creams
Women think that this is how they improve the purchased tool as much as possible and it will be much better to restore their beauty. Of course, if you add a couple of drops of essential oil to an expensive cream made of natural components, then it may become better
But if you do the same manipulation with a cheaper analogue, then the probability that together with the oil will fall into the deeper layers of the skin and not quite useful chemicals. Therefore, it is better not to be lazy and cook masks, creams, lotions and balms at home and add the right essential oil to them already in them

What essential oils to use for the skin of the body and skin of the face?

**Essential oils will help make the skin to be elastic and velvety.**

A woman spends quite a lot of time to care for herself. After all, if the skin does not moisturize and feed all the time, then they will lose their elasticity, elasticity and begin to peel off and blush. Therefore, it is very important that the epidermis will receive the right amount of useful vitamins and minerals every day. All this can give him essential oils. They normalize metabolic processes, increase blood circulation and contribute to the healing of microcracks.

Choose oil like skin.
• Normal. For this type of skin, lemon, jasmine, orange, chamomile, rose bergamot are suitable
• Fat. Rosemary, juniper, mint, chamomile, patchouli will remove the bold splendor, juniper.
• Dry. Will return the skin elasticity of mimosa, fir, geranium, jasmine
• Combined. Ilang-Ylan, Mint, Bergamot, Lemon, Lemongrass are suitable for caring for such dermatological cover.

What essential oils to use for hair?

Massage_litsa_Shei_i_Decolta — **To strengthen hair, sage essential oil is perfect.**

Beautiful and well -groomed hair can become a real decoration of both everyday and evening image. But unfortunately, from the quick rhythm of life, a modern woman does not have time to normally care for her hairstyle.

The hair because of this becomes dry, brittle and begins to fall out. And the worst thing is that even expensive shampoos and balms cannot quickly solve this problem. After all, it is unlikely to be able to return the beauty with hygienic procedures. If the hair is severely damaged, then they must be put in order with the help of therapeutic agents.

Essential oils that exhaust the hair:

• Peppermint. Makes the hair obedient and removes excessive fat content
• Nutmeg. It is considered the best remedy for hair loss
• Cypress. Contributes to the rapid growth of hair
• Sage. Strengthens the root and gives the hairstyle a beautiful shine
• Ilang-ylang. Effectively storm with split ends and makes hair obedient
• Lemon. Has a weak clarifying effect and eliminates dandruff

Contraindications to the use of essential oils

**Calendula oil cannot be used by people who have problems with the cardiovascular system.**

Essential oils have quite a lot of useful properties that help them return to a person youth and health. But still there are times when they remove one problem, and create another. For example, Issop oil can cure a person from tuberculosis, but at the same time it can also provoke the development of epilepsy.

Therefore, before taking up treatment, be sure to consult a doctor and a specialist in the field of aromatherapy. And only after they confirm that the oil you have chosen will not harm you, you can start treating the pathology.

Contraindications:
• Heat
• Purulent infections
• Bleeding
• Oncology
• Problems with the gastrointestinal tract
• kidney disease
• High pressure
• Pregnancy

Methods of using essential oils

The essential oil is so useful that no matter how you use it, it will always benefit you. And most importantly, you will not have to go anywhere behind health and beauty. All useful procedures and manipulations can be carried out at home. All you need to do for this is to find therapeutic recipes and prepare the necessary improvised means.

Methods of using essential oils:
• Massage
• Hot and cold compresses
• Baths
• inhalation
• Washing
• pure reception
• Air aromatization
• Aromatic shampoos
• Therapeutic creams

How to make essential oil at home?

**To prepare oil, use exclusively fresh leaves and stems.**

In order to make a fragrant substance at home, you need to find a plant and decide in which part of it is the maximum amount of therapeutic oil. For preparation, you can use both home and wild plants. But in order to make the oil really useful, you need to know how to collect the material correctly. For example, the flowers cannot be broken until they completely open. If you use fruits and seeds to prepare oil, then wait until they ripen. Leaves and stems are best cut off during the flowering of the plant.

Rules for the preparation of essential oil:
• Wash the freshly combined plants thoroughly
• Leave them to dry for a while
• Grind the plant well or its fruits
• Put the learned mass into a clean container
• Pour everything with olive almond or grape oil
• Put in a dark place for a day
• Strain the oil and squeeze the leaves
• Pour the oil back into the jar and put there a fresh portion of the crushed plant
• Repeat manipulation at least three times