The lack of greenery, warmth, and hours of sunlight can give anybody the winter blues. But that doesn’t mean you have to sit back and take it on the chin. Take Aromatherapy, for example, a surefire cure for the winter blues. Haven’t tried them before? Then here are a few helpful hints to get your started down the right path:
Lavender
This is an easy go-to essential oil that can be added to a warm bath, and all it takes is just a few drops. Lavender helps to decrease stress, increase relaxation, and improve sleep. This is especially helpful through the holiday season which is full of stress and anxiety.
Ginger
Ginger is a strong scent that can be added to tea or a diffuser. It adds a nice energy boost, improves circulation, soothes joints, and eases sore muscles. Ginger is an ideal additive to a lotion or even olive oil to rub into aching muscles after shoveling snow or just easing joint pain.
Grapefruit and Cypress
This is a light combination that adds the energizing scent of grapefruit to the holiday smell of cypress. Cypress will help invigorate you while increasing your levels of concentration. Just add a few drops to a diffuser!
Clary Sage
Add this to a base oil or lotion and apply directly to your skin. Clary sage is perfect for soothing and hydrating dry skin.
Jasmine
This beautiful flowery scent is perfect in a tea or boiled lightly on the stove. It can help with depression, exhaustion, and dry skin. Added to tea, it is especially helpful with improving hydration as hot water increases the rate of absorption into your body.
Cinnamon
A warming and strengthening agent, cinnamon also lends itself to use in a diffuser or being boiled lightly on the stove. It adds to the mood of your home and provides an enhanced feeling of warmth. Cinnamon shouldn’t be applied directly to your skin, but in a diffuser or boiled on the stove, it’s natural antiseptic properties will help to keep colds and flus at bay.
If you love the part about adding an essential oil like lavender to your bath water, but you’re afraid that by the time you get to take your bath there won’t be enough hot water, then don’t suffer in silence. Instead, pick up the phone and call Norhio Plumbing so we can do whatever it takes to make sure you and your family have all the hot water you need, day and night. Norhio Plumbing: your home water heater specialists.
