Our favourite essential oils for autumn

Cedarwood essential oil

Cedarwood has a woody and warm, comforting scent. With antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and relaxing properties, this multifaceted oil benefits any essential oil collection. Just a few drops may help soothe irritated skin, restore balance in the mind, calm a persistent cough, encourage sleep, and more. Cedarwood is excellent for reducing fear-based anxiety… what is often call the “fight or flight” response.

What makes it great

Feel calm

Cedarwood’s nervous system-conditioning properties may help reduce stress and increase your sense of well-being. If a meditation practice is part of you wellness routine, diffusing cedarwood may help you stay centered.

Protect your skin

Cedarwood oil is an anti-ageing skin conditioner. It may banish blemishes, combat dandruff, kill fungal infections, disinfect small wounds, and relieve irritated and inflamed skin.

Breathe easy

Rubbing a little cedarwood onto your chest at night may help you ease a cough, open your airways, and let you sleep more soundly.

Cinnamon leaf essential oil

Cinnamon essential oil can energise the mind, stimulate appetite, help circulation, relieve aches, and reduce infection.

What makes it great

Relieve aches and pains

Diluted cinnamon oil may stimulate circulation to bring relief to achy joints and sore muscles.

Protect your skin

Antibacterial and anti-fungal properties make cinnamon oil a beneficial choice in your first-aid kit.

Get rid of pests

Cinnamon is known to eliminate digestive parasites. this use requires the assistance of a natural health practitioner.

Clove bud essential oil

As a common aroma moving into shorter days and longer nights, clove brings feelings of warmth and contentment. When you explore the essential oil, you’ll find that it has the potential to energise the mind, relive sore muscles, improve digestion, and reduce infection.

What makes it great

Relieve aches and pains

Add 3 drops of clove to a tablespoon of base oil for a naturally warming, pain-relieving rub.

Ease digestive troubles

A massage or compress infused with clove may quickly calm an upset stomach.

Stay healthy

Clove has powerful antibacterial properties that make it beneficial to apply to wounds or diffuse during a colder season. You can also make a greater countertop or room disinfectant by adding 10 drops of clove to 30ml spray bottle filled with water and a little alcohol or vinegar. Shake before use.

Eucalyptus essential oil

Whether you want to use it to keep your home healthy year-around or reach for it during the colder and flu season, eucalyptus essential oil is one fo the ideal oils to help you fend off viruses and bacteria and ease an aching body. But those are not its only claims to fame… it can also clarify your skin. This is one oil you’ll definitely want to keep in stock.

What makes it great

Relieve aches and pains

Adding 1 or 2 drops of eucalyptus to a hot compress or massage oil may help increase blood flow and ease pain.

Feel calm

Eucalyptus oil transmits a sense of calm concentration.

Protects your skin

Eucalyptus oil is both antibacterial and antifungal, good for skincare products and wound treatment.

Breathe easy

Inhaling eucalyptus may loosen mucus and clear up congestion.

Frankincense essential oil

Frankincense is one of those wonderfully versatile oils that holistically works on both mind and body. It has the potential to boost your skincare results, melt away stress, assist a meditation practice, relieve pain, ease congestion, and more.

What makes it great

Relieve aches and pains

Anti-inflammatory benefits make frankincense a worthy addition to compresses, massages, and baths for aches and arthritis pain.

Feel calm

When you’re feeling stressed or, inhaling frankincense may help you calm down and focus. It’s also a useful meditation aid.

Protects your skin

Frankincense oil may help balance oily skin and is excellent to prevent premature paging and sun damage.

Breathe easy

Frankincense essential oil’s expectorant properties may help to loosen mucus and clear congested airways.

Grapefruit essential oil

Whether you eat it whole or drink its juice, grapefruit is revitalising therapeutic benefits that show up in the essential oil. Grapefruit oil can clear the mind, cleanse the body, decongest skin, and relieve u muscles. It also holds powerful promise for those trying to curb cravings and loose weight.

What makes it great

Perk up

Grapefruit’s energising effects can help combat fatigue.

Relieve aches and pains

A grapefruit-oil massage may relive sore muscles, joint pain, and even tension headaches.

