Aromatherapy has been widely well-known these days. It is mostly recognized as a method to relax our mind and bodies using aroma oils. There are two major kinds of oils used in aromatherapy. One is essential oils which are 100% pure natural ingredient extracted from flowers, leaves, or stems of plants. Another one is the synthetic oils. They are so called when the chemically-made oils are mixed with essential oils or when the oils whose natural chemical composition is artificially made. In this blog entry, I refer such synthetic oils to those besides essential oils (100% pure natural oils). Aroma oils sold in novelty (household goods) stores in Japan are mostly categorized in the latter.

As a general knowledge, aromatherapy uses the oils with fragrance. But those who study aromatherapy in a professional manner have a different understanding. They consider that aromatherapy uses only essential oils, the first kind mentioned in the former paragraph. The term, aromatherapy was created by a French scientist. The study on essential oils started when surprising effects of essential oils were witnessed. One day when essential oil of lavender was applied on a burn during an experiment, it healed the burn much quickly. It was only early 1900s when the study about effectiveness of essential oils on human body. But the historical background of using essential oils can trace way back in the past. Recent studies have proved that how essential oils were used in those days were correct.

Now that aromatherapy has become so common but it is used in many different fields. Taking advantage of essential oils with full of precious historical background is definitely beneficial and it is highly recommended to increase knowledge on it.