Menopause & Essential Oils
Natural Relief for Common Symptoms
Menopause is a significant life transition for women, often accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms such as hot flushes, mood swings, lack of focus and sleep disturbances. While every woman’s experience with menopause is different, essential oils can be a valuable, natural tool to help manage some of these symptoms. These powerful plant extracts have been used for centuries for their therapeutic properties, and today, many women are turning to them to support their wellbeing during menopause. In this journal entry, we’ll explore how essential oils can help ease common menopause symptoms and offer simple tips for incorporating them into your daily routine.
Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats
Hot flushes and night sweats are two of the most common symptoms women experience during menopause. These sudden waves of heat can be uncomfortable and disruptive to daily life. Certain essential oils may help cool the body and reduce the intensity of hot flushes.
Peppermint Oil: Known for its cooling and refreshing properties, peppermint oil can offer quick relief from hot flushes. It’s invigorating scent also helps increase focus and reduce feelings of fatigue. Diffusing peppermint oil will help when you need relief from hot flushes or an energy boost.
Clary Sage Oil: This oil is particularly popular for balancing hormones. It may help reduce both the frequency and severity of hot flushes. Diffusing clary sage oil can offer relief.
Flicker & Scent recommends:
Breathe Deeply, a cooling therapeutic blend of peppermint, lemon, eucalyptus and lemongrass
Coastal Walk - Crisp and refreshing blend of cooling spearmint, may chang, rosemary, lavender, orange, clove and cedarwood
Easing mood swings and anxiety
Hormonal fluctuations during menopause can lead to increased feelings of anxiety, irritability, and even depression. Essential oils can play a role in emotional support, helping to stabilize mood and promote a sense of calm.
Geranium Oil: Known for it’s ability to balance hormones and support emotional wellbeing. It can help ease mood swings and lift spirits when you’re feeling low. Diffuse during the day to promote emotional stability and a sense of calm
Bergamot Oil: This citrusy essential oil has uplifting properties that can ease feelings of sadness or low mood. Apply diluted bergamot oil to your wrists or temples when you’re feeling down, or diffuse it in your home to uplift your spirits.
Blends Flicker & scent recommends:
Happiness - a joyful blend of Geranium, Clary Sage, Grapefruit, Orange and Lavender
Calm & Balance - a calming blend of lavender, bergamot and frankincense to help restore calm and balance emotions.
Supporting better sleep
Sleep disturbances are another frequent complaint during menopause, with many women finding it difficult to get a restful night’s sleep. Essential oils with calming and sedative properties can create a more conducive environment for sleep.
Lavender Oil: A well-known stress-reliever, lavender oil promotes relaxation and can help with feelings of anxiety. Diffusing lavender or adding a few drops to your bath on an evening can create a calming environment.
Vetiver Oil: Naturally grounding and restorative, vetiver oil has sedative qualities and can help you get a more restful nights sleep. Incorporate into your nighttime routine by diffusing in your bedroom before you drift off.
Ylang Ylang: With its sedative properties, ylang ylang oil can calm the nervous system, reducing feelings of stress and aiding in relaxation. Try inhaling before bed or adding it to a relaxing nighttime bath.
Blends Flicker & Scent recommends:
Sleep - a blend of relaxing lavender along with soothing bergamot and sedative powers of vetiver to help you achieve a good nights sleep.
Sweet Dreams - A blend of ylang ylang, warm cedarwood, lavender plus stress relieving lemon verbena to soothe and restore creating a calming sanctuary that encourages only the sweetest dreams
Increasing Focus
Difficulty concentrating and brain fog can be caused by the direct effects of low oestrogen on brain function. It can also be connected to low mood, anxiety, stress and fatigue.
Rosemary Oil: is a natural brain booster, research indicates rosemary helps prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine, a brain chemical important for thinking, concentration and memory. Inhale when you need to improve cognitive function.
Lemongrass: can help improve cognitive performance in terms of longer attention span and better quality of memory and increase mood in terms of alertness and calmness.
Blends Flicker & Scent recommends:
Energise & Focus - a blend of lifting rosemary, tea tree and lemongrass to ease anxiety and help focus. Perfect when you need to energise your ind and thoughts!
Clarity - a perfect blend to clear brain fog with invigorating peppermint, stimulating rosemary & calming lavender along with the freshness of lemon.
All the above blends are available in wax melts, room spray & diffusers to fragrance your space, as bath salts to inhale while you bathe or for aromatherapy on the go try our essential oil inhalers - shop here
