What to Pack: The Travel Aromatherapy Kit

If you're already thinking about what to pack, there are at least three essential oils that will be useful on many occasions and that you'll be grateful to have with you.

What to pack

Essential oils are extremely versatile products; they can be used in countless ways, especially when we're away from home. Small and easy to handle, they offer a natural solution to many situations. Do you want some examples?

Toothpaste: If you forget your toothpaste, you can use a drop of Peppermint (just one, it's more than enough) on your toothbrush.

Digestion: If you feel bloated because you've changed your diet compared to when you're at home, massage a few drops of peppermint essential oil, diluted, on your abdomen: it's an excellent antispasmodic and digestive, it will stimulate bile flow and counteract gas formation and nausea.

Insomnia: you're staying in a new place, it's hot and you're struggling to fall asleep: what to do? apply a few drops of Lavender essential oil on your pillow, massage it over your heart and relax. It will encourage sleep.

Bites: Have you been stung by a mosquito or a small insect? Apply a drop of Lavender on the bite to reduce inflammation and relieve itching. Soothing and anti-inflammatory, Lavender is a small panacea for skin irritations.

Sore throat: Alternating between scorching heat and air conditioning, it's easy to get sick. If you have a cold or sore throat coming on, rinse and gargle with water and Tea Tree (2 drops). You can massage a few drops of essential oil - diluted in cream or vegetable oil - on your chest, below your navel, and on the soles of your feet. You'll feel better immediately.

After-sun: Aloe is the ideal after-sun. Essential oils enhance its action, making it a true beauty elixir! Enrich 100 ml of Aloe Vera Gel with 60 drops of Lavender Essential oil and 5 drops of Peppermint. Lavender is soothing and regenerating, and will enhance Aloe's restorative action. A few drops of Peppermint will make the Gel a real relief on hotter days. Keyword: freshness!

Hair styling: do you want to protect and hydrate your hair lengths? Do you love the sea salt effect on your hair after a swim? Use a dollop of Aloe Vera Gel on the ends and throughout the length for 100% natural styling!

If we haven't convinced you yet how indispensable they are, keep reading to discover how to use essential oils on holiday!

Aloe Vera

Why choose Aloe Gel as after-sun?

Benefits of Aloe: ✅ Deeply moisturizes

✅ Increases collagen production

✅ Stimulates cell production

✅ Promotes circulation

✅ Has a detoxifying action on the skin

✅ Soothes irritations

✅ Aids healing

Uses:

✅ Face hydration

✅ After-sun

✅ Anti-ageing

✅ Hair

Peppermint

✅ Heat: circulatory and refreshing, when massaged into a cream, oil or gel, it stimulates nerve endings and provides a pleasant sensation of freshness;

✅ Headache: analgesic and cephalic, it actively combats migraines and headaches. An excellent remedy to use both diffused and on temples, nape, and wrists - always diluted;

✅ Car travel: helps concentration and keeps you awake when driving for long periods. Fights dizziness, nausea, and all discomforts related to travel.

✅ Insects: antiparasitic, anti-itch, and insect repellent, it is very useful during outdoor excursions as well as indoors, to mark areas from which to keep ants and other small friends away.

Lavender

✅ Natural anti-inflammatory: decongestant, Lavender is completely free of irritants. For this reason, it is ideal for soothing and cleaning lesions, irritations, burns, and stings.

✅ Burns: cellular regenerator, diluted at 5% in a base vegetable oil or cream, it prevents aging and proves effective when applied to sunburns, burns, and abrasions.

✅ Face cream: purifying, it is suitable for all skin types, giving tone and elasticity. In summer, we need to pamper our face more, as it is exposed to sunlight daily: Lavender, gentle and refreshing,

✅ Sport: ideal for combating muscle pain, through a massage in a base vegetable oil: it helps to relax and relieve muscle contractions. Its anti-rheumatic action also works very well on bones: runners, who usually have some knee pain, can try applying it in a clay pack or arnica gel.

✅ Stress: supports the nervous system with its relaxing and rebalancing action, promotes peaceful and restorative sleep.

✅ Cleaning: antifungal and antiseptic, you can use it to clean unsafe environments and surfaces.

Tea Tree

✅ Herpes: antiseptic and disinfectant, it is suitable for washes, compresses, and topical applications in case of cuts, stings, and burns, herpes, and infections: it is ideal if you are considering an adventurous holiday, immersed in nature.

✅ Fungi: ideal for any type of fungus, from candidiasis to mycelia that attack skin and nails. If you are easily affected by fungi, especially in summer when you are more exposed, add a few drops to your body cream for protection.

✅ Viruses and bacteria: in addition to fighting bacteria and trichomonas, it also has a protective action against viruses. Use it to clean the places where you will stay: from the mattress to the shower tray, with Tea Tree, you are always safe.

✅ Skin: healing and purifying - if adequately diluted in a cream - it is optimal for small lesions, especially those of an acneic nature. In summer, sweat can cause skin breakouts: if you get a pimple, apply it gently. Tea Tree rebalances the sebum of the skin and scalp; you will see the first results within a few days.