Feb 13, 2018 | Aromatherapy, Health & Wellness, House & Home, Seasonal
Winter can be full of great things like hot chocolate and snowball fights but it can also be the time when your immune system begins fighting the war against cold and flu viruses. Here are some essential oil products to help your fight for a better, healthier life during winter.
1. Eucalyptus Oil
This antiseptic and antibacterial oil is found in things from cough drops to steam rooms. Eucalyptus ShowerMist can help you combat inflammation in your lungs. It will also help keep your house smelling clean and fresh while helping remove mold and mildew!
2. Peppermint
Peppermint just smells like it’s healthy. Not only is it good for your respiratory system, Mint-Infused Eucalyptus ShowerMist can help with aches and also help calm fevers when used in the shower.
3. Citrus
Citrus can help energize you during the snow filled days and give you a taste of summer during a blizzard. Citrus-Infused Eucalyptus Showermist is a great air freshener when used in a diffuser with it’s mild blend of citrus and eucalyptus.
4. Lime
Lime has a ton of uses. It can be used to help your immune system fight off germs left and right with it’s antiseptic and antibacterial properties. Try Menthol-Infused ShowerMist for a virgin Mojito smell while in a hot shower.
All of our products are great right out of the bottle! Spray in your hot shower, put several drops in a humidifier, or just around the room to keep it fresh while spending more time inside this winter. For continuous exhilaration, try our new electronic diffusers!
Oct 24, 2017 | Aromatherapy, Health & Wellness
It’s that time of year. The weather is changing, the leaves are falling, and the flu is coming around again. With that comes several unpleasant symptoms and sick days. But this year, spend less time being sick and more time feeling great with Eucalyptus. It’s just as effective — if not more — as an over-the-counter medication and a healthier alternative for your liver.
How Eucalyptus Treats the Flu
You may recognize Eucalyptus oil from its potent, distinct aroma. This aroma is how Eucalyptus oil does the majority of its healing. As you breathe in Eucalyptus, it cleans your pathways and provides relief while supporting your immune system to take care of the virus at the source. The potency comes from its bactericides (a substance that can kill bacteria) within its fumes that directly attack flu bacteria. These bactericides allow Eucalyptus to get to the root of the virus and kill it quicker than most other treatments.
Eucalyptus is also a natural antibiotic and expectorant, which supports your body in expelling the virus. These characteristics make Eucalyptus especially effective against flu viruses such as H1N1.
How to Use Eucalyptus Oil
Eucalyptus oil can be used in several ways and many times during your daily activities:
- Shower: One such way is to spray Eucalyptus ShowerMist into the steam of your shower and breathe it in. Just one or two spritzes in your shower will be all it takes to take away congestion, coughing, and many other symptoms.
- Diffusion: Another way to use Eucalyptus oil is to use a diffuser. You can use a diffuser to fill a room with the effects of Eucalyptus all day long and provide yourself with around-the-clock symptom relief.
- Massage: Combine a few drops of Eucalyptus oil with a carrier oil such as almond oil. Massage the mixture onto your respiratory tract and feet to feel fast relief and supporting your immune system.
- Bowl of Hot Water: Finally, for strong, quick relief, heat up water and put it into a bowl. Add a few drops of Eucalyptus oil and, covering your head with a towel, place your head directly over the bowl and breathe in the aroma.
Use these tips as needed to fight off the flu fast and get back to living your life.
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Sep 13, 2017 | Aromatherapy, Health & Wellness
With the growing number of diagnoses and the pervasiveness of the disease in our culture, cancer often touches the lives of almost everyone directly or indirectly at some point in time. As cancer research has grown, a light has shown on the power of essential oils to deter or even defeat cancer. Whether from studies or the testimonies of several people on the healing they’ve experienced, it’s undoubted that essential oils could work for anyone with cancer.
Each essential oil brings different health benefits and cancer-fighting properties to the table. Take a look below at what each oil can do.
Essential Oils That Fight Cancer
Lavender Oil: Lavender is one of the most popular essential oils for its myriad benefits, but recent studies have also shown it to be advantageous to cancer patients.
Lavender can directly affect certain cancer cells, ranging from preventing their spread or killing them outright. It also improves immune system efficacy, which is severely depleted when a patient is undergoing chemotherapy. Lavender is also a pain reliever, allowing patients to take fewer medications that often cause adverse side effects.
