Starry Nights

ABOUT

The saying goes "Let them sleep, for when they wake up they will move mountains."

But having a child who struggles to find a healthy sleeping pattern, can cause irritability, increased stress, forgetfulness, difficulties with learning, and low motivation, not to mention the problems caused by lack of sleep for the parents of a sleepless baby. Just a few drops on the baby's pillow or dudu buddy, before bedtime will relax and calm your child, prevent emotional nighttime outbursts and even restore and instill healthy and regular sleeping patterns. In conjunction with a regular sleep routine, consistent nighttime rituals, and ensuring a loving environment,

Starry Nights can ease the frustration and help you to have peaceful evenings and stress-free bed times and in turn a happier family.

Safe from 6 months old. Starry nights is a unique, organic, natural blend - Gives you and your baby a peaceful night's sleep. This blend is designed to help little ones increase relaxation, improve quality sleep, reduce anxiety and stress, help to calm the nerves, and promote relaxation and a feeling of calmness.

Essential Oils

This blend is made with 5 Pure, premium-grade quality essential oils, and MCT carrier oil,

Essential oils are 100% natural and organic. They reflect our fundamental belief that Nature knows best! Our ethos is simple: the purer the quality of the oil, the stronger the therapeutic and healing effect.

We believe that there is a plant-based healing solution for every ailment. Our oils are carefully selected, ensuring that they are of the purest and highest quality and derived from sustainable sources.

Lavender

OVERVIEW

Just one whiff of lavender can immediately make your kid (and you) feel calm and more relaxed. It’s the most widely used essential oil to ensure a good

night’s sleep for your baby or child. But its aromatherapy benefits don’t stop

there. It’s also a great pain reliever, can help with colic and skin rashes, ease a fever and congestion, and naturally boost your child’s mood and emotions. Most importantly, it’s kid safe.

WHAT IS IT?

Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender. There are over 400 types of lavender species worldwide with different scents and qualities.

WHY LAVENDER HELPS YOUR CHILD TO SLEEP BETTER

RELAXES THE MIND AND PROMOTES SLEEP

Lavender oil has a distinctive aroma that relaxes the mind and promotes a good night's sleep. It has been shown to improve deep sleep for infants and increase relaxation for both mums and babies.

CALMS THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

Basically, lavender works by calming the central nervous system and promoting slow wave sleep, so helping your child to sleep longer and better.

IMPROVES SLEEP CYCLE

In an in-depth sleep cycle study of young men and women, it was found that inhaling lavender before bed increased deep sleep and reduced REM sleep. Most importantly, everyone slept more soundly and woke up feeling more energetic and refreshed, all because they had a more deep sleep.

CALMING EFFECT

One study found that mothers that bathed their infants in lavender-scented water experienced multiple benefits for both mom and baby. Mothers became more relaxed and touched and smiled at their babies more often. Their babies in turn, looked at their mothers more, cried less often, and spent more time in deep sleep after bath time.

SOOTHE INCESSANT CRYING, PAIN, AND COLIC

Lavender can be a life savior if your little one is anxious, insecure, or in any form of emotional distress - helping to soothe that incessant crying that can be so stressful

for any mother. Lavender is also a natural pain reliever, it helps ease the discomfort of colic as well as relieve the everyday headaches, teething problems, earaches and other pains and sprains that can inflicted your baby and child.

Rose (Essential Oil)

OVERVIEW

Its sweet, rich aroma encourages feelings of positive self-reflection and can create an uplifted feeling when inhaled. Rose essential oil has many beneficial

properties like an antidepressant, antiphlogistic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, and

antiviral. Rose oil has a warm, deeply floral, slightly spicy, rich, honey-like odor. The absolute is unique in that it has a high tenacity alongside a deep, rosy fragrance.

WHAT IS IT?

Rose essential oil—the product of one of the most recognizable and culturally significant flowers in the world—has a rich, intoxicating aroma that’s just as beautiful as the bloom itself. Rose oil is distilled to gently release the delicate flower’s oil through steam. Because each 5 ml bottle requires 22 pounds of rose petals, Rose is one of the most valuable essential oils you can acquire.

BENEFITS OF ROSE ESSENTIAL OIL

RELAXES THE MIND AND PROMOTES SLEEP

Rose essential oil effectively calms the mind and body to help your child to sleep better.

REDUCES STRESS

The most common symptoms of anxiety are increased blood pressure, increased heart rate and breathing issues. Rose oil inhalation is known to be effective in decreasing these symptoms and restoring balance. Rose oil benefits by calming down the nerves and thus considerably reducing stress.

MAY PROTECT AGAINST VIRUSES

Getting protected from viruses or getting yourself vaccinated against all of them is a tough task since some of them continue to mutate and trick our

immune system. The solution to this is to use an antiviral agent that behaves as a shield against any type of virus. Rose essential oil is one such shield, and studies have shown that it protects against many types of infections.

RELAXING EFFECT

Rose oil has a relaxing effect on many people. In one study, researchers applied rose oil to the skin of each participant, and then measured its effects on the most common symptoms of anxiety. Blood pressure, heart rates, breathing rates, cortisol levels, and blood oxygen levels all decreased.

 

Chamomile

OVERVIEW

Chamomile oil is an essential oil that's been used for a variety of conditions, from digestive issues to wound healing, for many years. Emerging research has begun to shed light on other potential benefits, like its ability to help with depression, anxiety, and sleep.

WHAT IS IT?

Extracted from the bright blossoms of the Chamomile plant, Chamomile oil is known for its therapeutic benefits. While there are several types of essential oils used in aromatherapy, the Roman and German varieties of Chamomile are predominately the most popular across various essential oil applications.

