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Aromatherapy can reduce anxiety, ease minor aches and pains and even get you in the mood. Healing scents are often created using essential oils: powerful extracts from various flowers, grasses, fruits, leaves and trees.   When using essential oils at home, it’s important to know what’s involved so you can properly and safely perform an effective treatment. Practicing at-home aromatherapy starts with the understanding that these oils are powerful and which scents to choose.

The use of essential oils for therapeutic, spiritual, hygienic and ritualistic purposes goes back to ancient civilizations including the Chinese, Indians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans who used them in cosmetics, perfumes and drugs.[7] Oils were used for aesthetic pleasure and in the beauty industry. It was a luxury item and a means of payment. It was believed the essential oils increased the shelf life of wine and improved the taste of food. Oils are described by Dioscorides, along with beliefs of the time regarding their healing properties, in his De Materia Medica, written in the first century.[8] Distilled essential oils have been employed as medicines since...