Mobile aromatherapy treatments
Bring relaxing essential oil treatments to clients' homes, offices and events with a portable table.
- C$800-4k
- Side hustle
- Out and about
Estimates for a small start in Canada, not guarantees.
What it is
Relaxation treatments using diluted essential oils, delivered at the client's location with a portable table and your own oil blends. In provinces where massage therapy is regulated, check with the provincial regulator what hands-on work you may offer without being registered. Until you have confirmed this, you can build the service around options such as aromatic consultations, custom blends, scent-based relaxation, and light hand and foot treatments, and avoid calling it massage or massage therapy.
Your first three steps
- Contact the massage therapy regulator in your province, if there is one, to check whether the hands-on treatments you plan fall within regulated massage therapy and which words you may use in your service names and ads
- Take an aromatherapy course and decide which treatments you will offer based on what the regulator tells you
- Buy a portable table, linens, quality oils and carrier oils, then get liability insurance that covers mobile treatments
Who pays
Busy professionals, people who prefer a treatment at home, new parents, older adults, workplaces booking staff wellness days, and hosts of parties or bridal events.
How it makes money
Price per treatment (for example 60 or 90 minutes), with extras for custom blends, travel fees outside your core area, and group or corporate bookings.
Skills that help
- Hands-on treatment skills from a recognized course
- Knowledge of essential oil safety and dilution
- Warm, professional manner in clients' homes
- Booking and route planning
Watch out for
- Massage therapy is a regulated profession in some provinces, including Ontario and British Columbia, and titles such as Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) and massage therapist are protected there. Check with your provincial regulator what you may offer and how you may describe it before taking bookings
- Clients may ask for receipts for health benefit claims. Check with insurers before promising this, as plans usually only cover registered practitioners
- Commercial general liability or professional insurance that covers treatments at clients' locations; check that your insurer accepts your qualifications
- Allergies, pregnancy, skin conditions and medications, so use a consultation form and avoid health or cure claims
- Check with your municipality whether you need a business licence, and plan for winter driving and cancellations
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