What is Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a branch of phytotherapy, or plant therapy, just as herbalism, homeopathy, flower remedies, traditional Chinese medicine, and many other treatments are also phytotherapy. Aromatherapy is holistic, concerning itself with the whole of the person and attempting to create balance for the whole of the body. Aromatherapy also metaphysical realms of spirituality. What aromatherapy is not the use of synthetic substances such as perfumes and ftagrance oils. Aromatherapy products are not made in a plant factory but in a plant living, growing, green thing.

Aromatherapy, in the truest sense of the word, is the use of 100 percent natural, whole, unadulterated, aromatic essences obtained from specific botanical sources by steam distillation or expression for the benefits of mind, body, and spiritual health. These essences may be pure essential oils, the non-water-soluble, volatile, aromatic compounds found in flowers, leaves, branches, seeds, roots, barks, resins, and fruits and obtained by gentle steam distillation. They may also be the expressed oils found in the rinds of citrus fruits, which are gathered by squeezing the oil from the peel. Aromatherapy also involves the use of the nonvolatile fatty oils (Carrier Oils).