1, 100% pure plant essential oil (pure essential oils): it is divided into single essential oil (also called single oil), compound essential oil (also called compound oil) and base oil (also called base oil), which is expensive.
A. single oil: refers to a single variety of pure essential oils without formula, which can be used alone or mixed, just like a single drug without formula.
B. compound oil: refers to the formulated essential oil that can be used immediately after several single essential oils are matched. Generally, R&D manufacturers study the characteristics and chemical properties of different essential oils, and make them into finished products after combination and blending, which is more convenient to use, just like the finished drugs with good prescriptions.
C. Base oil: refers to pure vegetable oil used for blending one or more high-concentration single essential oils (not suitable for direct application on the skin). After blending with base oil, it can be directly used on the body by massage and other methods.
2. Vaporized essential oil (non-fire essential oil): it is made of 90% pure plant isopropanol, 5% single essential oil extracted from pure essential oils and 5% distilled water, and the price is moderate.
3. Preparation of essential oil: It is made of a large number of cheap industrial synthetic spices and a small amount of pure essential oils with low price.
Matters needing attention in the use of essential oil
1, it is best to avoid massage or bathing with essential oil in the first few months of pregnancy and children.
2, skin or physical sensitive person, please sensitive test before use.
3. Except for a few essential oils such as lavender and tea tree, which can be directly applied to the skin, most other essential oils must be diluted or blended with base oil before use, unless there are other special suggestions.
4. Don't expose yourself to the sun for four hours after using citrus essential oils (such as bergamot and lemon) on your skin.
5. Essential oil cannot replace medicine. Therefore, if the symptoms do not improve after use, please be sure to see a doctor, and never give up the medicine you have used because of the use of essential oil.
6. Patients with hypertension, hypotension, epilepsy, neurological and renal diseases should use it with caution. It is best to consult an aromatherapist before using it.
7. Please use the recommended amount. Excessive use will lead to the opposite effect, and even cause an excessive burden on the body.
8, please avoid direct contact with children, so as to avoid misuse and danger.
9. Avoid using containers with plastic, soluble or oil-colored surfaces, and use glass, stainless steel or ceramics when diluting essential oils.
10, it is best not to take essential oil orally unless there is the guidance of an aromatherapist or doctor.
One more thing to be reminded is that
It is best not to use the same essential oil every day, but to use several different essential oils alternately, preferably once every two weeks.
Use of essential oil
Inhalation method
1. Indoor inhalation method: inject boiling hot water into a glass, ceramic or stainless steel container (washbasin, bowl or cup), drip essential oil, cover the back of your head with a big towel or clothes, bend over the container, and breathe alternately through your mouth and nose until you are comfortable. This is the most effective way to treat colds (eucalyptus and lemon) and respiratory infections, and it is also the best way to refresh yourself and change your mood.
2. Simple inhalation method: drop essential oil on paper towels or handkerchiefs, which can be used in meetings, driving, flying, cars, boats and classes.
3. Long-distance drivers are very prone to fatigue, so two or three kinds of essential oils should be prepared and used alternately to play a role (mint, basil, rosemary, etc. Are very effective).
Bathing method
1. Immersion bath: the amount of water and water temperature in peacetime. After discharging water, select essential oil (one or three kinds) according to personal needs of the day, with a total drop number of 8- 12. Drop the essential oil into the bathtub one by one in the order of low, medium and high volatility. After dripping oil, cover the bottle cap tightly, wipe it clean and put it back. At this time, quickly pat the palm of your hand in a horizontal position, so that the essential oil can be evenly dispersed on the water. Do not use soap or detergent after bathing. At this time, you can gently massage the relevant parts with reflex pathological massage. The essential oil has strong permeability, reaching the dermis in three minutes and subcutaneous tissue in five minutes. As our blood flows all over our body, it can be soaked in this pleasant atmosphere until the water begins to cool.
2. Foot bath: It is best to use a foot bath made of stainless steel. If it is plastic, it is not ideal, because chemical changes will occur. Foot bath is the best time for foot pathological reflex massage, because there are essential oils, as long as a gentle massage is enough.
3. sitz bath: it is the best physical health care method. Irrigation with warm water can prevent many physiological problems and diseases.
4. Shower: Pure plant essential oil can be used in sauna or other bathing methods.
Direct coating method
This method is used for skin surface problems, injuries, etc. For example, lavender can be used directly on scalded skin. First, clean the affected area, dry it and apply it directly to the affected area. Cotton swabs can be used for small scars (avoid cotton swabs made of plastic), and undiluted essential oil cannot be directly applied to large areas of skin. There are more than two kinds of essential oils to choose from for each epidermal problem, which can be selected according to personal physique. If the symptoms still do not improve significantly after three days, you must choose another essential oil. When using, be careful to avoid essential oil from entering eyes.
massage
Pure plant essential oil is in direct contact with skin, which often leads to skin allergy due to its high concentration. So when you massage, you must use diluted essential oil, which is the so-called "base oil". The base oil must be non-volatile and non-chemically refined vegetable oil, such as sweet almond oil, ultra-pure olive oil, castor oil, jojoba oil and wheat germ oil. These oils are tasteless and rich in vitamins D and E, iodine, calcium, magnesium, fat and so on. It can balance and stabilize essential oil and help it to be absorbed by skin quickly. However, ordinary edible oil is usually chemically refined and has lost these nutrients, so it is not suitable as base oil for dilution.
