Aromatherapy & Essential Oil Recipes for Beginners: Use Proven Aromatherapy & Essential Oils to Improve Your Health, Skin, Hair, and to Lose Weight. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508448099)

Although the practice was only named aromatherapy in the 20th century, the use of aromatic plants for health has been around since ancient times.

The Chinese culture may have been the first to perform such practices, but it was the Egyptians who first used aromatic plants and incenses. The ancient Egyptians also used to burn incenses made out of aromatic wood material, spices, and herbs originally for religious purposes. They also used oils after baths since they knew about its moisturizing effects on the skin.

Today, aromatherapy or otherwise known as essential oils therapy is used to treat various health concerns such as stress, weight loss, skin health, and more. In this practice, the essential oils are extracted from a plant's leaves, flowers, bark, rind, roots, or stalks. After this process, the extracts are mixed together with oil, alcohol, or lotion so they can be applied on a person's skin directly, sprayed, or inhaled. These aromatic oils are also used for massage and for baths.

Since aromatherapy uses a lot of natural medicinal ingredients, it is regarded by researchers as a completely safe and effective treatment practice. Basically, the kind of oils used to treat certain ailments contains ingredients which are proven by science to have substantiated effects in treating the symptoms.