Massage has a lot of positive effects on your body, mind, and spirit. Moreover, adding essential oils to your base oil enhances the relaxation. And it also adds beneficial effects to your muscles and other body systems. Further, essential oils are excellent personalization for your massage. Moreover, it also enhances the healing powers of mind and body!
Consequently, here is a selection of the most popular essential oils for massage.
Discover The Top 10 Essential Oils For Massage
- Basil or Ocimum basilicum: Its properties include relaxing, antidepressant, anti-stress, calming, and also clears the mind. Moreover, it relieves intellectual fatigue, muscle relaxant and antispasmodic.
- Bergamot or Citrus bergamia: It has many great properties. And they include anti-inflammatory, antidepressant, and insomnia properties.
- Jasmine or Jasminum grandiflora (Royal Jasmine) and Jasminum officinale (Common Jasmine): This is calming, antiseptic, and an antidepressant. Furthermore, it is also a great antispasmodic, aphrodisiac and cicatrisant.
- Lavender or Lavandula angustifolia: It is calming, sleep-inducing, and a muscle relaxant. Additionally, it has the properties of a pain-relief, antidepressant, emotional stress, and anxiousness.
- Mandarin or Tangerine: It works well for anxiousness, poor circulation, and digestion. Furthermore, it also has properties of sedative, cellulite, insomnia, calming and relaxing.
- Pine or Pinus: It is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory. Along with this, it also works for pain-relief and as a anti-rheumatic.
- Roman Camomile or Chamaemelum nobile: It is relaxing, calming, and an anti-inflammatory. Moreover, it also works as a pain-relief, sedative and as a anti-rheumatic.
- Rose or Rosa damascena: It is a calming, relaxing, and an antidepressant. Other than this, it is also an antispasmodic , antiseptic, cicatrisant and aphrodisiac.
- Sandalwood or Santalum album: It works as an antidepressant, and for calming as well. Moreover, it also works wonderfully as an anti-inflammatory, anti-fungi and encourages deep relaxation.
- Ylang ylang or Cananga odorata: It has sensual and exotic properties. Moreover, it is also has a calming and euphoric effect. Further, it works as an antidepressant, anti-stress and insomnia.
Try Them Out!
Overall, to make the oil, add 12 drops of the essential oil(s) of your choice to 20 ml carrier or base oil. Further, shake or stir gently to combine. Then, massage on your body. Also, the essential oils must be stored in a dark, and cool place. Moreover, it has to be in a dark glass bottle or jar to prevent oxidation.
However, you can experiment and see which scent can relax and calm you down.
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Thanks for reading. I hope this information was helpful. Until next time!
Amy Goodrich
Crazy cat lady, life and food lover, certified biologist, and holistic health coach.
