Essential Oil Soap:

Why is Essential Oil Soap better?

Essential oils have been used for centuries for their health-promoting properties, one of the most popular being aromatherapy.

 Essential oil soap retains many of these same benefits. essential oil soap from Heirloom Natural Soap It’s quick and easy to add aromatherapy to your day with essential oil soap!  Most people comment on how wonderfully fresh and fragrant our essential oil soap is -of course it’s all due to the essential oils.  Imagine waking up with invigorating Lemon Drop essential oil soap in the morning and relaxing with Lavender Swirl essential oil soap that same evening -what a treat!

Some scents just aren’t able to be distilled into an essential oil.  (You won’t find Strawberry-Kiwi essential oil soap here, as there is no such thing!)  Others, such as pure rose or jasmine essential oils are just too costly to be used for essential oil soap (although small amounts are sometimes used with other essential oils in our soap)

Listed below are a few of the most popular essential oils we use  in our essential oil soap, as well as the benefits each essential oil is said to have. Please keep in mind, this is not intended to be an authoritative list of essential oil soaps or their benefits.  For complete information we strongly suggest reading books on the subject written by experienced aromatherapists.

 
Bay                                                                   clarifying, warming
 
Cinnamon Leaf                                           refreshing, vitalizing
Cornmint                                                       invigorating, mental focus

Eucalyptus                                  mental focus, purifying

Lavender                                       calming, relaxing, balancing, soothing

Lemongrass                                  uplifting, energizing

May Chang /Litsea                   physical/mental calm

Palmarosa                                   relaxing;anti fatigue, anger, anxiety,                       

Sweet Fennel                               restorative, nurturing

Sweet Orange                              stress-relieving

Tea Tree                                         disinfectant, antibacterial

Ylang Ylang                                  anti-depressant, aphrodisiac, euphoric

 

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