Aromatherapy massage using pre blended oils the history of the use of essential oils on the human body goes back more than two thousand years bc the use of plants and their oils in the treatment of illness and in the stimulating feeling of wellbeing is recorded in the bible hippocrates claimed that the way to health was to have an aromatic bath and scented massage every day english healers in the thirteenth century recorded the use of aromatic oils and during the plague essential oils w