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Using aromatherapy - vaporizers
You can use aromatherapy vaporizers to fill your home or office with the uplifting and relaxing aromas of your favorite essential oils.
Aromatherapy vaporizers are a quick and easy way to make your environment smell beautiful. In simple terms, they gently heat essential oils, turning them from a liquid into a vapor, which then wafts through the air, filling your room with its beautiful smell.
Home comforts
Vaporizers may be used anywhere in the home or office. They can help to lift your spirits and relax you after a hard day's work. Their effects are subtle, and are better suited to raising your mood a little than to healing or focusing your concentration during meditation. You can buy vaporizers in most shopping malls, or find elaborate designs at new age stores and festivals.
Create a relaxing mood using a candle vaporizer. Surround it with scented candles for a more intense experience.
How vaporizers work
Our ability to smell is caused by tiny molecules wafting in the air. When we breathe in these molecules, they are recognized by receptors in the nose. The information is then carried by nerves to the brain, including the areas responsible for emotions, behavior and memory. The smell molecules also dissolve into our bloodstream, allowing their active properties to start working.
An aromatherapy vaporizer quickly fills your room with wonderful aromas.
Evaporation
Vaporizers heat essential oil, speeding the rate at which it evaporates. This means that the scent molecules pass into the air more rapidly, enabling you to breathe in more "scent" in a shorter period.
Convection currents
As the vaporizer warms the essential oil, it also heats the air around it. As hot air rises, this causes the air in the room to circulate, spreading the tiny molecules around the area more quickly.
Vaporizing essential oils
You can simply leave a few drops of your favorite essential oil out on a saucer or add it to potpourri. Any of the following methods will help it to evaporate more quickly.
How to use vaporizer oil
You can use undiluted essential oils in a vaporizer, or buy special vaporizer blends. In both cases, you need to add up to five drops to the vaporizer bowl.
* Please note: oils that are ready-blended for use in massage are usually not suitable for use in vaporizers.
Using candle vaporizers
Candle vaporizers consist of a small bowl of oil and water suspended over a candle. The heat from the candle causes the oil to vaporize and evaporate into the air.
* Fill the vaporizer bowl with water, and add in three to five drops of oil. As the candle heats the bowl, the oil evaporates more quickly.
* Use a scented candle to blend your favorite aroma with the oil vapors.
As candle vaporizers don't need electricity, they can be used anywhere.
Electronic vaporizers
In electronic vaporizers, electricity heats the oil.
* One kind of electronic vaporizer consists of a ceramic dish that plugs into a socket. Put water and a few drops of oil into the dish, and as it heats up, the oil will evaporate.
* Another type is a small ceramic loop that fits over the bulb in a table lamp or ceiling light. The bulb's heat evaporates the oil.
Use your electric lights to help fragrance your room.
Homemade heaters
If you don't want to buy a vaporizer, a good way to make your own is to simply put a small saucer or ceramic bottle on top of your radiator.
* You can also put a few drops onto a wet hankie, and drape this over a radiator or heater.
You don't need to buy expensive equipment to get the most out of your oils.
The best essential oils to use in your vaporizer
Energizing
To help you wake up in the morning
* Bergamot
* Black Pepper
* Lemon
* Peppermint
* Rosemary
Relaxing
To help you unwind in the evening
* Lavender
* Mandarin
* Sweet Marjoram
* Melissa
* Neroli
Antiseptic
To help keep the air free of germs
* Benzoin
* Eucalyptus
* Juniper Berry
* Tea Tree
* Thyme
Sensual
To help create a romantic mood
* Cedarwood
* Lavender
* Patchouli
* Rose
* Ylang Ylang
Ease Tension
To help overcome anxiety and nerves
* Geranium
* Juniper Berry
* Marjoram
* Rose
* Sandalwood
Headaches
To help soothe away the pain
* Chamomile
* Lavender
* Marjoram
* Neroli
* Rosemary
Aromatherapy vaporizers are a quick and easy way to make your environment smell beautiful. In simple terms, they gently heat essential oils, turning them from a liquid into a vapor, which then wafts through the air, filling your room with its beautiful smell.
Home comforts
Vaporizers may be used anywhere in the home or office. They can help to lift your spirits and relax you after a hard day's work. Their effects are subtle, and are better suited to raising your mood a little than to healing or focusing your concentration during meditation. You can buy vaporizers in most shopping malls, or find elaborate designs at new age stores and festivals.
Create a relaxing mood using a candle vaporizer. Surround it with scented candles for a more intense experience.
How vaporizers work
Our ability to smell is caused by tiny molecules wafting in the air. When we breathe in these molecules, they are recognized by receptors in the nose. The information is then carried by nerves to the brain, including the areas responsible for emotions, behavior and memory. The smell molecules also dissolve into our bloodstream, allowing their active properties to start working.
An aromatherapy vaporizer quickly fills your room with wonderful aromas.
Evaporation
Vaporizers heat essential oil, speeding the rate at which it evaporates. This means that the scent molecules pass into the air more rapidly, enabling you to breathe in more "scent" in a shorter period.
Convection currents
As the vaporizer warms the essential oil, it also heats the air around it. As hot air rises, this causes the air in the room to circulate, spreading the tiny molecules around the area more quickly.
Vaporizing essential oils
You can simply leave a few drops of your favorite essential oil out on a saucer or add it to potpourri. Any of the following methods will help it to evaporate more quickly.
How to use vaporizer oil
You can use undiluted essential oils in a vaporizer, or buy special vaporizer blends. In both cases, you need to add up to five drops to the vaporizer bowl.
* Please note: oils that are ready-blended for use in massage are usually not suitable for use in vaporizers.
Using candle vaporizers
Candle vaporizers consist of a small bowl of oil and water suspended over a candle. The heat from the candle causes the oil to vaporize and evaporate into the air.
* Fill the vaporizer bowl with water, and add in three to five drops of oil. As the candle heats the bowl, the oil evaporates more quickly.
* Use a scented candle to blend your favorite aroma with the oil vapors.
As candle vaporizers don't need electricity, they can be used anywhere.
Electronic vaporizers
In electronic vaporizers, electricity heats the oil.
* One kind of electronic vaporizer consists of a ceramic dish that plugs into a socket. Put water and a few drops of oil into the dish, and as it heats up, the oil will evaporate.
* Another type is a small ceramic loop that fits over the bulb in a table lamp or ceiling light. The bulb's heat evaporates the oil.
Use your electric lights to help fragrance your room.
Homemade heaters
If you don't want to buy a vaporizer, a good way to make your own is to simply put a small saucer or ceramic bottle on top of your radiator.
* You can also put a few drops onto a wet hankie, and drape this over a radiator or heater.
You don't need to buy expensive equipment to get the most out of your oils.
The best essential oils to use in your vaporizer
Energizing
To help you wake up in the morning
* Bergamot
* Black Pepper
* Lemon
* Peppermint
* Rosemary
Relaxing
To help you unwind in the evening
* Lavender
* Mandarin
* Sweet Marjoram
* Melissa
* Neroli
Antiseptic
To help keep the air free of germs
* Benzoin
* Eucalyptus
* Juniper Berry
* Tea Tree
* Thyme
Sensual
To help create a romantic mood
* Cedarwood
* Lavender
* Patchouli
* Rose
* Ylang Ylang
Ease Tension
To help overcome anxiety and nerves
* Geranium
* Juniper Berry
* Marjoram
* Rose
* Sandalwood
Headaches
To help soothe away the pain
* Chamomile
* Lavender
* Marjoram
* Neroli
* Rosemary