Content:
- Essential and base oils
- About this gentle and fragrant vanilla oil
- Vanilla ether. What is the healing in the composition?
- Useful properties and harm of essential vanilla oil
- Cosmetic application of vanilla oil
Essential oils in our country appeared relatively recently, when they were known in Asia and the East thousands of years ago. We, in general, learn about many unique products only now, but it's better late than never. We must store this knowledge, transfer it from generation to generation, because beauty and health can be achieved not only with the help of medicines, injections of youth, surgeons, but also with the help of healing, natural balms, herbs, infusions, teas and oils. We will talk about the latter today, namely vanilla oil is an important and very interesting topic of the article.
Essential and base oils
First we would like to tell you the following. Very often in our country people from ignorance buy this or that butter and wait for it from the promised result, about which they heard, read somewhere. But there is no effect, disappointment comes, and aromatherapy becomes uninteresting. In this case, just did not have enough knowledge. Oils are different and the selection criteria should be known to all who want to understand and experience the strength and the full range of possibilities of these unique means.
Oil can be ethereal and simple, it is also called basic. These are different compositions, forms of release, with different functions and prices. Base oils are obtained in various ways from seeds or fruits of plants. It can be cold or hot pressing, extraction. This is a natural product that has a light aroma or, in general, it does not, the product is heavy, with a high percentage of fat. Just understand that, for example, our traditional sunflower oil is the base product, also with oils from other plants.
Ethers are different. They are obtained from bark, flowers, rhizome and leaves, while they are volatile, do not leave fat marks. By the way, so, you can check any essential oil for quality - just drop it onto a piece of paper and after a while a good remedy will simply evaporate, leaving a pleasant plume. Ethers are very concentrated, have a rich flavor, they can even be burned, because they are used drop by drop. Basically, the same oils will not burn your skin, they are often mixed with ethereal to make unique useful preparations that have a strong, very good positive effect. We will talk today about vanilla essential oil, its composition, properties and possibilities, both positive and negative.
For information! There are also cosmetic oils - these are those that combine the base and the ether, are diluted by them, enriched. As a result, we get a composition that gives our skin, nails and hair beauty and health.
About this tender and fragrant vanilla oil
Now go directly to our product, and it's unique and worth your attention. Vanilla oil is a storehouse of useful substances, which will be discussed later, is a delicate aroma that we all know from childhood. It can not be confused with anything, because immediately there are pleasant memories of baking, cakes, drinks, and to someone it is also the fragrance of perfume, cosmetics. What is not surprising, because vanilla is colossally in demand and popular. Of course, a strong concentration of this odor, illiterate use causes rejection. But if you use the product correctly, then a gentle, delicate, sweet fragrance and an appetizing plume indifferent will not leave anyone.
Vanilla is shown in the photo, as you can see - this is a plant with yellow flowers, which somehow resemble daffodils or orchids. Its fruits have a quaint shape of pods that hang from tropical lianas, which can grow more than 25-35 meters in height. At the same time, they do not smell all of us with the usual smell at once, no, this is a long process - about nine months of maturation, and six months of drying, which affects the cost of the product. Fruit readiness for further processing is determined by white crystal coating. To obtain vanilla essential oil, the fruits undergo an extraction process.
Good to know! The present vanilla essential oil is not liquid, but viscous, viscous, has a dark, chocolate tinge. Its aroma is woody, sweetish, tender and spicy at the same time. The product is not cheap because it has a number of useful properties.
Vanilla grows in different variations, and if oil is extracted from the "Tahitensis" kind, it is considered very useful, unique, expensive. The most common is "Vanilla planifolia" or an ordinary species. But the product labeled "Pompona" many researchers consider the least useful and quality.
For information! Vanilla grows more in hot countries such as Mexico, the island of Madagascar, on the African continent, but it is surprising that not these countries are the main producer of vanilla ether, but a number of Western states and America.
Vanilla Ether. What is the healing in the composition?
Even today, scientists have not fully studied the composition and the full range of vanilla essential oil capabilities. At the moment about 150 components are known. And just imagine, the familiar to us and the familiar vanillin among this amount is not more than three percent. The remaining components are diverse, and they all play a role for our body.
For information! Base oils can be sold in a different volume of packaging, when both essential oils, and vanilla essential oil including, are produced in small bottles of 2-5 ml. This is due to the complexity of manufacturing, the high cost of this product.
Vanilla oil is enriched with a number of acids, among which are acetic, anise, isobuty, caproic. Acids to our body helpers, because they affect the acid-base balance, energy metabolism, digestive tract, inhibit pathogenic processes and the development of negative microflora in the body, help to isolate gastric juice, normalize the stool and many more which have functions. In the composition there is also an aldehyde anisic, which can be used in perfumery, furfural, which has wide application in different industries. Geranilacetate - an ester, which can be used in the food industry and perfumery, also from the ethers are available in the composition of brown. There is also eugenol - it is used to make various medications.
