Essential Oils For Menstruation Through To Menopause
From seeds, bark, roots, herbs, flowers and fruits which bloom in the sun-drenched fields of South Africa, derives nature’s cornucopia of healing essential oils grown, nourished and harvested organically for your personal home-based health menstruation.
Discover the key essences and medicinal power of essential oils for menstruating and menopausal women through all stages of life, helping you find support for issues which affect our mood, skin health, stress levels and sleep. Along with its concentrated natural health benefits, essential oils exude the beautiful fragrance of earth’s most natural perfumes, birthed from organic soils to heaven scent you through each day. Learn, care and share the overarching reach of aromatherapy healing.
Read on to discover the top 7 essential oils for Women’s Health
Clary Sage helps to soothe period cramps and mood swings and supports your hormones, reducing physical stress and hot flushes. Steam distilled from the lower of the clary sage plant; this aromatherapy oil also helps with postpartum depression. Blend with a carrier oil of choice and then apply it down the spine, over the abdomen, at your temples and on areas needing attention. For fast relief, add a few drops to a cloth or tissue and inhale and exhale the aroma softly.
Lavender: Fragrant, purple lavender essential oils are steam distilled from the buds of the flower, bringing calm and balance to your hormone levels, promoting emotional balance and relaxing you, so that you can enjoy a healthy night’s sleep. Lavender also helps to reduce signs of ageing and is helpful with skin imperfections. Gentle enough to be used on sensitive skin, the Relax Remedy Roller can be applied throughout the day or add a few drops of Lavender Oil to your diffuser to create a calm and relaxing environment.
Frankincense: Look younger, healthier and more vibrant without spending tons of money on your skin with the most royal of essential oils, earthy frankincense with its piney balsamic fragrance. Derived from the resin of the Boswellia tree, frankincense contains properties beneficial for wound healing and tissue reconstruction, helping inflammation and acne to heal, as well as lightening scars and stretch marks. Apply frankincense, diluted with your favourite carrier oil, to your face twice daily to help retain a youthful look and age gracefully. As frankincense’s aroma promotes peace and calm, it makes the perfect gift for friends or family.
Ginger: Warm, stimulating and known as the ‘tonic root’ for over 5,000 years, the Indians and Chinese produced ginger to treat many ailments. Combined with your favourite carrier oil it can make a brilliant homemade massage oil, used to aid digestion and joint discomfort and to help eliminate motion sickness and nausea.
Sweet Basil: A single drop of basil essential oil will flavour recipes at home or can be blended into a carrier oil to massage tired, sore muscles. For memory, focus and relief from migraines and headaches, diffuse basil essential oils throughout your home or workplace. When you add basil to your daily regime, applying it to your feet and across the back of your neck, it could help alleviate hot flushes as well as lifting your mood.
Sweet Orange: Citrus oils are invigorating mood lifters when you need an extra boost to your morning. Its crisp, fresh aroma purifies the air with a diffuser or use a roller on touch points on your body to ease anxiety and nervous tension. Helpful for symptoms of menopause, researchers in a 2014 study found the postmenopausal women who inhaled this essential oil experienced fewer physical symptoms, an increased pulse rate and a rise in sexual desire.
Rose Geranium offers a beautiful, relaxing aroma that is often added to women’s perfumes and body mists. It is best known for balancing hormones, reducing body odour, calming emotions, soothing cramps and supporting healthy hair and skin. Add a drop of this oil to your facial or body moisturiser and to your shampoo or conditioner to help balance oil production and moisturise your skin, so you can emerge fresh and fragrant whatever your age or stage in life. Create your own body mist by mixing your preferred essential oils with water or witch hazel in a glass spray bottle to keep close at hand.
Please note that All SOiL essential oils are intended for external use only. Unless otherwise advised by a medical practitioner. Do not use undiluted on skin. Do not apply to broken or irritated skin. If sensitivity occurs discontinue use. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, taking any medications or under medical supervision seek professional advice before use. Please keep out of reach of children.
SOiL advocates the responsible use of essential oils. We grow and source the finest quality essential oils from around the world to supply you with pure, potent plant extracts for aromatic and therapeutic applications. Essential oils are many times stronger than the plants they are derived from and are far more concentrated than the herbal tincture extracted from the same plant.
Accordingly, we recommend that you avoid oral use/ingesting pure essential oils without seeking professional advice beforehand. The issue is not the quality of the essential oils you take orally – there is no such thing as a ‘therapeutic grade’ of essential oil nor is one brand of essential oils safe to ingest over another brand. The issue is safety and even though essential oils are 100% natural, plant-derived extracts, they are botanical medicines which have the potential to cause harmful side effects when taken orally. Essential oils should only be prescribed for oral use in a clinical setting, by a suitably qualified practitioner.
There are many methods of obtaining the aromatic and therapeutic benefits of essential oils, namely; inhalation, massage, skincare preparations, bath and compress. If you require individual advice on oral use/ingestion or in relation to a specific medical condition, we recommend you consult a qualified practitioner, as described above.