An affordable and relaxing way to improve your health is utilizing diffuser’s, which is gaining popularity in many places. Diffuser’s are better than candle as they allow the use of many scents and are safer.
Diffusers help to create a calming environment that can help with stress, anxiety, depression, dealing with trauma and dissociation. They fill the room with small fragrant particles that we breathe in, which will relax the mind from thoughts and emotions that are distressing and allow the body to calm.
All diffusers, unlike candles, have one thing in common, they all use essential oils to achieve the scent you want. These scents can be changed often, depending on your needs. Candles, on the other hand, have only one scent, and you would have to purchase and have room to store the many candles you would need to benefit from different scents.
Flowers, herbs, and forest elements such as petals and bark are what make up the scent in essential oil. The essence is the cell that gives a plant its fragrance, and once extracted, it goes through a process and becomes an essential oil.
Different Types Of Diffusers
Reed Diffusers
This type of diffuser uses wooden sticks to disperse the scent. By placing the wood or bamboo sticks into the bottle of essential oil, the sticks wick the liquid, which pulls the oils from the bottle and disperses them to evaporate into the air.
The best thing about reed diffusers is that they require very little maintenance, and you only need to top of the essential oil once in a while as it dissipates. You can choose a range of products offering various fragrances, from fresh bamboo and green tea to rose, vanilla, and lavender.
Ultrasonic Diffusers
Ultrasonic diffusers use electricity to disperse essential oils into the air by breaking them down into smaller particles and then charging those particles.
This diffuser generates ultrasonic vibrations to agitate the water essential oil mixture, an integral component of this type of diffuser. When utilizing an ultrasonic diffuser, you will see a fine mist rise above this diffuser.
One positive aspect of ultrasonic diffusers is that they require little power. They release moisture into the air, and the mixture of water and essential oil reduces the full strength scent of the oil. This type of diffusers is excellent for those who would like a scent, but the full essential oil scent is too strong for their body and mind.
Most ultrasonic diffusers are plastic, and oils can be corrosive to plastic, so you need to clean them regularly.
Heat Diffusers
As the name suggests, heat diffusers use heat to diffuse the essential oil.
Some essential oils are thicker in consistency than others, such as Sandalwood and Patchouli. Electric heat diffusers are better able to handle the thicker essential oils and can disperse the fragrance more uniformly in larger areas.
Nebulizing Diffuser
A nebulizing diffuser is a type of diffuser that uses high-frequency vibrations to create an ultrafine mist of essential oils. This type of diffuser is often used in professional settings such as spas and clinics, as it is the most effective way to disperse essential oils into the air. Nebulizing diffusers are also very quiet and do not require any heat, making them ideal for use in bedrooms and other areas where people want to relax.
One of the main benefits of using a nebulizing diffuser is that it allows you to enjoy the full therapeutic benefits of essential oils. Unlike other types of diffusers, nebulizing diffusers do not use heat or water to disperse the essential oils into the air.
Nebulizing diffusers also tend to be very efficient, meaning that you will get more bang for your buck when you purchase one. If you are looking for an effective way to use essential oils, then a nebulizing diffuser may be the perfect option for you.
Evaporative diffusers
A fan or moving air blows the air in an evaporative diffuser. The air is blown through the fan, which contains essential oil droplets, and creates a calming aroma in a room.
There is another type of evaporative diffuser that uses existing air current instead of a fan. The existing air in a room blows through a pad containing the oil, causing it to evaporate and produce fragrance.
Often you will see bracelets and necklace pendants with essential oils, and this is how they work.
While the oil evaporates, it may lose some of its potency. However, this is an excellent choice for those who want a quick aromatic sensation, since the air currents produced by the fan or existing air current causes the oil to evaporate faster.
Benefits Of Diffusers
Essential oil diffusers have many health benefits and a wide range of qualities. Let us discover some of these benefits.
Stress Relief
Essential oils can relax your mind, and science has documented essential oils like lavender can relieve anxiety and reduce stress.
Scents can alter brain waves and behaviour decreasing stress and increasing contentment. It also reduces the levels of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. Have you ever been stressed and come home to smell Sunday dinner cooking, freshly brewed coffee or walked into a bakery first thing in the morning? Perhaps you have gone for a hike and enjoyed the fragrant flowers, or love the smell of freshly cut grass. Take a moment to reflect on the scents you love does a feeling of calm arise?
