Jasmine & Lavender Oils Offer Natural Sleep Help
Getting a good night’s sleep is crucial to your long-term health, as well as to being awake enough to function every day. People will go to almost any lengths to find relief, including taking potentially harmful or addictive sleeping pills. What you really need is natural sleep help, something that can give you a deeper, more restful night’s sleep without forcing you to resort to drugs.
Thankfully, there are natural substances which make it possible for people to get deep, restful sleep at night. In 2005, research published in the journal Chronobiology International stated that lavender essential oil, when inhaled, affects your body like a gentle sedative, which makes it easier for you to get to sleep and helps you to sleep deeper. The results of the study showed that when people were exposed to lavender at bedtime, they::
- Spent a higher percentage of their sleep time in deep sleep
- Decreased the amount of time they spent in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep
- Felt more vigorous the morning after being exposed to lavender
To sum up the results of the study, people who inhaled lavender when they went to bed slept deeper and more restfully. These results are similar to those in a 2002 study, where people inhaled jasmine as they slept, making the combination of lavender and jasmine doubly promising as safe, all natural sleep help without having to resort to potentially harmful or addictive sleeping pills.
While there are many ways you could bring the scents of lavender and jasmine to your bedroom, one easy approach is to apply them as an oil before you go to bed. Smoothing a few drops of such an oil onto your chest or shoulders would allow you to inhale the wonderful scents throughout the night, giving you the natural sleep help you need in a simple, effective manner.
You’re not likely to find certified-organic natural sleep help (with or without jasmine and lavender) at your local pharmacy. One great option is to try Nature’s Inventory Natural Sleep Aid, a certified organic, vegan Wellness Oil made with jasmine and lavender and other soothing natural oils to help you savor a deeper, more relaxing night’s sleep without prescription drugs.
