Is it good to use essential oils for body care?

Essential oil is a relatively common beauty and skin care product. It has a good conditioning effect on the body. In recent years, with the popularity of SPA, essential oil massage has gradually become popular. Essential oil massage does have certain effects on the body, but be careful not to overuse it. If essential oils are abused, it may have adverse effects on health, easily lead to skin allergies, and even cause liver and kidney damage.

Essential oil massage precautions

Nowadays, many small cosmetics stores sell various essential oils. Their colorful colors and exquisite packaging have attracted the attention of many beauty-loving women. Many people casually add essential oils to their bath at home, or simply give themselves an essential oil massage to relax in the fragrant scent. But you may not know that essential oils are a type of cosmetic with a high risk factor. They are not suitable for everyone, and misusing essential oils may lead to disfigurement instead of beautification.

Abuse of essential oils may cause allergies and liver damage

Essential oils are the essence extracted from natural plants, but being natural does not mean they are harmless to the human body. Essential oils have high concentrations and can quickly penetrate into the human body through the skin and enter the blood circulation. However, everyone's physical constitution is different, so sometimes it is easy to produce some adverse physical reactions. For example, rose essential oil can soften the skin and generally does not cause allergies. However, if the skin is in a sensitive period, using rose essential oil may also cause red spots on the skin. Although lemon essential oil has a whitening effect, the ingredients in the essential oil will produce a "phototoxic reaction" when in contact with sunlight. They will become toxic through biotransformation in the body and cause skin allergies. Therefore, you should be particularly cautious when using essential oils.

Generally, essential oil instructions require the dosage to be "1-3 drops" or "3-5 drops", but some people like to use more drops for more significant effects. However, they do not know that excessive use of essential oils may be counterproductive. For example, adding 5 drops of lavender essential oil to your bath can be a good bedtime bath for a good night's sleep, but if you add more than 15 drops, it can become a stimulant and keep you awake all night. Geranium essential oil can have a calming effect when used when you are in a bad mood, but if you use it too much, it will add fuel to the fire.

Excessive use of some essential oils may also cause harm to your health. For example, in lavender essential oil, linalool acetate and linalool account for 88%. Like alcohol, excessive use of alcohol can damage the liver, leading to decreased liver function and paralysis of the sympathetic nerves, which manifests as symptoms such as increased blood pressure while the person is motionless. In addition, if you apply a single essential oil directly on your body, it can easily burn your skin and cause it to turn black.

Essential oil massage is best "tailor-made"

Internationally, aromatherapy with essential oils lies between preventive medicine and rehabilitation medicine. Like acupuncture and hypnosis, it is called "alternative therapy". Aromatherapists must also pass a professional qualification examination before they can engage in this service. Although essential oil beauty massage belongs to the category of daily beauty in my country, its risk factor is much higher than that of ordinary cosmetics and there are many taboos. Therefore, experts remind that essential oil massage is best performed by professionally trained masseurs.

Since everyone's physique is different, an experienced aromatherapist will safely blend several essential oils according to their ingredients and effects, design a "tailor-made" aromatherapy process for you, and strictly control the amount of essential oils used according to each person's gender, weight, age, height, physical signs, etc., to avoid possible damage to the skin and body during use.

Generally speaking, people with high or low blood pressure, the elderly, children, people with a history of epilepsy, cancer patients, hypertensive patients, those who have been vaccinated for less than 3 days, women during their menstrual period, and pregnant women within 3 months of pregnancy are not suitable for essential oil beauty massage.