Essential Oils & Essences

Taking time to unwind and relax in our busy day to day lives can be a challenge and knowing exactly how to calm and relax yourself is another task altogether. But wouldn’t it be easier if it was as simple as breathing? But now it is. Using essential oils, you can inhale these soothing scents to help you unravel and relax for either a good night’s sleep, or to help you feel less stressed and anxious. 

What are essential oils?
Essential oils are mainly extracted from highly scented herbs and spices, such as clove, eucalyptus or rosemary. When inhaled, these scents travel to the emotion centre of the brain which is how these amazing aromatherapy oils can help to impact your mood.
The most common essential oils would be lavender oil as well as peppermint oil.

What is lavender oil and what does it do?
Lavender oil is an essential oil derived from the distillation of the lavender plant. Lavender essential oil is often used to help calm and unwind as it helps promote relaxation as well as having many other beneficial properties too which are less known like relieving anxiety, allergies, depression, nausea, and menstrual cramps. Lavender oil is commonly used to aid sleep, helping you to enter into a relaxed state and helping you to fall asleep quicker.

What does peppermint oil do?
Derived from the peppermint plant, peppermint oil is also a popular essence as it has multiple properties, from helping with digestion, sinuses and congestion as well as for soothing and relieving pain topically like aches.
There are many other popular aromatherapy essences which can positively impact your mood and emotions like eucalyptus oil and tea tree oil which also have other benefits too, where they can both be applied to the skin in a diluted form.
Try out some of our essential oils and see what they can do for you.