Use Aromatherapy Body Oils to Enhance and Nourish your Skin While Relieving Stress or Other Problems

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If you are looking for a specialized body oil to help enhance the health of your skin while at the same time relieving stress and/or addressing your muscular skeletal ailments or problems, try Aromatherapy body oils!

Aromatherapy body oils, unlike any other kind of body oil, can be specifically designed to your particular needs. There is a huge variety of vegetable and herbal oils an aromatherapist can use to offer you excellent protective and emollient properties. These aromatherapy products can help reduce water loss that will improve skin hydration and provide barrier defense against environmental attacks on the skin. 
You can also learn to make aromatherapy body oils yourself, however, to precisely address your needs with the precise oils, carrier oils and dilution rate, I do recommend you seeing a certified aromatherapist first. 
A certified aromatherapist is trained in addressing your unique needs. You will of course be asked to answer a series of questions (a client consultation) to help the aromatherapist decide on the correct formula for you and a consent form will also be offered for your signature. Essential oils are powerful and potent alternative medicines.
Aromatherapy body oils can be applied before the bath/shower or after the bath/shower. Applying an aromatherapy body oil before the bath/shower will help prevent excess moisture loss.
Aromatherapy body oils are also used during massage and are called "massage oils" most of the time rather than a body oil. The massage therapist will customize your oil based upon the client consultation and goals of the massage therapy session.
What can you expect to gain from an Aromatherapy Body Oil? Some of the benefits are as follows. Your needs may not be all listed here. Suppose you just want something to help slow down aging. An aromatherapy body oil can be formulated specifically to help slow down skin aging. Any formula will be customized to your particular needs. Here are some of the key therapeutic benefits of using Aromatherapy Body Oils:
  • they can help slow down the aging of skin processes
  • they can help reduce and improve the appearances of skin scars
  • aromatherapy body oils are a great source for supporting and enhancing immune cells of the skin
  • improve the tone of your skin with aromatherapy body oils
  • improve skin hydration
  • soften and soothe your skin
  • relieve stress and muscle tension (this is especially true when you use the oils during a massage, but can also be just as beneficial when you use them in your daily routine)
  • they can help relieve insomnia
  • reduce inflammation
  • relieve chronic muscular/joint aches and pains
  • relieve muscle spasms
  • they can aid in the treatment of repetitive movement injuries, strains or sprains
  • and more
Below is a list of things to avoid using Aromatherapy Body Oils:
  • poison ivy rashes
  • pimples
  • fresh sunburn
  • boils
  • fungal and bacterial skin infections
  • weepy eczema
For the above conditions, you need to use aromatherapy compresses, soaks, baths and the like, the water-based applications instead of a regular body oil.

Connie Limon, Aromatherapist Level 1

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