Therapeutic Blending
Slowly adding/blending essential oil into carrier oil.
Therapeutic blending focuses on creating a blend that will aid with a particular emotional or physical condition. Therapeutic blending concentrates more on the therapeutic result than on the aroma of the blend, but naturally it’s important to create a therapeutic blend that is pleasing in aroma.
It is very important to select oils not only for the therapeutic actions they deliver. It's also important to make sure that none of the oils used have any contraindications or safety issues that can affect other aspects of your health. For instance, if you create a blend to aid with dandruff but you happen to be pregnant, you should not include rosemary because it is contraindicated in pregnancy. As another example, you would obviously not create an arthritis blend that includes peanut oil (a carrier oil used to dilute essential oils and is reported to provide benefit in arthritis blends) if you are allergic to peanuts.
When creating therapeutic blends, it is also important to consider all the therapeutic actions you are seeing and avoid oils that clash with your desired goals. For instance, let’s say you are having severe period cramps and are having trouble sleeping. For this scenario, let’s also say that you want to create a blend that you can use right before bedtime. Peppermint and cypress are oils that can provide relief with menstrual cramps. But, peppermint and cypress are energizing oils. Thus, you would want to avoid these oils in a blend that you’d use right before bed.
The Oil Profile area on AromaWeb lists aromatic descriptions and the uses for particular oils. Books such as The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils by Julia Lawless provides much greater detail including safety information, therapeutic actions and aromatic descriptions for 165 oils. Such a resource can be quite helpful in creating your personal therapeutic blend.
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