Make the best of your massage from essential massage oil recipes

If you have to go for a massage you need to get treated with some sort of oil for the massage to work properly on you. Massage helps you to get rejuvenated, beat stress and also remove pain and tiredness. Aromatherapy or the treatment of curing an ailment with the sense of smell is a powerful alternative therapy. So a massage using aromatherapy helps a lot. Our sense of smell has a lot of effect on our body and mind and in bringing out emotional reactions too.

Often we relate to incidents with a whiff of a perfume or the aroma of fresh flowers. Our senses are numbed with some scents and we start feeling better. Aromatherapy massage treatment works wonders for us.

Aromatherapy can be done through lighting scented candles, using aroma bath salts and scrubs or by concocting a magic potion of some carrier oil and essential oils. In all cases it works a miracle. Studying about the therapies and the uses of the essential oils is a must before we can proceed to actually using them for a massage. That requires some perseverance and dedication but with the attaining of knowledge and experience.

To set the mood for an aromatherapy massage you should use the oil with the same base in any carrier oil. You can, in fact, use these for different massage purposes. You can pamper yourself to a beauty massage for a healthy skin, or for an obstinate pain at the back due to many hours at the computer or for a sensuous massage for your partner. Anyway, the types of essential oils would change although the carrier oil would remain the same.

When you know your purpose pick out the oil say for a before bath massage you can use some floral essence that is soothing to your senses. You can use rose or lavender or even sandal wood with the carrier oil base. Or you could go in for something quite spicy and citrus for a sensuous massage. Use some citrus oil with the combination of Myrrh to bring you the invigorating experience.

The same way bath salts can be made.

Here is one excellent recipe to feel relieved after a long tiring day.

You have to take six drops of Anise, fifteen drops of rose in jojoba oil, sis drops of nutmeg and some sixty milliliters of carrier oil. You can get all the essential ingredients at your nearest store that sells Aromatherapy products. Massage the oil into the back of neck, upper chest, mid back and across the shoulders. This helps to beat the stress and brings in a lot of calm and placidity to the mind.

One important thing must be borne in mind when you work with aromatherapy oils for a massage therapy. The oils are volatile and sensitive to the ultra violet radiations. The oils also tend to react if kept in plastic bowls so porcelain or glass bowls should best be used. Aromatherapy massage oils also can cause irritation to the skin and therefore only ten drops and not more of essential oil should be used in one ounce of carrier oil.

Aromatherapy works wonders. So if the massage oil can be made out of essential aromatherapy ingredients, it would be satisfying and pampering experience and a cure all for all ailments.