There’s so much more to aromatherapy diffusers than just making the air smell good!

Nearly every essential oil and blend has its unique healing property. They can purify the air in your home, help keep your mind at ease, promote clear breathing by opening your airways and minimise the effects of season threats (allergies). A tiny amount of oil packs the biggest punch when used in a diffuser. But what happens if you’re not at home but still crave the incredible healing properties to help heal your body, calm your mind, and revitalise your thoughts and feelings.

Smells are powerful. They entice us, repel us, remind us and inspire us. In these moments more is happening in your body than a simple sensory experience. Molecules have entered your body that are affecting the chemicals in your brain and bloodstream igniting thoughts, feelings and impulses that you have the power to control by choosing the perfect blend to suit your needs. Time to relax? Time to decide? Time to create? Read on to learn about all the factors at play when you breathe in your favourite scent and how to use them to your advantage.

Essential Oils can change your mood

Imagine that you can change your mood, change your health and change your world simply by breathing in. A home, where you can lift vitality or drift into relaxation whenever you need to. A workplace, where you can fight lethargy, boost productivity and enhance creativity. Imagine, then make it real.

For good or bad, the molecules we inhale do change us physiologically and psychologically, and those changes can be powerful. And fast. This is the science behind aromatherapy and the path to taking charge of your health, your confidence, and your life.

It’s a truth that’s been well known and practised for thousands of years. Apart from regular exercise, inhaling essential oils and breathing the air you choose may be the most important step you’ll ever take to physical, psychological and emotional good health.

Essential Oils improves your health

When we inhale through the nostrils, the molecules we breathe in quickly interact with the olfactory organs and the brain. Some molecules are also carried to the lungs and respiratory system. This is how inhaling essential oils can have an immediate and clinically quantifiable effect on respiration, pulse and blood pressure and on the central nervous system in general.

“Essential oil constituents absorbed via inhalation may enter the bloodstream and reach the central nervous system with relative ease.” (Tisserand, R. Essential Oil Safety)

Because of this direct olfactory pathway to specific areas of the brain, inhaling essential oils can work very quickly and much more efficiently than oral remedies. From when you first inhale the oil to the corresponding brain trigger and gland secretion is less than a few seconds.

Essential Oils cause a chemical reaction to impact your emotion

Although this information has been understood for thousands of years, with ancient Egyptians using odours to treat disease and ancient Greeks writing books on the healing properties of essential oils, scientific studies continue to this day.

A clinical study at the University of Vienna, Austria (J. Lehrner, 2000) took 72 people awaiting dental treatment and split them into a control group and an odour group. The odour group waited in a room where orange oil (Citrus sinenis) was diffused. Clinical assessment showed that the people in the odour group quickly became calmer and felt more positive, with lower levels of anxiety than those in the control group. This study scientifically confirmed the relaxing, uplifting properties of this diffused essential oil.

The best ways to inhale Essential Oils

Diffusers are an easy and effective way to bring aroma into your home and work environments but with the right choice, it’s obvious a diffuser can deliver many more benefits. A good diffuser lets you get the most from the valuable properties of remedial essential oil blends and gives you more active management of your mental, physical and emotional health.

The best kind of diffuser to use with your Essential Oils

There’s a bewildering range of brands, types and claims when it comes to diffusers and they can have very different capabilities and effectiveness. Some are little more than air fresheners, others only work in small confined spaces, and others use heat to disperse the oils.

Applying heat to essential oils may break down or change some of the chemical components and remedial properties, destroying their potency. It’s best to choose a diffuser that doesn’t rely on heat to push out the scent.

Fan diffusers move air across a surface that contains essential oils carrying scent molecules into the air. Evaporative diffusers allow the oil to be exposed to the air and slowly evaporate. These tend to have a limited range and suit small spaces.

Nebulising diffusers use cold air under pressure to force oil molecules into an atomizer. Fine particles of the oils are then pumped into the air and can be inhaled.

Ultrasonic diffusers work a little differently for optimal effect. The Skypipe™ Essential Oil Diffuser from Black Chicken Remedies is an ultrasonic diffuser with a permeable porcelain body. It works by creating small intense vibrations (2.5 million vibrations per second) in essential oils with a little water, releasing a superfine soft mist which gently humidifies the air and disperses the potent remedial properties of the oils.

With the Skypipe™ Essential Oil Diffusers, those essential oil molecules can be inhaled through nose and mouth, reaching the brain, lungs and bloodstream in a matter of seconds for a fast and powerful effect.