It’s said, eating healthy and exercising is the only way the body can lose excess fat. But you can improve the weight loss process with aromatherapy. Science says rubbing diffusing, inhaling, or some essential oils can also aid to decrease cravings, enhance your energy levels, and increase the process of weight loss.

How Essential Oils  help to Lose Weight?

Essential oils mainly influence your feeling and can either relax you or boost your energy level. It will aid many people in overcoming psychological barriers to weight loss, such as unhealthy eating, junk food cravings, weariness, and a lack of motivation. They can stimulate your metabolism, help with digestion. Your body may burn more calories every day without even trying if you have a high metabolism and a healthy digestive system.

Most common Essential Oils use for Weight Loss

1. Grapefruit Essential Oil

It is one of the most useful aromatherapy oils for boosting metabolism. It includes nootkatone, a substance that boosts your metabolism and helps you lose weight. It prevents obesity, acts as an appetite suppressant, improves mood, and relieves stress[1].

2. Ginger Root Essential Oil

Ginger essential oil is both a fantastic digestive aid and a solution for the overweight. It contains a chemical, gingerols, that decrease intestinal inflammation and help to increase absorption of minerals and vitamins from food[2]. This oil also helps to lower sugar cravings that might push your balanced diet off track.

3. Peppermint Essential Oil

It is an excellent option for weight loss because it decreases the desire for food and increases exercise efficiency. The minty aroma refreshes and energizes the brain to keep you active and relaxed[3]. The oil has a cooling effect, so use it to soothe stressed, sore muscles.  Before working out, you can use peppermint to warm up too.

4. Bergamot Essential Oil

The essential Bergamot oil has properties that enhance the mood. This citrus oil increases stamina and well-being, eliminating issues such as emotional eating and reducing workouts[4]. The daily use of citrus extract lowered the Body Mass Index and the amount of glucose, which leads to weight gain when not controlled.

5. Lavender oil

Lavender oil is a great stress reliever; it relieves anxiety and helps get some better night sleep[5]. Both of these things can be helpful if you want to lose kilos and reduce the cravings for unhealthy food.

Bottom-line

These essential oils contain active, organic compounds that burn away fat, speed up metabolism, energize the body,  improve well-being, and more. Essential oils don’t show the magic. But if you practice them with various other healthy activities, such as: work out, diet plan etc., you’ll be surprised at the outcomes. Don’t wait for obesity. Try essential oils, began your lose weight journey, and feel healthy and beautiful.

 References:

• Silver, Heidi J., Mary S. Dietrich, and Kevin D. Niswender. “Effects of grapefruit, grapefruit juice and water preloads on energy balance, weight loss, body composition, and cardiometabolic risk in free-living obese adults.” Nutrition & metabolism 8.1 (2011): 1-11.
• Taghizadeh, Mohsen, et al. “The effect of dietary supplements containing green tea, capsaicin and ginger extracts on weight loss and metabolic profiles in overweight women: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial.” Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 70.4 (2017): 277-285.
• Mesbahzadeh, Behzad, and Mohsen Akbari. “The effects of different levels of peppermint alcoholic extract on body-weight gain and blood biochemical parameters of adult male Wistar rats.” Electronic physician 7.6 (2015): 1376.
• Capomolla, Antonio Soccorso, et al. “Atherogenic index reduction and weight loss in metabolic syndrome patients treated with a novel pectin-enriched formulation of bergamot polyphenols.” Nutrients 11.6 (2019): 1271.
• Ali-Shtayeh, Mohammed S., et al. “Downy Lavender oil: a promising source of antimicrobial, antiobesity, and anti-Alzheimer’s disease agents.” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2020 (2020).