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Scented candles are becoming increasingly popular due to their aromatherapy properties. It helps your mind, body and spirit by using essential oils and fragrances. These can stimulate our senses and change our moods. Negative moods can be lifted the moment you enter a room of scented candles. Surrounding yourself with these candles gives you a calm mind at the end of a hard day.

There are many fragrances available each with their unique benefits:

• Lavender: Don’t let the fragrance of lavender cover up all its benefits. Along with its amazing smell, lavender is known to fight depression, anxiety, stress and headaches. It has soothing capabilities that can cure insomnia.
• Vanilla: It is generally known to be the simplest flavour of all. But it has a pretty good charisma. It reduces startle reflexes and is also used to calm patients before MRI scans.
• Cinnamon: It has a very spicy-sweet smell which fills up your room. It increases your visual focus and memory and alerts the mind.
• Lemon-grass: It creates a very energizing atmosphere and also keeps the insects off your house. It has a very distinctive and refreshing smell that can get your mood to turn positive almost instantly.
• Mint: It gives a fresh and cooling atmosphere which keeps you active and alert. It keeps the heat away and instantly energizes you and your atmosphere.

These are just a few of all the available flavours.

The light of scented candles help in increasing focus and you will just love this light. Its gentle nature helps everything look beautiful. Choosing the right candle also reflects your personality and tells your guests about you. It is also a great way to gift a loved one. Even though all these features will make you fall in love with these candles, the most important feature is that your mind connects itself to certain smells. Smells can be the best triggers of very specific memories. So anytime you want to feel happy, all you have got to do is light up one of these!

You can look out for these products:

1. SandalwoodScentedCandles: Sandalwood’s scent is earthy and warm, which is why it has been a popular aromatic for centuries. Sandalwood not only fills the air with an earthy and spicy sent but also has therapeutic health benefits.

Some of these benefits are:

• Works as an antidepressant and sedative.
• It has properties to help clear lung congestion.
• Works as an anti-inflammatory agent.

Mixing Sandalwood with other scents can be an added benefit as sandalwood blends well with different plants and scents. A mix of sandalwood and lavender is both pleasing to the nose and helpful in reducing stress.

2. Beeswax candles: You might like to know that beeswax has a unique property of purifying the air around you. These are also known to have almost immediate effects to control asthma and allergy symptoms. Unlike paraffin candles, beeswax candles will never give off soot and will always give you a warm steady glow. These leave negative ions in the air that attract the dust particles which have positive ions and bring the dust down, leaving you a clean room.

3. Citronella candles: It is very widely used in aromatherapy. It has microbial properties and is mainly used as a mosquito repellent in homes. It is also very safe and effective as a pesticide. The citronella candles are unique as these have a sharp smell which also has healing aspects. You can use these in your garden area where the mosquitoes don’t let you be in peace for a second. It works by disorienting the insect and confusing them so that they cannot attack their victim. These can reduce depression in your nervous system and help stop irritation in your eyes.

4. Lavender scented:

Lavender candle is exactly as strong as you would like it to be. It has a very balanced smell which is very soothing and as well as pain relieving. You can have quality sleep once you light them up in your room. It does both, increase your mental activity and relax your mind. It can relieve your emotional stress, anxiety, depression and headaches.

5. Soil tea light candles: