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Soy Candles Are Perfect For Aromatherapy

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Published: 22Oct2011
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Healing that appeals to the senses. Aromatherapy facilitates healing by promoting relaxation using the healing and relaxing scents of essential oils. Essential oils are derived from the parts of medicinal plants such as roots, leaf, barks, seed, fruit and flower. The scents of such plants where discovered to carry extraordinary healing properties. Their scent passes through the lungs and into the bloodstream where their calming effects will be delivered. In encouraging physical relaxation, it calms all mental faculties, which inhibit factors like stresses, pressure, anxiety and other irritants from impeding total body rejuvenation.

Needless to say, the potent healing power of the scents of natural essential oils needs to be effectively dispersed to take full advantage of its benefits. The low and longer burning qualities of soy candles perfectly complement this aspect of aromatherapy. Volatile plant oils have long been used as the scents of aromatherapy candles. With the harmful health and environmental effects of paraffin scented candles revealed, natural wax derivatives have been tapped as the safe alternative for therapeutic candle use. Laboratory tests have discovered that paraffin candle soot and exhaust produces up to 11 toxic substances and carcinogenic chemicals. Also, the higher meting point of paraffin or petroleum-based candles tends to burn off the essential oils instead of diffusing their scents into the room.

Beeswax candles were the first ones used to replace petroleum-based scented candles. However, the problem with beeswax candles is that they are rather more expensive to use. Later on, an innovator in the name of Michael Richards introduced a more sustainable, cost-effective and affordable natural wax candles - the soy candles. Soy candles were regarded as more appropriate for aromatherapy. This is because soy wax has lower melting points. This quality allows the candles to keep bigger pools of melted wax around the candlewick, which facilitates even and more effective evaporation of essential oils. In this light, the lower melting point and longer burning physical qualities of soy candles delivers more even and quicker dispersion of scents of essential oils. When aromatherapy benefits greatly rely on the delivery of the healing scents of essential oils into the body system, soy candles makes a great partner for this complementary mode of treatment.

Soy candles are made from the hydrogenated oil and resulting fat of soybeans. Hence, when it is added with a stash of healthful essential oils, it ensures full evaporation and dispersion of scents in molecular levels. Unlike paraffin wax, the natural components of soy wax in soy candles bind more evenly with the essential oils, making them the more effective vessel for organic healing scents. In many luxuriously relaxing ways, the use of soy candles in aromatherapy shall eliminate the health risks of using carcinogen-laden paraffin or petroleum-based candles. So the next time that you buy your own aromatic scented candles, buy soya candles to get the most of the relaxation and meditation benefits promised by aromatherapy. Indulge into the healthy fumes released by these natural wax candles and make your own contribution in gradually replacing chemical-based candles to help care for the environment.

Carol Sheppard owns ScentsOfStAugustine.com which includes 2 retail stores in gorgeous St. Augustine, Florida. The company features handmade scented soy candles, organic soaps, bath salts and more For additional information, please visit the website or telephone customer service at 904-829-8733.

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