Safety Guidelines
Essential oils may last up to seven years when stored properly. These proper conditions would include...
What are dark, tightly sealed glass containers stored in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight?
What is 68-76 degrees?
This branch of massage therapy is known for the use of fragrant and essential oils by inhalation or by applying a diluted form to the skin.
What is Aromatherapy?
This number of drops should be added to massage lubricants.
What is 15-20 drops?
Safety Guidelines
The Epilepsy Society (2019), Salvo
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the leading cause of office-related injuries is slips, trips, and falls. The leading cause for these injuries would be...
What is inadequate lighting, slippery floors, materials left in walkways, falling over electrical cords or wires, and tripping over open drawers or file cabinets?
These sounds facilitate relaxation by blocking out distracting noise.
What are steady, low sounds, including white noise?
This definition may best be used to describe essential oils.
What are concentrated essences of plants that possess characteristic fragrances of the plants from which they are extracted?
This number of drops should be added to diffusers.
What is 10-15 drops?
Massage Environment
People who have high sensitivity or irritability to strong scents or specific scents may find it difficult to relax or concentrate, given their levels of tolerability. Given this factor, what scents would be most appropriate to diffuse within a professional massage facility?
What is high quality pure essential non-allergenic oils or preferably none?
These hues and colors in lighting facilitate a cozy environment.
What are orange, yellow, red, and other warm colors?
These are the top ten most popular essentials with some associated anecdotal effects.
Essential oils may enter the body this way.
What is through the mucous membranes, inhalation, or by absorbtion through the skin?
Aromatherapy
Salvo
The Epilepsy Society recommends AVOIDING these essential oils/scents when working with people with seizure disorders.
What are rosemary, fennel, sage, eucalyptus, hyssop, camphor, and spike lavender?
These hues, tones, and colors for walls are considered and used for a calming environment.
What are neutral colors such as taupe, gray, beige, white, and other muted tones?
These essential oils are derived from the flowers, fruits, roots, grasses, leaves, seeds, tree blossoms, woods, and resins of plants.
What are lavender, jasmine, bergamot, lemon, citronella, eucalyptus, peppermint, ginger, vetiver, black pepper, fennel, ylang-ylang, clary sage, sandalwood, and frankincense?
For body treatment products such as masks or scrubs, it is safest to administer after being conducted this way.
What is mixing the essential oil(s) in an oil-based carrier, THEN adding it to the body treatment product?
Salvo
THESE essential oils should NOT be applied before direct exposure to sunlight because they are photosensitive and may cause a rash.
What are angelica, lavender, lemon, orange, tangerine, mandarin, and bergamot?
Low lighting is suggested for facilitating a relaxing environment. If bulbs are used, the recommended wattage is between...
What is 45-60 watts?
15-23 percent of massage practitioners who use certain essential oils and massage products in their practice are at an increased risk for have had conditions linked to...
What is occupational contact dermatitis?
When the correct number of drops is adminsitered properly, dilution may successfully increase _____ percent, protecting sensitive areas and avoiding adverse reactions.
What is 2.5-3 percent?
Freebie: According to Roxanne, every modern packaged food, despite calories, carbs, and fats, is referred to as...
"POISON!!!"