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Aromatherapy can energize, relax
By Rebecka Hyde
Staff Reporter
Imagine easing into a nice hot
bathtub filled with sudsy bubbles
that reach your ears after a long day
of class and work. Your entire body
melts in the hot water while the
relaxing scents of lavender and mint
linger in the air. It’s a nice dream, but
who has time to relax with all this
studying to do?
A quicker, easier >vay to relieve
stress that doesn’t involve scrubbing
the brown ring out of the bathtub
may be aromatherapy or anti-stress
lotions and products.
uary Morse, an aromatherapist
with Creative Solutions, said certain
scents affect one’s body and mood.
“The smells or the aromas go to
the mid-brain within two or three
seconds,” he said. “Smell is the only
sense that can reach the mid-brain
and it triggers different emotional
and memory centers very directly.”
Soothing scents, especially
lavender, mint and eucalyptus, are
said to relieve headaches, ease ten
sion, treat insomnia and cure depres
sion, according to literature provid
ed by Bath & Body Works, Garden
Botanika and Wicks ‘n’ Sticks.
Norma Selk, a sales associate at
Bath & Body Works at Oak View
Mall in Omaha, said the effect was
psychological.
“The scents in these products
bring back memories like when you
smell cinnamon or ginger and
remember gingerbread or apple
crisp at Christmas. The anti-stress
products make you remember a
calmer time.”
The stress-relieving scents are
produced by essential oils derived
from plants and mixed with base oils
for application to the skin, according
to a pamphlet published by Bath &
Body Works.
Essential oils also are mixed into
stress-relieving products such as
shower gels, lotions and massage
oils. Such products are available at
Bath & Body Works, The Body Shop
and Garden Botanika. All three
stores offer a refund if the products
do not help relieve stress.
Lavender and peppermint, the
relaxing ingredients in most prod
ucts, work to pamper one’s body
inside and out. Bath & Body Works
has two different scents: tranquil
sleep and anti-stress. The store has
other products including linen
sprays, home fragrance sprays, min
eral bath salts and candles.
Oarden Botamka otters an aro
matherapy eye pillow to relieve ten
sion and eyestrain. Sydney
Greensheep is a soft cotton sheep
stuffed with organically grown
herbs, seeds and grains, such as
lavender and peppermint. The pillow
lays across the forehead during sleep
while its fragrances are inhaled.
Aromatherapy candles also can
help people relax. Scented candles
can last five to 40 hours.
Wicks ‘n’ Sticks at Oak View
Mall in Omaha offers a variety of
relaxing, anti-stress and stimulating
fragrances to choose from, Nicole
Banks, an employee, said.
“I like the anti-stress best
because the lavender and chamomile
give off a fragrance that relaxes
you,” Banks said. “I can just feel it
working.”
Aromatherapy has been used for
thousands of years and involves
using the essential oils in botanicals,
said Jenny Flenniken, of The Body
Shop at Westroads Mall in Omaha.
“They have not proven why
essential oils relax, but historically,
it has been working since the time of
Cleopatra,” Flenniken said.
Bath & Body Works, also located
in Lincoln’s Gateway Mall, sells
vials of essential oils mixed with
grape seed oil for use on skin or to
inhale. The oils are supposed to be
rubbed into the temples and pulse
points.
However, Morse does not recom
mend oils manufactured by major
Product Prices:
Bath & Body Works has two
scents: tranquil sleep and anti
stress
Bath and shower gel $8.50
Lotion $10.00
Massage lotion $9.00
Pulse point lotion $ 10.00
Linen spray $5.00
Home fragrance spray $5.00
Mineral bath salts $ 10.00
Essential oils $8.50
Garden Botanika has laven
der scents or a custom scent bar
Custom made scents $8.00
Bath and shower gel $6.00
Lotion $6.00
Body mist $6.00
Bubble bath $6.00
Massage oil $7.50
Massage lotion $7.50
Sydney Greensheep- aro
matherapy eye pillow $ 18.00
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The Body Shop-Lavender
scents and relaxing formulas
Bath and shower gel $8.00
Lotion $11.00
Body oil $9.00/no lavender
Soap $5.00
Essential oils $4.00-$ 10.00
companies.
“The problem is to make a pure ..
oil in the distillation process is very ;
precise,” he said. “A lot of the nutri
ents are destroyed when you try to
product huge vats at a time to sell.
Although they have a nice fragrance,
the therapeutic value has been lost.”
Morse said Young Living
Essential Oils are the best he’s
found, and prices vary from $10 to
$100 for rare oils. >■ -■-ni mase
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student Juliet Trnka said she uses a
massage oil that is supposed to pro
vide energy.
“It’s relaxing physically and
when you breathe in the scent it
relaxes you internally,” she said. “I
like it a lot. lit doesn’t give you the
energy that a big pot of coffee would, '
but it’s super relaxing.”
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