Essential oils are a unique way to provide healing, clarity, and calm to your days. Our aromatherapy section contains several blends and individual oils but today we’re sharing the benefits that can come physically, emotionally/mentally, as well as to your appearance through the use of these 9 popular essential oils.

Chamomile

• Physical Benefits: Reduces pain, including headaches, and inflammation; soothes gastrointestinal symptoms; acts as a diuretic, helping to control blood pressure and ease PMS; induces sweating to relive fever.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits:  Calming and soothing (the Roman variety is especially helpful for children); helps ease depression and irritability; used to stabilize emotions and release nervous tension.
• Appearance Benefits: Reduces irritation and swelling; helps diminish skin marks; relieves discomfort linked to dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis.

Eucalyptus

• Physical Benefits: Helps break up congestion and open up breathing passages; fights viruses, bacteria and fungi; relieves muscle and joint pain; encourages recovery from wounds, burns and outbreaks of cold sores or shingles.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Acts as a stimulant to overcome mental fatigue and sluggishness; improves concentration; helps increase optimistic feelings.
• Appearance Benefits: Helps ease acne and skin blemishes by reducing oiliness, and reduce sunburn pain; often added to baths, spas and saunas.

Geranium

• Physical Benefits: helps stop bleeding; promotes cellular health and acts as a general tonic; increases urination; eases sore throat and tonsillitis; helps ease symptoms associated with PMS and menopause.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Uplifting, helps to counteract anxiety, depression and effects of stress; encourages creativity, imagination and self-expression.
• Appearance Benefits: Helps fade scars and other skin marks while evening out skin tone; promotes healthy skin circulation and helps control oiliness.

Lavender

• Physical Benefits: Clears stuffiness and congestion while soothing throat soreness; relieves pain and induces sleep; stimulates circulation and promotes healthy immune response; eases indigestion and nausea; supports bladder health.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Best known as an antidepressant but also helps ease anxiety; balances out emotional extremes and helps release repressed emotions; promotes clear thinking.
• Appearance Benefits: helps reduce skin inflammation of all kinds and heal blemishes; regulates scalp oiliness and helps repair damaged hair.

Lemon

• Physical Benefits: Relieves discomfort associated with colds and flu while boosting immunity; helps ease heartburn and indigestion; helps stop bleeding; stimulates circulation and helps reduce blood pressure.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Helps dispel negative emotions; relieves mental exhaustion and nervous fatigue; boosts alertness, clarity and concentration.
• Appearance Benefits: Promotes strong, healthy, shiny hair; revitalizes dull skin and encourages exfoliation; helps strengthen brittle nails.

Patchouli

• Physical Benefits: increases urination, which helps lower blood pressure; cools fevers; serves as a general body tonic; fights fungal infections.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Helps lift depression and counteract sluggishness; act as an aphrodisiac; helps spur motivation and cognition.
• Appearance Benefits: Tightens skin and promotes cell regeneration; repels insects; soothes rough skin; serves as a deodorant.

Peppermint

• Physical Benefits: Best known for soothing digestive symptoms and supporting gastrointestinal health; promotes healthy gums and dispels bad breath; helps clear nasal stuffiness and ease breathing; reduces headache; cools inflammation.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Cools emotions and helps to dispel anger; helps clarity thoughts and sharpen memory; has been used to inspire creative thinking.
• Appearance Benefits: Reduces oiliness; softens skin and brings lift to a dull complexion, reduces the redness of varicose veins; helps keep biting insects at bay.

Tea Tree

• Physical Benefits: Fights microbes of all kinds, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses; protects wounds against infection; eases respiratory symptoms as well as sore throats and earaches; boosts immunity; fights vaginal and other fungal infections; supports oral health.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Alleviates exhaustion and fatigue caused by stress; eases the effects of emotional shock; encourages positive thinking.
• Appearance Benefits: Fights acne, rashes, and other skin eruptions, as well as fungal nail infections; eases after-shave irritation, deters insects and soothes bites.

Ylang Ylang

• Physical Benefits: Relaxes muscular tightness and eases spasms; helps lower blood pressure; soothes the nervous system; promotes female reproductive health by easing PMS, menstrual cramps and menopausal symptoms.
• Emotional/Mental Benefits: Helps reduce anxiety and depression; encourages feelings of security and enthusiasm; counteracts loss of libido.
• Appearance Benefits: helps reduce excessive oiliness, including that caused by seborrhea (dandruff), and peeling associated with seborrhea; stimulates cell growth.

This benefit list courtesy of Energy Time Magazine.