Tranquil is a harmonising oil you can use to help calm your nervous system • balance emotions • relax your body • and aid stress, anxiety, depression, inner turmoil, sadness, and grief.

Aromatherapy has been used for thousands of years to aid health and healing.

The influence of fragrance on our brain and central nervous system is well documented.

It’s why we created Tranquil.

TO BE TRANQUIL

The lotus flower symbolises the peace and calmness that arises when we overcome inner pain and suffering.

To be tranquil is to be free from disturbance, free from agitation of mind, heart, or spirit.

Close your eyes.

Gently breathe into your lower belly.

And as you breathe out, consciously relax your muscles.

Let all troubles and tension float away.

Feel the peace. 

Breathe consciously.

Relax.

Be tranquil.

INGREDIENTS

ACTION & TRADITIONAL USE

Bergamot

Calming oil • reduces anxiety and nausea • anti-inflammatory • relieves depression and other mood disorders by signalling the brain to release dopamine and serotonin • improves sleep quality • sedative.

Lavender

Calming and uplifting oil • elevates mood • alleviates stress • relieves anxiety disorder symptoms • sedative • calms central nervous system • antidepressant • calms aggression • promotes quality and duration of sleep • relieves dysmenorrhea • alleviates premenstrual syndrome (PMS) • helps focus and attention.

Sweet Marjoram

Calming oil • reduces stress and anxiety • alleviates depression • releases melatonin • calms mind and body • promotes deep, peaceful sleep • sedative • calms nervous system • used to comfort distress and grief • anti-inflammatory • muscle relaxant.

Rose Geranium

Relaxing and uplifting oil • antidepressant • powerful anti-inflammatory • neuralgic pain  • peripheral neuropathy • antimicrobial • antiviral • balancing effect on hormones • calms the brain and central nervous system • calms agitation, restlessness, anxiety and chronic stress.

Palmarosa

Mentally uplifting oil • neuroprotective • relaxes muscles • reduces fatigue, depression, anxiety, stress, nervousness, agitation, irritability, and grief • anti-inflammatory • analgesic effect on central nervous system • balances emotions.

Amyris

Harmonising oil • lowers cognitive and social stress • relaxation • stress recovery • calming and uplifting • sedative • relaxes muscle tension • improves sleep quality. 

Ylang Ylang

Calming oil • deep relaxation • mood balancing  • relieves stress • alleviates anxiety and nervous afflictions • antidepressant • improves sleep quality • calms anger • soothes headaches • sedative • nervine. 

HOW TO USE TRANQUIL

Tranquil is a beautiful blend of essential oils that can help you balance your inner state of being.

You can diffuse Tranquil essential oil to create a soothing and uplifting environment.

You can gently inhale Tranquil directly from the bottle or a diffuser to help balance and calm your nervous system.

You can add Tranquil essential oil to cold-pressed almond oil for massage therapy and reflexology.

You can add Tranquil to a relaxing magnesium bath.

You can make your own beautiful rollerball perfume oil and surround yourself with calming aromas.

Before bed, you can apply Tranquil massage oil to your chest, belly, feet, and down your spine to relax your body and promote restful sleep.

HOW TO DIFFUSE TRANQUIL

There are all kinds of essential oil diffusers. However, coldwater ultrasonic diffusion is considered safe and effective.

Ultrasonic diffusers come in different sizes, and it’s best to follow the manufacturer’s directions.

As a general rule though, you can use the following:

100ml diffuser – use 3 to 5 drops of essential oils.

150ml diffuser – use 8 to 10 drops.

500ml diffuser – requires about 15 to 20 drops.

You don’t need to diffuse essential oils all day long. They are powerful.

It’s recommended that you diffuse essential oils for one hour and turn your diffuser off for an hour. 

Also, make sure you have proper ventilation in the room.

TRANQUIL BATH RECIPE

Begin your tranquil bath by turning your bathroom into a calming sanctuary.

Light some candles.

Turn on some healing music.

Grab a glass of water or relaxing herbal tea.

Fill your bath.

As the bath fills, throw in a handful of magnesium flakes to relax your muscles.

Then place a small amount (about a teaspoon) of natural liquid soap into the cupped palm of your hand. 

Lavender, rose, or sandalwood castile soap is gentle and soothing for your skin.

Add 15 drops of Tranquil essential oil to the soap and mix together with your finger. 

Next, place your soap-filled hand under the running tap water to create aromatic, cleansing bubbles.

Mixing any oils you use with liquid soap is a great way to disperse them into the bath water so that they don’t cling in clumps to your skin or the sides of your tub.

Turn the overhead lights off.

Close your eyes as you soak your muscles.

Breathe gently and deeply into your belly.

Breathe out.

Relax.

MASSAGE & REFLEXOLOGY OIL RECIPE

Ingredients

100ml of Sweet Almond Oil.

3ml (approximately 60 drops) of Tranquil essential oil.

