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health advisory Hospital Alternative Medicine 2007-11-16 3:14:08

example. rosemary essential oil is used to cut grease and in aromatherpy to enhance the memory

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Aromatherapy Oils is just a marketing term. Often enough, sadly enough, these aren't even oils that you should use, because most of them are (very) inpure and should not be used in the purpose of therapy through oils, in which form whatsoever. The best thing these offer is a fragrance so that it smells good in your house, just like those boxes or blocks you can find in the general store to place on your toilet so that it smells good.

Essential oils are pure oils that are used for therapy through aroma's, either applied with a carrier oil on the skin, evaporated with a aromalamp or inhaled through adding some drops of pure essential oil to a bowl of hot water. Even here, inpure forms are available.

But the biggest difference between these 2 will be the price: aromatherapy oils will cost significantly less then essential oils. The process of extracting essential oils is tricky and uses experience, time, precision and specific tools. The cheap stuff isn't even an extraction of material from plants or herbs, it's synthetic stuff... which explains the cheap price.

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Sounds like a scam to me.

I have used aromatherapy for years, and never used anything but essential oils.

Watch out for fragrance oils. These are very weak diluted oils where they use a few drops of Essential Oil then fill the bottle up with grapeseed or jojoba oils, and blend.

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i think this is just semantics. I buy wholesale and make my own remedies which I sell. I interchange the words as they are mostly the same to me and to the vendors on the Internet. But if you really want to get really technical then I would say that Aromatherapy is the healing modality and essential oils are the oils extracted from plants used to make aromatherapy products. in this context essential does not mean "needed" like for example vitamin C is essential(needed) to prevent scurvy.

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