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Essential Oils for Stress

Essential Oils for Stress

One of the most popular benefits of aromatherapy is using essential oils for stress. With essential oils, you can improve your stress levels by relaxing your body and being able to enjoy more of your life without the constant worry that stress brings. At the end of this article, you will find bonus recipes with essential oils for stress so you can avoid the dreaded stress and side effects it brings along with it.

What is Stress?

Stress is part of everyday life. Something that comes along with work, relationships, school, or anything that requires attention to do. Not all stress is bad; however, as it can be something that saves a life rather than just adding problems to an already hard existence.


With an ever-growing society, levels of stress have been on the rise with the newest of generations feeling more and more stress. Adults are found to be more likely to find family responsibilities stressful than they have in the past. Family responsibilities, health concerns, health concerns affecting the family, and the economy are all factors that contribute to the average adult’s stress.


Stress can contribute adverse effects to your body if left unchecked, as it is common to think it is some illness when dealing with insomnia or upset stomach, but in fact, it is stress itself causing it all.

What Causes Stress?

Stress is a natural response to danger that may arise from certain situations. Commonly referred to as “fight or flight” mode when the body feels it has been threatened and needs to protect itself. When faced with these situations the body will flood the systems with hormones to up the effectiveness of certain functions to aid the “fight or flight” mode.


Hormones that are released into the body are cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. These chemicals trigger an increased heart rate, alertness, superior muscle readiness, and sweating. All these functions improve the chances of survival when faced with a hazardous or challenging situation.

How Essential Oils Help Stress

Adding essential oils for stress and natural solutions such as aromatherapy and techniques of relaxation into your life can have amazing effects on the livelihood of the future. Aromatherapy and essential oils help improve the calmness of the body, as the end of various situations at the end of the day can leave one very wound-up and uncomfortable to rest or focus.


Essential oils can be used for relief of the day, by using them through aromatic baths and massages. Inhalation of certain essential oils is quite favorable to relaxation.


People with excessive stress will find that essential oils with calming and soothing properties are among the best for tranquility in dealing with the wave of stress.

Symptoms and Effects of Stress

Stress symptoms can be often overlooked as some illnesses but in fact, are not. Stress can affect your mind, body, and even behavior.


Changes within the body:

  • Headache
  • Chest pain
  • Fatigue
  • Upset stomach
  • insomnia
  • Change in sex drive
  • Muscle tension or pain


Changes within your mood:

  • Anxiety
  • Restlessness
  • Lack of motivation or focus
  • The feeling of being overwhelmed
  • Anger or irritability
  • Depression
  • Sadness


Changes in the behavior:

  • Overeating or undereating
  • Angry outbursts
  • Drug or alcohol overuse
  • Tobacco use

Controlling your Stress

Stress can be treated to improve their quality of life. Taking the necessary steps to manage the stress can have significant impacts on helping maintain the stress within life.


Activities include:

  1. Regularly exercising
  2. Practicing relaxation techniques, such as mediation.
  3. Setting aside time for hobbies, such as listening to music or reading a book.

Essential Oils for Stress

Cedarwood - Cedrus atlantica - Cedarwood oil is considered a natural sedative and can help to reduce restlessness and anxiety. Cedarwood has a high content of sesquiterpenes; these aids to promote relaxation, which can help a good night’s sleep to avoid fatigue, which is a common side effect of stress. Studies have proven that cedarwood is an excellent choice in improving one’s night sleep with the help of the chemical called cedrol found in cedarwood that helps promote sleep by boosting parasympathetic activity and its capability to increase serotonin production.


Another study done on rats with hyperactivity showed cedarwood oil to have sedative properties and calmed the rats and helped sleeping rates in the rats.

Frankincense - Boswellia carteri - Frankincense has been renowned for its ability to eliminate germs and clean wounds to prevent infections with its antiseptic attributes. This oil is also known for being sedative that helps with reducing stress, anxiety, or even anger. Frankincense has also been studied to show that it has anxiolytic properties that allow help to reduce anxiety and stress. Also backed up by another study done on animals, frankincense was again showed to have anxiolytic properties.

Bergamot - Citrus bergamia - Bergamot is similar to lavender in its regards to its relaxing properties to help reduce stress and anxiety. However, studies on bergamot’s capability to combat stress and anxiety are quite limited. However, studies prove bergamot’s strength in relaxing with its aroma, as shown in a 2017 study when used in a mental health treatment center’s waiting room. Bergamot also helps to level out emotions, discard negative emotions, fatigue, and even reduce saliva cortisol (cortisol is a hormone that is associated with stress) shown in a study that was published in 2015.

Geranium - Pelargonium graveolens / Pelargonium asperum - Geranium is excellent to help improve the emotional aspect of life and uplift mood. Research that was published in 2015 showed geranium reduce anxiety within pregnant women during labor. The study was done on 100 women showed how geranium was effective at relieving stress during pregnancy and reducing diastolic blood pressure after the inhalation of geranium essential oil.

Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia / Lavandula officinalis - Lavender essential oil is an excellent choice for its ability to help relax the body and help reduce insomnia caused by anxiety and stress. A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine was testing a memory test with the aroma of lavender to see how participants performed the analysis while stressed. Those who inhaled lavender performed superior to those who inhaled a placebo aroma.


Research published in 2013 has shown that a 3% lavender oil spray on clothes reduced work-related stress for three to four days, this proves how powerful lavender is to relieve stress even with just 3% of the actual oil being used. Lavender has been shown in a study to help ease anxiety and stress-related disorders (ex. PTSD) and help relax the brain. Lavender, with its calming properties, is useful for stress when dealing with various situations ranging from traveling within an airport going from one gate to another or working in a stressful environment. Lavender will always be there to calm you when you need it the most.

Lemon - Citrus limon - Lemon essential oil is from the lemon plant known for its use in cleaning products all over the world because of its incredible disinfectant properties and also used for its uplifting and energizing properties. Lemon possesses a chemical called linalool, which is known to help stress, boost sleep, and even antidepressant properties.


Lemon also possesses antidepressant-like and anxiolytic properties that are known to reduce anxiety and stress within the body, as shown in a study published in 2006, showing the effects of lemon oil in mice.

Essential Oil Recipes for Stress

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