 WHY CHAMOMILE HELPS YOUR CHILD TO SLEEP BETTER

PROMOTES SLEEP

Chamomile operates as a mild tranquilizer and sleep inducer.

CALMS NERVES

Chamomile has been used to calm nerves, ease headaches, and aid in relaxation for centuries.

REDUCES PAIN

Chamomile targets the same parts of the brain and nervous system as common anti-anxiety drugs, and it can also be helpful for reducing aches and pains.

PROMOTES SLEEPINESS

It contains apigenin, an antioxidant that binds to certain receptors in the brain that may promote sleepiness and reduce insomnia, or the chronic inability to sleep

REDUCES IRRITABILITY

Diffusing Chamomile essential oil not only soothes the mind, but it can help soothe anger and irritability.

REJUVENATING EFFECTS

It is widely considered to be cleansing and to facilitate feelings of relaxation, which has made it a popular ingredient in aromatherapy. According to researchers, the

aromatherapy benefits of essential oils are triggered by the intoxicating scents which have the ability to influence your mood. The mesmerizingly sweet aroma of this oil can help your baby to relax, leaving them rejuvenated.

Sweet Orange

OVERVIEW

With its sunny and fruity scent, inhaling sweet orange essential oil brings positive and happy emotions to the mind and helps to release anxiety. Sweet orange has uplifting properties (like all the citrus oils family) but is also a calming and balancing oil.

WHAT IS IT?

Orange essential oil is extracted from the rind of the sweet orange, Citrus sinensis.

This is done by a method called cold pressing, which uses pressure to squeeze the oils from the rind. Sometimes, the leaves and flowers from the orange plant can be used as well.

 BENEFITS OF SWEET ORANGE ESSENTIAL OIL

PROMOTES SLEEP

Used in aromatherapy, Orange Essential Oil's pleasant scent has a cheerful and uplifting yet simultaneously relaxing, calming effect that helps reduce pulse rate.

ELIMINATE AIRBORNE BACTERIA

It can not only create a warm environment but can also stimulate the strength and resilience of the immune system and eliminate airborne bacteria. Sweet orange, lemon, and grapefruit essential oils are all antimicrobial and destroy airborne germs with their high levels of limonene

REDUCES IRRITABILITY

Sweet Orange might alleviate anxiety, anger, irritability, and certain bodily inflammations. A study cited in the Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology &

Biological Psychiatry journal might confirm the anxiolytic-like effect of this oil.

BOOST IMMUNE SYSTEM

The diuretic properties of this oil assist in ridding the body of toxins, which in turn helps the immune system function more efficiently.

ENHANCE RELAXATION AND CLARITY

Orange oil has been used as a mild tranquilizer for centuries. As little as five minutes of exposure to diffused orange oil can alter moods and enhance motivation, relaxation and clarity.

 

Cedarwood

OVERVIEW

The warm, woody scent of Cedarwood oil, or Cedar oil, offers numerous benefits to the user. Not only does Cedarwood oil produce a grounding aroma that

promotes feelings of vitality and wellness, it also has many applications for everyday life. The scent of cedar oil is believed to reduce stress and anxiety and promote a good night's sleep.

WHAT IS IT?

Cedarwood essential oil is a substance derived from the needles, leaves, bark, and berries of cedar trees. There are many varieties of cedar trees found around the

world. This essential oil can be extracted via several techniques, including steam distillation, carbon dioxide distillation, and cold pressing.

 BENEFITS OF CEDARWOOD ESSENTIAL OIL

PROMOTES SLEEP

When used as an aromatherapy treatment, cedarwood oil may have sedative qualities, making it beneficial for alleviating occasional insomnia.

ELIMINATE AIRBORNE BACTERIA

Cedarwood essential oil is a sedative. Studies found that inhaling cedarwood essential oil helped lengthen sleeping time.

CALMING PROPERTIES

Cedarwood oil holds calming and grounding properties for both the mind and body, making it a popular oil for aromatic use.

MCT Oil

OVERVIEW

MCT oil is colorless and odorless while having an optimal fat content, making it an excellent carrier oil. Carrier oil, also known as base oil or vegetable oil, is used to

dilute essential oils and absolutes before they are applied to the skin in massage and

aromatherapy. They are so named because they carry the essential oil onto the skin.

Diluting essential oils is a critical safety practice when using essential oils.

BENEFITS AS CARRIER OIL

#1

As the name suggests, medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil contains medium-length

chains of fats called triglycerides. Due to their shorter length, MCTs are more easily digested than longer-chain fatty acids found in many other foods.

#2

MCT oil boasts antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral properties, improves gut health

(it is known to support the gut lining), fights candida, eliminate various pathogenic strains, viruses and bacteria that cause digestive problems such as constipation, diarrhea, etc.

#3

 MCTs is a “brain food” – it can be turned into ketones which can cross the blood-brain barrier and be used as a rapid energy source for the brain – MCT oil is safe and beneficial for use in children of all ages

 

USAGE INSTRUCTIONS

Please note that Starry Nights should not be used Topically or Orally. This Blend is specifically designed as an inhalent blend. Safe from 6 months old.

On a Tissue/Cotton pad or Dudu Buddy

Add 2 to 3 drops to a tissue or cotton pad and place inside the child's pillowcase or next to the head, out of the child’s reach to inhale throughout the night, or add 4-5 drops on dudu buddy insert.

In bath water

Add 4 to 5 drops into bath water before bedtime and allow the child to breathe in vapours.

In a Diffuser/Humidifier

Add 4 to 5 drops in your Diffuser or Humidifier and allow child to breathe in vapours. Or leave in a well ventilated room, out of the child’s reach, to inhale the vapours.