Young Living Essential Oil - Good Driving Scents

Do You Have Good Driving Scents?

The next time you have to spend an hour or two in a car, bring along these scents: peppermint and cinnamon.

Why? Because they just might make the commute nicer and safer by boosting your alertness.

Miles to Go . . . Decrease Fatigue and Boost Alertness
An endless ribbon of highway between you and where you want to go can be a real bore. If singing along to the Beach Boys isn't keeping you stimulated, a whiff of cinnamon every 15 minutes decreases fatigue. Adding a whiff or a drink of peppermint water to the mix boosted alertness.

Feel like you're in a food coma after lunch? Get a whiff of this.

The scent of peppermint is like a drill sergeant, telling your brain to "Wake up and focus!" New research shows that you pay better attention to dull-but-must-do jobs when this scent is around. So the next time you're mentally sluggish, inhale the scent of peppermint oil, and then listen to your brain say, "Can do!"

Science has confirmed it: When there's a hint of mint wafting through the room, workers perform better on jobs that demand accuracy. In a study, participants made fewer typing mistakes and alphabetized things faster when under the influence of peppermint's aroma compared to tasks performed in a scent-free zone.

Using a scent for therapeutic purposes -- whether to boost your attention to detail, soothe your psyche, or help you lose weight -- is what aromatherapy's all about. It typically involves either inhaling the fragrance of scent oils or applying to the skin.

The premise? Some scents stimulate brain activity that produces biological responses such as relaxation or mental clarity. Until recently, evidence-supporting aromatherapy has been largely anecdotal. But more and more research now suggests that aromatherapy may have real psychological and medical benefits.


Aromatherapy (article modified)

THURSDAY, Nov. 2 (Kathleen Doheny HealthDay News) -- Aromatherapy is an affordable, accessible natural path to relief for a variety of health problems, ranging from arthritis pain to nausea to drowsiness, supporters insist.

Aromatherapy "works for so many different things, it is amazing," said Kelly Holland Azzaro, a registered aromatherapist in Banner Elk, N.C., and vice president of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), an industry trade group. "Uplifting scents such as citrus can keep you awake at work," Azarro said. "To help increase alertness, use rosemary and lemon." And to combat nausea, try essence of peppermint, ginger and orange, she added.

In a 2005 study published in the journal Chronobiology International, researchers reported that lavender aromatherapy helped all 31 men and women feel more "vigor" the next morning, compared to the night they breathed in distilled water, an exercise that served as the control setting.

A study in the March-April 2006 issue of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health said that aromatherapy, combined with massage, helped new mothers feel less "blue" and anxious, compared to mothers of newborns who didn't get the treatment.

And a review published in Holistic Nurse Practitioner found that patients with postoperative nausea and vomiting could be helped by aromatherapy as well as acupressure and acupuncture.

Azzaro said that, currently, aromatherapy is unregulated in the United States. "And that's part of the issue," she said. People don't understand exactly what it is, either. "People think it's potpourri or a smelly candle."

There's also no state licensing for aromatherapists in the United States. If you're interested in pursuing aromatherapy, the most important question to ask a practitioner is, “Are your essential oils unadulterated medical grade?” Azzaro suggests asking a practitioner about his or her specific training.


Components of Therapeutic or Medical Grade Oils

Europe has developed a standard for essential oils: perfume or fragrance grade, food grade, and therapeutic or medical grade. AFNOR is an acronym for a French testing laboratory that sets standards for essential oils in Europe under the organizational name of International Standards Organization (ISO). Dr. Herve Casabianca heads the ISO Essential Oil Standards Committee and is also Director of the AFNOR Laboratory. Translated loosely, AFNOR stands for Association of French Normalization Organization Regulation.

Young Living Therapeutic Grade A essential oils differ from essential oils, available in the malls and in health food stores. Young Living Therapeutic oils are safe inhaled, topical application and most can be dietary.

In order to qualify as a therapeutic grade, the oil has to meet a certain chemical profile as determined by a gas chromatograph.

For example, most lavender essential oils are “fragrance grade“ and may be a high quality, grade A oil for that purpose, but not necessarily therapeutic.

The ISO committee in Europe has set therapeutic profiles for each oil. True therapeutic grade oils must contain no synthetic ingredients nor can it be diluted. It must be exactly as it was harvested and distilled without any further tampering with the chemistry.

Major qualities or components of therapeutic or medical grade oils:

0. No traces of pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals.
0. Extracted by steam distillation, not by solvents.
0. Contain 25-38% linalool and 25-24% linalyl acetate and less than .05% camphor.
0. Above are the major components, there are other components as well.

If an essential oil does not fit the quality profile, it is NOT therapeutic.

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