Aromatherapy Types and Applications

A therapy’s success also depends on how an essential oil is chosen to be applied and on which parts of the body comes in contact with it. Apart from the best known form of therapy, room fragrances in oil burners to enhance well-being, aromatherapy has a host of other healing applications. These include:

• oil burner, diffusers or ceramic rings (diffusion in the air)
• inhalation (in water vapour)
• bath and sauna
• hot and cold compressions
• mixed with clay (compresses, packs, facial masks)
• mixed  with base oils (body oils, massage oils and face oils)
• internal use