Citrus Oil: Citrus, especially when it includes orange or lemon oil, has been known to halt the growth of cancer cells, especially in that of cervical cancers. Orange oil possesses d-limonene, a phytochemical largely known for its anticancer effects. Citrus oil also provides relief from pain and anxiety and several of the side effects commonly associated with chemotherapy.
Peppermint Oil: Peppermint oil has lots of research and studies behind it supporting its potency against cancer. Like citrus oils, it also has limonene in it, making it effective against many cancers. Most notably, peppermint has been known to kill leukemia cancer cells. Menthol has also been widely studied and found to kill prostate cancer cells.
Eucalyptus Oil: Eucalyptus oil is full of phytochemicals that are known to help treat cancer, particularly alpha-pinene and beta-pinene. These two phytochemicals have been under wide study and have proven to provide anticancer effects. Eucalyptus also has been proven to be very toxic to lymphoma cancer cells.
Prevention is the Best Cancer Treatment
Since there are several behaviors that can increase cancer risk, prevention is the best medicine. Essential oils eliminate free radicals, which can cause damage to cells, and are full of antioxidants. Oxidation can also cause damaging mutations in cells and lead to tumors. Essential oils can also decrease other possible cancer risks.
If you want to start preventing and decreasing your risk of cancer, then check out our line of several Eucalyptus-based ShowerMists. Each of the essential oils listed above is infused in our Eucalyptus ShowerMists, allowing you to experience the potency of two strong essential oils.
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Jun 6, 2017 | All About Eucalyptus, Health & Wellness
It’s June, which is Men’s Health month, so let’s take some time to consider the fathers, uncles, brothers, and sons in our lives. You probably know some hard working guys that don’t often have time to think about their health. So what can you do to help them take care of themselves? Here are six health-improving Eucalyptus tips they can start using today:
1: Relax in the shower before work
Need a little pick me up before heading off to work? Eucalyptus relaxes and reinvigorates, relieving that morning fog in your mind to alert your senses, getting you ready for the day. Simply spray it on the floor of your shower, and you’ve brought the spa to your home. You can try several different kinds of our ShowerMists depending on your preferences, but our classic Pure Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist is a great energizer by itself.
2: Kill germs in gym showers
If you use the showers at your local gym, then you know they aren’t the cleanliest things in the world. But what you may not know is that the shower floors could be filled with fungus spores and other germs that could make you ill, especially if you shower there barefoot. Any of our Pure Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMists will kill germs and make the shower floor a safe and sanitary place to clean your body (as well as remove any foul odors).
3: Remove odors from shoes and feet
Whether from playing sports or a long day at work, shoes usually get pretty smelly. The smell can be embarrassing and ruin the atmosphere of any room. But it doesn’t have to. With our Citrus-Infused Pure Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist, you can spray it inside any shoes and leave them overnight. The next morning, you’ll find you have clean shoes that will stay fresh for a long time since Eucalyptus naturally eats odors.
4: Soothe muscle pains
No matter what you do, muscles will get sore and tense from the stress of life. But you can remedy the problem with our Mint-Infused Pure Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist, which has been known to relax muscle tension and remove stress. Eucalyptus has also been known to quicken the healing of muscle tears and strains, as well as relieve pain associated with the injuries.
5: Relieve and flush sinuses
Sinus pressure and pain are common for everyone, especially for men when they wake up in the morning. Want to know how to relieve the pressure within just a few minutes? Spray our Lavender-Infused Pure Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist during a quick shower to clear your sinuses and open them up for the rest of the day. You don’t have to live with congested sinuses anymore.
6: Improve digestion
A long day of work doesn’t often lead to a good day of healthy food choices. Thankfully, there’s a way to combat indigestion and an unsettled stomach. Try this: mix the Mint-Infused Pure Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist with Epsom salts and a carrier oil, such as almond oil. Pour it in a bath and allow the mixture to aid your digestive tract and relax your entire body.
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May 26, 2017 | Aromatherapy, Body & Beauty, Health & Wellness, Shower & Bath
Whether or not you like crafting, sometimes you just feel you need to try a DIY project of own. But looking at the breadth of aromatherapy projects you can make yourself can seem daunting as you get sucked into a Google or Pinterest Black hole. So here are some great DIY Aromatherapy ideas you can use today. For these ideas, we recommend using our Citrus Infused Eucalyptus ShowerMist.
