Have you ever caught a whiff of cinnamon and felt a boost in your mood instantly? Do you feel calmer and more at ease when using lavender lotion before bed? If you said yes, it’s not just a figment of your imagination!
Ask anybody who uses essential oils regularly, and they’ll probably agree: these natural botanicals can have powerful, positive effects on your mood and overall wellness.
Below are seven of our favorite essential oils that we use in Abbey St Clare products. Putting these essential oils in skincare products can enhance your mood as well as providing the soft, lustrous, healthy skin you want from a natural formula.
If you’re in the mood to nourish your skin and experience a quick aromatherapy session, look for products containing the following.
Many sleep-enhancing products contain lavender as a primary ingredient. This essential oil is a go-to solution to help with stress, anxiety, muscle tension, and insomnia.
Lavender smells wonderful and it’s known for its analgesic, antispasmodic, and even sedative effects. Lavender simply helps ease your tension and allow you to fall into a restful, natural sleep without medication side effects.
Lavender is also great for your skin, making it a prime choice for inclusion in lotions and face creams. Its antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties can help soothe and treat skin irritation.
Apply lavender hydrosol whenever you need to calm both your skin and your nerves or add a few drops of pure lavender essential oil to your choice of carrier oil or lotion for a custom formula.
Feel the beginnings of a scratchy throat coming on? Getting a little queasy on your cross-country road trip? Feeling nervous about a big work presentation coming up?
Lemon oil is so powerful and effective at easing various ills that using it in a diffuser helps treat a sore throat, combat morning sickness, and refresh your mind when you’re not at your best.
Lemon oil is also known as a powerhouse cleanser. The synthetic scent exists in many commercial cleaning products and skin cleansers, but you won’t experience the actual aromatherapy benefits unless you use real lemon essential oil.
Our Four Marauders Soap—formulated with lemon, among other refreshing and cleansing ingredients—cleans your skin and may help relieve your tension.
Not to be confused with lemon essential oil, lemon balm is part of the mint family. However, it gets its name from the lemon balm plant's delightful, refreshing lemony scent. To avoid confusion, some people refer to lemon balm as Melissa.
It’s a powerful antiviral, making it a favorite for everyone sick and tired of being sick and tired in the middle of cold and flu season. It’s also very soothing to sensitive skin—so much so that some parents use it (along with a baby-safe carrier oil) to calm newborn skin flare-ups.
Finally, lemon balm is another great calming agent that may ease your mind and prepare you for a solid night’s sleep.
If there’s one essential oil we recommend most highly for aging skin, it would be rose geranium. Rose geranium is considered one of the best natural options to hydrate dry, irritated, or aged skin cells and return them to their plump, healthy former glory. It also smells wonderful, so you’ll enjoy every single application of our Hibiscus-Rose Hydration Mist with rose geranium.
The scent is naturally calming, so you may simultaneously experience mind and skin stress relief.
Cinnamon is a great multipurpose essential oil for overall wellbeing. It has relaxing properties—making it another great choice for promoting restful sleep— and it can help boost your mood. Some people find that cinnamon helps with depression and anxiety.
Cinnamon may also help to reduce physical pain. It’s one of our favorite warming, anti-inflammatory oils because it can help to promote healing, reduce skin irritation, and even relax sore, tight muscles.
If you’re under the weather emotionally and physically, cinnamon may help. You can find it in our St. Luke’s Relief formula and other ingredients that help ease pain and encourage healing.
Sandalwood is an essential oil used in sacred rituals. It’s believed to be popular for this use because it helps enhance calmness, putting the user at ease and in a mindset to achieve spiritual connection. It’s also moisturizing, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and otherwise fantastic for the skin, so apply it whenever you need to help calm your mind and find your inner peace.
Sandalwood is in high demand so some suppliers use unethical or impure sources to maintain enough inventory. Abbey St Clare works carefully to ensure our sandalwood, which we use in our Kettle soap and Ginseng Firming Tonic, comes from sustainable and responsible sources.
You may have noticed a trend that all these essential oils help with relaxation and sleep. Sweet marjoram is no exception. Sweet marjoram belongs to the oregano family—which most people associate with a spicy, invigorating taste and smell—but this herb has potent antianxiety and anti-tension properties.
Use this herb as part of your bedtime ritual to help release stress. It’s one of the ingredients in our soothing Vesper’s Oil formula, making it easy for you to apply whenever you need a break to relax for a moment.
It’s important to understand that you’ll only get mood-boosting, aromatherapy benefits from true essential oils and hydrosols. Synthetic fragrances made to mimic lavender or lemon balm smell nice for a while, but they don’t have the relaxing, calming benefits available from essential oils.
Abbey St Clare always uses real essential oils and hydrosols, not synthetic fragrances. We would love for you to experience how marjoram-infused Vesper’s Oil helps you achieve a .great night’s sleep or St. Luke’s Relief with cinnamon for help with pain and itching.
If you’ve tried aromatherapy in the past and you haven’t had great results, switch to Abbey St Clare and experience how authentic ingredients make all the difference in the world.
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