I think it's important to keep in mind too what hormones may be coursing through our body at the time that we use or apply oils and keep into consideration that on one day we may experience a reaction (allergic or otherwise) or intolerance and another we may not. Also distinguishing between an allergic reaction and an intolerance is important as well as recognizing that something that manifests as an intolerance may just be a warning from the body that too much could cause a more serious allergic reaction, or it may just be an intolerance (temporary or not). For example, my daughter had an intolerance to milk- it caused her pain, and instant diarrhea, however it did not cause her face to swell up, close off her airways and have need for an epi-pen and an emergency visit as it does for my neighbor's child.
The first day I opened my oils it was Thanksgiving. My little niece had a headache and I'd heard peppermint was a great option for that, so I hurried over to her, put peppermint all over her forehead and waited for her to feel fine. Well, she is a fair skinned redhead/strawberry blond and immediately her head turned red, she was crying, and very uncomfortable. It freaked her parents out and shied them away from the oils. I was new, knew nothing, and thought I was helping. I'm not sure if I even knew how to dilute it. Now I made a lot of errors there, and I've since learned, but point being, a spot test would have served me and her well. She is still very sensitive to the oils because of her skin type and needs a carrier no matter what.
Just some thoughts on the subject. I completely respect Dr. Pappas and his knowledge of the oils. He states on his FB page that he doesn't get into how people use the oils for medicinal/therapeutic purposes (though he may use them that way for himself at home), and his area of expertise is with the chemical nature of the plants. So it is always important to keep in mind the nature of the plant, if it may have possible reactions then that is just it's nature. If I wanted to know more about ways to use them, or not use them for therapeutic or medicinal use, I would refer to those who use them professionally in that kind of as setting such as an wholistic practioner or wellness center. I also find the many different forums, websites, and share sites such as these are great places to learn and research for ourselves what our choices are and judge our own personal use based on our own gathering of information and experience.
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:27:47 PM UTC-8, Lori Spalding wrote:
ESSENTIAL OIL MYTH #6: If you use a pure essential oil on your skin and it causes a rash or burn then its just your body detoxing.FACT: They tell me this is a myth that quite a number of people are spreading but its hard for me to believe that there are people out there who are actually accepting this as a viable explanation. But I guess there must be a significant amount of people believing it because a number of you have asked me to address this. I suppose it comes from the desperate attempt for people to come up with some kind of positive explanation for any adverse reactions that natural products might cause us. I mean we all know that if something is natural that it must be good for us, right? Let's just think about this logically for a second. Let's imagine you rub poison ivy on your skin and you get a really bad rash. Is that just your body detoxing? Of course not. Come on people, if you get a rash or burn from putting something on your skin its because its IRRITATING YOUR SKIN. Furthermore, this "detox" explanation seems to ignore the very definition of what it means to detox. Generally, a detox reaction is a response that the body undergoes when it has something TAKEN AWAY from it. Think of the body of a drug addict "detoxifying" during the withdrawal process as he tries to get off the drugs. But in the case of using an essential oil on your skin we are ADDING something new to our bodies that your body has no prior experience with, any bad reaction could not logically be classified as a detox reaction. A rash or burn from an essential oil is basically your skin screaming at you "hey, stop that and stop it now!" This is why you should always do a patch test on a small area of skin and wait a while to see what happens before you go all crazy and start bathing yourself in an essential oil that you have not used before. I know many aromatherapist recommend that you dilute the essential oils in a carrier oil for skin use. But no matter what concentration you use them at you should still do a patch test first for any new oils before moving on with the oil. Remember these are very concentrated solutions of organic molecules, let's be safe rather than sorry.
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