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Peppermint (Mentha piperita) is a uplifting your energy and spirits on a hot
small, perennial herb that has highly dry or sultry day. Lemon, lime and orange
aromatic leaves. There are different types oils are best organic and the aroma needs to
of peppermint plants including white appeal to your senses.
peppermint and black peppermint; both
have different coloured leaves and flowers. Lavender oil (Lavandula angustifolia)
Peppermint oil helps you keep cool
because it contains the chemical menthol.
Menthol’s ability to chemically trigger the
cold-sensitive (TRPM8) receptors in the
skin is responsible for the well-known
cooling sensation that it provokes when
inhaled, or applied to the skin. Using
peppermint oil will give you instant relief
from nausea, indigestion and bloating,
giddiness, headaches and migraines when
you’re coping with too much sun or heat. Also known as true lavender, it literally
is helpful for everything; and adding a
Sweet orange oil (Citrus sinensis) few drops to any oil will only enhance the
properties of that oil. On its own it stands
so powerful – it relieves fatigue yet helps
you calm down and sleep better, it soothes
the nerves, and works excellently with the
nervous system. I have this habit of adding
a few drops of pure lavender to a warm
or cool bath at the end of a long, tiring
or stressful day – it melts away physical
fatigue and erases mental negativity.
For me, there is something fantastic about
the aroma of fresh oranges and summer. Rose oil (Rosa centifolia)
Perhaps because this oil is my ‘go to’; it
uplifts me from any sub-state to revival
and renewal. The oil is extremely uplifting
when you feel a bit low, sad or depressed.
Using sweet orange essential oil certainly
helps you feel cooler in summer. You can
also add a drop or two of lavender and
neroli (essential oil of orange blossom) for a
boost to your cool down.
Lemon (Citrus limon) and lime essential Aka Bulgarian rose, Turkish rose, rose otto
oils are very similar to sweet orange or summer damask rose. Rosa centifolia
essential oil. They are all high in Vitamin is another oil that does everything. Most
C and purify and protect your skin while useful during summer, is a cool rose water

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