Aromatherapy Massage

A wrinkle is nothing more than a ridge, or a fold in the skin. It’s a part of the normal aging process. The process can be sped up by sun damage, pollution, stress, bad lifestyle, and other factors. Wrinkles are something that most of us have to live with. In fact, wrinkles add character to a face, and people who have aged gracefully often have the most beautiful faces. Short of cosmetic procedures like skin lifts and botox injections, there’s probably nothing you can do to stay wrinkle free all your life. And even those won’t last forever, they’ll eventually start showing on your skin and body. What’s worse is that they carry significant risk of injury and botched surgeries.

If you want to keep wrinkles away, you’re going to have to make some definite positive changes to your life. A healthy diet, staying away from alcohol and cigarettes, plenty of sleep and plenty of exercise will go a long way. But you can also incorporate some aromatherapy into your life. Not only are they effective, but they’re also natural and refreshing.

Aromatherapy can be used in many ways, including baths and massages. For wrinkles, you can use aromatherapy facial masks. These can be used anytime to rejuvenate your skin and give you glowing skin, but really help after a long, tiring day.

You can make your own facial mask, using pure essential oils. To make your own aromatherapy facial pack, mix a teaspoon of facial-quality clay like bentonite clay or fuller’s earth, to this add one teaspoon of oat flour. Now add two or three teaspoons of honey, to this mixture and blend it well. Complete your face pack by adding a teaspoon of milk powder and mashed avocado. Into this mixture, you can add two teaspoons of your favourite essential oil.

You can add two drops of frankincense or lavender oil into this mix to create a peaceful, calming effect. This can also be substituted by Neroli oil.

After mixing the ingredients well to make a paste, apply this to all over your face. Make sure that your eyes are well protected from the paste. Lie down, and if possible, keep your feel slightly elevated. Keep the mask on your face for about ten to fifteen minutes. Relax and breathe deeply. Rinse off the mask with lukewarm water. After that, wash your face with cool water. You can use this mask two to four times each month, as long as you don’t have sensitive skin.

You can also make an aromatherapy mist-spray that you can use all day. Get a small spray bottle with a pump sprayer. Fill it with a mixture of clean water with about ten drops of a calming essential oil, like lavender, neroli or rose. You can spray this on your face whenever you’re out in the sun, to keep it moist and relaxed.