If you’re into essential oils, you’ve probably heard about Thieves oil. In fact, it’s almost impossible to browse Facebook or Pinterest without stumbling across people raving about it.
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In our health-obsessed society, essential oils are more popular than ever before. With a global market value worth over $6 BILLION, it’s no wonder that businesses are keen to jump in and get a slice of the pie.
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One of the many nuggets of unsafe aromatherapy advice propagated online is the so-called “magic healing effect” of drinking essential oils in water. This trick is purported to provide relief from just about every ailment from headaches to allergies. Social media sites are chock-full of pretty memes advocating ingesting essential oils in this way – a practice that is potentially very harmful, and certainly not recommended by most certified aromatherapists!
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In an increasingly health-obsessed society, it is unsurprising that the alternative therapy industry has experienced a surge of popularity. Every day, we are bombarded with scaremongering news stories about the dangers of our toxin-filled, medicated, overweight, stressed-out lifestyles.
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Fancy making your own aromatherapy body scrubs using essential oils? Watch how quick and easy it is to whip up your own home-made scrubs in this new video!
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Have you ever wondered how much is “one drop” of essential oil?
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Why spend a fortune on expensive aromatherapy body lotions when you can make your own?
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So, you know the basics of how to make an aromatherapy blend using pure essential oils? (If not, check out my video here) Normally, for a standard 2% strength blend you would add 4-5 drops of pure essential oil per 10ml of carrier oil.
But what about making a blend using pre-diluted essential oils?
There is surprisingly little information or advice online about how to blend with pre-diluted essential oils. I decided to ask five major aromatherapy suppliers to find out their advice about how to use pre-diluted oils in a blend. Interestingly, I received a very mixed response! It seems there is no definitive answer on the subject.
Some expensive essential oils are sold pre-diluted in carrier oil in order to make them more affordable – e.g. neroli in a 5% dilution of jojoba. Can these be combined alongside pure essential oils to create an aromatherapy blend? Yes! The question is, how do we calculate the number of drops to use, when they are already diluted in carrier oil?
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If you’re into essential oils, it’s likely that you will have come across “Raindrop Therapy” or the “Raindrop Technique”.
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During my training, Wintergreen was on the list of “banned essential oils” that we were taught never to use in aromatherapy. In the Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Julia Lawless), Wintergreen is described as “toxic, irritant and sensitizing”. It is listed as having no aromatherapy or home uses, with the recommendation to “avoid both internally and externally”.
