(gentle music)
- Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Butje
from Aromahead Institute
and I wanna teach you
a very wonderful blend for sleep.
Think you're gonna love this.
If you're one of those people
that just has trouble sleeping at night,
falling asleep, or waking up at night,
this is gonna be a great blend for you.
So, any diffuser that you wanna use
and we're gonna use
cedarwood essential oil,
and neroli petitgrain, I'll
tell you about that in a minute,
and lavender, okay?
So, we're just gonna put the
drops directly in the diffuser.
So, I'll start with the cedarwood.
It's four drops of cedarwood
and if you're not that
familiar with cedarwood,
it is such a calming oil.
It's just this really
familiar, woody, earthy smell
and it's one of those that
just helps you feel centered.
Helps you feel calm and quiet.
So, I'm gonna put four
drops in the diffuser.
Now, how many drops you
use is really up to you,
this is just one recommended recipe.
If you have a very small
space, small bedroom,
small apartment, windows are closed,
you could cut this recipe in half even
and it would still be great.
Alright, so I'm gonna put
four drops in the diffuser
and I already have water in this diffuser.
This one requires water, not all do.
And then I'm gonna use 4
drops of neroli petitgrain.
Now, this is a co-distill
which means that in the still,
the distiller puts plant material
from two different parts of the plant
or two different plants.
In this case, it's two different parts.
We have the flowers from
the bitter orange tree,
that's what distilled to produce neroli
and then we have the leaves
from that same bitter orange tree
and that's what's used
to produce petitgrain.
So, when they both go
in the still together
we get neroli petitgrain co-distill.
Now, this oil is beautiful
because it smells
a lot like neroli, a little earthier,
but it's much less expensive
because the leaves kind of lower the cost
of the production, 'kay?
So, four drops into the diffuser.
And this is such a calming oil.
Wonderful, just calming
for your nervous system
and calming for a really active mind
or over-active mind.
If you're one of those
people that goes to bed
and is just thinking and
thinking, reviewing your day,
I can relate to that, this'll be perfect.
Then, we'll put in a classic
two drops of lavender
just 'cause, how can you resist.
So floral, so soft, so beautiful.
So, two drops.
There we go, one, two, okay.
Right in the diffuser.
Alright, now I'm just gonna
put the cover on this diffuser
and then I'm gonna pop this top on.
This is nice ceramic and wood
and then I'll just put it on
and I can already smell
the steam coming out.
Oh my gosh, it's beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful.
So then I would leave it on for
about maybe 10 or 15 minutes
either before you go to bed
or just as you're going to bed
and then you can turn it off.
There's also settings on here
for specific time intervals.
A lot of diffusers have that
so you could just set
it for 15 or 20 minutes
for certain diffusers, that's really nice.
It'll turn off by itself.
Now, this recipe by the
way, is from a free webinar
that you might wanna
check out if you're new
to essential oils.
It's about how to use essential
oils in your every day life
and I'll put the link below
the video in the description
and it is a great webinar to
learn about basics of blending.
I go over these three oils that
we just put in the diffuser
and this exact blend along
with a couple other blends
and I discuss three more essential oils.
I talk about peppermint,
that's really a great oil
to have around, just to always have around
for all of kinds of
reasons, pain, digestion.
I talk about black spruce.
This is one of my
personal favorite conifers
and I live teaching people about
all of its great properties.
And I also talk about frankincense.
So many of us just love
such a precious oil.
So, I look forward to actually having you
on that webinar and I
hope you enjoy this recipe
for your sleep and you
get a great night sleep.
Alright, bye for now.
