How to Use Aromatherapy’s Essential Oils to Improve Your Life

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Feeling calmer and happier is at the tip of your nose: It’s just a matter of using your common scents.

Warning
Consult a doctor before using essential oils if you’re pregnant or nursing.

Step 1: Learn how to use oils
Learn the various ways you can use essential oils. Put several drops on a tissue, cotton balls, or a handkerchief; add them to a pot of simmering water, a humidifier, or a diffuser; or make a scented mist by putting one cup of distilled water mixed with 10 drops of essential oil into a spray bottle.

Tip
You can reap similar benefits from the scent of flowers, fruit, and even candy.

Step 2: Get more done at work
Get more done at the office with the scent of lemons. One Japanese company pumped a lemon scent through vents and found that employees made 54 percent fewer errors than those who toiled in an unscented room.

Step 3: Exercise longer
Sniff some peppermint before you go to the gym. One group of exercisers who did felt less tired after a treadmill workout than those who didn’t.

Step 4: Be a better driver
Drivers who got a whiff of strawberry while at the wheel drove better and less aggressively than motorists who didn’t, according to a study.

Step 5: Attract men
Make yourself more attractive to men by scenting yourself or your surroundings with cinnamon. Research shows they love the smell.

Step 6: Reduce dental anxiety
Take a sniff of orange or lavender oil before a root canal. A study showed it reduced anxiety and improved the moods of dental patients.

Step 7: Lift your mood
Lift your spirits with a woodsy fragrance like cedar or pine. In one study, those who did felt more relaxed and carefree, and less depressed.

Step 8: Sleep like a baby
Inhale jasmine before you go to bed for a better night’s sleep.

Did You Know?
In France and Germany, some health-insurance programs pay for aromatherapy treatments.