Aromatherapy  -- Simply breathing in the odors and minute particles of plant material will help bring your body back into balance -- Essential oils should be used as massage oils (diluted with a carrier oil) or inhaled via diffusion.

How Essential oils work:

Skin is mostly waterproof.  However, it does allow substances with small molecular structures and low molecular weight to penetrate it.  Molecules of essential oils pass through the skin's epidermis and are carried away by the capillary blood circulating in the dermis. They are then taken into the lymphatic and extracellular fluids, at which point the therapeutic ingredients of the essential oils are broken down and used by various regions of the body. After the essential oils perform healing functions, they are metabolized and eliminated with the body's other waste.

Skin is our largest elimination organ. It takes anywhere from 20 minutes to 7 hours for skin to fully absorb essential oils, depending on body fat. Essential Oils are eliminated from our bodies within 3 to 26 hours through our saliva, urine, feces or sweat in a healthy adult.  Essential Oils work as rubbish collectors, attaching themselves to toxins, free-radicals, cell debris, heavy metals, renegade cells, fungi, bacteria, viruses or other debris, and taking them to the exits for disposal. Because of this, in an unhealthy adult, it can take up to 14 hours for the essential oils to pass through the body.