The Essential Oil For Stressed-Out, Overworked People Like You

Greetings,

The Essential Oil For Stressed-Out, Overworked People Like You

One of the most prized essential oils, Indian sandalwood is known for having many health benefits, even if it isn’t as popular as other essential oils.
The oil is distilled from the fragrant inner wood of the sandalwood tree (Santalum album), a tree that takes about 40 years to mature and to produce oil at full potency. In recent times, they have become endangered – mainly owing to illegal logging – and there is now a world shortage of high quality Indian sandalwood oil.
As a result, producers have started looking to Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum), which is native to Western Australia, for an alternative supply. By managing these trees with care, the Australians can offer a sustainable source of sandalwood essential oil.
Australian sandalwood essential oil has a milder fragrance than the Indian form. Its chemical content is a bit different, but it offers the same benefits for both the mind and body.
Australian sandalwood oil has a deep, fruity-sweet smell and is antiseptic, astringent, soothing, relaxing, sedating and regarded as an aphrodisiac. In aromatherapy, it is used for meditation, insomnia, tension, stress, depression, loss of libido and emotional problems. For the body, it is said to nourish and regenerate dry or mature skin, help reduce the appearance of wrinkles, and strengthen fingernails.
Using Sandalwood Essential Oil to Benefit the Mind
Australian sandalwood essential oil is also said to fortify an inner resolve to persevere through emotional challenges.
Here are several recipes that I use to aid in meditation and help with mental stress and hormonal mood swings:
For mental stress and burnout
To ease mental stress and burnout, take a bath with three drops of Australian sandalwood essential oil and three drops of lavender essential oil.
To calm erratic emotions and even out mood
Two drops Australian sandalwood essential oil
Four drops rose geranium essential oil
Four drops clary sage essential oil
Four teaspoons sweet almond carrier oil
Mix and apply the blend with gentle strokes anywhere on the body, letting it absorb into the skin.
To relieve the mental effects of PMS
Four drops Australian sandalwood essential oil
Three drops fennel essential oil
Three drops mandarin essential oil
Four teaspoons sunflower essential oil
Mix and apply the blend with gentle strokes over the abdomen area to help manage symptoms, have more energy and feel more positive.
To soothe the pain of grief or loss
Four drops Australian sandalwood essential oil
Four drops rose otto essential oil
Two drops bergamot essential oil
Four teaspoons apricot kernal carrier oil
Mix and massage the blend with gentle strokes into the temples or anywhere on the body.
For meditation
A powerful aid to meditation, Australian sandalwood essential oil has aromatherapy properties that will help release you from the grip of anxiety, worry and guilt, and bring you back to a feeling of inner peace.
Add sandalwood essential oil to a room diffuser, humidifier or candle oil burner to release the oil’s molecules into the air. Breathe in the scent.
Add sandalwood essential oil to a bowl of steaming water, cover your head with a towel, and inhale the steam……more here