Gimme 5 – Top Essential Oils for Top Health!

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Essential oils are natural extracts with a wide range of uses, from relaxation to skincare and overall well-being. This article offers a brief introduction to their benefits and applications, but there is much more to explore about their safe and effective use. Before investing in your own collection, take the time to learn about different oils, their properties, and the best ways to incorporate them into your daily routine.

With so many essential oils available, each offering unique advantages, selecting just five for this article was a challenge. Every oil has its own special benefits and methods of use, making them valuable additions to natural health and wellness practices.

If you’re interested in learning more about essential oils and how to use them safely and effectively, follow the link below for additional information.

What is Aromatherapy?

Close your eyes and imagine walking through town. You pass a baker’s shop, and the aroma of freshly baked bread drifts through the doorway. Maybe your tummy rumbles, but I’ll bet you feel an irresistible urge to go in, buy a loaf, and slather it with butter.

But you don’t. You keep walking until a large, overflowing rubbish skip almost trips you up. The stench of stale beer and decaying fast food spills from the bin and into your nose. Yuk! Instantly, you feel queasy, and any appetite for bread vanishes.

You rush onwards, and a flower shop catches your eye. As the door opens, the most wonderful scents surround you, lifting your mood instantly. You smile and remind yourself to treat yourself to flowers more often.

Further along the street, the heavenly aroma of coffee draws you toward a café across the road. As you stand in the queue to order your coffee, you can’t help noticing that the person in front of you has a strong body odour that makes you want to move away as quickly as possible. Urgh!

Do you see how aromas can profoundly affect how you feel?

Have you ever given flowers to a friend who was unwell? Chances are, their first response was to hold the bouquet to their nose, breathe deeply, and smile.

Since ancient times, humans have understood the power of aromas to uplift and heal.

Essential oils are extracts from various plants and trees which we can use in several ways to aid recovery and maintain good health. It’s a huge sunject but quite simple, really.

It’s important that you follow instructions for use as the oils are extremes powerful and can be a little risky if you don’t follow advice for use.

Here are 5 essential oils that are readily available and must-haves in any home as recommended by Roxanne Clark of www.roxessential.co.uk

If you’d like to find out more about how you can use essential oils, listen to Roxanne, Emma & Kym discussing the subject here: https://www.newportcityradio.org/podcast/how-to-feel-good-naturally-with-the-teapot-team/

Lavender

For Stress Relief
Helps promote restful sleep
Heals wounds. A soothing anti-septic
Head lice
Symptoms of PMS
Depression
One of the most useful and safest of oils which can be used for baby’s bath time. Safe to use undiluted on the skin.

Tea Tree

Antiseptic & anti-fungal properties. Use on wounds, athlete’s foot,
Head Lice
Dip toothbrush in a glass of water with a single drop of tea tree in the morning to keep teeth and gums healthy and toothbrush clean and fresh..
Although Tea Tree oil has a strong medicinal aroma, it is a mild and safe oil for use in many ways.
Interesting factoid: The Tea Tree grows in the Queensland area of Australia, the same place that the Funnel Web Spider is found. They say that the sap of the Tea Tree is the only known natural anti-dote to the bite of that spider. Nature always provides the solution!

Ylang Ylang

The Good Mood essential oil!
Can boost self esteem
A sweet, floral frangrance
Helpful in lowering high blood pressure (avoid if you have low blood pressure)
Famed as an aphrodisiac!
Anti- inflamitory and anti-oxident

Rosemary

Relief for muscle pain and spasms
Improves memory & concentration
Hair growth
Reduces joint inflamation
Stress relief
Not ideal for people with high blood pressure

Eucalyptus

Can help relieve the pain of arthritis, muscle pain and wounds
Helps with congestion and symptoms of colds & coughs. Especially when used in an oil burner.
Insect repellent
Helps with the healing of sores and abrasions.