Essential oils offer an effective natural way to increase energy and lift mood, relieving mental fatigue while improving concentration and supporting an active and healthy lifestyle.
Essential oil blends for energy can also serve as a healthy and natural alternative to coffee, providing your senses with revitalization, relieving mental stress and reinvigorating your body. Here you’ll find expert-recommended essential oil combinations designed to bring energy back into your day and wake you up again!
Peppermint
Peppermint essential oil is well known for its stimulating scent and ability to increase alertness and concentration levels, helping people wake up quicker in the morning, boost productivity throughout their workday, and ease stress when levels rise.* Its properties may even help combat early morning grogginess while simultaneously relieving morning drowsiness.* Additionally, this essential oil may even help reduce morning grogginess by helping alleviate morning fogginess, boost productivity throughout your work day, or lift mood when stress levels reach a critical point.*
Also helpful is for soothing stomach and respiratory system irritation.*
Integrate aromatherapy into your visualisation practice (using fragrance to awaken the subconscious) by inhaling its scent before thinking of what you want to create in life. Just ensure you use only high-grade oils and perform a patch test first if trying out new ones.
Rosemary
Rosemary’s fragrant herbaceous scent is invigorating, pairing well with citrus oils, pine needles, peppermint and lavender aromas to produce an invigorating experience. Additionally, its anti-cortisol properties may help balance hormones and ease cortisol levels in order to alleviate pressure off of adrenal glands to manage stress more efficiently.
Rosemary Oil has long been utilized to boost memory. According to research, however, Rosemary Oil helps prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine, an important brain chemical associated with improved cognitive function and alertness. Massage of Rosemary Oil into Raynaud’s sufferers’ hands has also proven successful at increasing circulation.
Rosemary Essential Oil can cause skin irritation if applied directly, so for best results it is advisable to dilute with a carrier oil prior to application and test for skin sensitivity*.
Basil
Basil’s fresh and herbal scent provides an energy boost without caffeine or other stimulants. Basil can help soothe irritated skin, headaches and migraines, respiratory conditions as well as boost appetite by fighting nausea stomach spasms and fluid retention.
Eugenol, which blocks calcium channels in blood vessels, makes this oil ideal for helping lower blood pressure. Furthermore, its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties make it effective against conditions like gout, arthritis, asthma and bowel issues.
Try our Feel Refreshed essential oil blend, featuring stimulating Sicilian lemon and aromatic basil to provide an energy-boosting boost that won’t cause jitters or crashes! These oils offer natural energy solutions without the risk of caffeine or sugar dependency – and will put a spring back in your step!
Lemon
Lemon’s bright and citrus-y scent enlivens our senses, bringing joyous energy and focus. Lemon oil contains powerful limonene compounds which increase energy levels, boost focus, and elevate mood.
Aromatherapy enthusiasts swear that certain essential oils stimulate feelings of alertness, lift moods and foster creativity. The following table provides potential candidates that might cause these effects (though further studies will need to confirm them).
Try incorporating any of the essential oils listed above into your daily routine or making up your own blends. Or give Isabella’s Clearly ZEAL for natural energy boost and mental clarity or Isabella’s Clearly FOCUS to support concentration and productivity a try – remember always diluting essential oils prior to applying directly on skin, as well as performing a patch test first! *Note: Always dilute essential oils prior to application on skin directly as this may lead to allergic reactions if used directly. *
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus oil is well-known for its revitalizing and stimulating effects. It can help clear a stuffy nose, ease headaches and relieve muscle pain, repel mosquitoes, promote healthy skin and hair health and even ward off mosquitoes!
Eucalyptol, the primary chemical component in eucalyptus essential oil, boasts antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties. Furthermore, it may stimulate immune function by strengthening phagocytosis – an immune response whereby pathogens are consumed and destroyed – as well as helping strengthen overall phagocytosis in general.
Eucalyptus essential oil provides an instant energy boost. For topical application, dilute it with your choice of carrier oil such as coconut or jojoba and apply directly. Consult your doTERRA Wellness Advocate on safe methods of diluting Eucalyptus oil before beginning.