Essential Oils On Feet: Immune Boost or Bust

Foot Care is an import component of health care and essential oils are wonderful substances - that can be incorporated into a health conscientious regime,
BUT ...

Rubbing essential oils oil on your feet will not boost your immune system!
Essential Oils Do Not Contain Vitamins & Nutrients

The problem lies with the 'Language' used by many who market their products.
The word 'Support' is by-far a better word than 'Boost' or 'Strengthen'

What will improve your immune system?
✅Get Plenty of Rest 😴
✅Eat A healthy Diet 🥦🍊🍎
✅TAKE anti-oxidants such as Vitamin A, C, D & E and Selenium & Zinc, research indicates that these nutrients are important in supporting the immune system.
✅Exercise: 🏃🧘🏾‍♀️💃 improves health.
✅Want to improve your health? Don’t smoke and reduce your alcohol intake.
✅Reducing your exposure to synthetic perfumes and fragrance is another component of living a healthy life.

Essential Oils on your feet will make your feet smell great - and may help to control athletes foot, because some essential oils have anti-fungal properties.

A foot rub or body massage with some olive oil, coconut oil or lotion with a few drops of various essential oils added may help with the temporary relief of musculoskeletal pain.† 

❌But the Peppermint oil rubbed on your feet or on your belly won’t fix your irritable bowel syndrome. But the massage might make you windy, and that will feel better. 💨😌
Except it may not make the person next to you feel better. LOL

A foot rub with a lavender lotion will smell and feel fab - but you had better keep your foot near your nose while sleeping🦶+👃 = 😴🤣

Now there is some validity to smelling lovely aromas - they do in fact - Inhibit and Excite cells in the olfactory area of the brain 🧠 which release certain neurotransmitters that may have positive physiological and psychological outcomes.

Sharing Truths - Not Nonsense.
Sandra Topper, has been a Certified Aromatherapist in Canada since 1993 and is  registered with the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy as a Clinical Aromatherapist & Aromachologist.

†These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration or by Health Canada. This information and/or these statements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease and should not be relied upon when making important medical decisions.

Note:  Aromatherapy, like any other natural therapy is intended to complement not replace traditional medicine.

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