Aromatherapy for Health: Bay Essential Oil for Healthy Scalp and Much More

The scalp and hair benefit from aromatherapy massage and treatments. Hot oils, such as, olive oil or coconut oil or almond, to which bay essential oil is added can nourish the scalp, promote health growth of the hair, condition the hair and fight scaling and dandruff. Further Bay Essential Oil has several other health advantages and can help in management of a wide range of nervous and hormonal disorders.

Bay Tree Leaves are used
to prepare aroma oils

Bay Essential Oil: Aromatherapy

The Bay tree native to West Indies, Puerto Rico and Venezuela can grow to a height of about 10 meters and has large leathery leaves, small white-yellow flowers and aromatic fruits. The essential oil is steam or water distilled from the leaves.
The oil has fresh, spicy, camphoraceous top notes, with sweet, balsamic and warm undertones. The color of is deep yellow with a rather watery viscosity.
The essential oil blends well with most spices, citruses and also with lavender, geranium, ylang-ylang and rosemary.

Bay Essential Oil for Hair: Aromatherapy for Healthy Scalp

Bay oil exerts a beneficial effect on the skin and the scalp. It helps improve the health of the scalp as well as the texture of the hair. Bay essential oil improves hair growth and decreases hair fall and hair breakage. It is touted as an excellent hair tonic. it eliminates and also prevents dandruff and restores body and tone to oily, damaged and lifeless hair. it gives the hair bounce and radiance.

It also battles scalp infections successfully. The Essential oil helps boost circulation within the scalp and promises amazing hair growth and helps in management of hair loss.

Blend the essential oil with coconut oil, almond oil, olive oil or wheat germ oil and massage the scalp and hair, twice a week for best results.

Aromatherapy has
several health benefits

Bay Essential Oil Properties: Health Benefits of Essential Oil
The therapeutic properties of bay essential oil are: anti septic, anti biotic, insecticide, anti spasmodic, analgesic, anti neuralgic, expectorant, emmenagogue, astringent and sedative.

• Similar to other essential oils, Bay oil is considered beneficial in the management of insomnia and anxiety, due to its calming and soothing effect.
• In addition to having wonderful effects on the hair and scalp, the oil is also recommended for body aches and pains. Local application of Bay Oil is beneficial in management of frozen shoulder and other problems related to shoulder pain. Further it can be beneficial in management of knee pain often associated with osteoarthritis.
• It is used in steam inhalations, since it is an excellent expectorant and tonic for the respiratory system. It effectively fights cough and infections. It is useful in management of sinusitis and other upper respiratory tract symptoms of flu.
• It also perks up the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, allays abdominal pains and treats flatulence. Local application of bay essential oil can help in management of gassy stomach.
• Bay essential oil acts as an emmenagogue, especially when massaged over the abdomen. Using aroma oil dispenser may also help in management of menstrual irregularities.

Overall, the essential oil is revving, refreshing and clearing. However, experts advocate that the oil should not be used for prolonged periods of time; and ought not to be applied directly, always dilute in carrier oil.

Aromatherapy for Clearing the Mind and Fighting Stress

Meditating with essential oils helps clear your mind, calm down and let go of racing thoughts. Meditation and Yoga is a wonderful method of creating peace and tranquility, and vaporizing aroma oils can greatly enhance the experience.


How Stress Affects Health?


Meditation helps fight stress



When life becomes stressful, it is all too easy to feel weighed down by the various events happening around you. Confusion, indecision, dissatisfaction and irritation arise, and the mind seems full to bursting. Stress wreaks havoc on the physical body as well; causing a host of lifestyle related disorders such as hypertension, elevated cholesterol levels, cardiac diseases, angina, ulcers, GI upsets, insomnia, and even cancer.

How Stress Can Be Managed? Stress Management Techniques

Meditation helps you create an inner space; it helps you get rid of racing, unconstructive, confused thoughts and helps you find peace. What’s more, meditating with essential oils proffers better and more effective results.



Aromatherapy for Stress: Aromatherapy Benefits

Aromatherapy essential oils promise to give you tremendous health benefits. Choosing essential oils that are calming and clarifying assist you to sort out your thoughts, prioritize them and banish extraneous ones.

Mediation Techniques
Here’s a meditation technique that will help you combat stress and its injurious effects, develop patience, fight irritation and strengthen your resolve.
You will need:

• Frankincense essential oil, Geranium essential oil and Lavender essential oil. 
• An aroma oil burner
• A cushion

  

  Aromatherapy for Stress

  

1.  Float your aroma oils on the water of the burner, and light the candle. Sit comfortably, close your eyes and watch your breath. Become aware of the vaporizing essential oils.
2. Become aware of the thoughts that are entering your mind. Try not to get caught up in any of them. Simply observe them and let them go

3. Gradually, try to still your mind. Start assessing each thought. Question whether the thought is cluttering your mind or will yield a beneficial outcome. Let go of any thought that is unconstructive / negative / futile.
4. Breathe deeply and become aware of the stimulating and strengthening effect of the essential oils.

5. Once you feel calm and composed, you may end the meditation.

Regular and sustained practice of this meditation technique makes you resolute, cultivates peace, strength and determination and helps you connect with your inner self.