Essential Oil Blends for Kids

Help Your Little One Sleep With These 3 Essential Oil Blends

In times of stress and change, kids can have a hard time letting go of anxiety. These 3 essential oil blends for kids can help with a night of good night’s sleep for both children and parents.

Sleep is essential for proper immune function, healing, and wellbeing. These three essential oil blends will help reduce anxiety and promote sleep in kids and adults. When you begin to use them regularly and encourage a peaceful routine at bedtime, the welcome scents they provide will become a trigger for relaxation and sleep with your little ones.

These kid-safe essential oils each promote calmness and relaxation and when the body is relaxed the mood is uplifted and sleep comes more easily. If there is anxiety, tension, or a depressed mood in the house around bedtime, it is harder for Moms and littles to rest and get the sleep they need.

If these essential oil scents don’t work for you, don’t be afraid to try different ones until you find the magic blend that brings peaceful, restful relaxation and sleep.  Scents work on the subconscious and sometimes there are associations with a fragrance that triggers anxiety instead of restfulness.

 

 

Always choose quality essential oils when making essential oil blends for wellness. Fragrance oils do not have the same therapeutic benefit as quality essential oils. I use Plant Therapy and Rocky Mountain Essential oils as my go-to essential oils. They are concentrated and only a few drops are needed for benefit — usually 6 drops for a 10ml rollerball for a 2% dilution. Roll-on tubes are one of the most economical ways to use essential oils.

These blends can also be used in a diffuser, however, if you have a pet cat in the house, diffuse essential oils with caution. Some essential oils are not safe to use around cats.

3 Kid Safe Oil Blends for Anxiety

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Blend 1: Contented Child Blend (3% dilution)

Ingredients:

• 2 drops Sweet Orange Essential Oil
• 2 drops Frankincense (Boswellia carteri)
• 2 drops Roman Chamomile Essential Oil
• 2 drops Lavender Essential Oil

Instructions:

Measure the appropriate amount of drops of each essential oil directly into a 10 ml rollerball bottle. Top the bottle up with sweet almond carrier oil or grape seed carrier oil. Leave room for shaking and then place the roller ball cap securely on the bottle. Shake the bottle to evenly distribute the essential oils.

To use:

Freely roll this blend on the inside of wrists and encourage kids to take a sniff to enjoy the scent and relax. These essential oils can also be dropped into a diffuser or used in a personal inhaler.

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Blend 2: Blissful Sleep Blend (2% dilution)

Ingredients:

• 2 drops Mandarin Essential Oil
• 2 drops Lavender Essential Oil
• 2 drop Roman Chamomile Essential Oil

Instructions:

Measure the appropriate amount of drops of each essential oil directly into a 10 ml rollerball bottle. Top the bottle up with sweet almond carrier oil or grape seed carrier oil. Leave room for shaking and then place the roller ball cap securely on the bottle. Shake the bottle to evenly distribute the essential oils.

To use:

Freely roll this blend on the inside of wrists and encourage kids to take a sniff to enjoy the scent and relax. These essential oils can also be dropped into a diffuser or used in a personal inhaler.

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Blend 3: Hopeful Child Blend (2% dilution)

Ingredients:

• 2 drops Tangerine Essential Oil
• 2 drops Geranium Bourbon Essential Oil
• 2 drops Grapefruit Essential Oil

Instructions:

Measure the appropriate amount of drops of each essential oil directly into a 10 ml rollerball bottle. Top the bottle up with sweet almond carrier oil or grape seed carrier oil. Leave room for shaking and then place the roller ball cap securely on the bottle. Shake the bottle to evenly distribute the essential oils.

To use:

Freely roll this blend on the inside of wrists and encourage kids to take a sniff to enjoy the scent and relax. These essential oils can also be dropped into a diffuser or used in a personal inhaler.

Calming essential oils that are known to be relaxing or uplifting and also kid-safe

• Catnip essential oil
• Frankincense (Boswellia carteri) (B. Frereana)
• Geranium Bourbon essential oil
• Grapefruit essential oil
• Lavender eo
• Mandarin eo
• Sweet Marjoram eo
• Roman Chamomile eo
• Spearmint eo
• Sweet orange eo

Learn more about using essential oils for wellness

Essential oils are concentrated botanical products rich in volatile oils.  These oils calm the emotions, cleanse the air, and have strong antiviral, antimicrobial, and skin-soothing properties.  A little goes a long way.  Find out more about using essential oils safely in these articles:

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