Healing Property Guide
Curated by Aiye Apothecary
Essential & Carrier Oil Skincare Benefits
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Vanilla essential oil has the ability to uplift moods, improve sleep quality, and boost skin health. It contains antioxidants and B vitamins that are essential for healthy skin.
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Tea Tree essential oil is traditionally used as an antibacterial and anti-fungal treatment and may help with nail fungus when used topically.
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Lemongrass essential oil is known for its antibacterial, anti fungal, anti inflammatory properties and for soothing muscular nerves and pain.
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Birch essential oil is an anti-inflammatory and pain reliever.
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Clove essential oil has been shown to help with nail fungus, joint pain, and increasing circulation.
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Camphor essential oil has anti-inflammatory properties and is used to relieve irritation, itching, and pain. Camphor may help treat muscle aches and pains, while stimulating circulation, by interacting with receptors on the sensory nerves. Camphor oil can also help reduce chronic muscle and joint pain over longer periods.
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Lavender essential oil promotes the healing of skin tissue and promotes relaxation and can improve sleep. It is full of antioxidants and works as an anti-inflammatory.
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Palo santo essential oil treats pain, inflammation, stress and clears negative energy.
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Peppermint essential oil relieves migraine and headaches, muscle pain and itching.
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Yarrow oil can reduces inflammation, is effective in speeding healing, reduces the appearance of wrinkles, improves skin softness, and keeps the skin free from bacteria that can lead to breakouts.
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Jojoba oil balances the body's natural sebum production. Sebum is a naturally-produced oil found on skin, and helps keep skin hydrated and wards off bacteria. Jojoba Oil also contains a B-complex that can help repair skin damage, improve skin tone and make skin more radiant.
Botanical Spiritual Benefits
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Rose hydrosol opens your heart and third eye to a clearer sense of self, ease anxiety, and generally elevate our mood.
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Sagebrush purifies ones body and soul. It is also used to cleanse or purify a space or object of bad spirits or negative energies or influences.
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Lemongrass is an herb of spiritual purification, It symbolizes clarity, focus, open communication, protection and spiritual connection. It helps remove obstacles to establish a clear path ahead on your journey to spiritual enlightenment. It provides protection and guidance along the way.
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Palo santo has the power to purify, attract positive energy, clear negative energy and bring physical and spiritual healing.
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Vetiver can help us recognize our inner wisdom by strengthening the connection to our intuition and heart. Vetiver can allow us to quiet the mind in meditation and prayer. This can help us tap in to fully receiving an abundance of pure energy and revive the spirit.
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Marigold is a spiritually potent flower with the ability to turn negative sensations into positive ones. A natural mood booster. Magically Marigold is used for cleansing and detoxification, happiness, attract positive relationships, health and healing, healing depression, skin healing, death and rebirth, heart healing, protection, success, vitality and walking between the worlds.
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Yarrow oil symbolizes love, healing, protection, courage, intuition, balance, peace, good luck and positive energy.
Crystal Healing
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Smokey quartz is one of the most effective grounding and anchoring stones and rising vibrations during meditation. This anchoring stone has a strong link with the earth and the base chakras.
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Clear quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier. It absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy, and attunes you to your spiritual purpose.
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Black tourmaline cleanses, purifies, and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. It grounds spiritual energy, clears and balances all the chakras, and forms a protective shield around the body.
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Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone, a bringer of light. It raises consciousness and connects with universal energies. It deflects unwanted energies from the aura and prevents energy leakage.
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Shungite is over 2 billion years old and is incredibly powerful for energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual purification. The grounding and protective energy of this stone helps to neutralize negative energy stored within the mind, body, and spirit.
Essential oils are concentrated plant extracts that retain the natural fragrance and essence of their source.
Carrier oils are used to dilute essential oils and “carry” them to your skin.
The carrier oils used in Aiye Apothecary products include shea butter, coconut oil, jojoba, sweet almond oil, pure vitamin E oil, olive oil, avocado oil, black castor oil and argan oil.
Nutrients in the Carrier Oils
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Antioxidants help protect the skin's surface from oxidative damage caused by environmental aggressors like UV and pollution. It also promotes healthy skin cell growth by repairing damage of the collagen layer in the skin tissues.
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Fatty acids act as a “refatting” agent, restoring natural oils and rapidly creating moisture. This restores the barrier between your skin and the outside environment, holding moisture in and reducing your risk of dryness. Fatty acids nourish and condition your skin.
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Vitamin A works by increasing the skin-cell turnover rate, smoothing the skin’s surface. It also plumps skin by stimulating the production of collagen, the framework that keeps your skin from sagging.
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Vitamin E helps skin by preventing cellular damage and boosts moisture.