Essential Oils for Anxiety: 3 Custom Blends for Stress Relief

TL:DR

Essential oils for anxiety can gently support your mind and body when stress rises. Our guide shares calming essential oils, lavender, ylang ylang, bergamot, cedarwood, chamomile, and three custom Wellnessed blends you can diffuse or roll on. Learn how roller blends with carrier oil offer steady support, and which diffuser blends to try for quick relief.

Understanding Anxiety and How Aromatherapy Can Help

Anxiety is a common emotion that all of us feel at one time or another in our lives. There are different levels of anxiety. Mild anxiety could be a feeling of unease or nervousness, but severe anxiety can cause a panic attack.

If your anxiety and depression are severe, I encourage you to seek professional help. (U.S. Lifeline: 988).

We can manage anxiety through intentional, mindful actions that we can incorporate into our daily routines. Aromatherapy with essential oils that help with anxiety can be one part of a mindful routine for reducing stress and promoting relaxation.

I have created several essential oil blends for anxiety to help you or your little ones cope with feelings of anxiousness and stress.

Essential Oils That Help with Anxiety

Before I go into the essential oil blends for stress and anxiety I have created, I want to talk about specific essential oils for anxiety.

My Top 5 Go-To Essential Oils for Anxiety

Bergamot is a warm citrus oil that supports emotional health. It provides a calming effect and a feeling of centeredness. Bergamot oil is phototoxic, so you must dilute it properly if you plan to use it on your skin.

Cedarwood is an incredibly grounding oil. One of the main chemical components found in Cedarwood oil is cedrol, which has been studied and found to have a sedative effect on the central nervous system.

It is a great oil to use during stressful or anxious times. However, pregnant women and young children should avoid this essential oil.

Lavender is one of my favorite oils because it is both gentle and powerful. It has been studied extensively and can be used safely in many different ways. It also has a soothing effect on the central nervous system. Lavender essential oil is a great choice to use for yourself and your littles at bedtime.

German Chamomile is a bright blue oil that helps calm feelings of anxiety, anger, or frustration. A little of this oil goes a long way, as the aroma is quite strong!

Ylang Ylang oil is another excellent choice when you need emotional support during anxious times. The scent of Ylang Ylang is known to uplift mood and settle the body.

These are just a few classic essential oils I would recommend for stress and anxiety.

I have curated several essential oil blends for anxiety that include the above oils and have aromatherapy properties to calm anxiety and help with stress.

Unwind: An Anxiety Relief Essential Oil Blend (Diffuser and Roller)

This soothing blend is available as a diffuser and rollerball blend and is a part of our Aromatherapy Experience Collection.

Benefits of Diffusing Unwind Essential Oils for Stress and Anxiety

Unwind combines bergamot, cedarwood, clary sage, ylang ylang, a stress and anxiety essential oil blend designed to promote relaxation and mental clarity.

Diffuse: Add a few drops of essential oil to your ultrasonic diffuser for fast aromatic support via the limbic system.

The oils in our Unwind diffuser blend are high in the chemical component known to have a sedative effect on your central nervous system. Every time you breathe in, you will trigger your limbic system with oils that help reduce anxiety and stress.

Inhalation is the fastest way to feel the effects of aromatherapy on our emotions. Our sense of smell is closely related to our limbic system. The limbic system processes and regulates our emotions.

Besides making your home smell amazing, you are inhaling the chemical components of each essential oil, and that can impact your emotions.

Benefits of Using Unwind Essential Oil Roller Blend for Anxiety

Roll On: Unwind essential oil roller is pre-diluted with fractionated coconut oil for on-the-go calm. Apply to wrists, temples, neck, or palms; inhale, then massage for a slower, steady release.

Wellnessed essential oil rollers give you 100% pure therapeutic-grade essential oils diluted with a carrier oil. We use fractionated coconut oil because it’s lightweight, easily absorbed into the skin, and won’t clog your pores.

Carrier oils, like coconut oil, are fatty lipids, and essential oils are lipophilic, which means they combine with or dissolve in lipids or fats. So carrier oils, like coconut oil, are the best way to dilute and absorb the essential oils into your skin.

Topical application of essential oils is great for a slower and more long-term effect on your emotional state. The oils absorb into deeper tissue and the bloodstream, so you get a slower, more continuous impact.

I often use my rollerballs for both the quick effect of inhalation and the slow absorption through the skin. I start by rolling the blend into the palms of my hand, making a tent over my nose and mouth, and take a few deep breaths. This gives me the immediate effect through the mucous membrane.

I then roll some onto the back of my neck, my wrists, and the front of my throat to give me a slower and more continuous effect.

If you are feeling emotionally confused or indecisive, put a few drops of Unwind into your essential oil diffuser, sit quietly or meditate, breathing in the aromatic molecules of these oils. Once your mind and body are calm again, approach your problem or decision again.

Star Essence Relax: Calming Essential Oils for Anxiety (Kid-Friendly Options)

I created Star Essence Relax so children have a tangible way to self-regulate. The blend features wild orange, ylang ylang, frankincense, vetiver (plus age-appropriate variations).

Here are a few of our best sellers and how these tools can help you or your child with self-regulating feelings of anxiety and stress.

Aromatherapy Putty: These stress-relieving oils are infused in the putty and is absorbed into the skin and bloodstream through the simple act of playing with the putty. Plus, your child will also experience the aromatherapy benefits through inhalation as they play.

Younger children use our Putty through what we call Purposeful Play. They can use cookie cutters, rolling pins, stamps, or simply squeeze and roll the putty.

The sensory activity of squeezing, pinching, and kneading the putty helps to ground children in the present moment by engaging their senses. It can provide a sense of calm and help to increase attention and focus.

We can help our children learn to care for and regulate their emotions by prompting them to play with the Relax putty when we see that they are feeling worried or anxious. As they play with the putty, bring to their attention the great smells and the sensory feeling of the putty.

In this way, we are helping to ground them in the present moment, which can help when they are feeling anxious.

For older children, we have a guided meditation to use with the Relax Putty. Introducing mindfulness to our children can be an incredibly useful tool for dealing with anxious feelings.

Roll On: Glide the Relax roller across pulse points when feeling stressed or challenged. It is diluted for children as young as two, but helpful for anyone who wants to reduce feelings of anxiety naturally.

Calm Down: A Blend of Essential Oils for Calming and Anxiety

Calm Down blend is designed to ease stress and promote emotional clarity. It contains a stress-relieving combination of lavender, wild orange, and lemongrass essential oils. The uplifting citrus notes of wild orange energize and refresh, lavender soothes and calms, and lemongrass promotes clarity and inner peace—all working together to bring emotional balance.

Aromatherapy Putty: Calm Down Aromatherapy Putty combines these calming essential oils with the tactile benefits of sensory stimulation, so adults can have a tool that helps tangibly balance emotions.

Roll On: Calm Down roller gives you a quick and easy way to keep anxiety relief close at hand. Keep the portable glass bottle in your purse, travel bag, or desk drawer, so you can apply and center your emotions when feelings of anxiety or stress rise.

Why use Wellnessed Essential Oil Blends for Anxiety

Our vision for Wellnessed is to make it easy for you to find and use all-natural, safe aromatherapy and sensory products that will enhance your emotional well-being.

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To your wellness… cheers! Susan