Essential oils offer many physical and mental benefits. Find out which five essential oils everyone should have in their home.

Essential oils have long been used for traditional wellbeing practices and aromatherapy. Usage of botanical extracts can be dated back to at least 4500BC in Egypt. More recently, essential oils have become mainstream as new medical research confirms some of their long-claimed benefits. Essential oils are concentrated compounds extracted from various plants. These extracts typically smell strongly of the plant they come from, and each has its own therapeutic or medicinal application. Some of the areas essential oils can help with include skin conditions, mental wellbeing, pain, and respiratory problems.  Here are five popular essential oils and how you can…