3 natural ways to beat stress.
For whatever stresses the festive period throws at you.
Last year a total of 11.7 million working days were lost due to
stress, accounting for 45 per cent of all working days lost to ill health. When
it all gets a bit much this festive season, take time for you and combat stress
naturally with aromatherapy.
Essential oils help alleviate stress as well as providing real
benefits for your skin. ‘The less stressed you are, the less likely you are to
get breakouts and skin irritability,’ explains Jane Hibbert, founder and
creative director of AromaWorks.
While it can be difficult to find the time to fit in an
aromatherapy massage at your local salon, you can use essential oils
effectively from the comfort of your own home. Here’s our expert advice for DIY
aromatherapy:
1. In the bath.
‘After a long, hard day, soaking in essential oils feels luxurious
and eases emotional stress,’ explains Jennie Harding, in-house aromatherapist
at essential oil masters Tisserand. Try her trick to disperse the oils evenly:
mix 5-10 drops of your chosen essential oil into a teacup of full-fat milk and
add it to the warm bath water – the cream in the milk helps the oils spread
through the water. Hibbert recommends lavender
oil, which
helps treat insomnia and has the added benefit of soothing irritated skin on
the body.
2. On the skin.
Add one drop of essential oil to a carrier oil (Hibbert
recommends coconut
oil or
moringa oil) for a stimulating facial massage. But be careful with your
products – ‘some essential oils, such as rosemary and juniper, are too strong
for the face,’ warns Harding, who suggests rose
otto, neroli and frankincense. ‘Rose otto soothes dry skin
and plumps cells, whereas frankincense increases cell turnover for a
fresh-looking complexion.’
3. In the air.
Essential oils can be placed in a traditional oil burner, or you
could invest in an electric
diffuser.
‘The fascinating thing with essential oils is that they go straight to the
brain’s limbic system where
we process our emotions and memory,’ says Hibbert. ‘This
helps to balance mood,
enhance
the
quality of your sleep and improve cognitive function.’
Source Article: https://www.healthy-magazine.co.uk/
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