Creative Ways Our Aromatherapy Blends Can Promote Wellness

Cultivating wellness in your life can be done in a multitude of ways. From engaging in hobbies that inspire you, to making sure you are getting enough rest and exercise, you should be mindful of your daily activities if you want to stay stress free and as healthy as possible.

Aromatherapy blends crafted from high-quality essential oils can be used alongside such activities in order to promote a greater degree of wellness in your life. The following guide is full of creative ideas and helpful tips on using these natural plant oils to lift your spirits and soothe your mind and body.

What is an Aromatherapy Blend?

Blending essential oils together to create unique and powerful fragrances has been going on for thousands of years. While individual essential oils provide a wealth of benefits when used alone, their effects can be compounded when blended together in the right proportions.

For instance, this blending of aromatherapy oils has long been used in the production of perfumes, luxury candles, and incense. Rich aromas would be carefully created through a specialized combination of multiple essential oils, starting with a base note that would provide the foundation of the scent, taking the longest to evaporate. From there, additional oils would be layered to create something richer and more impactful, something derived from a combination of nature and human ingenuity.

In aromatherapy specifically, it’s not uncommon to rely on individual essential oils to produce certain effects. For instance, diffusing an oil known for its relaxing properties in order to encourage sleep or stress relief. While this is a perfectly viable avenue of aromatherapy, it’s not nearly all you can do with these plant-based substances.

By combining certain aromatherapy oils into a unique blend, you can enjoy a more engaging and worthwhile experience that takes advantage of the synergistic effects of using more than one oil at a time. Carefully selected for their complementary properties, the individual essential oils combine to form a product that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Creative Uses For Aromatherapy Blends

Turning on a diffuser in your bedroom and enjoying the wonderful fragrances of quality essential oil recipes is certainly not the only way to utilize the practice of aromatherapy. These powerful aromatic oils can actually be incorporated into a variety of common activities that you can enjoy throughout the day, even when you are on the go.

We have put the following list of imaginative uses for aromatherapy oils together so you can promote wellness in your life anytime you want. While these tips are by no means exhaustive, you do want to be careful when experimenting with essential oils in order to minimize risk of skin irritation or other kinds of reactions.

These oils are extremely concentrated, which means that you can get by using only a few drops for most purposes. If you intend on using any blends for topical applications, do be sure to only place a few drops into a carrier oil of choice. Only after the essential oils have been properly diluted should you ever consider using them on your skin.

Create an Uplifting Home Atmosphere

One of the best uses for aromatherapy oils is to help enhance the overall atmosphere of your home. Why restrict the amazing aromas and wellness effects of these plant-based oils to only one room or area of your home?

You might be wondering how you can take advantage of using these oils throughout your home if you only own a single diffuser. What’s remarkable about essential oil blends is how adaptable they are. They are incredibly easy to use even if you don’t have the ideal tools. While we do carry a beautiful high-quality aromatherapy diffuser in our shop, you don’t necessarily need to worry about owning one in order to fill your home with these fragrances.

An easy method to diffuse these aromas in your space is to create your own aromatherapy mist. All you need is some distilled water, a small spritzer bottle, and your essential oil blend of choice. Remember, a little goes a long way here, so about 10 - 12 drops per 2 oz. of water will do you just fine. You can adjust the power of the scent by increasing or decreasing the ratio, of course.

The oils aren’t going to naturally mix with the water well, so before each use you may want to shake vigorously. While it’s not the perfect method by any means, it’s an affordable and effective way to enjoy the wellness benefits that aromatherapy blends offer.

Because of the wide variety of different helpful properties that essential oils possess, you may want to consider keeping several different bottles of these mixtures around for different purposes. For instance, one that promotes easy sleep and one that helps invigorate you when you wake up in the morning!

Here are a few ideas for different kinds of aromatherapy sprays that you can mix up and have at the ready:

• Relaxing night time blend with Lavender and Chamomile to spray on your pillow before bed
  
• Crisp cleansing Lemongrass or Rose Geranium blend for kitchen odors and countertops
  
• Refreshing Lemon or Lavender-based laundry room spray for linens
  
• Grounding spray with Sage, Vetiver, or Frankincense - perfect for spritzing in your space before meditation or to refresh negative energy (you can clean your yoga mat with it too!)
  
• Floral or Citrus-based spray for neutralizing bathroom odors

Get More Out of Your Bath Time

Turning bath time into a spa-like experience is easy with the right aromatherapy products. This is another way you can easily take advantage of the power of essential oils without any fancy tools.

