* Reaping the benefits of Aromatherapy: The effect of fragrances on your mind and emotions may be subtle, but smell makes you feel better about yourself. It can improve your mood, reduce stress, and cause you to become more energetic, or help you to relax or fall asleep more easily. Aromatherapy makes you happier. Feeling good about yourself makes you feel more in control of your life, which makes you feel more satisfied with life in general. Wonderful results from an aroma! Pleasant smells put people into better moods and make them more willing to cooperate and compromise.

Q. What is the shelf life of our bath and body products?

A. When stored properly, out of direct sunlight and well sealed, bath and body related products have a shelf life of approximately 1 year.

Q. What is Carrier oil? (Massage Oil)

A.    Carrier oils and bases have a variety of uses and can have therapeutic uses. Carrier oils are important in the practice of aromatherapy. Carrier oil is usually a vegetable or nut type oil which is skin safe and moisturizing. We stock three all natural carrier oils; Grape seed oil, Jojoba oil, and Sweet Almond Oil. These massage oils can be used in Body Treatments such as creams, lotions, soaps, scented body oils, and Bath oils.

Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils can be used for so many wonderful purposes and treatments!

They can be used for scenting your home or work place, scenting potpourri, hair treatments, Scenting candles, Steam diffusing, Massage Oil treatments, scenting Bath Salts, in Aromatic Room and Linen Sprays, Scenting your clothing, in Spa Treatments and Luxurious Skin care treatments! ** Unless specified- we use Fragrance oils to customize our Luxurious Spa Treatments and products.**

Q. What is the difference between Fragrance Oils and Essential Oils?

A. Fragrance Oils normally are made up of a number of synthetic Oils resembling or imitating Essential Oils creating a fragrance that will smell like a flower, herb, plant, fruit or other fragrance. They are widely used in corporations around the world for perfumery, skin and body care, and Spa products.

A. Essential Oils are natural concentrated essences derived from plants, bark, roots, seeds, stems, flowers, leaves, and fruits.

EO’s are extracted (oil separated from the plant) in several ways.

1. Water Steam Distilled: Uses steam to pull EO’s from the plant.

2. Expression: Presses EO’s from the peels and seeds of citruses, such as Orange, Lemon, Lime, and Grapefruit.

3. Enfleurage: An ancient and expensive method of extracting Oils that is rarely used today except in a few places in France. Fragrant blossoms are placed on solid sheets of warm fat (animal fat, lard, or solid vegetable fat) which absorb the Essential Oil.

4. Carbon dioxide: is a new method of extraction using carbon dioxide gas to extract the Essential Oil. (The gas is kept at a under high pressure at a constant temperature.) This process produces a scent that is very close the plants scent because high heat is not used during the process.

5. Solvent Extraction: Uses very little heat, so it is able to produce essential oils whose fragrance would otherwise be destroyed or altered during steam distillation.

EO’s can be broken down into smaller parts. Each oil is composed of many very tiny aromatic molecules. Nature mixes and matches these compounds in various combinations. In this case, it is a new smell as each different grouping makes yet another unique fragrance.

Q. What are the Scent Types Categories of EO’s?

A. Floral, Wood, Citrus, herbal, Spicy, Minty and Camphor.

Q. Why can I not use the Essential Oils directly on the skin?

A. These oils are highly concentrated oils and are too strong to use directly on the skin. They should always be diluted in a massage or Carrier Oil. EO’s have different strengths, so due to this the dilution ratios, they are going to be different for each Oil. The usual dilution ratio is 2-4 drops of Oil per 8 Oz.of Carrier oil. Essential Oils have medicinal effects because they are sometimes used to treat ailments homeopathically. You may check with an Aroma therapist regarding any essential Oils use: email us at aroma@hamptonaffirmations.com. For example, Some Essential Oils are Photosensitive (Citrus Oils) and some Oils are “Hot” oils- peppermint, Bergamot. Etc…) Always read on Essential oils before using. Keep Essential Oils out of reach of children and pets. When used properly and in a knowledged fashion, EO’s can be very beneficial to a soothing and relaxing treatment.

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