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Look And Feel Younger With Aromatherapy

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Aromatherapy today is one of the most respected alternative therapies. The essential oils used in aromatherapy contain many therapeutic properties and therefore are extremely beneficial when used on the body. These aromatherapy essential oils are good both for physical ailments as well as mental and emotional ones.

Essential Oils For Younger Looking Skin

Essential oils can successfully take away years from your face by making your skin look younger and by relieving you from stress and anxiety, giving you youthfulness well beyond your years. Best of all, these essential oils are completely natural and are obtained from various herbs, flowers, leaves, roots and stems. These oils, when used on the skin have many different benefits.

  • One of the most popular essential oils, considered good for skin is Palma Rosa essential oil. Though there are many health benefits of this oil, skin care is the primary one. Adding this oil to a bath or to an everyday cream can help you keep wrinkles at bay. However, this essential oil should be used sparingly, over a period of time in order to make the most of it.
  • Evening primrose is another essential oil which is rather popular among cosmetic companies. It is not uncommon to find many beauty products that contain extracts of the evening primrose oil. The evening primrose oil can be used on specific areas of the body to remove appearance of cellulite and fat. The oil rejuvenates the collagen and leaves the skin soft while increasing the elasticity of the skin.
  • For a rejuvenating facial, you can use lavender oil too. Lavender essential oil is considered one of the best essential oils for skin. It is also extensively used to treat skin infections, allergies, burns and cuts. However, it finds special use in making the skin appear younger. You can use lavender oil with steam in order to cleanse and soothe your skin. The oil helps repair collagen which tends to lose its elasticity over time. However, lavender oil is extremely strong and causes the skin to burn if not used in the correct manner. To use the oil cautiously, it should be mixed with rubbing alcohol or vegetable oil.

It is important to realize that though you may be expecting to see great results soon after applying the oils, it is not always possible to experience change within a few days. Essential oils have their own way of working and sometimes, you may need to wait for a substantial amount of time to see the actual effects of the oils. You should however, keep using the oils consistently in order to see beneficial

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Essential Oils For Aging Skin

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Everyone wants to look much younger than they are. In fact most people want to look young for as long as possible. Unfortunately, aging of skin is not something that one can help. The skin continues to age and you continue to look aged with every passing year. Ageing is a silent phenomenon that often takes us unawares. A lot of people don’t even realize when they’ve aged so much.

Today, there are thousands of cosmetic products in the market, catering to various specific needs of men and women. Most of these cosmetic products, which claim to delay the signs of aging skin, contain essential oils and other natural ingredients.

Aromatherapy For Aging Skin Treatment

Aromatherapy, which utilizes therapeutic essential oils, helps in making the skin look much younger. You may not need a facelift or chemical peels to make your skin look younger. With the help of these essential oils, you can make your skin look much younger than it is.

Medically, it is known that regeneration of old cells is what makes the skin look healthy. As we age, this natural regeneration process gets slowed down and people resort to chemical methods of regeneration like chemical peels. Pure essential oils, however, can help keep the collagen in your skin healthy. It is the collagen that maintains the elasticity of your skin and makes it look healthy. Therefore, the regular use of essential oils can keep the natural mechanisms of regeneration of skin tissue intact.

There are two ways of using these essential oils. Some essential oils are mild in nature and therefore can be applied directly to the skin. However, most of the essential oils are highly concentrated and need to be either diluted with a carrier oil or mixed with other mild beauty products.

Mix together equal parts of the essential oil of sweet basil, juniper, lemongrass, peppermint, lemon and niaouli. Mix all these oils well and then add this to your everyday face cleanser. All these together will help relax your facial muscles, and help maintain the elasticity of the facial tissue.

You can also make your daily moisturizer into a powerful wrinkle cream. Simply add to your moisturizer, a drop each of fennel, lavender, carrot seed, patchouli, sage, geranium, rose and frankincense. All of these together can help you boost the health of your skin.

Your regular hydrating cream that you use at night can also be turned into a powerful anti aging product. Simply add to your cream a drop each of tangerine, neroli, sweet orange, mandarin and rose essential o

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