It is said that crazy buying fragrance is the last refinement of contemporary young people.
Fragrance directly connects the perception of smell and imagination, it brings not only a momentary fragrance, but also memories, stirred emotions and colorful imagination when the smell touches the brain.
In a tired life, it is really rare to make the spirit relaxed and cheerful for a while.
For aromatherapy, one of our most common ways to use it is inhalation.
Inhalation is the simplest way to use, and people breathe instinctively from birth, allowing essential oil molecules to travel through the olfactory nerves to the brain nerves.
The human brain has a place responsible for storing memories and emotions, and when the substances in the plant essential oil molecule arrive, it will send a signal to open the positive emotional memory drawer stored in the limbic system, producing calm, relaxed, stimulating, or uplifting emotions, achieving the effect of improving psychology and emotions.
So is there also a technique for sniffing essential oils? Let’s take a look at what inhalation methods can be used.
Essential oils are sniffed directly
Direct inhalation is very simple, suitable for various emergency situations, such as driving, meeting, class, homework, work, etc., this kind of inability to use the tool and do not have enough time to wait for it to have an effect.
How to use it?
Put a drop of essential oil in your palm, rub your palms together until warm, then wrap your hands over your nose and breathe deeply, slowly, sniffing for 1-3 minutes at a time.
The advantages are that they are simple to use, do not use tools, and have a quick effect, but the disadvantage is that they may not be as elegant and waste essential oils.
Suggestions for use: When motion sickness, sniff ginger essential oil; When you are in a bad mood, you can sniff sweet oranges; When tired, you can sniff black spruce; When memory is poor, you can sniff rosemary.
Drop on a tissue or handkerchief
Drops on some small items that are easy to volatilize can also make us feel the charm of the aroma. For example, tissues, handkerchiefs, collars, cuffs, headbands, wrist guards, pillows and other places.
When using, directly drop 2-3 drops of essential oil on small objects, so that the essential oil quietly disperses into the air.
For example, when you need to study or work, you can choose some essential oils suitable for refreshing and improving attention to drop on collars, books, tissues, such as rosemary, lemon, peppermint, cypress, etc., which can make concentration and study or work more efficiently.
For example, before going to bed, you can choose some essential oils to help sleep, drop on pillows, quilts, pajamas, such as lavender, vetivory, sweet orange, etc., which can help stabilize and stabilize your mood and make it easier to fall asleep.
If it is dropped on a cotton ball and placed at home, it can also repel various pests such as cockroaches, such as camphor, lemon, eucalyptus, etc.
Drip in hot water
The use of steam inhalation is generally applied to the respiratory system or skin beauty topics. Because steam can carry essential oil molecules and quickly enter our body, it shows better results.
When using, put a basin of hot water in a suitable position, preferably after sitting down yourself, just enough to lie your upper body prone above the basin.
Then drop 3~5 drops of essential oil in hot water, cover the head with a towel and cover the top of the hot water basin, so that the evaporated hot air is pounced on the face as much as possible, and the duration of this process is 10~15 minutes.
For example, we drop 4-6 drops of eucalyptus, rosemary, peppermint, revitalizing breathing, smooth breathing and other leaf essential oils to help smooth the nasal cavity and respiratory system, if it is nasal congestion, use the nasal inhalation mouth, if it is the lower respiratory tract, use the nasal exhalation and breathe.
For example, 4-6 drops of lavender, orange blossom, ylang ylang ylang, geranium, patchouli, jasmine, rose, sandalwood and other essential oils can help skin beauty, promote skin renewal metabolism, rosy complexion.
Use an aromadiffuser to scent
Using a diffuser is the most effective and direct way, through the diffuser to beat the aromatherapy essential oil into very fine small molecules, freely diffused into the air, is the most rapid and direct, easy to absorb, evenly distributed essential oil usage.
Other incense burners such as ceramic floors and electric currents, regardless of size, can also be used, but it is important to remember that essential oils should be floating on the surface of the water to prevent ignition.
When using an incense burner heated with porcelain electric filament, you can not dilute the essential oil, but when you are using an incense burner heated with electric filament made of metal, you may want to let the essential oil float on the surface of the water to prevent burning.
Also be sure to remember to use a professional diffuser, humidifiers cannot be used as aroma diffusers, otherwise you may lose your humidifier.
Some other ways to use aromatherapy
Temperature can speed up the diffusion of essential oils, such as radiators and hand warmers in winter. Similarly, there are summer fan blades, fans, etc.
Essential oils can be blended with candles to make scented candles, making life more interesting, especially suitable for dates, candlelight dinners, etc.
Essential oils are harmonized with beeswax, etc., and can also be made into balms, which can be applied to the body, wrists or placed indoors, and can be used as a carry-on or indoor fragrance.
In fact, essential oils themselves are volatile, as long as you can think of it, it actually has more uses, without too many tool restrictions.