Aromatherapy is combined with different types of massage based on the use of essential oils that are derived from plants. The essential oils are not concentrated from whole plant parts, but they are extracted from flowers, roots, barks, leaves, resin, peel or grasses by a process known as steam distillation. Many people claim that aromatherapy treatments work on people both physically and psychologically. One theory states that when aromatherapy treatments are used along with massage oil, the smell of the essential oil triggers the limbic system, which is part of the brain that controls emotions and stores and recovers learned memories. This is what makes you relax in the end.
Another theory is that when the essential oils are absorbed through the skin when combined with massage oil, the medicinal properties of that particular essential oil act on the cause of that particular problem the client is experiencing. By added aromatherapy to your massage treatment it can help ease a wide assortment of ailments; easing aches, pains, and injuries, relaxing, uplifting, sedating or stimulating, and bringing back balance to help restore both physical and emotional wellbeing.