Nov 7, 2017 | Seasonal
It’s about the time for holiday shopping. It can be rough looking for gifts that people will like. But there’s no better way to show care for your loved ones than to help them live a healthier and more enriching life. And to make your life easier this year, we want to give you the best guide to doing just that.
Here is EuroSpa’s 2017 Eucalyptus and Aromatherapy holiday gift-giving guide:
Aromatherapy Gift Ideas
- NEW Aromatherapy Diffuser Set: You can now create your own aromatherapy diffuser set. Including one diffuser and a Eucalyptus ShowerMist of your choice, you can create a wonderful atmosphere with Eucalyptus. A diffuser will keep a home smelling fresh and clean, enhancing the powerful scent of Eucalyptus and choice of infusion. It can also keep everyone at home healthy and feel uplifted this holiday season.
- Gift Basket of Assorted Mint-Eucalyptus Products: Fill a basket with an assortment of holiday smells that will bring some relaxation and new energy to a stressed out person. Know someone who loves the scent of Mint? Pamper them with our Menthol and Mint-Infused ShowerMists along with Menthol Crystals. These gifts will allow them to enjoy the refreshing aroma in several capacities.
- Yoga Mat Cleaner: Do you have friends or family that love to do yoga? Well, we’ve got the perfect gift for them. Our Lavender-Infused Eucalyptus Yoga Mat Cleaner will enhance their yoga experience and keep their mat free from germs and microbes that could make them sick. Besides the health benefits, the Lavender-Eucalyptus aroma will relax and calm them, allowing them to more deeply enjoy performing yoga.
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Sep 19, 2017 | Body & Beauty
It’s a difficult task to keep skin looking and feeling great. Thankfully, essential oils are here to help you heal and then maintain healthy, beautiful skin. These all natural remedies are not only just as effective (if not, more) but safer than standard, man-made skin care products. Also, they can be much cheaper, saving you money and time. With consistent use, your skin will be visibly healthier, leading to smoother, more beautiful skin.
4 Essential Oils for Skin Care
Lavender: Lavender oil is likely the most well-known essential oil for skin care. Lavender is perfect for healing damaged skin, such as burns, cuts, and scrapes, promoting your body’s natural healing process. Lavender works down at the cellular level, making it extremely effective. And since it works cellularly, it also increases your antioxidant production to fight free radicals, which are the main cause of various diseases. So, use our Lavender-Infused Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist oil to heal and maintain your skin.
Frankincense: Frankincense oil is a mini-miracle worker. Frankincense improves the appearance of your skin all around. This includes reducing wrinkles, blemishes, and acne, healing damage caused by the sun, and restoring pigmentation to areas of discoloration. It also can restore a more youthful look by increasing collagen production to add more volume to cheeks and removing scars, stretch marks, and much more. If you want to remove blemishes of almost any sort, then pick up some frankincense.
Tea Tree: Tea tree oil has been known to relieve several skin conditions including psoriasis and eczema. Tea tree oil is a great cleanser, ridding the pores of any toxins and buildup, making it perfect for treating acne and similar skin conditions. Additionally, tea tree oil can heal cuts and scrapes similar to lavender oil. If you struggle with toxins and keeping your skin clear, then tea tree oil is for you.
Pomegranate Seed: Pomegrante seed oil is great for healing and preventing damage to your skin, especially from the sun. It contains bioflavonoids which are a natural SPF, making it a natural sunblock. It also contains elements that heal sunburns and quicken the healing process. Pomegranate oil is also used for anti-aging purposes, thus, making a serum out of it will tighten skin and promote a youthful vibrancy.
Nature’s solutions to common skin problems are by far the most effective and can cover a wide range of issues. Start using essential oils today on a consistent basis and you will find a younger looking you in the mirror.
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Sep 13, 2017 | Aromatherapy, Health & Wellness
With the growing number of diagnoses and the pervasiveness of the disease in our culture, cancer often touches the lives of almost everyone directly or indirectly at some point in time. As cancer research has grown, a light has shown on the power of essential oils to deter or even defeat cancer. Whether from studies or the testimonies of several people on the healing they’ve experienced, it’s undoubted that essential oils could work for anyone with cancer.
