AROMATHERAPY

Why Aromatherapy?
The word Aromatherapy means Aroma: pleasant scent and therapy: treatment so a pleasant smelling treatment. Aromatherapy helps to promote good health and vitality by stimulating the body and help it to heal itself. It does this by helping to reduce the stress caused by illness and ailments.
The oils are extracted from plants such as petals twigs, bark, leaves, roots, seeds and resin. There are several extraction methods used such as steam distillation expression, solvent extraction, maceration and distillation.

An Aromatherapy Treatment
On your first appointment a consultation will be taken. This enables your therapist to find out your needs and to ensure that the appropriate oils and the most effective method is applied. A patch test may be given at this point.

There are many ways in which oils can be used, for example; massage, oil burners and in the bath.

Massage is an excellent way of application as during the massage the essential oils are inhaled into the lungs and passed through into the blood stream to travel around the body and perform their healing. The massage itself is also very effective as the skin absorbs the smooth blend of oils.

Oil Burners - as the oil is warmed by a candle in the burner water is added which evaporates filling the air with the aroma to be inhaled.
Bath - adding oils into the bath is a lovely relaxing way to inhale the aromas. As essential oils do not dissolve in water milk is an excellent medium to dilute with the oils before adding to the bathwater.

Be prepared - an aromatherapy treatment is a very effective way to help you re-balance yourself both physically and emotionally.

Looking after yourself following your treatment is also important. Try to drink plenty of water and take lots of rest. If you can, take the rest of the day off and really relax to give the oils a chance to really get to work. There may also be a possibility that the oils may get into your hair, so please be aware.

Try the full aromatherapy body massage - Back aromatherapy massage and aromatherapy facial also available.