Healthy Aromatherapy?

You know what aromatherapy is, right?

It's the use of essential oils (extracts or essences) from flowers, herbs, and trees to achieve health, vitality and rejuvenation of the body, mind and spirit.

Citrus is a mood enhancer. Lavender has been found to correspond with slower heart rate, lower blood pressure and it helps decrease muscle tension.

But, is inhaling toxic waste good for you?

That's what you're doing if your aromatherapy candles are made of paraffin.

Paraffin is a byproduct of the petroleum industry. Burning paraffin emits high levels of toxic chemicals including acetone and lead benzene, the same as from your vehicle's tail pipe.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that both of those are known human carcinogens. A carcinogen is a cancer-causing substance, in case you weren't sure.

That hardly sounds healthy, does it?

Respiratory illness doesn't feel good.

You know that thick black soot you see in the jar when you burn a paraffin candle in a jar? When you burn paraffin, you're breathing that, too. When there's no jar, guess where it goes? Into the air.

Those microscopic particles - smaller than 2.5 microns - are recognized by the EPA as responsible for aggravating respiratory illnesses.

That hardly sounds healthy either.

Aromatherapy and Soy Are A Natural Fit

Soy candles are made from soybeans which are a renewable resource. Soy wax is a clean burning, non toxic wax that does not produce black soot. It's environmentally friendly and safe for you, your children and pets to breathe.

Inhaling toxic waste isn't aromatherapy. Please only purchase aromatherapy candles if they are made of pure soy wax.

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What is aromatherapy?

The use of essential oils (extracts or essences) from flowers, herbs, and trees to promote health and well-being.
A system of caring for the body with botanical oils such as rose, lemon, lavender (used to soothe cuts, bruises and insect bites), and peppermint. These essential oils can be added to a bath, massaged through the skin, inhaled directly, used with teas, or scented in a room. This therapy is intended to relieve pain, care for the skin, and alleviate tension and fatigue.
The use of fragrant, natural, botanical essential oils from plants, leaves, bark, roots, seeds, resins and flowers as a healing art. Aromatherapy refreshes and relaxes the skin while soothing the mind by helping to induce a sense of well-being. Each individual essence is used to produce a specific beneficial effect. Used in massage and facials.
The use of essential oils from aromatic plants to restore and enhance health and beauty as defined by the American Aromatherapy Association. Aromatherapy uses as its basic ingredients essential oils, which represent the highest herbal energy. Essential oils are highly concentrated, volatile extracts retrieved from aromatic herbs, flowers, seeds and trees; they contain hormone-like properties, vitamins, minerals and natural antiseptics.