On all courses i have been on including my massage training courses and further courses, we have been taught that pre blended oils are fine as you have not blended them yourselves.
You have not blended them yourselves therefore have not affected the consistency of them such as putting in too much essential oil. Plus when you buy the oil it often says on there the desired effect, such as relaxing or soothing. The only down side of pre blended oils are that they are often made up with sweet almond oil, which obviously some people are allergic too.
Some people prefer not to use pre blended oils and are taught not to whilst others are encouraged to. I suppose it depends on tutors and personal preference.
What do you use then blended oils?
Just by way of a warning at the start of my career I wanted my clients to get the max out of each session so used tisserands pre blended muscle recovery oil.
It was good stuff and worked wonders for the clients ....however after about 6 months of using it almost every day (I was getting very busy) I started getting headaches and waking up in the night (never had these probs before) .......it went on for a while and was very worrying....I stopped useing that oil and 3 weeks later I was fine. I can only put it down to a build up in my blood stream and goes to show yes you can have to much of a good thing.
Regards steve
Thanks for that. I may start off using pre blend oil then and see how i go
I'm with Chris on this one. I use Jojoba exclusively. Nice glide, good for all skin types and washes out easily.
Hi again sorry to be a pain but i have had a look at some suppliers and see that they do pre blends of just essential oils and also massage oil with the essential oils in. Which would you go for?
Hi Susan
Are you currently studying aromatherapy with your holisic therapies?
If you are then you will know how to make up the oils and would not have to worry about whether to get them preblended or not. If you are not qualified then you will not be insured to use them, in which case it makes sense only to use a carrier oil.
Binah
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Yes i am studing aromatherapy with my holistic beauty therapy course but i am going to go mobile so was trying to see which would be best for carrage and time wise but at the same time don't want to let my clients down
Since you will be qualified to mix up EO blends, I'd suggest get jojoba as the base oil, no allergy concerns, washes out of everything easily and leaves people with a sheen rather than oily, and then take a few EO blends. Taking a lot of individual EO bottles gets to be a pain, so a few good blends are better. I have a few 25ml bottles I fill up with plain jojoba, and another 50ml bottle of jojoba I take, plus the EO blends. I open a 25ml bottle, add the required drops of EO and use that bottle on the client. If they have very dry skin and need more jojoba, I'll just pour a bit from the 50ml bottle in the 25ml bottle and it gets a faint blend note to it. At max, I would do 4 mobile calls per day, so I'm usually just carrying 150ml of jojoba in 5 bottles, 5 EO blends (similar to Sue CarberryF's list, though I carry one bottle of ginger CO2 EO rather than tiger balm), and generally one facial oil blend if it's massage appointments; I've got EO facial blends too (sensitive, oily, calming, etc) I will take if it is more face orientated, those I will just put one drop EO blend in my hand with enough jojoba for the face. This makes carrying the oils MUCH easier. I used to carry a big box around of EOs and various base oils, but it just got too much with everything else. If I am seeing someone that needs something a bit more specific, I make sure to take the specific oils the next time I see them, but for at least 95% of mobile appointments, a bit of a jojoba, a few good quality EO blends, and ginger EO, covers everything the client will need. Even for clinic appointments I tend to mainly use the EO blends these days.
(I've got massage, aromatherapy and beauty training)
Thank you so much that is really helpful it is just knowing which way to do things for the best. How long have you been mobile?
I do a mixture of mobile and clinic, have been doing it for about 15yrs. I prefer the clinic, no need to carry stuff around 🙂 but when I do mobile, I try to make it as light and as uncomplicated as possible.
When I first trained I ended up buying just about every type of oil I could, and now I only use a select few. So, don't waste loads of money buying lots of different ones as they all have a shelf life and if you don't use them they will just go rancid. I would just invest in a couple of versatile oils: like many people have mentioned grapeseed is lovely and light, and perhaps something richer to make a blend for drier or more mature skin, like avocado oil (this one's quite thick so you wouldn't want to use it 'neat')
With regards essential oils, unless you are a trained aromatherapist you cannot blend oils yourself as your insurance won't cover you, however depending on your insurer, you can use products which are pre-blended (but if you are studying itec don't tell them that or they'll look horrified!)
best of luck 🙂
Thank you so much for that . Would you do the same for the essential oils or would you buy the whole range of oils. I have heard a few different things but like you said over the carrier oils i don't want to wast money on things i may hardly use. I am studying aromatherapy so will be able to blend myself. I do like the idea of blending before i leave home like cola suggested.
I think again some of the oils can be quite expensive, and I think the list of essential oils you can get is very very long, so perhaps you could get some of the most popular oils to get started.
I am not an aromatherapist myself, but I am sure someone on here can suggest which ones are best?!
I do like the idea of blending before i leave home like cola suggested.
Sorry for confusion - I use pre-blended EO blends (that I purchase) and blend them in the 25ml jojoba when I get to the client, that way it is customised for what they need that day. As Josey said, you think the more oils the better in the beginning, but you really don't need that many, particularly if you have some good quality blends.