Aromatherapy and Weight Loss - Aromatherapy and Weight Loss

Aromatherapy and Weight Loss
Raw Candles
1712 W Albion Ave.
Chicago, IL 60626
(773) 317-4663

ABOUT RAW CANDLES
I am not just a candle maker.

I am a fragrance artist.

Wax is my medium.

Natural essences and colors make up my palette.

This is my passion - my life.

I won't bore you with the minute details of Raw Candles' history. This is a short story, really. My name is Kevin Lemel and I have a gift. It was not until I moved to Chicago at the age of 18 that I came to this realization, while studying aromatherapy. When fragrance fills my senses, it relays a story to my brain that can be recited. I believe that scent is the key to unlocking lost memory. I have many stories to share with you in the form of my unique and special fragrances. You just have to be open to the experience that is Raw Candles.

My knowledge of aromatherapy and natural fragrances derives from a great deal of reading, smelling, and experimenting. Over the years, I have amassed a sizable collection of essential oils, essences, and high-grade perfume with which to tinker. And tinker I do! Each of my candle fragrances are touched, manipulated, and created by my hands and reproduced in volume by a local source.

In 1999 I began to use candles as a host for my fragrance creations. The addition of rich, vibrant colors, and 100% cotton wicks, gave my candles more depth, and a cleaner burn. Each candle is completely crafted by hand in my Chicago candle studio. Raw Candles are pieces of art - each with its own unique texture and attitude.

Recently, I have developed Raw Reed Diffusers for those who want a lasting, continuous scent without a flame. Each will fragrance a good-sized area, providing over 6 months of worry-free pleasure to you and your guests.

I guarantee every product I sell 100%. Raw Candles are minimally packaged and labeled to make for a greener company and world. We reuse shipping boxes, packing, and paper to help with the recycling effort. I am dedicated to making my customers happy, while honoring our planet. Please reuse or recycle our packaging.

Raw Candles are gifts for those who deserve the very best.

Illuminate Your Imagination.

Aromatherapy and Weight Loss
Our sense of smell is directly linked to our survival and directly linked to our emotional center not our rational or cerebral cortex. Without having to intellectually respond to scent, we can react very quickly or unconsciously. Sense of smell can help us control appetite and all those irrational responses we have to food. Perhaps our sense of smell used consciously can give us control where our will power failed. Perhaps using scent can control cravings.

The Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Institute of Chicago found that inhaling a culinary scent (Basil, Oregano, Lemon, etc.) regularly throughout the day, especially when hungry can suppress the desire to taste and therefore eat. By inhaling an aroma six times in each nostril, the desire to eat is inhibited. Dr. Hirsch in his research found that sniffing three times in each nostril was sufficient. If the scent is not adequately smelled, it can increase the desire to eat so it is important to smell the oil deeply and as many times as suggested. They also found that the oils should be changed daily for the best effect. We are naturally attracted to different smells and tastes each day and eating the same foods again and again leads to feelings of deprivation which is the most important cause of failure of most diets. Cheating on a diet could just be another way to increase variety in the diet. Dr. Hirsch in his study also found that you could not smell too much. In fact, the more people that used scent to control their appetite, the more weight they lost in his study.

Which scents to use

Most people tend to prefer sweet smells. Chocolate fragrance creates serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is linked with cravings for sweets. Smelling chocolate can reduce the desire for sweets. Banana, green apples, and peppermint were found to be most successful. The flower and medicinal smelling oils were least effective. The oils associated with cooking or culinary herbs were best.

Fragrances are not essential oils and some people do not like using synthetic products such as fragrances as they can create allergic reactions. Essential oils are natural products usually steam distilled from plant material. Most people seem to handle natural essential oils more easily, but people can have allergic reactions to essential oils too. See what works for you.

Essential Oils
Allspice Cinnamon Leaf Ginger Black Pepper
Bitter Almond Clementine Grapefruit Peppermint
Anise Clove Bud Laurel Leaf Rosemary
Basil Coriander Seed Lemon Sage
Caraway Seed Cornmint Lime Sassafras
Cassia Bark Cumin Seed Marjoram Savory
Celery Leaves Black Cumin Mentha Citrata Spearmint
Celery Seed Dill Seed Nutmeg Thyme
Cilantro Dill Weed Orange Vanilla
Cinnamon Bark Fennel Parsley Wintergreen
Fragrances
Strawberry Apple Pie Butter Cream Peach
Chocolate Sugar Cookie Maple Syrup

How to use the essential oils and/or fragrances to control appetite

Choose three or more essential oils to use through out your day. Make sure that you carry them on you or keep them close by. The more you use them; the more effective they will be. Each day change the oils you used previously with three new ones. When you find you are tempted, you feel hungry, or beginning to eat a meal, just open the bottle and take at least three whiffs in each nostril. Breath as deeply as you can especially with the one nostril that is partially closed. Put the cap back on. You do not want to diffuse or use in the space constantly as you become used to the smell and it is not as effective. The goal here is not to eat, but to eat when you want and how much you want easily and comfortably.

Caution

People with asthma or migraine headaches may find that sniffing a variety of smells can aggravate their conditions so they need to be very careful.

Toxicity of the liver has been reported when people use extreme amounts of oil. Essential oils are not water-soluble. The liver must break them down the oil into a more soluble form by the use of enzymes. If the oil is introduced into the body at a rate faster than the liver can convert it, toxicity can result. Primarily this has been noted in skin application, but it is worth noting so that one is respectful in using the oils. Inhaling as instructed here should not cause a problem.

Information provided courtesy of Gritman Essential Oils. For more information, visit: www.gritman.com

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