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Here's something most people don't know: when you inhale peppermint and feel that sharp, cooling rush, you are not actually smelling it. Or at least, not entirely. Part of what you're experiencing is your brain being tricked by a nerve that has nothing to do with olfaction, and the implications of that, for how essential oils work in winter, are more interesting than you'd expect. Most people reach for lavender at bedtime because it smells calming. But the reason why goes considerably deeper than pleasant association. There is a growing body of peer reviewed research that shows certain essential oils don't just create a relaxing atmosphere before sleep. They actively influence the stages of sleep itself, measurably changing brainwave patterns, reducing the time it takes to fall asleep, and in some cases, increasing the amount of time spent in the most restorative phases of the sleep cycle. Somewhere in north east Tasmania, a farmer named John Hood noticed something curious about his fence. One section hadn't rusted, the section that had been covered, season after season, by the sprawling branches of a wild shrub pressing up against it. The shrub was Kunzea ambigua. Hood suspected its oils were antioxidant. He began extracting them and testing them on his farm.
That's how one of Australia's most promising essential oils came to be more than a roadside bush. It wasn't discovered in a laboratory or commissioned by a fragrance house. It started with a farmer and a fence that didn't rust.What Winter Does
to Your Senses
What Essential Oils Actually
Do to Your Brain While You Sleep
Kunzea:
Tasmania’s Best Kept Botanical Secret
