Why Use Essential Oils?

While essential oils and plant extracts have been used for centuries, essential oils still hold relevant applications today. With advancing technology, improved quality, potency, and safety, essential oils are now more accessible and easy to use in everyday life. Although essential oils were often used as a part of cultural practices and traditions of the past, we now have increasing scientific evidence and research to show the effectiveness and safe nature of essential oils in our day and age. Historically, essential oil usage was both popular and practical, but we now have resources and research that make essential oils useful in daily life, for a variety of people.

Essential oil everyday use

Each individual has their own set of needs and preferences. Luckily, essential oils are versatile enough to provide a wide range of benefits for anyone who uses them. Some think they need professional training in order to use essential oils, but with a basic understanding of how essential oils work, it is easy to include them in your everyday routine. If you are wondering, “Do I really have use for essential oils in my normal, everyday life?” answer the questions below to see how essential oils might fit into your daily routine:

Q: Do you worry about using household cleaners that may expose your children to harsh chemicals or toxins? Q: Do you ever look for ways to strengthen damaged hair or a distressed scalp?

Q: Are you ever in need of products to keep your skin feeling and looking healthy and young? Q: Do you ever experience occasional digestive discomfort?

Q: Do you ever experience discomfort associated with occasional tension in the neck or head?

Q: Do you suffer from discomfort associated with seasonal and environmental threats?

Q: Are you ever in need of products to help support a healthy immune system? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you might have more use for essential oils in your life than you think. While some view essential oils as mysterious or complicated, they can be used for household cleaning, cooking and baking, improving well-being, and more. Along with the applications for everyday life, many enjoy essential oils because of their support in health, as well as their positive effects on emotions.

Using essential oils for health benefits 

In ancient times, people used essential oils and plant parts to improve their health and well-being. Because essential oils can be used to soothe occasional skin irritations, promote healthy digestion, support good oral health, create feelings of clear airways, and more, they have long been a popular choice for those who want to maintain good health.

As mentioned, essential oils offer a variety of benefits, and each individual experiences essential oil use in their own way. Fortunately, the diversity of essential oils makes them a helpful way to maintain health, even for those who have specific health concerns, seek diverse health benefits, or experience sensitivity. Using essential oils for health benefits has become popular because it allows the user to tailor the experience to their specific wants and needs, rather than settling for a generic solution.

The emotional benefits of essential oils 

With unique chemical structures, each essential oil holds a variety of benefits for the user. Some essential oils hold soothing, toning, and grounding properties, while others are known as energizing, uplifting, warming, or renewing. As our bodies go through an array of emotions and physical states throughout a single day, essential oils can help us manage and maintain well-being.

The chemical design of an essential oil gives it specific benefits. Some essential oils are helpful for cleansing or purifying, while others provide a soothing sensation to the skin. The aroma of essential oils can also create a chemical reaction in the brain, eliciting emotions and internal responses.

When you inhale a deep breath of an essential oil from the bottle, the oil’s scent is processed in the olfactory system of the brain through the olfactory nerve. As discussed earlier, the olfactory system is the part of the brain that is in charge of controlling your sense of smell. The olfactory system connects to the limbic system of the brain where your emotions and memories live. As you breathe in Our sense of smell can produce powerful, mental, physiologic, and emotional responses. the scent of an essential oil, the limbic system creates a response in your brain based on your memories associated with that particular aroma. Many times, the responses triggered by your limbic system can be emotional responses that are calming or uplifting, depending on the unique chemical structure of the oil. More importantly, because responses in the limbic system are based on memory, each person experiences each essential oil a little bit differently.


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