Instructions

To create a calming massage oil, add 3ml of Tranquil essential oil to a 100ml bottle of sweet almond oil. 

 Shake the bottle well to disperse the essential oils into the almond oil.

Store in an amber glass bottle in a cool, dark place. To prolong the life of cosmetic oils, store them in the fridge.

We recommend sweet almond oil as the carrier oil because it is rich in vitamin E to nourish your skin and is an excellent source of the muscle relaxing mineral magnesium. 

TRANQUIL ROLLERBALL PERFUME RECIPE

You can use Tranquil essential oil to create a natural roll-on perfume – plus you gain the added calming benefits of the ingredients.

Tranquil has beautiful floral accents that are ideal for perfume-making.

Ingredients

Tranquil essential oil – 20% of your perfume recipe.

Essential Therapeutics Sweet Almond Oil – 80% of your perfume recipe.

9ml black glass rollerball perfume bottle. Black glass is perfect for protecting essential oils.

Instructions

Step One

Pour 7ml of sweet almond oil into your rollerball bottle. This is your carrier oil.

We chose almond oil in this recipe because of its calming qualities, but you can also use jojoba oil as your carrier.

You can also use a glass dropper to transfer the almond oil into your perfume bottle. 

How many drops you need will depend on the oil.

Not all oil drops are equal. Differences in the thickness (viscosity) of different oils will impact the amount of oil in a drop.

To make this recipe easy – if you are going to use a dropper to transfer almond oil into your perfume bottle – fill the bottle about three-quarters full. You can always top up at the end.

Step Two

Then add 20-36 drops of Tranquil essential oil to your carrier oil.

Start by adding 20 drops of essential oil.

Shake well until the ingredients are combined.

Test the scent and increase the drops until you reach an aroma level you love.

When you are making perfume oil, use no more than 20% of essential oils in your carrier oil – the maximum level recommended for safety.

There are approximately 20 drops of essential oil in 1 millilitre.

That means in a 9 ml perfume blend you’re going to need 1.8 ml (20%) of essential oil, which is equivalent to 36 drops.

Don’t forget to write down the number of essential oil drops you use so you can recreate your recipe.

How To Apply Your Perfume Oil

To relax and calm your body, you can apply this beautiful harmonising oil whenever needed.

Stressed, tense, anxious, irritable, or worried – apply to your inner wrists, inner elbows, temples, forehead, between your eyes, and to the back of your neck.

Sad or depressed – apply over your heart region.

Tense muscles – apply wherever you hold tension – including your neck, shoulders, abdomen, and leg muscles.

Insomnia – apply to your wrists, the back of your neck, behind your ears, the top and bottom of your feet, and your inner ankles. To relax your body further, massage your feet.

HEALTH NOTES

Do not consume essential oils. 

If you suffer from allergies, or chronic illness, you are pregnant, or you take drug-interactive medications, please check with your health practitioner before using essential oils.

Essential oils can be toxic to animals. Please check with your vet before using essential oils near your pets.

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Never give up on you!

Since covid began, we’ve been helping our clients recover from virus infections.

We use nutrition, nutritional supplements, and herbals to strengthen our client’s ability to protect, rebuild, and maintain their immune systems.

IMMUNE STRENGTH MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

A strong immune system is essential to keep us safe during this challenging era of pandemic disease.

Although we can take precautions, like avoiding virus infection by isolating ourselves, chances are we are likely to be affected by covid and flu infections.

However, the stronger your immune system is, the faster you will recover.

YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

Your immune system gives you the ability to fight and prevent disease. You are designed to be healthy.

Immunity is the state of protection from infectious disease that has two parts to it.

Firstly, you have an inbuilt (innate) part of your immune system that provides general resistance to disease-causing pathogens.

You also have specific adaptive immunity, which occurs when your body has been exposed to a certain disease and stores memory of how to overcome it.

When you get sick from a virus, your immune system goes into fighting action to protect you.

If you’re run down though, or your immune system gets exhausted and overworked, it cannot function effectively and protect you. This is especially the case for people experiencing long-covid symptoms.

LONG COVID

We are seeing more people who are affected by long-covid. They struggle with various symptoms for months after testing positive for the virus.

Some long-haulers even experienced little to no symptoms when actively infected. Yet they are left struggling with ongoing health issues.

These long-covid symptoms are now being likened to chronic fatigue syndrome, and they include:

• Shortness of breath.
• Cough.
• Fatigue – exhaustion.
• Concentration and memory issues.
• Changes in mood – such as anxiety, depression, stress, and feelings of guilt.
• Loss of smell or taste.
• Headaches.
• Sleep disturbance.
• Heart palpitations, racing heart, and or chest pain.
• Skin rashes.
• Muscle aches and joint pain.
• Worsened symptoms after physical or mental activities.

IMMUNE RECOVERY

The one thing your body cannot do is create what it needs to produce energy and repair your body – that’s why we eat, drink fluids, and breathe.

