Essential oils

essential oil is extracted from aromatic plants. it can comes either from flower, leaf, root or other part of the plant. this aromatic oil claimed to have therapeutic qualities. so therapy with this oil called aromatherapy.

to enhance the luluran experience (lulur is the scrub paste, then luluran means scrubbing with lulur paste or...luluring?) essential oil is added to lulur mixture as well as for the massage oil. but this oil is not easy to get and their price is not cheap.
indonesia have a lot of aromatic plants, but only few was extracted comercially. one that is common is patchouli oil that comes from nilam herbs. in jawa barat nilam farm can be found around subang and garut. click here to know more about destillation process and essential oils.