“Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.” — Ezekiel 47:12

What are essential oils?

Essential oils are concentrated plant extracts. They are made by pressing or steaming parts of a plant such as fruit, leaves, flowers, stems, rinds, and bark to capture the aroma compounds. Aromatherapy consists of using essential oils to obtain health benefits.

Why use essential oils?

Essential oils have been used in traditional, alternative, and complementary medicine for centuries due to their healing properties. Asili Wellness home + body care products are infused with essential oils to naturally nurture your health and wellness. All of the products in our collection are created with great care to provide a holistic approach that delights all of the senses and brings only natural healing into your life.

What essential oils are used in Asili Wellness products?

We use 20 different essential oils in our home and body care products! The essential oils used are 100% natural, pure, and of the highest quality. Below we list each essential oil and some of its beneficial properties.

Bergamot

Bergamot’s distinctive, soothing citrusy aroma is used in men’s and women’s care products. It can be found in perfumes, colognes, toiletries, and cosmetics. Edible bergamot oil is used as a food and drink flavoring. It also has medicinal value.

Cedar

Cedarwood (or cedar) essential oil is a substance derived from cedar trees' needles, leaves, bark, and berries. It has a soothing, woodsy aroma that promotes sleep, alleviates anxiety, and reduces stress.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon oil is derived from the bark or leaves of several trees, including the Cinnamomum verum tree and the Cinnamomum cassia tree. Its aroma is warm and spicy. Its attributes are warming, stimulating, and refreshing. Cinnamon oil is commonly used in aromatherapy as a mood enhancer. It has been linked to many benefits, such as reduced anxiety and depression and better sleep.

Clove

Clove’s aroma developed a reputation, now backed by science, for being stimulating. The fragrance was also believed to be an aphrodisiac. Aromatically, clove bud essential oil possesses a strong, warm, spicy aroma.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus oil comes from the Eucalyptus tree, native to Australia. It has a powerful aroma and is easily recognizable. As an essential oil, Eucalyptus is an effective agent against respiratory diseases. It also can enhance concentration.

Ginger

Ginger essential oil is stimulating and warming. It can increase concentration. When taken internally, it is soothing and can ease the upset stomach and aid digestion. This essential oil is often blended with others due to its spicy and sweet aroma.

Grapefruit

Grapefruit essential oil is a citrus-scented oil frequently used in aromatherapy. It is known to balance mood, decrease blood pressure, and relieve stress.

Geranium

Used by the Egyptians for promoting beautiful and radiant skin, geranium oil is now used to treat acne, reduce inflammation, alleviate anxiety, and balance hormones. This sweet-smelling oil can also uplift your mood, lessen fatigue, and promote emotional wellness.

Lavender

One of the most popular and versatile essential oils is lavender essential oil. It is a powerhouse of healing properties. It is excellent for reducing stress, relieving pain, improving blood circulation, repelling insects, relaxing, disinfecting wounds, and much more!

Lemon

Lemon essential oil is one of the most easily recognized oils because of its refreshing, energizing, and uplifting scent. The health benefits of lemon oil can be attributed to its stimulating, calming, astringent, detoxifying, antiseptic, disinfectant, and anti-fungal properties.

Lemongrass

Lemongrass has been cultivated for its aromatic properties for thousands of years. Its pleasing aroma calms the mind, relieves stress, and even helps with insomnia. The scent is so relaxing and soothing that it is commonly used in spas to help customers unwind and relieve stress.

Nutmeg

Nutmeg is native to Indonesia. Its essential oil has a strong spicy aroma with a musky undertone. It has been used in traditional medicine to increase cognitive function and support the immune system.

Orange

According to aromatherapy practitioners, inhaling orange essential oil molecules transmits messages to the limbic system (a brain region responsible for controlling emotions and influencing the nervous system). These messages are believed to positively affect biological factors such as heart rate, stress levels, blood pressure, breathing, and immune function.

Patchouli

Patchouli essential oil is an incense and base note in perfumery. Its aroma is earthy, smoky, spicy, and musky. Its attributes are romantic, soothing, and stimulating. Its oil is often used for skin conditions, relieving stress, or controlling appetite. Research shows that it has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and pain-relieving properties.

Peppermint

Aromatherapists commonly use peppermint essential oil for its uplifting, invigorating properties. The peppermint plant is a hybrid of the watermint and spearmint plants. The essential oil is produced by extracting the oil from the whole plant through a steam distillation process. Peppermint oil is a natural stimulant that can increase your ability to concentrate during times of mental fatigue or stress. Inhaling the aroma of peppermint oil can help boost your energy levels.

Rosemary

Rosemary oil contains substances helpful in stimulating the immune system, increasing circulation, and improving digestion. It also contains anti-inflammatory compounds that may make it useful in reducing the severity of asthma attacks. Rosemary has been shown to increase the blood flow to the head and brain, improving concentration.

Tangerine

Tangerine essential oil’s aroma is fresh, sweet, and citrusy. Its properties are noted as calming, refreshing, stimulating, and rejuvenating. It is widely promoted to have health benefits such as reducing anxiety and tension, mind-clearing, and mood uplifting.

Tea Tree

Tea Tree essential oil is versatile and can be used on almost any part of the body for practically any ailment. It is also beneficial in treating issues with sleeplessness, acting as a sleep aid by reducing any aches and pains that can cause insomnia. Its herbaceous scent also uplifts the mood and boosts mental clarity, while its expectorant properties make it effective in facilitating the relief of congestion and respiratory tract infections.

Vanilla

This warm sweet aroma helps soothe out-of-control emotions, calms nervous tension, and promotes a tranquil environment. As there is no true vanilla essential oil, Peru balsam essential oil is utilized for its vanilla-like aroma and soothing properties.

Ylang Ylang

Ylang Ylang essential oil is known for its numerous health-promoting properties and is considered an effective anti-depressant and sedative. With its sweet floral aroma, research demonstrates that this healing oil is beneficial for improving insomnia, fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, and reducing anxiety.

“Aromatherapy is a caring, hands on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body, and soul.”

― Robert Tisserand