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Aromatherapy
Massage
Aromatherapy
is the use of essential oils, which are extracted from herbs, flowers,
resin, woods and roots, are used in body and skin care treatments. Used
as a healing technique for thousands of years by the Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans, all used essential oils to aid relaxation, improve circulation
and help the healing of wounds. Aromatherapy diffusers are utilized to
fill the massage room with the scent of the oils. Specific
essential oils are blended by the aromatherapist and added to a carrier
oil, such as almond oil, to be used in the massage. Each of the oils has
its own unique characteristics and benefits. Use of this technique declined
as the modern pharmaceutical industry developed. However, the French chemist
Gattefosse revived the art by coining the term aromatherapy and by publishing
a book on the subject in 1928.
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