March 8th is International Women's Day, a global event where people worldwide celebrate women's strength, resilience, and wellbeing.
In our opinion, this year's event theme - 'accelerate action' - could not be more fitting. Wellbeing happens when we take action; for women, one of the best ways to achieve it is through self-care. No question, when women feel their best, they can conquer the world!
Join us as we shine a light on the essential oils and botanicals that nurture, uplift, and restore, helping women feel empowered not only on this special day – but every day!
Celebrating Women and Female Health
From hormonal balance to emotional wellness, natural ingredients have long played a role in supporting women’s health. For centuries, women have relied on nature’s gifts to nurture their wellbeing – from ancient Egyptian queens anointing themselves with precious oils to traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic practices using botanicals for balance. Used in self-care rituals, these natural extracts are more than just beautiful aromas: they provide powerful support for the body, mind, and emotions.
Today, women continue to embrace essential oils for a variety of reasons. Whether it’s soothing menstrual discomfort, reducing stress, promoting restful sleep, or uplifting the mood, the right oils can offer gentle yet effective support – like calming Lavender for relaxation, invigorating citrus oils for energy, and Clary Sage for hormonal harmony - making aromatherapy a simple yet powerful tool in everyday self-care.
By integrating essential oils into daily routines through diffusion, skincare, massage, or mindful rituals, women can cultivate balance, resilience, and a sense of wellbeing, empowering them to thrive.
Our Essential Oil Favourites for Women’s Health
Women’s Wellness Trio
When you need support with women's health issues, try AWO’s ‘Women's Wellness Trio’. contains three 100% Pure Essential Oils – one a blend – purposefully selected based on their ability to assist with female health.
From an aromatherapy perspective, these oils can help to alleviate feelings of stress and anxiety, while promoting an overall uplifting and balanced environment. Additionally, the properties within these oils have been seen to work effectively on balancing hormones, easing the discomforts that can come with PMS or menopause – like mood swings, nausea, cramps and headaches.
What’s Inside the Pack?
- Clary Sage Essential Oil (15ml): Used for centuries for supporting women's health due to its ability to help balance hormones, ease painful menstrual cramps, relieve PMS symptoms, comfort mood swings & provide an overall calming and grounded atmosphere.
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HER Essential Oil Blend (15ml): A blend of 100% pure essential oils all recognised for helping to balance emotions and hormones, ease menstrual cramps & PMS symptoms, relieve feelings of stress, and instill a calm, grounded and harmonious environment.
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Rose Geranium Essential Oil (15ml): One of the most appreciated oils when it comes to female health, containing properties known to help ease common female discomforts – symptoms of menopause, and PMS-related issues like breast tenderness and a heavy cycle.
Each oil in the Women’s Wellness Trio can also be purchased on its own.
Mindful Essential Oil Pack
When you're searching for natural ways to reduce stress and create an atmosphere of calm to enhance women’s wellness, our Mindful Essential Oil Blend Trio becomes the perfect companion. Comprising of three 100% Pure Essential Oil Blends crafted to support emotional wellbeing – Grounded, Connect and Clarity – this pack of oils is ideal for mindfulness practices and achieving inner balance.
What’s Inside the Pack?
- Grounded Essential Oil Blend (15ml): An oil that’s specially formulated for stress, designed to calm the nervous system while releasing unwanted tension and nervous energy. Grounded carries a deeply herbaceous yet slightly floral aroma, encouraging tranquillity and keeping you grounded in times of stress, calming the brain and central nervous system.
- Connect Essential Oil Blend (15ml): A deep earthy aroma balanced with spicy and resinous notes awaits you with Connect, an oil blend designed to complement and enhance your meditation practice. This blend offers unique benefits that evoke a sense of spirituality, mindfulness and calm, helping to promote relaxation, instil emotional balance, and support spiritual connection.
- Clarity Essential Oil Blend (15ml): The refreshingly balanced and invigorating aroma of Clarity has been seen to energise those who suffer from brain fog and emotional fatigue, while bringing mental alertness and attentiveness during times of exhaustion. Clarity includes multiple evidence-based essential oils, all with the ability to focus and inspire the mind.
You can also buy our Mindful Essential Oils trio as standalone products.
How to Use Women’s Wellness Essential Oils
Our highly versatile oils created to support women’s health can be used in multiple ways. Here are just a few of our favourites that can help you appreciate their benefits and feel empowered.
- Diffuse: Add a few drops of your preferred Essential Oil to a diffuser and enjoy its aroma as it uplifts your mind and space.
- Topical Roll On: For a health and wellness blend you can take on the go, add 2-3 drops of your Wellness Blend Oils or favourite Womens Wellness Oil into a 10ml roller bottle, top up with Fractionated Coconut Oil and apply to your wrists, temples, behind your ears and bottoms of your feet.
- Fast Remedy: For a quick fix, add 1-2 drops of your favourite Essential Oil to a tissue and inhale at a distance while ensuring that the oil does not come into direct contact with your skin. Alternatively, you can smell the oil directly from the bottle!
- Room Spray: Make your own room or meditation spray by combining your preferred Essential Oil, water and witch hazel (or alcohol like vodka) into a spray bottle. Shake and spray to encourage tranquillity and instil calm.
Essential Oil Safety
If you’ve ever had a fungal infection like Athlete’s Foot, you’ll understand the discomfort it brings. The constant itching can be maddening, and the risk of the infection worsening, becoming sore, weepy and spreading further across the skin is a genuine concern.
Athlete’s Foot isn’t on its own here. Other fungal infections like ringworm, bacterial acne and nail fungus can cause the skin to itch and become inflamed. Fortunately, with its extensive anti-fungal and antibacterial properties, many of these infections can be alleviated naturally using Castor Oil.
Essential oils offer incredible benefits for health and wellbeing, but they should always be used with care and proper guidance.
- Essential oils are extremely potent and can cause serious harm if used incorrectly.
- In line with the Therapeutic Goods Act, we do not recommend ingesting essential oils without the guidance of a registered Aromatherapist or Naturopath.
- Essential oils should be kept out of reach from children and pets.
- Avoid using essential oils during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
- Essential oils are highly concentrated and are likely to cause irritation or reactions if applied directly to the skin. For this reason, we recommend diluting your essential oils before using topically (on the skin) - see our dilution table below for guidance.
Topical Dilution Guidelines
Please note that the following guidelines are recommended for healthy adults:
- General Use: 2 – 4% dilution (4 – 8 drops per 10ml)
- Facial Application: 1 – 2% dilution (2 – 4 drops per 10ml)