Each essential oil brings different health benefits and cancer-fighting properties to the table. Take a look below at what each oil can do.
Essential Oils That Fight Cancer
Lavender Oil: Lavender is one of the most popular essential oils for its myriad benefits, but recent studies have also shown it to be advantageous to cancer patients.
Lavender can directly affect certain cancer cells, ranging from preventing their spread or killing them outright. It also improves immune system efficacy, which is severely depleted when a patient is undergoing chemotherapy. Lavender is also a pain reliever, allowing patients to take fewer medications that often cause adverse side effects.
Citrus Oil: Citrus, especially when it includes orange or lemon oil, has been known to halt the growth of cancer cells, especially in that of cervical cancers. Orange oil possesses d-limonene, a phytochemical largely known for its anticancer effects. Citrus oil also provides relief from pain and anxiety and several of the side effects commonly associated with chemotherapy.
Peppermint Oil: Peppermint oil has lots of research and studies behind it supporting its potency against cancer. Like citrus oils, it also has limonene in it, making it effective against many cancers. Most notably, peppermint has been known to kill leukemia cancer cells. Menthol has also been widely studied and found to kill prostate cancer cells.
Eucalyptus Oil: Eucalyptus oil is full of phytochemicals that are known to help treat cancer, particularly alpha-pinene and beta-pinene. These two phytochemicals have been under wide study and have proven to provide anticancer effects. Eucalyptus also has been proven to be very toxic to lymphoma cancer cells.
Prevention is the Best Cancer Treatment
Since there are several behaviors that can increase cancer risk, prevention is the best medicine. Essential oils eliminate free radicals, which can cause damage to cells, and are full of antioxidants. Oxidation can also cause damaging mutations in cells and lead to tumors. Essential oils can also decrease other possible cancer risks.
If you want to start preventing and decreasing your risk of cancer, then check out our line of several Eucalyptus-based ShowerMists. Each of the essential oils listed above is infused in our Eucalyptus ShowerMists, allowing you to experience the potency of two strong essential oils.
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Aug 8, 2017 | Aromatherapy
Everyone knows that living a healthy life involves exercise and workouts. Activity keeps our body in good shape to not only function properly but also look its best.
But exercise requires hard work, and that work can cause you to feel uncomfortable. So how can you improve your exercise while minimizing the repercussions afterward? One word: aromatherapy.
Aromatherapy is the perfect balance between natural medicine that doesn’t cause adverse side effects and effectiveness. The essential oils provided by nature possess potent properties to enhance your exercise and help you better enjoy the results instead of the consequences.
Aromatherapy in Exercise Preparation
Just like stretching and warming up are crucial in exercise prep to get the most out of your workout, essential oils can be another vital part of the process. There are several benefits that aromatherapy can provide in your exercise preparation:
- Energize
- Improve circulation
- Open air ways
- Injury prevention
- Eliminate soreness
Some good prep oils are rosemary, peppermint, and Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus oil is the best because of its comprehensive uses, providing all the above and more.
We recommend using our Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist and diluting it with a carrier oil (e.g. almond or jojoba). Add 10-30 drops (or 1-2 spritzes) of the ShowerMist into the carrier oil to create the proper mixture. Apply it to the muscles you intend on exerting, around the neck, and on the chest to improve circulation and open up your air ways.
Aromatherapy During Exercise
While you’re exercising, you’ll need something to maintain good performance as your body fatigues. Maintaining proper circulation and reinvigorating your body will help you do that.
Lemon and orange oil energize with their citrus scents and are also known to help improve circulation. Our Citrus-Infused Eucalyptus ShowerMist will energize, keep circulation up, and allow more oxygen intake so you can focus on your workout, not your exhaustion. Apply it using the same recipe as above.
Post-Workout Aromatherapy
With post-workout aromatherapy, soreness and stiffness can be a thing of the past. The best oils to combat muscle pain and tension are Lavender, Eucalyptus, and Teatree oil.