Refined oils, such as grape seed oil and soybean oil, are also used as base oils because they have no taste. A small amount of unrefined oil is usually added to increase nutrition and then mixed with essential oil. As for mineral oil extracted from petroleum, such as baby oil, it is not suitable as base oil, because this mineral oil not only contains no nutrients, but also easily blocks pores and causes acne and abscess. When you massage with essential oil, it will even hinder the skin's absorption of essential oil. Prepare a 5ml teaspoon (measuring spoon for baking) for blending essential oil. About one or two teaspoons of base oil is enough for facial massage, and about six teaspoons is enough for body massage, and then the essential oil is blended according to the required proportion.
Generally speaking, the dosage of essential oil is between 0.5% and 3%, and the sensitive parts such as face are massaged by children below 12, which is between 0.5% and1%. Severe muscle pain, you can use the amount of 3%. 0.5% means one drop of essential oil plus two teaspoons of base oil, 1% means one drop of essential oil plus one teaspoon of base oil, 2% means two drops of essential oil plus one teaspoon of base oil, and so on.
According to personal needs, with the physical and physiological changes, adjust the types and proportions of base oil and pure plant essential oil at any time to prepare appropriate massage oil. By using massage techniques (shiatsu, lymphatic drainage, etc. ), plant essential oils penetrate into the body to achieve the purpose of health care or treatment.
The best time for massage is just after taking a shower, and the effect is best when the body is slightly wet. When you massage, the intensity can be different according to your needs. Faster and heavier massage such as rubbing and slapping can boost the spirit; And gentle touching and pressing can eliminate fatigue or help sleep.
Pressing method
1. Cold compress: generally used for fever, bleeding or sports injury. When you have a headache, fever or bleeding, drop the essential oil on a wet towel, put it on your forehead, and add ice cubes or ice packs.
2. Hot compress: apply it to the abdomen when it hurts, and apply it to the chest, liver and back kidney after a hangover. In addition to hot compress, muscle pain, arthritis, rheumatalgia and gout can also be combined with essential oil for hand and foot massage, immersion bath and foot bath.
injection process
Fill the container with clear water, add essential oil and shake well before use. When sprayed directly on human body, spray it sequentially from above at an angle of 45 degrees downward.
In order:
1. Ask him to sit down, relax and close his eyes.
2. Spray it on your head and let the fog slowly drip on your head.
3. When it smells the smell, spray other targets, such as hair, face and neck, not eyes.
Fumigation method
Efficacy:
1. Olfactory maintenance: Pure plant essential oil can keep the sense of smell natural and free from pollutants.
2. Improve environmental sanitation: remove pollutants (waste gas and germs) in the air, purify the air, improve air quality, and avoid infection and infection of germs.
3. Reach the brain through the sense of smell-concentrate, enhance memory or improve mental, emotional and psychological state, and eliminate insomnia and anxiety.
Headache and other civilized diseases.
How to use:
1. Fumigating utensils Fumigating tables and smokeless candles made of ceramics are the most ideal light and heat energy sources.
2. Pour boiling water or clear water into the basin above the fumigation table for about eight minutes, which can last four to five hours to burn out a candle without adding water.
3. According to personal needs, choose one or three kinds of essential oils according to their volatilization degree: heavy, medium and light. The total number of water drops in a pot of water is about four to eight drops, and each candle can burn continuously for four to five hours at a time. The temperature of water will gradually evaporate the essential oil, which will pervade every corner of the air.
Generally speaking, it is not recommended to take essential oil directly. Although some sellers may say that their essential oil can be taken directly, I am afraid that their essential oil is not pure.
In addition, it is recommended to use famous brands such as Julia or O's for essential oils, because many domestic manufacturers are blending essential oils, which will be discussed later.
How to identify true and false essential oils?
If essential oil can really write the identification method in a few words, will there be so many pseudo color in the market? The problem is that the types, properties, molecular size and weight of each essential oil are different, and the situation is naturally different. Unless it is synthetic, the properties of all essential oils can be unified.
Take the simplest example: the molecule of common grass is the lightest, and it will spread rapidly when dropped into a glass of water, and the water surface will be in an oily state. Resin molecules are the heaviest. Dropping into a glass of water, the whole drop can sink to the bottom of the bottom cup and is insoluble in water, but the water surface will be divided into light oil and heavy oil. Although insoluble, the taste has penetrated the whole glass of water.
Chamomile, a special flower, is also a molecule heavier than water, insoluble in water, and similar to resin, it will fall straight into the bottom of the water, and crystal dark green essential oil beads can be seen. These are the reasons why different characters show different states.
In fact, the best way to distinguish the authenticity of essential oil is your nose, which is pure 100% plant essential oil. It smells very complicated, and there is a taste that is a bit like something. You can't tell the obvious aroma. Everyone has different feelings about it, and the front, middle and back flavors all have different feelings. The taste has a deep persistence, but the synthesis is much simpler, and some tastes smell more fragrant.
In addition, the color is also a pointer, such as chamomile, because there is a very precious component "blue" in chamomile, and its quality is different and its smell is different according to the origin. Roman yam is fragrant and dark green. The other is Gan Yang in Germany, also known as Gan Lan in Germany, because its color is dark blue, and it has a strong medicinal taste. As for it, some readers reported that everything he bought before was colorless. I can only say, "You have been cheated." Others took the noble blue (fire) ingredients and sold them to you.
Essential oil can be said to be a plant hormone, with the same composition and life energy as human beings. Essential oils have extremely fine molecules and high permeability, so they can enter and leave the body very effectively without leaving any toxins. According to research, essential oil will not remain in the body like chemical drugs, but will be excreted through defecation, sweating and exhalation. For normal and healthy people, when will it be excreted? %