Essential oils are everywhere. These potent, fragrant plant extracts have made their way into lotions, household cleaners, massage treatments, and even integrative complementary therapy to help ...

Essential oils are made from flower, herb, and tree parts, like bark, roots, peels, and petals. The cells that give a plant its fragrant smell are its "essence." When an essence is extracted from ...

If you’re looking for a way to wind down after a difficult day, you may want to try using essential oils. Research shows scents like eucalyptus and lavender can be calming. “These essential ...

Essential oils, which are concentrated plant extracts, have been used around the world for centuries to promote psychological and physical well-being. A May 22 Facebook post claims that putting ...

Much more than a wellness fad, people have used essential oils for over 5,000 years. In ancient medicine, these oils—which are made from the distilled extracts from plant flowers, leaves ...

Here at Marie Claire UK, we're big fans of essential oils for stress, never without a peppermint or bergamot oil on our desks or in our bags. While they're essentially just plant extracts ...