[Guest Blog] What’s the Buzz About Essential Oils?

Have you been wondering what all the buzz is about essential oils? Would you like to stop catching every cold that’s going around, instantly relieve a headache, calm hyperactivity and stress, or diminish depression without using synthetic chemicals?

Essential oils are natural aromatic compounds found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, and flowers of plants. Their role is to protect plants from bacteria and fungus, deter insects, and slow decay. To extract the essential oil, plant material is steam distilled at exact temperature and pressure. The resulting essential oil contains powerful properties.

Essential oils have a long history of use for health, wellness and beauty. They contain hundreds of healing compounds in just a single drop. They also contain antibacterial, anti-fungal, antispasmodic, and antiseptic qualities.

Essential Oil Quality Grades

Not all essential oils are created equal. Ninety five percent of all essential oils are created for the food and cosmetic industries. These oils do not contain the healing power of nature. There are four distinct grades of essential oils:

• Synthetic Grade: These oils are used for perfumes, candles, and cleaning products. Most often these fragrances are made from synthetic ingredients in a laboratory. They do not contain healing compounds.
• Food Grade: These oils are created for the food industry for use in mouthwash, chewing gum, mints, and candy, etc. These oils are most often created in a laboratory of synthetic ingredients.
• Therapeutic Grade: These oils contain hundreds of healing compounds in each drop. They are properly distilled and properly packaged. They are pure and contain no fillers. They can affect the body for change through oxygenation, cleansing, calming, and focus. Once you have secured high quality, therapeutic grade essential oils, there are many ways to use them on a daily basis for improving body, mind, and spirit.
• CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade® essential oils are 100% pure natural aromatic compounds carefully extracted from plants. They do not contain fillers or artificial ingredients that would dilute their active qualities. Proper extraction and quality control methods also ensure that essential oils are free of any contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides or other chemical residues.

Daily Uses for Essential Oils

Certified pure essential oils can be used aromatically, topically, and internally to:

• Improve sleep
• Reduce aches and pains
• Relieve nausea and upset stomach
• Enhance beautiful skin and diminish scars
• Cleanse mouth and teeth naturally
• Replace chemically toxic household cleaners
• Relieve earaches
• Reduce stress
• Assist with natural weight loss management
• Improve moods
• Sooth cuts and scrapes
• Repel bugs
• Relieve allergies
• Replace dry seasonings and spices in recipes

Essential oils for fast, effective relief of ailments

Still not convinced to make the switch to using essential oils for your medical ailments? JAMA Internal Medicine recently published the report “Cumulative Use of Strong Anticholinergic Medications and Incident Dementia.” This study used more rigorous methods, longer follow-up (more than seven years), and better assessment of medication use via pharmacy records (including substantial nonprescription use) to confirm a higher dementia risk linked to more use of common drugs such as Benadryl, Claritin, Prozac and many more. For the complete article, visit: .

Gale O’Brien is a cancer survivor, award-winning author, motivational speaker and wellness advocate. To attend one of her upcoming essential oil classes, please visit: . To order her book Transformation: Creating an Exceptional Life in the Face of Cancer, now available in the revised edition and the Spanish edition, please visit: .