Destress with Candles – Best Stress Relief Scents
One of the best ways to destress is by lighting a nice candle, sitting back, and closing your eyes.
What are the Best candle scents for stress relief?
What many people don’t realize about stress relief is that your environment plays a huge role. Think about if you go from a stressful work environment straight to a stressful home environment. You will never have time to relax or get any stress relief.
Welcome to the world of candles. By decluttering your home, setting up a few candles with great aromas, and allowing yourself a few minutes every day to unwind, you will see a dramatic decrease in your daily stress.
One of the things that are so healing about a nice long bath is that you often use lots of scented soaps and scented candles. The scent has a huge impact on our minds and the way we feel. By choosing the correct candle for stress relief, you will be able to do with one match that you could never do by screaming at your car steering wheel while sitting in your driveway.
What Smells are Best for Stress Relief?
To defeat the horrible stress monster, there are a few choice fragrances to help you out. You definitely want to try positive smells, smells that boost your mood, and smells that fill you with sunshine rather than angst.
Keep in mind there are different fragrances that you can use to have peace of mind, to increase a romantic atmosphere, to help you sleep, and to even strengthen your concentration. When choosing a smell for stress relief, you may want to mix and match many of these different scents to create your perfect destress candle.
Citrus
Citrus can be used for a lot of things, especially getting rid of stress. Citrus aromas like orange or lemon can immediately clear the stress fog from your brain and help to ease whatever tensions have amassed inside of you throughout the course of the day. You will always know a citrus aroma because of the pungent, citrusy smell.
Citrus scents have a positive effect on the mind. Because of this, they are able to lift you out of your stressful mood by making you feel renewed and happier. It is almost impossible to sit in a cloud of citrus fragrance and still feel stressed or angry about something that happened previously.
Peppermint
Nothing takes away my stress quite like a refreshing burst of peppermint when I walk through my front door. Peppermint candles can offer crisp smells that make you forget all about the stresses of your life. Peppermint will lift your spirit and elevate your mood to get you thinking clearly and to stop you from dwelling on stressful things.
Interestingly enough, ancient civilizations like the Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans used peppermint to treat mental health issues, especially in the citizens who suffered from depression and anxiety. If it was good enough for the ancient Romans, it is probably good enough for your bedroom.
Rosemary
Rosemary is one of those calming scents with an uncanny ability to lift you out of your foggy and stressful mood. If you arrive home angry about a bad day, feeling like you are at your wits’ end and don’t know what to do, simply get your hands on a rosemary-scented candle, close your eyes, and breathe in the beautiful smell of stress relief.
Rosemary is perfect for people who suffer from headaches, physical exhaustion, and mental fatigue. Obviously, these are symptoms of too much stress and the way to get rid of them is by calming down and relaxing. And nothing can do that better than a powerful rosemary candle. These are great for reducing tension.
Honeysuckle & Jasmine
Honeysuckle and Jasmine is a fantastic combination. These are both floral scents that combine to create an entire zone where stress simply cannot live. Light one of these candles in your bedroom, sit on the edge of your bed and feel your stress evaporate. This is a great routine to practice daily if you have a stressful job.
Honeysuckle is great for relieving anxiety, getting rid of stress headaches, and even helping people with depression feel better. Jasmine almost always has a calming effect. Additionally, many people believe jasmine can relax your nervous system and help relieve the muscle tension that comes from too much-accumulated stress.
Four Herb Special: Sage, Lavender, Thyme, Chamomile
This is a big one. The four herb special is going to make your entire house smell like a cottage garden. Each herb works to relieve the tension and discomfort caused by anxiety and stress. Each herb on its own is great for relaxation and decompression, while mixed together they are a serious force of tranquillity and peace of mind.
For starters, lavender is undoubtedly the best herb that can be used for relaxation and stress relief. Then we have sage, which has been shown to help with your dopamine levels. In other words, sage can help boost the chemicals in your brain that make you feel happy. This is very important for getting rid of stress. Happiness is key!
Thyme is another versatile herb. Thyme can help with all kinds of health problems, as it can boost your immunity and give you relief from hypertension while reducing the amount of strain that is on your heart, strain that is often caused by stress.
Chamomile is an interesting one. It has been known to act as a sedative. When mixed with the other herbs in this specialty candle, chamomile acts as the relaxer for your stress relief. Chamomile is also great for when you need to calm down and fall asleep.
Apple
You may not think about apples when it’s time to destress, but I promise you an apple candle has the magical ability to calm you down, wipe away your stress, and leave you feeling renewed. An apple-scented candle will transport you directly to a mountainside orchard to breathe out your stress.