Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils to improve psychological or physical wellbeing. At Inspirations we diffuse and apply essential oils topically to the skin to guarantee you extensive therapeutic benefit to help in stress management and other healing properties including relaxation. The overall wellbeing and mental health has it that fragrances are strongly connected to our emotions and memories because our scent receptors are located next to the emotional centres in our brain, the amygdala and hippocampus.
Researchers believe that certain fragrances can help trigger calming or peaceful feelings.
At Inspirations, our unique selection of your essential oils help interact with some of hormone, neurotransmitters or enzymes resulting in a specific change to your body’s chemistry.
- Increased sense of calmness, relaxation and greater mental clarity.
- Natural aphrodisiac which may help to increase libido and hence may help men with impotence.
- Anti-aging – highly in antioxidants that can help reduce damage caused by free radicals which promote aging.
- Astringent hence may help induce soft tissue thereby helping to soothe, tighten and cleanse the skin. May also help fight acne and dark spots.
- Anti-viral and antiseptic and may help in herpes simplex viruses 1 &2. Also helps in reduction of inflammation from mild skin irritation such as superficial wounds, pimples, warts or boils.
- Anti-inflammatory agent that may provide relief from mild inflammation such as insect bites, contact irritation or other skin irritations.
- Expectorant – when used as a natural treatment of colds & cough by way of inhaling hence reducing on severity or duration of cough.
- Anti Cancer effects – Its active component alpha – santalol, acts as a chemo preventive agents high effective in chemically induced skin cancer. Alpha – santalol helps reduce tumour incidences and multiplicity in a time and concentration – dependant manner.
