The Benefits of Using Essential Oils on the Skin

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Ongoing research continues to reveal a variety of therapeutic benefits of essential oils when used on the skin. Among those benefits are:

  • essential oils can help reduce inflammation of the skin
  • essential oils enhances and supports wound healing
  • essential oils treats successfully fungal, bacterial and viral infections affecting the skin
  • essential oils in general supports and enhances skin health
  • essential oils can relieve skin itching
  • essential oils can support healthy scar tissue formation
  • essential oils can prevent wrinkles and slow down the aging process
  • essential oils supports the detoxification process
  • essential oils serve as a barriers to harmful environmental threats to the skin and can be used to increase skin hydration

With all the discovered therapeutic benefits of essential oils when used on the skin we can now understand why there is a great growth and popularity among the markets of cosmetics. Consumers continue to see more natural ways of maintaining the health of the skin and are increasingly turning to products made with essential oils. Those able to make their own natural products and growing number as well as those who seek out the help of aromatherapists.
Connie Limon
Certified Aromatherapist Level 1

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