For millennia, nature was the pharmacy and the
natural world provided the ingredients for
medicine and beauty. There were two approaches:
Aromatherapy (the use of essential oils to enhance
and heal) and Phytotherapy (the use of particular
plants products to prevent and treat illness). In the
19th century the industrial revolution defined a
new relationship between man and nature, and
one aspect of this revolution was the development
of the chemical industry. Over time this industry,
with its emphasis on standardization, a particular
approach to health, and the profit motive, began to
substitute synthetic ingredients for vegetal
substances and in this way interrupted a long
tradition of folk medicine. However, recently
people have begun to rediscover the value and
pleasure found in natural products while
recognizing the superior results achieved from
Aromatherapy and Phytotherapy.
The science of Aromatherapy studies the properties
and indications of essential oils used to identify
their beneficial qualities. These include properties
that make them suitable for the maintenance and
health of the skin, for personal hygiene, as well as
to prevent unbalanced skin conditions. They also
help protect cellular membranes from premature
aging processes and to diffuse aromatic scents at
home to perfume and disinfect. ERBE
aromatherapy employs true essential oils that are
distilled in their pure, undiluted form and that are
never reconstructed or adulterated.
The systems of extractions used are the results of
millennium-old cultures and communities that
dedicated great efforts and resources to the study
and applications of the curative properties derived
from medicinal plants and harvested in their
³balsamic time² period. (The moment when the
plants offer their highest therapeutic virtue.)
ERBE has maintained this tradition and has built on
the experience of our predecessors processes of
our botanicals derived from the indigenous flora of
the Mediterranean.
These plants offer their best qualities when grown
in their natural habitat environment the plants
work in concert, so that their essences function to
balance, correct and strengthen the skinıs immune
system. They also act to prevent a wide range of
skin disorders associated with aging, resulting in
long-lasting, positive effects.
Skin is not merely a sack covering our bodyıs
bones, muscles and organs. It is, in fact, our largest
organ and acts as an armor to protect us from the
corrosive external environment. Aromatherapy is
one the most effective ways to prevent oxidations,
delay aging processes such as loss of skin tone and
elasticity, to nourish, protect, purify and
rejuvenate. Treatments with essential oils are more
intense and therapeutic than those products, such
as moisturizers, that lack these essential
ingredients.
Essential oils can never be used directly on the
skin; they must be blended with moisturizers or
diluted in some medium such as a vegetable base
oil like: Sweet Almond Oil, Evening Primrose,
Jojoba, Avocado, Olive, Karite, Grape Seed Oil.
