Did you stay up late this past vacation?
Host Dou Wentao once said in the program “Round Table School” that people who stay up all night spontaneously (not because they are forced to stay up late because of work) are “fear of death genes” at work.
“The reason why people always want to consume is because people always want to continue the previous state and do not want to end it, just like maintaining a banquet that does not end.”
Because of this, there are more people who stay up late during the holidays. In order to prolong the happiness of the holiday, many people even stay up in black and white.
As a result, the day before the start of construction, all the people who had not lost their jet lag all had insomnia and began to collectively show “post-holiday syndrome”.
At this time, everyone had to use the eighteen martial arts that they usually used to help themselves sleep.
When I was on vacation, I shared a room with my best friend and found that after washing and skin care, she took out a small spray from her bag and sprayed lightly on the pillow and bedside. a few times.
I thought it was a perfume, but it didn’t smell as heavy as a perfume, just a little lavender.
My best friend explained that it was a sleep spray.
Sleep spray, as the name suggests, is a sleep aid product that mainly uses volatile gas to make people feel relaxed and emotionally relaxed, and can help people fall asleep quickly and improve sleep quality.
The principle is similar to that of sleep aid aromatherapy, both of which affect people’s nerves and brains through smell.
My best friend said: “In the past, when traveling, you had to bring your own pillow, otherwise you would lose sleep when you change places.” Bringing a pillow is not because you recognize the shape of the pillow, but because you recognize the smell.
When at home, besties like to use some scented candles or a diffuser with essential oils to create the most comfortable sleeping environment for them.
But it is extremely inconvenient to go out, whether it is with a pillow, scented wax or aromatherapy machine. And sleep spray is a good solution to this problem.
“Sleep is the best beauty, how can we not spend a little money on beauty?”
The “2022 Chinese National Healthy Sleep White Paper” released by the China Sleep Research Association shows that among the 26-45-year-old group, the average willingness to pay for improving sleep is more than 1,000 yuan.
Compared with massage equipment and sleep aids that cost thousands of dollars, scented sleep aids are better for young people to get started with.
Besides, this ceremonial way is particularly attractive to young people-little fairies, even sleeping must be fragrant.
In some “immersive skin care videos” and “daily Vlogs”, spraying it before going to bed has gradually become the expression of the exquisite life of bloggers.
“I feel as if I’m bathed in hypnotic air.” The bloggers are genuinely amused, and the audience can smell a comfortable and stable aroma across the screen.
Open the shopping platform and search for “sleep spray” as the keyword, and you will find that the sleep spray of This Work, a skin care brand in London, UK, occupies the front row.
This product, priced at around 100 yuan, once ranked first in the search for sleep aid products on Tmall 618. It contains lavender, vetiver and chamomile essential oils to relieve stress. to promote deep sleep.
The sleeping spray used by my girlfriend is Primavera, a long-established German aromatherapy essential oil brand.
The brand’s main product ingredients are organic and pure, and the price of its sleep spray is also around 100 yuan. The ingredient list includes lavender, orange blossom, vanilla and other plants with soft aromas.
Traditional skincare brands such as L’Occitane, Ren, and fragrance brands such as Jo Malone have also launched sleep spray products, reflecting the current trend of blurring the lines between skincare, fragrance and wellness products .
By the way, is there any scientific basis for aroma sleep aids? In the sleepless night, can a few pumps of sleep spray really pull people into a fragrant dream?
Our country has a saying of “fragrant things” since ancient times, which means that people use spices in their daily lives.
Different fragrances have different usage scenarios. For example, the incense worn on the body is different from the incense for reading and writing, and the incense for reading and writing is also different from the incense when you sleep.
This is because people find that different scents have different effects.
There are also many studies now showing that scent can affect the human brain and nerves.
For example, the fragrance of lavender, which has a very high “appearance rate” in the ingredient list of sleep spray, has the effect of reducing the beta wave of the brain, so it can effectively relieve emotional tension.
However, with the increasing prevalence of sleep sprays, many consumers have expressed that the use experience is very poor. Some sleep sprays not only have no sleep aid effect, but also smell pungent and make people dizzy.
On the one hand, it may be that the essential oil base used in the sleep spray is not pure enough and contains too much alcohol, synthetic fragrances and other ingredients; on the other hand, it may be that the essential oil in the sleep spray The recipe was used wrong.
For example, everyone knows that lavender can help you sleep, but you may not know that lavender also has many categories: true lavender, mixed lavender, and spike lavender.
While lavender and lavender have a calming effect, lavender spiked is the opposite and has a refreshing effect.
Although the price of sleep spray is similar and not expensive, there are still certain requirements for the brand and product ingredients behind it. So if you want to start a sleep spray, you still need to do some homework.
It is more important to understand that any sleep aid product can only play a supporting role, and sleep is still up to you.
Otherwise, how could my bestie’s trusted sleep spray fail the night before?
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