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The benefit of essential oils

We may think of rest and relaxation when we think of essential oils, but do they have any real effect on our wellbeing?

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The benefit of essential oils

Studies* show that exposure to aromatherapy oils does lower blood pressure and heart rate, but only for up to an hour. 

Any exposure over that, and the opposite effect occurs, with our heart rate and blood pressure actually rising! Easy does it then…

*Research by Chuang K-J, Chen H-W, Liu I-J, et al. ‘The effect of essential oil on heart rate and blood pressure among solus por aqua workers’. Eur J Prevent Cardiol, 2012

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