But it’s what we eat and drink that makes the difference.

Nutrition is the process of providing the food (nutrients and elements) necessary for your body to survive and thrive.

Your immune system is affected by your nutritional status.

Healthy nutrition reduces your risk of disease, aids recovery, and nurtures health and well-being.

If you want to be well, you’ve got to eat well!

AN HOLISTIC APPROACH TO RECOVERY

When it comes to healing and recovery, it takes a holistic approach that involves every part of you and how you live your life.

The very reason you eat, drink fluids, and even breathe is to provide the cells of your body with the ‘chemistry’ it needs to maintain balance.

The symptom of balance (homeostasis) is energy and health.

When your chemistry is out of balance – you know because you will experience symptoms of poor health and no energy.

So, the first step in healing is to identify imbalances and deficiencies and learn all you can about restoring balance, which includes understanding the effects of poor nutrition, stress, and even how fitness can affect your well-being.

Be like a detective and investigate how your body functions and what it needs to be healthy!

1. Consult a naturopath or Chinese Medicine practitioner to identify your imbalances and deficiencies.

2. Use nutrient supplements to help restore your energy, calm inflammation, and repair damage.

3. Nutrition is essential to immune system recovery. Learn about healing foods and how to create delicious meals.

• We offer a free Healthy Eating Directory to help you connect with amazing chefs who share delicious, healthy recipes.

• You could also explore The Mediterranean Diet, which is considered to be one of the healthiest ways you can eat.

4. Have an honest look at how you are living your life – including your time management, your priorities, your daily eating habits, how much you exercise, your sleep quality, unresolved stress, and explore ways you can heal and improve your life skills and choices you make.

With the right interventions, you can boost and protect your immune system.

And, if you need support, contact us, because our naturopaths can help you strengthen your ability to recover and protect your health.

All the best!

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WHY THE BEACH & BARE FEET

Our clients ask us why we have the beach and bare feet on our website. One person even asked, do we have a foot fetish? That question made us smile.

So we thought we’d better explain ourselves and satisfy everyone’s curiosity.

The short answer is we love the beach for many reasons. And the ocean and feet images are symbolic too.

THE BEACH IS SO GOOD FOR YOU

The ocean theme on our website symbolises natural health and healing and our love for our beach lifestyle.

Perth, Western Australia (where we live), is a coastal city. In summer, the temperatures hover around 40 degrees celsius.

Because of our climate, many West Australians have grown up swimming and playing in the sea, sand, and sun.

As adults (big kids), we still love going to the beach because it’s relaxing, and you feel amazing after a walk on the shore and swimming in the ocean.

And there’s a good reason why going to the beach rejuvenates our health.

Negative ions are unseen electrically charged molecules floating in the atmosphere that offer significant health benefits.

When we breathe in negative ions, they produce biochemical reactions in our body that increase levels of a ‘feel-good’ chemical called serotonin that regulates mood.

Serotonin helps alleviate stress and depression and boosts daytime energy. You feel happier and calmer and more focused and alive.

Negative ions are abundant in nature, especially where there is surf or waterfalls, fast running streams, or up in the mountains and forests.

That’s why we recommend spending time in nature every day.

Nature truly is the best medicine!

VITAMIN SEA

Another reason for loving the beach is because ocean water is full of minerals that can help heal skin conditions, fungal and bacterial infections and wounds • alleviate allergies • improve lung conditions • strengthen your immune system • and alleviate stress.

Floating in the ocean relaxes your body and takes the pressure off joints, which helps to ease bone, muscle, and arthritic pain.

And enjoying the seaside sunshine offers you a good dose of vitamin D for your bones and immune system.

WHY BARE FEET ON OUR WEBSITE

Our website images of people walking barefoot along the sea shore symbolise the importance of moving your body in ways you enjoy – and connecting with the earth.

We all know fitness is essential to our health, but it doesn’t mean you can’t have fun keeping your body toned.

Walking in the waves represents moving your body in rejuvenating ways that connect you with nature and negative ions.

Walking barefooted in beach sand (or on grass) grounds your energies, earthing your body. Studies have shown that the benefits of grounding include better sleep, less pain and inflammation, and reduced stress.

I have a lovely childhood memory of mum telling me to walk barefoot on the grass or hug a tree (when I was stressed or upset) to ground my energy and make me feel better. To this day, I still love hugging trees. And I swear it works.

OUR BEACH & BARE FEET WEBSITE

The ocean’s healing powers continually inspire and rejuvenate us.

We love swimming, floating in the waves, walking and running along the beach, and enjoying our childhood nostalgia for fun in the sun.

When we’re on the beach, we’re just big kids.

We also love the colour turquoise.

Turquoise is calm and friendly, radiating the tranquillity of blue, the growth of green, and the vitality of yellow.

Everything we love about the ocean and turquoise represents everything we want for you too.

All the best,

Lisa Rieniets ND

Vitamin Sea is wonderful for health and healing!