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Live Learning: Hydrolats, Their Properties and Uses

Provided by Penny Price Academy Of Aromatherapy

Course Overview

A course beginning with the source of all life – water!

Discover the many benefits and uses of Hydrolats. These ‘essential’ waters are beginning to find their rightful place in aromatherapy practice, for use on a wide variety of common conditions and for promotion of vitality. They are suited for use in all client groups. Discover their wonderful properties and benefits to the human body both in the internal and external pathways, by tasting them and blending them for various conditions.

Hydrolats are the water by-product of the distillation process and are explained through history, through chemistry, through usage and through their properties. The course will teach about safety in application and administration, and several hydrolats will be discussed in detail for clinical treatments.

Course Content:

  • The importance of power and water
  • Healing treatments
  • Increased dilution
  • How do we obtain these waters?
  • Quality
  • Keeping quality
  • Reasons for using hydrolats
  • Hydrolats in association with other therapeutic products
  • Uses and therapeutic values of hydrolats
  • Uses of distilled water
  • Methods of use
  • Cautions
  • Individual Hydrolats