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A massage therapist incorporates
aromatherapy into her client's treatment.

Aromatherapy can affect our mood and our desires, yet few people truly understand the psychological impact on our lives. Real estate agents bake cookies at open houses to "invite" people into the house and make them feel comfortable. Massage therapists use candles and essential oils to soothe and stimulate patients. Certain smells can even bring back memories from nostalgic times during childhood. Our pheromones produce subtle scents that subconsciously draw us to others' in a form of human chemistry. And the body has a natural defense mechanism associated with smell, so some smells repel people—like the smell of diesel or rotting food.

But do smells really put people under a spell? This resource center is designed to help people understand how aromatherapy works, and how it has become not only a supplemental profession to massage therapy, reflexology or acupuncture, but also a successful profession in its own right—especially during a time when natural health and alternative medicine are recognized in the spa and wellness boom.

Aromatherapists use naturally extracted essences from plants to balance, harmonize and promote the health of body, mind and spirit. Learn more about this potent profession and discover if aroma is part of your career therapy. Here are some resources to help you learn more about aromatherapy careers:

Aromatherapy Career and Training Overview

Get an aromatherapy career overview and learn whether studying the properties of essential oils is part of your career calling. Get an aromatherapy certification and licensing overview in addition to aromatherapist career outlook and salary information. Get the answers you need to begin your aromatherapy training education today.

Careers in Aromatherapy

Learn how aromatherapy is becoming a diverse and broadly valued profession. There are many careers in aromatherapy, and finding the right one for you will save you both time and money. Do you want to be an aromatherapy counselor and promote emotional well being by using your essential oil concoctions to help alter patient mood? Maybe you want to become an entrepreneur and create your own aromatherapy product line. Whether you just want to supplement your massage or reflexology practice or begin a private aromatherapy business, this article will give you perspective into the many careers in aromatherapy.

Aromatherapy Courses

Aromatherapy education usually involves various levels of training, and courses can vary from learning the basics of essential oils to the complex nature of physiology. There are even courses about aromachology, or how scents interact with the human brain. Get aromatherapy course synopses and additional aromatherapy training information to choose the right aromatherapy school and training program for you.

The Science of Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is more than dabbing a little lavender oil under your nose or using rosemary in your massage oil. The study of scent and the practice of aromatherapy are both fascinating and highly complex. Learn the importance of aromatherapy and essential oil training and how aromatherapy is as much a science as it is an art.

The History of Aromatherapy

Although aromatherapy has just begun to be recognized in spa and wellness treatments, it has a history that spans thousands of years. Learn how the intriguing history of aromatherapy that began in ancient China and Egypt around 2700 B.C. has affected the healing aromatherapy and aromatherapy massage practices of today.

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Try our Spa, Massage & Beauty Schools page. There you will find a comprehensive list of schools and program descriptions. You can also request information from the schools that interest you most.

Sources:
Nature's Gift Aromatherapy, 2008
WebRing, Inc, Aromatherapy at Home, 2006
PsychologyMajors.com, 2008.