Popular aromatherapy oils

Eucalyptus

Mental benefits: It promotes alertness and clears the mind.

Physical benefits: Helps fight cold and congestion, soothes dry coughs, combats skin infections, such as boils and pimples, and reduces swellings and muscle aches and pain. 

Geranium

Mental benefits: It reduces mental stress and anxiety.

Physical benefits: It tones and cleanses the skin, fights throat and mouth infections, stimulates the liver and cleanses the digestive system, helps the body to remove waste products, combats fluid retention.

Lavender

Mental benefits: Combats anxiety, stress, and depression.

Physical benefits: Stimulates renewal of skin cells, reduces skin inflammation, helps heal mouth ulcers, and reduces bad breath and nausea.

Peppermint

Mental benefits: Uplifting mood, useful in the treatment of emotional shock.

Physical benefits: Helps reduce coughs and throat infections, soothes intestinal cramps and heartburn, and alleviates the symptoms of motion sickness.

Roman chamomile

Mental benefits: Relaxing, reduces anxiety, often effective for calming children’s tantrums.

Physical benefits: Helps clear acne, rashes, and skin inflammations, reduces muscle inflammation, stimulates appetite, and combats diarrhea.  

Rosemary

Mental benefits: Stimulates the memory.

Physical benefits: Relieves indigestion and flatulence, helps circulation, alleviate muscular aches, cleanses and stimulates the skin, and counters infection.

Sandalwood

Mental benefits: Sleep-inducing and relaxing, good for insomnia.

Physical benefits: Soothes throat infection, bronchitis, and asthma softens dry skin, combats dandruff, alleviates vomiting and diarrhea.

Sweet marjoram

Mental benefits: Eases respiratory problems, such as bronchitis, asthma, relieves constipation and helps to relax muscle cramps.

Tea tree

Mental benefits: No special benefits.

Physical benefits: Works as an antiseptic against infections specifically on the skin, used for cleaning cuts and surface wounds.