Travelling is part of the package at this time of year – to see friends and family, pop out to the pantomime, or even stop off at the supermarket to get last minute bits. It’s always hectic, but with COVID-19, it’s become even more of a minefield as we try to stay safe as we go. Here are Essican’s top tips for stress-free (and great smelling!) festive travel.
Stock up on calming essential oils
On top of smelling amazing, essential oils have amazing soothing properties, hence the massive uptick in diffuser use over the pandemic. At Essican, we stock a great range of essential oils prized for their calming capabilities, and many of them complement one another perfectly. Blending two or more can create amazing fragrances, as well as boosting the oils’ positive properties. Lavender and peppermint are both believed to have powerful qualities when it comes to combating anxiety, and together they make an intoxicating, refreshing scent. Rose, geranium and bergamot combine to create a citrus-floral fragrance, a combination which is prized by perfumiers, as well as being mood-boosting. Carry the bottles with you and inhale the scent when you start feeling stressed, or pop a couple of drops onto a hankie to keep close while you travel. Explore our range to decide which scents you’ll mix!
Bring your oil blend on your journey
Once you’ve created your stress-busting oil blend, it’s time to use it in a way that will keep you feeling safe and secure en route. You can add essential oils to cotton face masks, which is a little hack we love here at Essican! Here’s what to do:
Take your favourite essential oils (we use one of the blends above) and add a couple of drops to around 5ml of carrier oil. This part is vital, as it’s important you never put undiluted essential oils on your skin. We like to use our fractionated coconut oil because it adds a lovely sweet scent. Generally, we’d mix up the carrier oil and the essential oils in a spray bottle for easy application. Then spritz onto your mask! It’s a great way of staying grounded when you’re anxious about getting from A to B; plus, smelling great never hurts!
Don’t forget to sanitise!
At Essican, we’ve created our own ultra efficient hand sanitiser . Antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal, it kills 99.9% of nasties, so you can keep calm wherever you are. You’ll be delighted to hear that you can add your oil blend to this, too, to make it smell gorgeous too; be sure to stick to a couple of drops, though, or you could alter the efficacy of the sanitiser. We’re currently selling a pack of four 30ml bottles for just £3.95, so you can kit out the whole family for your Christmas train ride, plane journey or ferry crossing!
When you get there
For some of us, the stress doesn’t stop when we disembark the transport… Whether you’ve got two weeks locked down with a mother-in-law, or non-stop partying to attend to, you can take the scent of home with you using our fragrance oils. Stock up on something comforting for cosy evenings (have you tried our sticky toffee pudding oil ?) and revitalising citrus for hungover mornings. You see? Stress free!