NATURAL AROMATHERAPY

What is Natural Aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy is the use of natural aromatic plant essences and essential oils to support well-being and help maintain a natural and sustainable lifestyle balance. It is both an art and a science and working with essential oils and aromatic plants is a holistic and dynamic approach to well-being and life. 
Some plant essences contain more than 1000 different molecules. It has taken 4.5 billion years for the earth to produce such wealth and diversity. Nature’s innate contains everything in a state of perfection and total balance that allows to rebalance our body. Plants contain active ingredients in some specific parts; either their leaves, flowers, buds, stems, bark, roots. Each has its own way for collecting, and storing its essence. Rose, jasmine, lavender offer their flowers, bergamot and lemon their fruits, angelica, iris and valerian their roots. The trunks make their contributions by offering their wood like cedar, sandalwood or their sap; frankincense, galbaneum, myrrh, or only their bark like cinnamon ...
Nature is offered to us to be used but cannot be copied. No chromatograph can copy nature in its whole. Nature cannot be patented. ​​
​Hana Tisserand, Certified Aromatherapist 

Hana Tisserand

NATURAL AROMATHERAPY DEFINITIONS
 
Natural Aromatherapy
Natural Aromatherapy is distinguished from aromatherapy by the use of 100% natural materials and by the prohibition of certain ingredients, including Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and synthetic substances.
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Natural Materials
Natural Materials are those materials (flowers, plants, etc.) grown using the principles of the New Luxury Code in respecting the environment and workers as well as the avoidance of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) seeds, and using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices including the use of natural pest management, such as biologicals.
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Certified Natural Aromatherapists
Certified Natural Aromatherapists are committed to developing products composed of 100% natural materials. Certified Natural Aromatherapists can market their own natural products and services online, through a single retail store of their own, or wholesale their natural products and services to retailers.

Become A NATURAL AROMATHERAPIST

The following is a Natural Aromatherapy course given by Hana Tisserand, Certified Aromatherapist, Teacher and Member of The Teacher's Academy.

Introduction and Over-view of Course:  Our goal is to introduce students of natural perfumery to the concepts and context of the practice of aromatherapy, giving them a deep understanding of essential oils as a raw material, and of the basic therapeutic applications of major essential oils.
The program is interactive, comprehensive and lively. Think of it as your expertly guided journey into the world of aromatherapy.
It is a 4 weeks course, with two modules each week delivered as online lecture with a Q&A afterwards .

Weekly Modules:

Module 1 - History and cultural context of aromatherapy and aromatic medicine - historical and regional use of aromatic medicine through time

• - Overlap between fragrance and medicine through history
• - Aromatherapy in the 20th century: France and beyond
• - Different applications of aromatherapy nowadays (medicine, massage, beauty therapy, perfumery)

Module 2 - Essential oils: Production & Quality Control

• - Overview of aromatic plants, cultivation and harvesting, and distillation
• - Overview of resources needed with emphasis on sustainability
• - How to find good quality essential oil
• - Oxidation and proper storage of essential oils
• - Other extracts and materials used in aromatherapy (hydrolats, CO2 extracts)

Module 3 - Essential Oil Safety

• - Why safety matters even with natural ingredients - possible adverse reactions
• - The risk vs. benefit question
• - Safety guidelines and regulations

Module 4 - Effects of Essential Oils on our Body

• - Brief overview of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics - how essential oils interact with our cells
• - How essential oils interact with our brains
• - Most studied pharmacological effects of essential oils

Module 5 - Aromatherapy in Practice

• - Modes of application overview (inhalation, topical, ingestion) - inhalation and how it impacts our health
• - Dermal application and how it impacts our health

Module 6 - Essential Oil Profiles, part 1

• - Therapeutic benefit, fragrance benefit and therapeutic fragrance benefits overview
• - Benefits shared by most essential oils (antimicrobial, spasmolytic)
• - Highlights of 4 most researched essential oils (Lavender, Peppermint, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus)

Module 7 - Essential oil profiles, part 2

• - Highlights of other well-researched essential oils (including Patchouli, Rose, Jasmine, Bergamot, Orange, Citronella, Geranium, Turmeric, Clove, Copaiba, Myrrh, Immortelle, Ginger, Vetiver...)
• - Each profile will highlight the most important therapeutic property, fragrance note and other important facts for the oil

Module 8 - Using essential oils and creating a functional fragrance

• - Basic principles of formulating with essential oils
• - Working with different bases (oils, waxes and butters, alcohol-based perfumes)
• - Important considerations for formulation, including interactions and contraindications
• - Making a safe and conscious aromatherapeutic blend

The course is an intensive 4 week course (2 module / week)
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Once you become a Natural Aromatherapist, apply to the International Perfume Foundation Certification as Natural Aromatherapist.

This course is truly thoroughly thought out. It is a bit hard because we must assimilate more new concepts (with all the scientific and lab assessments), but it's a good challenge, and I feel it will prepare us for this profession, what we can expect to encounter. It also gives us in -depth knowledge to gain respect and authority as an aromatherapist, in case we must explain or educate our future clients or consumers about our products. It also makes us investigate more the composition or constituents of essential oils and their effects, that are important to know, for health and safety reasons." 
​Maria S. Rodriguez Genna

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