Protects your skin

Oily and acne-prone skin may benefit from grapefruit oil’s powerful decongestant effects.

Stay healthy

When massaged onto body, grapefruit oil has cleansing and diuretic effects This may help stimulate circulation, boost metabolism, and remove toxins.

Grapefruit essential oil

Whether you eat it whole or drink its juice, grapefruit is revitalising therapeutic benefits that show up in the essential oil. Grapefruit oil can clear the mind, cleanse the body, decongest skin, and relieve u muscles. It also holds powerful promise for those trying to curb cravings and loose weight.

What makes it great

Perk up

Grapefruit’s energising effects can help combat fatigue.

Relieve aches and pains

A grapefruit-oil massage may relive sore muscles, joint pain, and even tension headaches.

Protects your skin

Oily and acne-prone skin may benefit from grapefruit oil’s powerful decongestant effects.

Stay healthy

When massaged onto body, grapefruit oil has cleansing and diuretic effects This may help stimulate circulation, boost metabolism, and remove toxins.

Lemon essential oil

Lemon can brighten up a baked good or freshen a weeknight dinner, and it can also lift your mood and stimulate your digestive system. Your skin enjoys it as well. This versatile fruit’s essential oil is a wonderful addition to your collection.

What makes it great

Perk up

Sunny-scented citrus oils such as lemon lift the mood and energy.

Ease digestive troubles

Inhaling or applying lemon oil may stimulate digestion, helping you maintain a healthy weight and a healthy appetite.

Protects your skin

Lemon clears acne and congested skin, and it will brighten the complexion.

Stay healthy

Lemon oil is the best for liver support, helping the detoxification process and preventing many issues related to poor liver function, such as inflammation, skin health, and fatigue.

Patchouli essential oil

A tried and tested aromatherapy favourite, patchouli oil soothes and heals the skin, improving the appearance of scar tissue and stretch marks. It also revitalises the ageing complexions, and its antiseptic properties help to treat pimple-prone skin.

What makes it great

Repairs, tones, and cleanses skin

Patchouli oil regenerates skin cells, helping scars and stretch marks to fade, and moisturises dry skin. An astringent, the oil balances seburn secretions to normalise oily and acne-prone skin. It helps to control acne, and treat sores and impetigo. Its antifungal action is useful for treating athlete’s foot.

Repels insects

The oil can ward off insects. Use neat on bites and stings.

Aids detox

Patchouli oil has a diuretic effect, making it useful in anti-cellulite skincare products and massage oils.

Enhances wellbeing

The oil acts as an anti-depressant, and is useful for treating exhaustion, stress, and anxiety. It’s also used as an aphrodisiac.

Aids digestion

Its balancing effect relives diarrhoea and constipation.

Rosemary essential oil

As a culinary delight, rosemary is famous for bringing flavour and fragrance to the kitchen table. Rosemary essential oil, from this aromatic herb has the potential to ease your pain, support circulation, stimulate you mind, help you breathe easier, and fight infection.

What makes it great

Repairs, tones, and cleanses skin

Rosemary essential oil’s warming and analgesic properties can help relieve muscle soreness, joint pain, and even cramps.

Protect your skin

Rosemary essential oil has powerful anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and antiviral properties that may help heal minor wounds, sores, and bites. The verbenone variety is the mos regenerative, wound-healing, and anti-ageing.

Sweet orange essential oil

Packed with vitamin C, oranges have health benefits of which you are likely aware. the essential oil is a concentrated form of the oranges, with immune-supportive and detoxifying properties. Not only can it support your overall health, it may also relive anxiety, aid digestion, and decongest your skin.

What makes it great

Feel calm

Sweet orange essential oil’s uplifting aroma may be able to calm frayed nerves and reduce tension. It could even lead to better sleep.

Protect your skin

Like other citrus oils, orange oil may help detox and decongest your skin while its antiseptic effects protect from further damage.

Ease digestive troubles

Calming orange oil aids digestion and helps to relive constipation, gas, and indigestion.

Stay healthy

Adding sweet orange essential oil to your routine provides potent immune-system support.