Aromatherapy & Essential Oils

In my Reiki Practice and privately I love to use Essential Oils.  About a year ago I got to know dōTERRA Essential oils. I am very enthousiastic about the intensity and quality. I am  dōTERRA wellness advocate, I have a webshop where you can order my oils and I give Aroma Touch and Symphony of Cells treatments (a touch of Reiki) .In this blog I tell all about my experience with the oils.

What are Essential Oils?  In short they are the essence of a plant in an oil. These oil are (usually) extracted from plant material like flowers, bark, leaves and roots by steam distillation.   A lot of material is needed fot a small bottle of oil. They are highly concentrated. F.e it takes 45lemons to create 15ml lemon oil, and 30 lbs of lavender flowers for  15ml of lavender oil. 100 000 Roses are needed for 1 ounce of Rose Essential Oil........ So Essential oils are highly concentrated. 

• "More is Less"
• Never use more than described in the directions of use
• Always test  the oil on the inside of your arm
• Dilute the oil with a carrier oil
• 90% of citrus-oils is phototoxic. After applying topically avoid the sun and/or tanningsalons for about 24 hours. May result in severe irritation. (*)
• Only a few oils are safe for infants, children, pregnant and breastfeeding women
• They should never ingest Essential oil
• Use the "safe" oils only topocally and diluted or in a "diffuser"
• In some cases oils can be digested by healthy adults. Be extremely careful, always follow the directions, start with the lowest dose.Watch out for side effects.If they occur stop immediately.
• avoid eyes and inner ears. In case of accident wash with carrier oil (fractionated coconut oil)
• You can download the directions of use for your dōTERRA oil by google-ing:  "dōTERRA" the name of your oil and "pdf"
• dont forget: "More is Less"

The following oils, in a low dose, used topically and diluted or in a diffuser are considered safe for infants, children, pregnant and nursing women: bergamot, cypress, lemon(*), geranium, grapefruit(*), coriander, lavender, patchoeli, rose, wilde orange(*), tea tree(melaleuca), frankincense, white fir.

a nice video about Essential Oils:

 
Why dōTERRA? I think this is at the moment the very best oil you can get. The oil is "Certified Pure Theraputic Grade oil": guaranteed  the purest and highest quality. This is the only essential oil good enough for my grandchildren.

 An other reason I love  dōTERRA is  that they  practice Co-Impact Sourcing where the people that farm and harvest the ingrediënts for the essential oils are aided to improve their lives with things like a school, a good water supply, a safe work environment or a better road. 

Look around in my  webshop (opens in an new window) and ask any question you have about essential oils!