Kitabı oku: «Essential Oils For Your Health And Beauty»

General characteristic

Essential oils are smells, not simply salutary for mood and health, also unique medicinal properties are inherent in them, they increase resistance of an organism to adverse factors of the external environment, such as carcinogens, useful for prophylactics of diseases, optimization of the air environment, increasing resistance of the organism to adverse environmental factors and so forth.

Essential oils — substances very concentrated. Therefore in the pure form, they are almost not applied. Exceptions make only oil of a lavender and tea tree.

All other essential oils surely must be dissolved in express basis solvent — vegetable oil (olive, almond, avocado, grape seeds and so forth, they prolong action of essential oils as sluggishly evaporate on air), milk, yogurt, alcohol, shampoos, balm, cream. It is also possible to mix them with salt.

As a basis solvent milk, cream, yogurt, and also honey, wine or vodka are used.

Essential oils are of great interest for cosmetology. By means of vegetable/fruit oils is possible to solve a set of dermatological problems. The most various cosmetology procedures are carried out with use of essential oils since they make a bactericidal impact and positive influence on skin, hair, nails condition.

Skin needs more moistening and nutrition with age. And also protection against influence of the sun, wind, frost. It is better to switch gradually to natural essential oils for the care of facial skin and body, and at the same time, they can be useful for prophylactics of various diseases.

There are such properties of essential oils as anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, clearing, moistening, softening and others and successfully are used for centuries in a cosmetology.

For dry skin use essential oils of lavender, geranium, rose, ylang-ylang, fennel, rosemary, marjoram, jasmine, santal and pink tree in combination with basic oils.

Basic dry skin oils: macadamia, jojoba, almond. Oil from kernels of apricot stones and peach.

For normal skin it is possible to use essential oils of lavender, geranium, rose, lemon in combination with basic oils.

Basic normal skin oils: macadamia oil, jojoba, almond, oil from kernels of apricot, grape and peach seeds.

Essential oils for oily skin: bergamot, orange, vetiver, grapefruit, geranium, lemon, lavender, ylang-ylang, cypress, juniper, cedar.

Basic oily skin oils: grape seeds oils, almond, apricot and peach kernels. These oils in combination with essential oils normalize fatty balance of the skin.

Determining your skin type:

Cosmetologists determine 5 main skin types: normal, dry, oily, combination, sensitive. The difference between one type from another is that how much is intensive sebaceous glands secrete sebum, and on what areas of the face are the most active.Also, much depends on inherited skin's ability to retain moisture.

How to determine your skin type?

1.To determine the type of skin, first it must be thoroughly cleaned, no makeup.

2.Let skin rest for a few hours without makeup.

3.After that, carefully examine the skin in daylight with a simple, but well enhancing mirror. What you will see can serve as a guide of the selection of cosmetics.

This book offers you:

1. Medicinal properties of Essential Oils and how they can help.

2. Cosmetic properties.

3. Recipes of homemade cosmetics with Essential Oils.

Orange

The essential oil of orange represents liquid of yellow or orange color.

Influence on a human body

Fresh and sweet orange aroma always was very attractive to people, and it was used for treatment for a long time. The modern researchers showed that the main medicinal properties of this oil are evident in such areas:

 calming;

 anti-inflammatory;

 antiseptic;

 immune stimulating;

 tonic;

 regenerating.

Internal use of this oil is recommended for improvement of work of intestines, increases appetite, lowering of arterial pressure, improvement of metabolism, a decrease of pains. Orange oil must be accepted no more than two drops in a glass of any drink and 2 times per day, not more often.

1. The essential oil of orange is very efficient for rinsings when angina, stomatitis, and inhalations. Rinsing requires one drop of substance for a glass of water. For steam inhalation take 3 drops of oil for a glass of very hot water.

2. Dry inhalation - 3 drops of means has the calming and anti-inflammatory properties, but inhale aroma with closed eyes.

3. Orange oil is used for scrubs, applications compress at joint pains, spasms and spastic pains, cold and angina. Also on gums or a painful tooth, 1:1 orange essential oil with any vegetable oil.

4. Massage at headaches, cold, a premenstrual syndrome: 3 drops orange mixed with basic oil on a spoon; if the mix is intended for children (for example, for soothing massage), then 1 drop of an essential oil on a 1 teaspoon basic oil is required.

5. For compress: 3 drops of an essential oil add to a teaspoon with vegetable oil.

The soothing and relaxing effect of ingredients of oil of orange when suffering from sleeplessness, a stress, an overexcitement. It is very good to use it in a bath, with aroma lamp:

dose: a ratio – 1 drop on 5 square room meter

five drops of oil which can be mixed with salt, milk, soda or other emulsifier for a bathtub;

In a cosmetology, orange oil finds application as very effective remedy fighting against cellulite. It is used at massage (the same, as well as for a medical pulverizing), and also in the form of wrappings. For carrying out wrappings it is necessary to add 5 drops of substance to two tablespoons of any anti-cellulite cream or to 2 tablespoons of cosmetic clay mixed with the water. Such anti-cellulite mixture is applied on problem places and is kept on the body for several hours. Oil of orange restores the elasticity of skin and refreshes it, promotes a resorption of acne, clarifies pigments. This means is especially useful for dry skin and hair, and also when dandruff. It is added to cream, a mask or shampoo just before the use.

For face care it is necessary to take 3 drops orange oil and 1 tablespoon basic oil, for shampoo the dose can be doubled.

Orange oil miraculously influences hair: it accelerates its height, eliminates dryness and dandruff, adds gloss and silk effect, besides, gives light pleasant aroma. If you desire long hair, orange essential oil stimulates its growth.