Yes, you can use scented candles to improve your mood!
With so much happening in the world, mental health is becoming a higher priority for many of us. Unsurprisingly, an important component of our mental well-being is how we are feeling. As life becomes more complex and perhaps even stressful, mood regulation habits become paramount.
Imagine arriving at your house, tired after a hard day’s work and being welcomed by a fragrance that lifts your mood and relaxes you. Fragrances trigger areas in our brain that relate to our emotions. Selecting candles based on science can be the perfect way to improve your mood. Scented candles can help relieve stress and reduce anxiety.
How can scented candles affect mood?
Aromatherapy through scented candles can change your mood based on the scent. Chemicals in your brain react depending on the smells, leading to both mental and physical effects. It can even help you with problems like insomnia, muscle pain, and stress.
The effect of different scented candles on the mind and body
Each scented candle fragrance offers different therapeutic results. For instance: Lemon for reducing stress, Pine for depression, Orange for energy, lavender for sleeping, and peppermint for a brain boost.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a popular favourite and is ideal for enhancing concentration. It improves your cognitive function hence encouraging concentration and heightening attention. When you smell cinnamon you probably first think of Christmas. The nutmeg and Cinnamon fragrance combination is a Christmassy scent but can also be used throughout the year to enhance your mood.
Lavender
Lavender candles are known for their relaxant properties. It helps to calm your mind and body. We recommend this fragrance for its benefit in relieving common sleeping disorders. Research has shown that lavender helped ease sleeping problems and depression among college students, a group most prone to stress.
Apple
Eating apples has its health boost, and so does the smell of the crisp fruit. Green apple odour is known to control anxiety, particularly during stressful situations. It can also help manage cravings and hunger pangs. So, most dieters sniff apple-scented candles as an alternative to snacking.
Lemon
Lemon scent has a few notable mental and physical benefits. It stimulates your concentration levels and has calming effects. Burning a lemon-scented candle will help you tremendously.
Scented Candles and your lifestyle
Mill & Nairobi Limited Retail wholeheartedly believe that luxury is a lifestyle. Luxury is consistent with the things we need to do to be well and live well. We aim to offer products in line with what we believe will help improve your life in ways that make you look and feel better. Our home fragrance category features a range of scented candles from reputable brands such as Bath and Body Works. Our newly added Jamaican-made single wick candles are also a fave.
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