Friday, September 2, 2011

Aromatherapy Chapter IV by Deborah Dolen Safety Issues



AROMATHERAPY - Chapter IV Safety Issues of Essential Oils by Deborah Dolen

Excerpt How to Make Perfume and Aromatherapy Basics Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2011 This e-book is available in full version on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. By Deborah Dolen Mabel White


Safety Issues of Essential Oils

The best course of action is always prevention. Meaning, do not allow essential oils in the hands of inexperienced people. Keep your essential oils out of reach of minors. Some smell so good, there have been reports of minors determining it smelled good enough to drink. Orange essential oil would be a good example.

Transference is not hard. For example, you could get a micro amount of Cinnamon on your hands and not realize it until you rub your eye. If you live to talk about it, chances are you will never forget that experience. If you get the caustic type essential oils on your skin, all you really can do is rinse, rinse, rinse with cool water, or saline solution if it's in your eyes, and follow with milk. For this reason, most people working with essential oils keep an open bottle of saline within reach. This is because it is awfully hard to get a seal off when you are in pain and busy trying to see. Rinsing should continue for a good fifteen minutes.

Here is another great example. One night my babysitter decided to get into my lab and make bath salts with Lemon grass essential oil for her boyfriend. She made him bath salts. She never told me. I found out when I got a panicked phone call that her boyfriend felt like his body was burning off-with emphasis on some "parts." The liability could have been incredible, even though she basically stole the ingredients. I had a duty to keep them locked up since there was no warning on them.

Another prime example is 'complacency', the root of all evil. Getting carried away is easy to do, if you are used to throwing a liberal amount of Lavender or Rosemary essential oil in the bath. Grabbing the wrong bottle to use in my bath--I have done this at least THREE times in my life. In all cases I was exhausted and blindly grabbing from where the Lavender “should” have been. The color of the bottles were the same. I cannot begin to describe the agony of putting straight Fennel essential oil, by mistake, in the tub. Another time straight Lemon grass essential oil and I actually made the Fennel mistake twice. Flushing for over ten minutes with water was all I could do, although I did wobble off to make a baking soda paste in hopes to balance the PH. I cannot say the baking soda helped--but it kept me distracted. I still walked funny for a few days--it burned my thighs and any area submersed in the water, so they did burn me. Pay attention and do not get complacent or carried away with essential oils. Know what you are working with--usually very potent stuff, and they are all very different. Just because Lavender is 'user friendly' does not mean they all are. ~Revised by Deborah Dolen Group 7.18.2008 via Wiki.

Excerpt How to Make Perfume and Aromatherapy Basics Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2011 This e-book is available in full version on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. By Deborah Dolen Mabel White




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1 comment:

  1. Prevention is Better than Cure.

    This Quote is Redefined in the Dolen's Way.

    #Too good :)

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