Aromatherapy, what is it?

Aromatherapy is a natural therapeutic technique that works with essential oils, natural aromatic substances. Aromatherapy can act alone or complementing other therapies, whether conventional or alternative. The way this technique works uses only products of vegetable origin, only a specific type of plant that produces volatile or essential oils.

Essential oils have the subtle function of restoring organic healing energies, bringing to the body, mind and spirit the balance necessary for a healthy life. In the world historical evolution, there is evidence that aromatic herbs were used, since antiquity, in cooking, religion and medicine. Historically, scientific documents prove the primordial need to apply essential oils in the treatment and/or prevention of physical, psychological and emotional pathologies. However, for the therapeutic application of essential oils to be carried out with excellence, it is essential to deepen the perception and broad knowledge about the dimension and concept of aromatherapy. Aromatherapy is also an ancient science and art based on Phytotherapy. It works with 100% natural essential oils extracted from aromatic plants in a safe and extremely efficient way, for aesthetic and medicinal purposes, with practices already detected since ancient Egypt. Aromatherapy brings numerous proven and applied benefits. This happens through synergies with vegetable oils, scented candles, inhalation, natural cosmetics or through the ingestion of a few drops of essential oil.

The history of aromatherapy has had four great epochs.

In the first period, at this time in history, aromatic plants were used in natura. In general, they were used as medicines, condiments and/or food. They were presented whole, macerated or decanted;

In the second period, at this time in history, aromatic plants were used in various ways: they were burned, put to infuse, macerated in vegetable oil. It was during this great period that the activity of the plant's odorifying substance and its action was discovered.

In the third period, the intensity of research on the extraction of odorous substances was very remarkable. Thus, there was the birth of the concept of “essential oil”, confirming the creation and development of distillation.

In the fourth epoch, historical moment in which we find the modern period. At this moment, all the knowledge about the components of essential oils is applied, after all, studies and explanations about the physical, chemical and biological activities, as well as, recently, the electronic activities of vegetable aromas, were intensified there.