Essential oils and their effects

- Some oils have components that don't only stimulate, but rather they are also photosensitive, that is to say, they increase the sensibility of the skin with light. Don't use these oils before sun tanning or going to a solarium, because it can produce an excessive darkening of the skin as well as the appearance of eczemas or allergic reactions. This usually happens to the angelica oils and bergamot, but sometimes also with citric and with Saint John’s Wort. It would be best to take caution with these oils and with the mixtures of these oils.

If the oil enters the eyes

- If you happen to get some essential oil in your eyes, wash them immediately with running water. Then soak a gauze carefully with olive oil and swab each eye from out in towards the nose.

- The essential oils should always be out of the reach of children.

They don't influence in medications

- Essential oils don't influence at all in the effectiveness of the conventional medications, homeopathic ones or of medicinal herbs.

Use in small quantities

- Never use the essential oils in an uninterrupted way. Someone that lights a vaporizer at the smallest occasion or uses aromas before any insignificant symptom will be using the oils as if it is a drug. And in the long run you will meet with adverse secondary reactions. As with so many other things, the effectiveness of the essential oils is in its controlled use. If you use them in a rational and conscious way you will be able to enjoy them fully.

To remember

Go to the doctor or therapist immediately:

- When it is indicated a certain way in the text

- When the symptoms last more than three days or reappear when ceasing the treatment,

- In the event of sharp pains, high fever, open wounds or serious burns, you should go to a specialist urgently.