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What Essential Oils are Good for Sleep?

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Sleep, Why Won’t You Come to Me?

essential oils help sleepThere’s nothing I hate more than laying in bed at night and staring at the ceiling waiting for sleep to come. Have you ever wondered what essential oils are good for sleep? Have you ever wondered HOW essential oils help you to sleep and what is the best essential oil for sleep?

It’s something I wondered right off the bat. The idea that smelling something could help me sleep better was foreign to me.

Essential oils have piqued my interest lately. Since I was a teenager, I’ve been fascinated by folk remedies. My family were my test subjects because I liked to try them out to see if they worked.

I’d never heard of effective natural sleep remedies that involved smell alone, so naturally I wanted to give essential oils a try to see if it helped my insomnia.

Essential oils work by stimulating various parts of the brain. When you inhale essential oils that are used for sleep, rest, etc., those smell molecules (my scientific term 🙂 )  alter your brain’s physiology and behavior.

If you’re thinking, “well, that’s good and all, but what essential oils are good for sleep and relaxation, reduce stress, and calm my mind?

What Essential Oils are Good for Sleep and Relaxation?

I admit, I knew absolutely nothing about essential oils before I started using them to help me sleep, and I wanted to know how to use essential oils for sleep properly. I started off using a premade sleep blend, but I eventually realized it was better to make my own sleep blend recipes.

Even if you were like me and had no clue about essential oils and aromatherapy, most people know lavender is associated with relaxation and stress relief, and it’s extremely effective. It’s the first one I thought of.

But are there other essential oils that help sleep besides lavender?  Truth is, there’s many quality sleep inducing essential oils that’s just as effective, if not more effective, than lavender. You can even mix different them and create essential oil sleep recipes, too.

These are my top six essential oils for sleep I prefer to use. You can use them topically, but I  recommend you use a small, quiet essential oil diffuser, placed beside your bed for best results.

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&Improve Sleep Quality with Valerian Essential Oil

Wake Up Feeling Tired? Improve Sleep Quality with Valerian Essential Oil

 

essential oils help sleepValerian 100% Pure, Best Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil

Valerian essential oil is a sleep powerhouse. Valerian’s main active compound, valerenic acid, has sedative properties. It’s known to help you fall asleep quickly, promote a more peaceful sleep, and stay asleep longer without sleep interruptions.

So no staring at the ceiling waiting to fall asleep, or waking up in the middle of the night. Yay!

This is truly the only way I can take Valerian to sleep better at night. I can’t stand the taste of it in tea form, and I can still taste its overpowering flavor when I take it in capsule form. But used aromatically, I’ve found Valerian essential oil is effective and, more importantly, enjoyable.

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Mind Race at Night? Calm your Mind and Nerves with Roman Chamomile Essential Oil

essential oils help sleepRoman Chamomile Essential Oil Ultra-Premium 100% Pure Therapeutic Grade

Using chamomile for sleep is no surprise. It’s almost kind of cliche to see people on TV and movies drinking chamomile tea for sleeplessness.

But I can’t stand the taste of chamomile tea either. Luckily, for me, I’ve found that Roman Chamomile essential oil is just as powerful as chamomile tea. And smells a lot better than it tastes.

Does your mind go ninety miles a minute at night and keep you awake? That’s often what keeps me up at night. Chamomile can help calm a racing mind and nerves, and bring about a peaceful feeling.

Chamomile can also have a sedative effect and relaxes nerves and muscles, which helps you fall asleep faster.

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Stressed and Can’t Sleep? Relax with Ylang-Ylang Essential Oil

essential oils help sleepYlang Ylang Complete Essential Oil. 10 ml. 100% Pure, Undiluted, Therapeutic Grade.

Ylang-ylang is an awesome choice. because its properties promote an overall relaxed feeling and sense of calm.

If you’re a stressed out bundle of nerves, you might find this oil helpful because ylang-ylang calms stress and frazzled nerves. I admit, stressing about stuff keeps me awake at night, too. And when it does, I add a few drops of ylang ylang to my bedside essential oil diffuser.