Even though most of the time our ShowerMist is used in showers (of course), EuroSpa ShowerMist’s can actually be used as a room spray. Sometimes here at EuroSpa, someone will come into the office who is a heavy smoker or has sprayed just a little too much cologne on that day. After they leave, I will use the bottle of Citrus Infused ShowerMist that stays on my desk. Just a couple of spritzes in the air and in just a few minutes, the smell is gone and you are left with the refreshing scent of Citrus and Eucalyptus!
If you have a teenager or a man in your house, no matter how well they try, their shoes can sometimes be just smelly! To help get rid of that smell, spray the Citrus Infused ShowerMist on the inside of the shoes and let them sit overnight. The first thing you will notice is the smell will start dissipating. By the morning, the shoes smell better and the ShowerMist should help keep the smell in the shoes from coming back as strong as Eucalyptus is a natural odor eater. I personally use it all the time to keep my sandals smelling great since as a California girl, I pretty much live in them!
Do you love to use scrubs in the shower but can’t afford some of those amazing looking products that you see on BuzzFeed? Try pairing our Citrus Infused ShowerMist with our Mint Infused ShowerMist, mix in some Epsom salts and a carrier oil such as almond oil. The Mint Infused ShowerMist will add a cooling effect to the mixture to help relieve aches and pains while the Citrus Infused ShowerMist will invigorate you and open your sinuses!
Tired of how dry Purell and other alcohol based sanitizers can make your hands feel? Mix some aloe vera gel together with the Citrus Infused ShowerMist for your own version of a hand sanitizer. Not only will your hands no longer be dry because of the aloe vera, but the Citrus Infused ShowerMist will not dry out your hands either!
And finally, my personal favorite as we have used it many times in our household. Sometimes no matter how well you clean or what you pour down the drain, your garbage disposal smells. And that smell can spread throughout the house fast! Try spraying the Citrus Infused ShowerMist down the drain and let it sit for at least 15 minutes before you run water down the drain. Suddenly the smell will be gone and your whole house will smell like oranges. I personally have used this multiple times in different houses and works so quickly you will be surprised!
Is there something you have tried with our Eucalyptus products that you love? Comment here or on social media and you might see it included in our next newsletter!
May 18, 2017 | Aromatherapy, Body & Beauty, Health & Wellness
Autoimmune diseases have become one of the more widely talked about diseases with the advance of modern medicine and also with the internet. Before this, the sufferers of these diseases had no way of knowing what they had and most had to suffer with little to no relief with no answers. Nowadays, one of the more common autoimmune diseases we hear about is Lupus.
So what is Lupus and what makes it an autoimmune disease? In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against parts of the body it is designed to protect. Lupus can affect many parts of the body, including the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood vessels, and brain. Although people with the disease may have many different symptoms, some of the most common ones include extreme fatigue, painful or swollen joints (arthritis), unexplained fever, skin rashes, and kidney problems.
Even though there is no cure for Lupus, for most people it can be treated with prescriptions and they can lead an active and healthy life. However, when the disease flares, it has the potential to be quite debilitating. Aromatherapy can be used to help give symptomatic relief and enable them to sleep and relax and generally aid their mental well-being.
As May is Lupus Awareness Month, we want to show EuroSpa’s Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist can help. Based on what you are trying to ease, all of our Eucalyptus oil based products have some manner of helpfulness. Here are some common symptoms and the product that should help best!
For pain and stress try our Lavender or Mint Infused Eucalyptus Oil ShowerMist. Lavender is rich in notes that help give it anti-inflammatory properties and its refreshing scent helps ease stress. Mint gives a cooling sensation and can calm the body which can help relieve sore muscles.
To ease inflammation try our Menthol Infused Eucalyptus Showermist which also has the addition of camphor which aid the menthol’s effectiveness. Menthol brings a cooling sensation which can help trigger your body to think its cold and will help relieve the uncomfortable heat of inflammation. This is why many first aid products use menthol for cooling in place of ice.
And lastly, to aid circulation, give Citrus Infused Eucalyptus ShowerMist a try. Citrus is thought of as cleansing and can aid in stimulation which can lead to a clearing of potential lymphatic stagnation. And it’s also refreshing and uplifting – who hasn’t felt perked up by the scent of citrus?
All of these infusions are aided by the invigorating properties of Pure Eucalyptus Oil. It has such a fresh and clean aroma that it helps to open your airways up so you can receive the full benefit of your aromatherapy shower.
So while Lupus and other autoimmune diseases might not have a cure, hopefully a few of these ideas can help the sufferers have a better day which can lead to a better week, better month and better life!
