Aromatherapy and essential oils are now incorporated into our daily beauty regime.Gone are the days of heavy oil based foundation and other oil laden skin products and this is especially good news for those of us that are prone to oily skin naturally.

Essential oils are obtained by distillation or expression. These oils are used as the base for diluting essential oils. There are (2) two categories of "natural oils." There are essential oils, and then there are carrier or base oils.

The science of skin care products has now evolved to "el Naturale." A lot of money has been invested and spent in perfecting the science of skin care botanically. Essential oils are oils found naturally occurring in plants and it is the essential oil within the plant or flower that gives fruits, flowers and herbs their fragrance.

The carrier oils - almond, sunflower, olive, walnut etc are used in much higher concentration in the skin care products we use, or they can be applied to freshly cleansed skin to nourish, soften and protect it. Oils have the capacity to penetrate the cellular level of.

Essential oils are very highly concentrated so they are used very sparingly.