The aromatherapy scented candle - fragrance for mind and body

An aromatherapy scented candle - so much is packed into that short phrase.

The very essence of what aromatherapy is all about is contained in the idea of a fragrance that does you good.

Add the inherent emotional attraction of a candle, and you have something that appeals to many senses - an aromatherapy scented candle....

Aromatherapists have been studying the way essential oils work on the body and brain for hundreds of years; the ancient Chinese may well have been the first to use fragrant plants and the Egyptians certainly used a crude form of distillation to extract cedarwood oil.

Latin appears to have given us the word "perfume", via the phrase "per fumum", which means "through/by smoke", while the Greeks used aromatic plants for their medicinal and mental benefits.

By the Middle Ages distillation had improved and within two or three hundred years there was widespread extraction of essential oils.

The number of essential oils in use increased, the emphasis being largely on medical use, although this emphasis started to decline about 100 years ago as the perfume and cosmetic industries became more important users of essential oils.

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