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Essential Oils & Aromatherapy, An Introductory Guide

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  • Hatice Yaltırakhas quoted6 years ago
    That’s what makes them easy to inhale in aromatherapy, and it’s what makes them effective for other medicinal uses.
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    Most essential oils are obtained from plants by one of three basic methods: distillation, expression, and either solvent extraction or hypercritical CO2 extraction.
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    But essential oils vaporize when they’re heated. That’s what makes them easy to inhale in aromatherapy, and it’s what makes them effective for other medicinal uses.
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    Not only do these compounds give plants their powerful scents, they also make plants particularly potent for a wide range of uses
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    Each plant species has a unique combination of 100 or more terpenes, which make the scent of that species different from the scent of any other.
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    They come from a group of chemical molecules in plants called terpenes (or hydrocarbons), the cellular-level compounds that create a plant’s scent.
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    Although essential oil methods are not complicated, it’s important to lay the groundwork and build working knowledge about essential oils
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    part of their allure is that the methods are quite simple
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    Different regions have different plants, but people’s reactions are almost universal: the sudden thrill at a familiar perfume, an immediate uplift in mood, an automatic smile, and often a sigh of relaxation.
  • lina 💫has quoted4 years ago
    Different regions have different plants, but people’s reactions are almost universal
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