ORobjective: relaxation during the Christmas holidays. Not just lunches, dinners and gifts to unwrap, either Treating yourself to a few hours of healthy relaxation is essential during the holidays. And there beauty routine can help: oils with tranquilizing blends, night-time beauty treatments to wake up rejuvenated, enveloping scents that hearten the senses. Here are some good habits to help you relax, beautifully.
The aim is to relax (in beauty) during the holidays
Holidays are made for relaxation. After an intense year, it is necessary slow down and take a few moments for yourself. And some beauty habits, which can then become real rituals, to treat yourself.
ANDIt is wrongly thought that relaxing is a sign of laziness, or a waste of time. Nothing could be more wrong: body and mind need to rest and “do nothing”. How to help your body and mind find calm again? 58% of participants in The Rest Testa research conducted by the English University of Durham involving 135 countries on relaxation habits, put reading first, followed by a walk in nature. For 53.1% of those interviewed, relaxation equals being calm in your own home, dedicating yourself to self-care.
Rest has more benefits: consolidate memories, strengthen memoryand, as 2021 research conducted by the US National Institutes of Health showed, also induce sleep and make the body more efficient.
Relaxing face and body oils for holiday relaxation
Which beauty rituals combine relaxation? First of all, the use of relaxing essential oils. Because relaxation also involves smell. In fact, following the principles of aromatherapy, aSome perfumes act on the autonomic nervous system, stimulating global balance and well-being.
Which notes to choose? THEThe most famous essential oil for relaxation is lavender. Pperfect for fighting insomniainstill calm and reduce anxiety and states. The oils are also excellent rosemary and sweet orange: the first stimulates the microcirculation by (also) relieving any muscular tension, the second calms and promotes balance and serenity. And then there’s the chamomilecalming par excellence.
Chamomile perfumes, the most relaxing note there is
Micro trend in perfumery, chamomile is among the new ingredients used by noses in their creations. Among the oldest herbs, chamomile is mainly known for its relaxing and calming properties and is present in various olfactory pyramids, especially female ones.
In particular, the essential oil is obtained from the most widespread variety, the common wild chamomile. Its peculiarity? Although the flower is white, its oil is blue due to chamazulene, the aromatic compound that gives the typical aroma present in the inflorescences. Viscous and opaque, it is the most valuable part of the flower and can cost up to two thousand dollars per kilo. To be sprayed, even on the pillow, before a peaceful sleep.
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