We recommend Lavender since it’s soothing and shortens the recovery time for your muscles. Using a similar mixture as noted above, massage our Lavender-Infused Eucalyptus ShowerMist onto the muscles that are likely to be sore as soon as possible after your workout.
Using these oils will prevent injuries, relax your body, and boost your immune system.
Make Aromatherapy Part of Your Routine
You don’t have to let muscle stiffness and pain slow you down anymore. Aromatherapy will enhance your workouts and exercise routine, driving your body to achieve goals faster without the side effects.
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Jun 27, 2017 | Seasonal
Many people think of Eucalyptus Oil as a winter thing, but summer is here and we wanted to let you know that it’s not just for winter!
One of the great things about Eucalyptus is that it really is an year-round oil, with uses for just about anything related to health and wellness.
Here are our top five uses for Eucalyptus in the summertime.
- Getting rid of the stink. Whether it’s a stink that’s airborne or embedded in fabric, Eucalyptus can seem like pure magic when getting rid of it. Spray it on and inside shoes that have been on sweaty feet all day. Spritz a little on the inside of your trash can after those big weekend barbecues to eliminate the stink from meat packaging. Spray some on your camping gear after a long winter’s storage to get rid of any musty smells or leftover campfire smoke from last year.
- Having a healthier DIY hand sanitizer. Having a picnic or BBQ? Make sure your hands are clean first with your own portable hand sanitizer. Mix a few drops (about 2 spritzes each) of our Lavender-Infused and Citrus-Infused ShowerMist with 2-4 ounces of carrier oil (like almond oil) in a 2 or 4 oz spray bottle. Shake well to combine and then use liberally to kill germs before you chow down.
- Keeping the bugs at bay. A few studies have shown that eucalyptus is just as effective, if not more effective, than DEET in protecting you from bug bites. Make your own insect repellent by mixing 1 part essential oil with 10-20 parts carrier oil for maximum effectiveness. For this recipe, it’s best if you use a roller ball applicator. (If you want to use a spray bottle, you’ll need to use water and vodka instead of oil) Mix 3 spritzes of our Lavender-Infused ShowerMist with 15 drops of citronella essential oil, 5 drops of lemongrass oil, and 2 tablespoons of carrier oil like almond oil. Shake well, and apply liberally. Reapply every couple of hours (or less), depending on the intensity of your bug situation. You can also diffuse this mix (minus the carrier oil) in areas where you want to keep the bugs away. Did some get through and bite you? Use the Lavender-Infused ShowerMist with some carrier oil directly on mosquito bites to relieve the itch and reduce the inflammation.
- Easing motion sickness on your summer vacation. While ginger has been known to ease motion sickness and nausea from travel on planes, boats and cars, eucalyptus combined with peppermint and lavender will also do wonders for travel queasiness. The best application is to combine 10-12 drops (total) of our Mint-Infused, Lavender-Infused and Citrus-Infused ShowerMist per 2 ounces of carrier oil and then rub it on your belly, wrists, temples and collarbones. Alternatively, you can diffuse this mix in a car diffuser or personal inhaler. You can apply the mix on some cotton balls and let those sit where you can smell them while in transit.
- Relief from seasonal allergies. Eucalyptus oil opens up the lungs and sinuses, which improves circulation and reduces symptoms of allergies. Studies have shown that it produces a cold sensation in the nose that helps to improve airflow. Inhaling diffused peppermint oil can immediately unclog the sinuses and offer relief to scratchy throats. Peppermint acts as an expectorant and provides relief for allergies, as well as colds, coughs, sinusitis, asthma and bronchitis. It has the power to discharge phlegm and reduce inflammation — a leading cause of allergic reactions. To get some relief, diffuse a few drops of our Menthol-Infused or Mint-Infused Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist in a diffuser, or fill a large bowl with boiling water, spritz 3-4 sprays of the ShowerMist into the water, place a towel over your head and inhale deeply for 5–10 minutes.
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