Ylang-ylang has a definite floral scent, and to some it can be overpowering. I’m very sensitive to strong smells, and I find I can only use ylang-ylang with other oils.

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Waking Up in the Middle of the Night? Try Bergamot Essential Oil

essential oils help sleepBergamot – 100% Pure, Best Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil

Bergamot is known for increasing the time you’re in deep REM sleep, and for relaxing your muscles.

Some nights I fall asleep quick, only to wake up in the middle of the night and never fall back asleep. I get up in the morning feeling like a zombie because I’ve been awake since 4 a.m. But I’ve recently started using bergamot for sleep, and I’ve really noticed a difference.

One of the reasons bergamot oil is my favorite (not just because it works so well) is because it smells just like oranges. I really love citrus smells because it makes things smell so clean. Now if I could just figure out how it could be as clean as it smells when I wake up in the morning! 🙂

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Tossing and Turning at night? Get Drowsy with Marjoram Essential Oil

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Every once in a while I have the type of night where I can’t get comfortable. My pillow feels like a rock, my bed feels like a rock, and I’m not even sleepy and all I do is toss and turn. Then I’m one big cranky mess the next day.

Marjoram is a spice I cook with, but I was surprised to learn marjoram is more powerful as a sleep aid than lavender.

So on nights when I get the tossing and turnings, I put a few drops of marjoram essential oil in my diffuser. Marjoram relaxes muscles and acts as a sedative, so it doesn’t take long before I’m knocked out like a light.

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Get to a Deep Sleep Faster with Sandalwood Essential Oil

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Most women go for fruity floral smells, but I love deep earthy masculine aromas like sandalwood. But sandalwood is so much more than a pretty smell.

You know that getting to the REM sleep stage is a must for getting a good night’s sleep, right? Sandalwood decreases the time spent waiting to fall asleep and improves REM sleep. And more REM sleep means a bright eyed and bushy tailed me and you in the mornings.

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So What Essential Oils are Good for Sleep for You?

How to use aromatherapy essential oils to help you sleep at night and have sweet dreams

Essential oils are a personal thing. They may be effective in helping you get some zzz’s, but you may not like the smell. And that’s okay, we all like different things. Just try other essential oils for a good night’s sleep until you find one that smells (and works) for you.

Plus, don’t be afraid to mix these together. A sleep recipe doesn’t have to be complicated. You can make an effective diffuser blend for sleep with as little as 3 oils.

Curious how you can use these EO’s in your nightly sleep routine?

  • Get creative and add a couple of drops of different essential oils to make your own personalized essential oil sleep recipe 
  • Add them to your diffuser
  • Mix them in sleep lotions, sleep sprays or  DIY sleep balm.

 

 

Would you like to learn more about sleep promoting essential oils?

The Insomniac’s Essential Oil Guidebook covers 18 essential oils that are known to help sleeplessness, restlessness, racing thoughts, etc., PLUS explains the best way to use each of them. As a bonus, there’s also 40+ easy to follow essential oil recipes to help you drift of to dreamland!

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About Julia

Hi, I'm Julia, a former insomniac turned sleep diva who knows what it's like to be sleepless. I conquered my insomnia naturally, and now I'm committed to helping others get the sleep they need so they can sleep well, dream big and live life the the fullest. If you'd like to connect with me, shoot me at email at julia@i-dream-of-sleep.com.

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  1. Tammy says

    December 15, 2016 at 9:44 am

    Just wondering……does valerian oil give nightmares? I have used valerian in supplement form and experience nightmares with it. As much as I would like to try the oil, I hate the thought of nightmares. This of course creates more stress when I wake up in a cold sweat due to a nightmare.

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    • Julia K says

      December 15, 2016 at 3:39 pm

      I think it might be worth a try to give the valerian oil a shot. You’re not taking anything internally like you would be with supplements and teas, so maybe it would work for you.

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