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Uses of Essential Oils

  • 13 Patchouli Essential Oil Benefits for the Free-Spirited (Updated April 2020)

    Despite being lesser known than its other essential oil counterparts, Patchouli essential oil has actually existed for thousands of years already. It was so valuable way back then that traders in Europe would barter one pound of gold for a pound of patchouli. 
  • 6 Best Essential Oils for Better Digestion (Updated April 2020)

    Digestive problems can be such a pain, literally and figuratively. They can disrupt your everyday life, interfere with the things you need to get done during the day, and even keep you from enjoying the things you love to do. Fortunately, essential oils for digestion can help you make sure that y...
  • Ylang Ylang Essential Oil: Health Benefits & Invigorating Recipes (Updated April 2020)

    In their native lands, ylang ylang has traditionally been put to many medicinal uses. For example, the Javanese people used its dried flowers to help treat malaria and its accompanying symptoms. The Vietnamese were also known to do this, and the people of the Northern Marianas Islands made paste out of the aromatic flowers to ease asthma. Along with the flowers, bark from the ylang ylang tree was also used for the treatment of pneumonia and stomach complaints.

    Perhaps the best of its uses that’s also common to most of these cultures is as an antidepressant and general mood enhancer. Without the technology we have today to aid them in measuring the beneficial chemicals within ylang ylang, these early peoples knew anyway how helpful it can be for various types of conditions, often by simply taking the evidence of their senses for what it is.