Essential oil can enter skin cells by massage, and then enter blood vessels and tissues of the whole body. Massage with essential oil can achieve the effect of relaxing mood and relieving stress, and it is also beneficial to skin decompression, and it is also a great health care and beauty method.
Essential oil massage:
1. Stroking: This should be the most useful technique in essential oil massage, which refers to a series of gentle stroking movements, which can make essential oil penetrate into the body and make the whole body relax and stable. When massaging, please use your whole palm, not just your fingers. Relax your hands. The strength can be large or small, and the action can be large or small. This will relax muscles, increase blood circulation and relieve tension and stress.
2. Kneading: This technique is just like kneading noodles. The thumb can exert a little force, but the movement should be slow and moderate. These actions are of great help to the fat-thick parts and back, which can relax muscles, promote the flow of blood and lymph, and help the toxins in the body to be discharged.
Using the above two basic techniques, it is suitable for massage methods in all parts of the body, and must be massaged in the direction of the heart. When massaging children, the elderly and the weak, please use a gentle sliding technique.
1. Face and eyes. The application method of essential oil facial massage includes the following steps:
Step 1: Drop 2-3 drops of prepared massage essential oil into the palm of your hand, apply it to your face from bottom to top, and apply it to your forehead from inside to outside;
The second step: from the forehead to the temple, you need to massage in circles with your fingers and wrists;
Step 3: Gently press your wrist with your fingers around your eyes in a point way;
Step 4: massage the face with the wrist joints of four fingers in circles from bottom to top;
Step 5: Push your wrist with your fingers from the net and massage your chin.
The application method of essential oil eye massage includes the following steps:
Step 1: Drop 1 drop of essential oil on the middle finger, and then apply it thinly around the eyes;
Step 2: Massage your fingers under your eyes from inside to outside for about 15 times;
Step 3: Gently smear the eye and middle eye socket with the index finger to stimulate the eye points, which can achieve the effect of promoting blood circulation and improving dark circles;
Step 4: Finally, put the index finger, middle finger and ring finger together and apply them to the eyes for about 5 seconds through the residual temperature of the fingers, which can also promote blood circulation and relieve eye pain.
Second, the neck. Manipulation is a small but strong circular motion. By pulling the cervical vertebra into two sides, each side massages from the bottom of the neck to the bottom of the scalp, and the left and right sides of the cervical vertebra form a circular massage action.
Three. Shoulder. Massage repeatedly from shoulder to neck with thumb and palm by sliding, stroking and rubbing.
Fourth, the back. Use sliding, stroking and rubbing, the strength can be strong or weak, but never massage the spine. Starting from the inside of the lower back, the hands should move smoothly, massage up to the shoulders, and then massage down to the outside of the back. Repeat this massage many times, the longer the time, the more relaxed the body feels.
Verb (short for verb) abdomen. Touch your fingers with essential oil and slide them. When you massage yourself, circle clockwise, and when you massage others, it is counterclockwise. Essential oil can play a role in maintaining abdominal skin.
6. Arm: Put four fingers together, move back and forth with fingertip strength to press forearm muscles, and push and massage fingers upward from elbow to shoulder. When reaching the shoulder, bend your fingers and move them along the shoulder, then flatten them, gently massage them down to the elbow and repeat the massage.
Leg: relax your fingers, bend along the leg shape, from ankle to thigh, gently knead and squeeze and massage.
8. Foot: Massage the acupoints in a straight line or circuitous way from toe to heel with one thumb, and massage the instep and sole alternately.
If you massage yourself, you can massage directly in circles until it is absorbed. Before massage, apply a hot towel to the part to be massaged for about 5 minutes, which can help the essential oil to be better absorbed.
The efficacy of local massage:
Essential oil massage can reduce weight, because through massage and acupoint stimulation, essential oil can dredge lymphatic tissue, eliminate accumulated toxins, help decompose fat and eliminate excess water in the body, so it can detoxify and effectively tighten the skin. Using essential oil massage can make the body muscles more compact and slender, and drive away the annoying bloated figure.
Facial massage can achieve beauty effect;
It can promote skin blood circulation, promote cell regeneration and restore skin elasticity. In addition, using essential oil to massage the skin can regulate the oil secretion of the skin, maintain the acid-base balance of the skin, make the oil of the skin not easy to accumulate, avoid all kinds of blockage and avoid skin aging.
Therapeutic effect of head massage;
If you massage the scalp with essential oil, you can nourish scalp cells, effectively improve hair quality and relieve stress. Modern people are busy with work and life every day, and most of them are overwhelmed by pressure. Therefore, soothing is more important than beauty and health.
Essential oil massage eliminates stomach fire;
Massage with citrus essential oil, peppermint oil or ginger essential oil. Take 4 drops of one or two essential oils, mix them with a teaspoon of body lotion, spread the mixed lotion on the palm of your hand, and massage slowly in circles clockwise on your abdomen. Then wrap a bottle full of warm water in a towel and lie on your side in bed.