Using aromatherapy during your shower or bath can help you relieve stress and feel revitalized. All you have to do is place a few drops on the walls of your shower or in your bath water and in no time the hot water will do all the work. You simply get to enjoy the powerful aromas.

For many of us, our bath time is one of the only parts of the day when we get to be completely alone and can relax fully without the possibility of disturbance. The perfect opportunity for a full-sensory wellness experience with the help of a little aromatherapy.

Wear As A Perfume Oil

If you want a scent to carry with you throughout your day, you can in a sense, become your own diffuser! By placing aromatherapy oils on your pulse points, the oils will warm and dissipate around you, letting you enjoy them as your own personal perfume.

You can mix your favorite essential oils with your carrier oil of choice (we recommend Jojoba) and add them together in a small “roller ball” bottle. Many aromatherapy guides can tell you the different scent characteristics and influences that essential oils can have on your wellbeing, so if you want to target your blend towards anything in particular, you can refer to those as a great resource.

Otherwise, if you just want to go with what your nose finds fun, have at it! Create your own custom aromatherapy blend by combining your favorite essential oils and experiment with your recipe. Try to incorporate a base note, middle note, and top note for a well rounded fragrance blend. Pro tip: Write down what you create drop by drop! You may think you will remember but trust us, you’ll want the exact recipe when it ends up being your favorite!

Meditation Tool

Meditating is a time-honored wellness practice that is said to help relieve stress and quiet the mind. You can use meditation to help calm you down before trying to sleep, to help you organize your thoughts, and even to help promote low blood pressure and even poor digestion.

There are a variety of techniques and tools out there that can help enhance your ability to meditate effectively, one of which is aromatherapy. The naturally soothing and relaxing qualities of certain essential oils make them a great fit for trying alongside any meditation practice. If you are looking for a way to help quiet your mind or simply create a calming atmosphere with which to meditate in, try diffusing a high-quality blend of essential oils.

Make Colds and Allergies a Bit More Bearable

Wellness is about taking care of yourself all day, every day - not just when you are feeling under the weather. However, colds, flus, allergies, and other health issues do pop up, and aromatherapy is a great way of managing them.

Aromatherapy may make it easier to breathe, or make it easier to sleep if you are feeling restless over your cold symptoms. For some, aromatherapy oils may also help to mitigate sinus pressure and headaches. Sometimes, it’s enough to just have our spirits lifted when we are feeling the effects of seasonal allergies or illness, and aromatherapy works exceptionally well in this regard.

When it comes to helping to purify the air and make the general atmosphere around you more breathable when you are feeling off, it does help to have a high-quality aromatherapy diffuser at your fingertips. While you can always spritz the air with one of the aromatic blends we mentioned earlier, diffusers are better suited for this purpose.

Harmony With The Natural World

Another underrated use for aromatherapy products is their ability to help us relate to the natural world. For those of us who live in the city or hardly get to spend enough time outside, it can be difficult to feel that connection with nature that many of us desire.

The rich floral aromas and other natural scents present in our powerful aromatherapy blends can help bridge that gap right in your own home. Our finely crafted aromatherapy recipes are designed to promote holistic wellness in your life, as we see essential oils as the essence, or spirit of the plants they are extracted from.

In our often busy lives, just finding the time to visit a local park can seem difficult. Though we crave the natural world, actually venturing into it is another story. Essential oils provide us with one way to bring the natural world into our homes, giving us the opportunity to enjoy the therapeutic properties of plants whenever we need them.

Experience What High-Quality Aromatherapy Products Can Do For You

Whether you are using these oils as a means of relieving stress or helping to make your home feel cheerier, you will want to utilize blends that have been formulated carefully and that only use the best quality ingredients.

We take great pride in the degree of quality with which we formulate all of our products here at KM Herbals. From the way we source our ingredients, to our eco-friendly supply chain and manufacturing practices, we strive to provide our customers with wellness products that can bring true value into their lives.

Our organic essential oils and blends use thoughtfully grown and expertly wildcrafted ingredients, along with superior recipes, to create products that offer just what you are looking for in terms of holistic wellness.

For an even greater degree of personal care, we also have available a wide range of aromatherapy skincare products, body care products, and various treatments that might interest you as well. We firmly believe in the power of essential oils to help enhance our well-being, so feel free to take a look around our online store to find the perfect aromatherapy essentials that you can use to enhance your daily life!