ESSENTIAL OILS
What are essential oils?
I know what you’re thinking – aren’t essential oils just for hippes, sitting cross-legged in a grass field, singing kumbaya, right? Wrong!
Essential oils are potent plant extracts, think of them as the immune system for the plant; their job is to fight threats, infection and inflammation, like warding off pests and fighting disease.
When they extracted and distilled, we can experience similar benefits, as humans. After all, plant cells and human cells are very similar – we’re both from nature. Our bodies read these compounds and metabolise them quickly. By quickly, I mean, really quickly.
Oils are fast acting. When you breath them in they reach the limbic brain, your emotional control centre, that’s in control of mood, hormones and BP, within 22 seconds, oils are found in the blood within 2 minutes of topical application and oils affect every cell in the body within 20 minutes. This helps us understand why using a calming oil like Lavender, can calm the farm so quickly, or using an uplifting oil like Peppermint, can be so energising.