How to “Warm Up” Your Home With Essential Oils
Are you dreading the winter cold? Do snow and bitter temperatures have you shivering already? If so, there’s no need to worry. There are a few weeks left in fall, which provides you with the perfect opportunity to stock up on an excellent solution that can help warm your home when it’s cold outside.
No, we are not talking about candles or firewood. Rather, we’re referring to essential oils. When using oils, along with an aromatherapy oil diffuser, you can provide warmth and comfort to your home when it is cold outside. Curious about which oils are best for an aromatherapy oil diffuser in the winter? Keep reading to see our recommended list below!
Juniper Essential Oil
If you’re looking to warm your home when it’s cold outside this winter, one of the oils you’ll need to add to your aromatherapy oil diffuser is juniper. Juniper oil, extracted from juniper berries, smells very fresh. Many of our customers have described it along the lines as “woody with a bittersweet finish.”
Juniper is an excellent addition because it helps to calm nerves and fight anxiety, providing feelings of relaxation and comfort during the holiday season. Juniper is also an excellent addition to household cleaners. So, if you’re looking to give your home an extra boost this holiday season, don’t hesitate to add juniper to your cleaning mixture.
Marjoram Essential Oil
This is another excellent oil to add if you’re looking to warm your home this winter. Marjoram oil also provides calm sentiments. It can also help individuals find inner peace and balance internal emotions. This is also an excellent oil to help keep you healthy during the holiday season. There’s nothing drearier than when you find yourself laid up on the couch with the flu.
Fortunately, marjoram oil helps to boost the immune system. Many users indicate when this oil is used in an aromatherapy oil diffuser, marjoram helps fight against the common cold. Some also report that it helps aid digestion, which is critical when partaking in the many festivities of the holiday season!
Rosemary Essential Oil
Using rosemary oil can provide herbal scents throughout your home this winter. Rosemary makes for one of the best room fresheners and can uplift the spirit in a room instantly. Rosemary can help boost mental activity while also treating numerous respiratory problems. The oil also provides anti-bacterial properties. Much like some of the other oils on this list, customers can also put it into a household cleaner to boost the freshness in their home this holiday season.
Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
One of the best ways to find warmth in your home is through relaxation. One of the oils that can help you do so is ylang ylang. This oil is known to have a euphoric effect which can help release tension and anxiety. If you’re worried about the stresses of the holiday season, this could be an excellent oil to add to your home this winter. The oil also helps fight infections while bolstering the nervous system.
Peppermint Essential Oil
When used in a diffuser, peppermint oil provides effects similar to menthol. Peppermint will help infuse any room in your home with the holiday spirit. This oil can also help relieve numerous respiratory ailments and skin irritations, which may help you relax and sink into the comfort of your home. Peppermint promotes overall health and also serves to boost brain activity.
Additionally, peppermint is known to boost the function of other oils. As you’ll find in the section below, oils are fantastic when used on their own but are perhaps even better when combined with other oils to create a blend. Peppermint is one of the oils that help to activate the ingredients and effects of other oils.
Create a Warming Blend This Winter
Although essential oils are fantastic when used individually, their benefits are perhaps best seen when you combine multiple in an aromatherapy oil diffuser. Feel free to experiment with different oils to come up with a warming blend for the holiday season. Not only will blends provide different scents, but they’ll also offer various health benefits as well.
If you come up with a blend that you find warms your home, please feel free to share it with our community of readers in the comment section below. We always love hearing from our readers and learning about how they put our essential oils to good use. We look forward to reading the mixtures you create!
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Great blog and thanks for the ideas. I have noticed the warming effect you wrote about when I have used these oil in blends. Highly recommend this blog to everyone.
Peppermint oil not only warms up your home but is also a great headache reliever when applied to your temples, back of neck, and behind your ears. Just be sure not to get into eyes!
I like using comfy scents like cinnamon and vanilla, think fresh baked sweets.
I have an indoor dryer in my kitchen with a vent box that has water in it that I add essential oils to so the house smells great!
These are some really great ideas/tips. I do love my essential oils.
Thanks these are great & it’s very cold
Thanks for all the tips.
Some great suggestions. I love the smell of Rosemary, but never thought abut using in oil form for fragrance.
I love to have the smell of oils in the air but with no money to buy central heating oil this winter I’m not feeling too warm. 😔
Fantastic ideas, really great tips
Can’t wait to try these!
This is fantastic ty for sharing
Thank you for the tips – have Pinned for reference 🙂
I love how you using oild calms me and makes me feel awesome.
My house is mid terrace so we find if our neighbours have heating on, we are fairly warmed aswell. but our heating does go on.. and I do sit with a hot water bottle and blanket.. have fibromyalgia so body feels the cold to the bones. x
The warming oils make interesting reading. I feel the cold very much (I have rh arthritis) A microwave hotwater thaws my hands out, wool mix joggers help keep my legs warm, hot drinks & watching tv with our lovely rescue dog cuddling up on the sofa.
Great article I’m going to try the warming oils
My husband and I love putting the Juniper oil into our nebulizer during the holiday season. It makes our home smell like we have a real Christmas tree in it but even better, because we can prolong that wonderful childhood memory smell for months….much longer than any Christmas tree would last! It definitely warms our home up during the chilly winter months!
Devine inspiration – starting to get really chilly – great suggestions
Start a fire in the fireplace!
Thanks for the great article – some wonderful ideas.
I would love to try the Juniper essential oil!! I would love to crawl up in my chair with a cup of cappuccino & some Juniper Essential Oil.
I love essential oils and aroma therapy!
I use ylang ylang
What wonderful ideas, I must try them
I’d rather wrap up well and drink lots of hot water I don’t think the heating does us much good even though we do need it . I tend to get nasal catarrh and headaches though some oils help that
Brilliant as January is such a depressing month need some tips on how to cheer the house up
Some great scents but I’m sure I’ll still feel cold!
Some great scents must admit never thought of juniper as a scent so will have to seek it out .
The oven!
Thanks for the great tips
Not to experienced in mixing oils but thanks for the tips on the winter warming oils.
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Some really great ideas thanks for sharing
Think I’d try Ylang Ylang essential oil to warm my home in winter.
Lovely oils wouldn’t mind a try!
Oh boy is it cold tonight here in Vermont. I could surely use these.
I am still learning about essential oils and how to mix them.I really want to try the Juniper oil.Thank you for sharing!
Small space heater or movie night snuggled up with blankets
Not sure how to mix essential oils properly. But definitely want to try Juniper. Could use any stress relief help I can get.
These warming oils are some of my favorite smells – especially Juniper!
Great article. I was particularly impressed to discover that peppermint EO helps to improve the functioning of other essential oils.
so many choices!
I did not know some of the benefits of oils. Thanks for sharing
My house is warm but me have a lot of wind getting through.I never tried any of this before would love to try your oils
Small heater and blanket
I get cold very easily so keeping my home warm is crucial for me.
I love Peppermint and Cinnamon this time of year; and of course my fireplace roaring.
I would love to try these tips I am not a fan of cold at all