Essential oil from the orange comes from the orange peel and lasts about a year. Orange oil balances the emotions, either relaxing or stimulating as needed. It revitalizes and energizes when boredom and 
lethargy set in. Orange oil has a warm, happy and light influence that uplifts the mood. It calms the nerves and can combat anxiety and insomnia. Orange oil brightens gloomy feelings, dissipates depressing thoughts and subdues tension and stress, particularly in wintertime or if the stress is related to premenstrual syndrome or menopause.
Orange oils are rich in vitamins A, B, and C, flavonoids, and minerals. Orange oil restores balance to dry or oily skin. It maintains healthy youthful skin by promoting the production of collagen. Orange oil has therapeutic qualities of a sedative, relieves muscle spasms, cramping, and indigestion.
Ask your nearest day spa about an orange oil aroma massage.
Mint is an ancient family of plants, commonly used by the Egyptians and is most noted for it’s pleasant flavoring. In medicines, it is used not only as a pleasant flavoring, but also because it contains healing properties as well, and has long been used to help digestion, headaches, colic, gingivitis, irritable bowel syndrome, spasms and rheumatism. It is also being used for rubbing since the very early stages of human evolution. 
A massage over the abdomen with an oil containing peppermint can greatly aid intestinal spasms, indigestion, nausea, and irritable bowel syndrome. It relaxes muscles; has antiviral and bactericidal qualities; increases stomach acidity (to aid digestion); is an analgesic and counterirritant; and is a carminative (eases intestinal cramping).
Mint is great for aromatherapy because it is an energizing scent. It also destroys many bacteria and viruses. Peppermint is not drying, as one might assume; rather, it stimulates the skin’s oil production, so use it blended with other oils to treat dry complexions. It clears sinus and lung congestion when inhaled directly or when a vapor balm is rubbed on the chest. It is a it is a strong mental and physical stimulant that can help one concentrate and stay awake and alert.
Ask about a mint aroma massage at your nearest day spa.
Posted by EverydaySpa on December 10th, 2008
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lethargy set in. Orange oil has a warm, happy and light influence that uplifts the mood. It calms the nerves and can combat anxiety and insomnia. Orange oil brightens gloomy feelings, dissipates depressing thoughts and subdues tension and stress, particularly in wintertime or if the stress is related to premenstrual syndrome or menopause.