Utilizing a diffuser with other stress relievers, such as massage, enhances its positive effect on your health and further reduces stress.
Inhaling the scent of essential oils activates receptors in the nose, sends a message to the brain, activating it and changing a person’s emotion. The limbic system plays a role in your feelings, and the hypothalamus releases chemicals like serotonin, which generates positive feelings in a person.
Meditation & Yoga
Many people benefit from the calming qualities of utilizing a diffuser while they meditate or do yoga.
Your diffuser choice will depend on where and how you choose to meditate or do yoga.
If you practice in your home, an ultrasonic diffuser would be an excellent choice for you. If you practice in a group setting or a place shared with other people, then a personal diffuser like a pendant or a pen would be a better choice. The diffuser that suits you and your needs might differ from that for others. Understanding all the different types of diffusers discussed above will help you choose the best one for yourself.
Using a diffuser adds to the benefits of meditation and yoga by stimulating your senses and relaxing your mind. It will assist in promoting self-love, courage, self-acceptance, calming the mind and increasing life satisfaction.
Clary sage is good to cheer you up, while Eucalyptus promotes respiratory health. Frankincense clears your nasal passageways, and lavender is an antidepressant and can calm intrusive thoughts to achieve a peace of mind.
Sleep
There are times when sleep eludes us, and it is essential for a person’s health and happiness. Sometimes even with comfortable bedding, it is difficult to relax your mind and sleep well.
When you have difficulty sleeping, a diffuser may become your best friend. You can use them in your room to enhance your sleep and get a good night’s sleep.
Whether you are in your own home, visiting friends or family, spending a night in a hotel or camping, you can take a diffuser as they are portable. It will surely help you to sleep well at night and relax your mind and body.
Here are some examples of oils utilized to solve sleep-related problems.
- Lavendar as it reduces anxiety
- Clary Sage as this scent helps with insomnia. Clary sage is often blended with Ylang Ylang, Geranium and Amyris to help people get a good night’s sleep.
- Bergamot is also known to have specific properties that help a person sleep well.
Snoring
While the data on the use of diffusers for snoring is limited, and the mechanism is not fully understood, some essential oils have been useful to reduce snoring.
- Thyme
- Peppermint
- Lemon
- Clove
- Pine
- Fennel
- Sage
- Lavender
Explore which scent or combination of oils will work best for you in your situation.
Thoughts, Feelings & Emotions
Diffusers can help you to calm your emotions and uplift your spirit.
- Lavender eases tension and reduces anxious feelings.
- Frankincense encourages tranquillity and focus.
- Peppermint energizes and stimulates the brain.
- Bergamot soothes when stressed, or the level of anxiety is high.
Trauma & Pain
The Egyptian Pharaohs have used diffusers and essential oils to maintain health, and this tradition continues to this day.
Diffusers and essential oils are one tool out of many you will require to help you through trauma. They help by providing a calming environment, and often the scent will assist in keeping you grounded in the present, helping to reduce flashbacks to the trauma.
Carefully select an essential oil that you find calming, one that is unique to the environment you are in the most and lets you know you are safe in the place you are.
Many of us utilize creams and lotions to ease our aches and pains. Using a diffuser is also an effective method to alleviate pain. Breathing in the air and inhaling the diffused essential oil calms and when we are relaxed and calm pain is relieved.
Where To Place Your Diffuser
How to decide where to place and use your diffuser, here are some tips:
- Place the diffuser in a location where you spend most of your time, on your coffee table, study table, or bedside table.
- If the scent is too strong, dilute the oil or place it a few feet away.
- Keep the diffuser’s level below the level of your nose. The aroma of the oil will evaporate in the air and go up, so it’s not a good idea to place it in a location higher than your nose.
- Try to keep the diffuser away from direct sunlight and heat.
- Safety considerations === always keep electrical appliances away from water. Pay attention when using any diffuser for overheating but the use of a candle diffuser needs particular attention.
- Try to buy organic and diluted oil for your diffusers.
Final Thought
Breathe in the scents of life and exhale stress and anxiety.
