5 Calming Essential Oils For Stress

Lavender Essential Oil is widely known for its ability to help reduce feelings of stress, making it a favourite when using essential oils for stress. With its subtle floral aroma, and natural anxiolytic and sedative properties, Lavender Oil is highly valued when it comes to relieving stress, insomnia, and calming nervous tension.

As a natural sedative, Lavender Oil interacts with neurotransmitters to induce feelings of calmness and tranquillity. In fact, a 2013 study found that using Lavender Oil spray on clothing significantly reduced symptoms of stress in nurses over a three to four day period.

Lavender is a popular when it comes to aromatherapy, and can be used in a variety of ways, including:

Diffusing: Diffuse Lavender Oil in your aromatherapy diffuser or electric vaporizer to create a calming environment.
Diluting: Dilute your Lavender Essential Oil in a carrier oil, add your dilution to a roller bottle and apply to the forehead, temples and chest. We recommend a 2 – 4% dilution for skin application and a 1 - 2% dilution for facial application.
Essential Oil Spray: To promote restful sleep dilute Lavender Essential Oil in water, add to a spray bottle, shake the dilution and spray the mixture onto your pillow before sleeping.
Warm Bath: Add a few drops of Lavender Oil to a warm bath to ease muscle tension while creating a calming environment.

With a rich, floral, and sweet aroma, Neroli Essential Oil is known to relieve stress while maintaining mood balance.

When used in aromatherapy, Neroli Oil may also reduce cortisol levels and lower blood pressure and pulse rates, resulting in an overall feeling of calm. For example, a 2014 study, found that diluting and inhaling Neroli Oil at 0.5% significantly reduced systolic blood pressure and relieved overall stress levels in postmenopausal women.

Neroli Oil can be used in a few ways:

Diffusing: Add a few drops of Neroli Oil to your aromatherapy diffuser, diffuser necklace or car diffuser to help destress.
Diluting: Add a few drops of Neroli Oil to your carrier oil to create a soothing and relaxing massage oil. We recommend using a 2 - 4% dilution for skin application and a 1 - 2% dilution for facial application.
Blend: You can also combine Neroli Oil with other essential oils such as Ylang Ylang 3rd or Bergamot Essential Oil to help create a calm, soothing atmosphere that is perfect for relieving stress.

Historically known for its versatile health benefits across Indian folk remedies and the Mediterranean, Orange Sweet Essential Oil is a favourite for stress relief. With a light, citrusy-sweet aroma, Orange Sweet Oil is known for its sedative, antidepressant, anxiolytic, and analgesic properties. This makes it perfect for those wanting to ease symptoms associated with stress.

Orange Sweet Oil contains both linalool and B-Myrcene, constituents that are known for their natural ability to relieve feelings of stress and nervousness, and promote a restful sleep.

You can utilise the benefits of Orange Sweet Oil in the following ways:

Diffusing: Add a few drops to your aromatherapy diffuser to help with stress and tension.
Warm Bath: To help alleviate feelings of stress and mental cloudiness, add a few drops to a warm bath.

Frankincense Essential Oil offers calm and comfort with its spicy and sweet, yet warm aroma that has been seen to help to calm stress and nerves. Containing the naturally calming compounds, Borneol and Limonene, Frankincense Oil allows you to destress and unwind while promoting mental clarity and inducing a sense of peace.

Frankincense Oil is also a popular choice when meditating due to its Borneol content, which is known for inducing a deep sense of calm.

You can use Frankincense Oil in a variety of ways to help with overall stress relief, including:

Diffusing: Add a few drops to your aromatherapy diffuser or electric vaporizer. Alternatively, you can also add a drop or two to a tissue or handkerchief and inhale, just be sure to avoid direct contact with the skin as this may result in irritation.
Diluting: Add a few drops to your favourite carrier oil to create a soothing and relaxing massage oil. We recommend using a 2 - 4% dilution for skin application and a 1 - 2% dilution for facial application.
Warm Bath: To help destress and relax, add a few drops to a warm bath to create a calming environment.

AWO’s Destress Essential Oil 3 Pack includes some of our favourite oils that are known to target feelings of stress whilst also creating an uplifting and relaxing environment.

The Destress Essential Oil Pack includes Frankincense, Orange Sweet and Lime Essential Oil, as they have each been seen to help lower mental exhaustion and calm the central nervous system.

With a combination of Lavender, Neroli, Ho Wood, Ylang Ylang 3rd, and Peppermint Essential Oil, AWO’s specially designed Grounded Essential Oil Blend is known to assist with mental clarity.

By either diffusing or diluting, this blend can help lower cortisol levels whilst simultaneously releasing a calming effect with its floral, herbaceous and sweet aroma.

While essential oils are generally available to purchase at health, wellness and retail stores, it is important to keep in mind that the purity and quality of these essential oils will vary. That is why we recommend finding a reputable supplier.

Here at AWO, we have a wide selection of 100% pure essential oils and organic essential oils that are sold at reasonable prices. Because our stock is purchased in bulk quantities our costs are significantly less, which allows us to offer our high-quality products at affordable prices. We are also based right here in Australia!