The Methods - Aromatherapy - Children
Aromatherapy - Healthy - Child - The Methods
There are two ways to use aromatherapy on children. You can use essential oils to get a child well - which is a home-help form of clinical aromatherapy and is the main subject of these pages.
Aromatherapy can be used simply to give a sense of well-being - which is never far from our minds. And more elaborated upon is the Caring Touch Massage.
All essential oils should be sold with a dropper-hole insert already in place, which makes measuring easy. Essential oils differ in terms of their density and viscosity. The watery-type, like lavender, come out of the dropper-hole, while you have to be patient with the thicker type of essential oils, like sandalwood.
In following chapters "The A-Z of conditions," there are recommended methods and instructions for the number of drops to use on children of different age groups. The amounts are very specific for a particular condition and are ever a general rule.
There are however, general guidelines for the amount of essential oil that should be used with a child of a particular age, for all the different methods, and they are given below.
Baths | Amounts To Use |
Run the bath as usual, then ad a teaspoon of diluted essential oil, and swish the water around. Shut the door to keep the aroma in the bathroom. | Dilute in 2 teaspoons or 10ml of vegetable oil: |
Newborn-6 months 1drop, and use half this amount | |
Use essential oils diluted in a small amount of vegetable oil, milk, or diluted milk powder |
6 months -2 years - 1 drop, and use half the amount. |
In baths, diluted essential oils are gentler on children's delicate skin. | 2-5 years - 1-2 drops, and use half the amount |
6-10 years - 1-3 drops | |
*Unless following instructions elsewhere in these pages. | 11 and over - 1-4 drops |
Body Oils and Body Rub | Amount To Use |
Use the body oil or body rub like a lotion - just smooth it on the skin. For suggested well-being blends, see Caring Touch Massage.
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Dilute in 1 ounce of vegetable oil. |
If using one single essential oil, jus add it to the base, vegetable, oil already in the bottle. | Newborns - 0-1 drop |
2-6 months - 1-2 drops | |
If using two or more essential oils, put them into the empty bottle first, mix them well, by rolling the bottle between your hands, and then pour in the vegetable oil - up to the " shoulder" (not as far as the neck of the bottle, and roll again. | 6-12 months - 1-3 drops |
1-4 years - 1-5 drops | |
*see blending notes | 5-7 years 3-6 drops |
8-12 years 5-9 drops | |
*Unless following instructions elsewhere in the book. | 12 years and over - 5 - 10 drops |
Reference: Aromatherapy For The Healthy Child: Valerie Ann Worwood
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