Here we take an in-depth look at lavender essential oil to 'dip your toes in the water' so to speak, and get you using your lavender essential oil in the incredibly diverse methods that it can be used for, and then we can move onto the next section.

There are literally hundreds of opinions about whether you should use lavender neat or not. The general consensus is that essential oils should be used diluted (rightly so) but many people say that lavender can be used neat because it is extremely rare to have any reaction from using it this way, others say that every single essential oil should be used diluted. Here are my thoughts.

Here you will see the research of how to use lavender for bites and stings and its effectiveness at low dilution

Here are lots of ways that you can use lavender in your daily lives.

There is a lot of talk about diffusing essential oils with pets, especially cats because they don't metabolize certain constituents of some essential oils as well. Please make your own decisions but I have provided you with links here to hear what experts in the field recommend. I personally have used essential oils for over 30 years and owned cats and dogs and have never had any problems.

The first is from World expert in essential oil safety Robert Tisserand and his thoughts

https://tisserandinstitute.org/cats-essential-oil-safety/

The second is from Melissa Shelton Melissa Shelton DVM attained her degree from The University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. She is the owner of Crow River Animal Hospital in Howard Lake, MN – where her work with the medical use of essential oils for animals began in 2008. In 2011, she dedicated her practice solely to the research and advancement of veterinary aromatic medicine.

https://mailchi.mp/84d05339fa01/cats-essential-oils-research-references?fbclid=IwAR1s9C5nqVL6vrgzZ_QbO8DGIBGKLejbnEkGBt-YtojaqD7P32vOwtXzZfE

At the end of all this, I imagine I am preaching to the converted because I would expect that if you are studying an aromatherapy course, there is a good chance that you have a cat and a very good chance that you diffuse essential oils in your house...and millions worldwide do the same thing and cats are not dying left, right and center.

Here I explain what exactly happens to our bodies when the essential oils enter them and go into our bloodstream and affects our brains, emotions, organs and hormones.

Studies have shown that certain carriers allow the essential oils to penetrate more quickly into the bloodstream than others. Which do you think it is? oils, creams or gels? find out in this lecture because it is important therapeutically when treating pain, bites, burns wounds and stings etc

By using this method you will increase the amount of absorption into your bloodstream by 3 times!

Here is a great little way to experience how molecules can get absorbed into your skin..garlic breath anyone?

Lets see how the various plants get their essential oils extracted.

This is the most common way to extract essential oils these days. It has been around for thousands of years and is both simple and incredibly complex

This is the most common method to extract the essential oils from citrus oils.

In this process they use solvents to extract the essential oils( as the name suggests), it is a complex method to extract them and I explain how this is done

This is a fabulous way to extract essential oils using pressurized CO2. However, unfortunately it is still very expensive so hopefully it will become cheaper in the future. It is fabulous as no heat is used nor toxic chemicals.

This method is not used mainstream as it is very labor intensive but it is fascinating to learn how they used this method thousands of years ago with very little to extract the essential oils.

ok, so let's bring all of this information together for you

It is so important that you know how to use essential oils safely. Please go through these lessons and download the resources

It seems that everywhere you look, there are cautions about certain essential oils raising blood pressure and need to be avoided. It is time to set the record straight.

Citrus oils can be phototoxic, especially bergamot and lime but there is a way to get around this.

So if lime essential oil is highly photosensitive, is a fresh lime too?

Once again, download these notes so that you know which essential oils you should and shouldn't use with pregnant women and nursing mothers

This is important on what we should not do.

In this section, I explain all of the various ways that you can use aromatherapy and so that when you go through the course from here on in, you can make informed choices as to what are your preferred methods to treat yourself, your friends and family or your clients and what you can recommend to them to do at home.

having an aromatherapy bath can be blissful and therapeutic buy do it wrong and you potentially will have a painful reaction. Here is the correct way to recommend to your clients and for yourself how to enjoy your bath with your essential oils.

Here are my recommendations on how I think warm and cold compresses should be applied.

One of my absolute favorite ways to apply aromatherapy. These are simple, handy, effective and inexpensive.

Making your own bath and body products can be as simple as this. Just add them to your natural soaps or shampoos. Later in the course I explain which are the best essential oils for hair health.

Making your own creams, oils or lotions can be as simple as this. Just buy an PH neutral moisturizer, or add it to your favorite carrier oil for a nourisher moisturizer for your body. Later in the course, I show you the best carrier oils and essential oils for anti-aging that you can apply daily to your face.

Giving a foot bath is a great thing to do for a client before a massage or just to relax after a long days work. It is also great to help foot problems.

Steam inhalation is a great way to help with respiratory tract infections and also for psychological issues such as anxiety or mood swings and also to help concentration and focus issues.

Diffusers are another great way to help with respiratory tract infections and also for psychological issues such as anxiety or mood swings and also to help concentration and focus issues.

When it come to buying diffusers, I have some favorites.

Here is a quick reminder of dilution rates for massage so that you can easily refer to it if you forget.

Room sprays are a wonderful way to aromatize your home or office, make sure that you always shake them up before you use them each time to disperse the oils.

So now you have seen many different methods to apply your aromatherapy therapeutically with which you can choose what you prefer for each condition, client, family member or circumstance.

Now we are going to use all of the information that you have gained and start to implement these therapeutically. In other words, it is time to see how best we can treat certain conditions.

Let's take a close look at how stress affects our bodies and minds.

Here you have a list of emotional states and the essential oils that can be used for each one.

Let's see how we can apply what we have learnt in a therapeutic situation.

Here are some excellent studies that had fabulous results treating people with anxiety and depression

Let's imagine, with the knowledge that you now have, that we want to help someone that is burnt out, not sleeping because their mind is racing and some of the most effective methods that will help them physically and emotionally.

Whether it is for you or a client in your spa, muscle and joint pain are very common and aromatherapy is excellent at treating them

We need to treat acute injuries differently than chronic injuries, here is how we do that.

Chronic pain and stiffness is very common especially as we age or have an old injury. Aromatherapy is extremely helpful at treating these conditions

When treating a person that suffers from headaches, it is important to not only use aromatherapy to treat the headache but also use essential oils between headaches to help their causes of their headaches

When it comes to treating arthritis, we need to treat an acute flare-up differently than from when the person has more stiffness than pain.

If I was stranded on a deserted island and could only take one essential oil, this would be it.

Here is a 2018 study that showed the wonderful pain relieving effects of lavender on knees with osteoarthritis.

This study was very interesting...want to be able to run faster? then check this out.

Now it is time to see how we treat bruises correctly. We don't want to make them worse.

When it comes to treating varicose veins, there are certain essential oils that are excellent for this.

Let's take a look at how to treat swelling, edema and cellulite effectively