Useful properties and harm of essential vanilla oil
Advantages of using
First let's talk about the healing effect on health, what can give our body vanilla oil, and then we will introduce you to the application of the product in cosmetology.
Vanilla essential oil helps us:
- it has a beneficial effect on the whole HCC, normalizes the work of organs, helps restore acid-base balance;
- strengthens our immunity, which fights against the whole pathogenic environment and does not allow us to get sick;
- helps improve metabolism, beneficially affects the health status of diabetics;
- helps the weaker sex cope with ailments "in a feminine way";
- scientists found that the use of vanilla essential oil is disgusting in addicts to alcohol;
- essential oil helps to remove inflammation, kill harmful microflora;
- is a whole elixir of health and tranquility for our nervous system. Oil will help and from insomnia, and from various nervous shocks, from depression, from pathologies caused by different factors, cope with mood swings, unreasonable anger, panic attacks, stress;
- has a beneficial effect on the health of patients with multiple sclerosis;
- helps to restore and cure sick skin;
- affects sexuality.
Important! After reading the article, do not rush to buy the first oil that is found, which can be found at a price of about 100-200 rubles, and even more so they do not need to be treated. Such products will not give the desired result, but can also do harm.
Cons of using
Oil can cause allergy, you can not use it in excess, you risk getting side effects in the form of nausea, vomiting, dizziness, disgust. Essential oils are used only by small drops. Do not use the product before going out under direct sunlight. During pregnancy and feeding, always consult a doctor. Well, we turn to the most interesting section, especially for the fair sex, - this is the use of essential vanilla oil, which can be used very much at the expense of properties, and you can do everything at home.
Cosmetic application of vanilla oil
For body
Of course, your skin will say "thank you" if you start using vanilla oil. These can be masks, massage, baths. You will be surprised how your body will become - the skin will be velvety, shine with a healthy sheen, you will forget about ugly cellulite. Scars, scars, stretch marks will become less noticeable. Massage will improve your sex life, nourish your body, it will thin out the delicate aroma, the train from which will not leave anyone indifferent.
To take a bath with vanilla ether, you first drop 3-5 drops on the crystals of sea salt, then add it to the water. Take a bath in 1-2 days for 15 minutes, and you will see a wonderful change in your body. To do the massage, a couple drops of ether and a spoonful of base oil you mix, then proceed to the process. You can add 3-5 drops of ether to your body cream, cellulite remedy, lotions.Vanilla oil for hair
Just like the skin, your hair will shine, stop breaking, dandruff will occur if you use the air in your daily routines. If you do a scalp massage, the blood flow will increase, the hair will grow faster, become thicker, they will stop falling. Ether can be dripped into shampoo, added to masks, mixed with base oils and make oil masks.
Tip! You can make such a mask - in a plastic cup pour any base oil, including you can take and sunflower, drip here 5-7 drops of essential oil, then dip into the glass a pigtail from the hair and fasten on the back of the head. You will be amazed, but dry hair will absorb everything, and the results will be evident from the application of vanilla essential oil for hair.
For the face of
We have already said before that oil masks and massage work favorably on the skin of the whole body, they also act healthily on the face. At the same time, it is cleansed of acne, scars, spots after acne become less noticeable. Also, oil helps to cope with couperose, dermatosis and dermatitis. But remember that massage is done on the face strictly on massage lines, you do not stretch the skin. Such procedures will help many years look young, fresh, forget that there are mimic wrinkles. In the winter, vanilla oil for the face will help get rid of dryness and tightness.
You can also drip 3-4 drops of vanilla essential oil in creams, face lotions, mix with base oils. Of course, any ether is also poured into the aroma lamp to fill the house with a fragrance. Inhaling such air, you will be healed from the inside of the soul, will go through anxiety, insomnia. You just will be happy every day because more everyday life does not go so gray and depressingly, the fragrance envelops, makes you relax, think about life. And if suddenly someone close does not have to like the spicy aroma of sweet vanilla from the aroma lamp, you can always buy yourself a locket, which also drips 1-2 drops of oily ether, put on your neck and breathe.
Buy essential oils can be in specialized stores, via the Internet. Do not buy bottles in the transitions, conventional shops and even in pharmacies you will not find much of that essential vanilla oil, about the benefits of which we have told you today. Always watch for quality.
This is it vanilla oil, you will agree, and, the truth, unique. Trying once, you can not deny yourself any more the pleasure of using the product.