How Using Essential Oils Improves Your Sex Life

Using essential oils for sex boosts intimacy in the bedroom and provides many health benefits. It's a little known fact that the biggest sex organ in the body is actually the brain. When we're aroused, our brain sends signals to engage blood flow, which is how our other sex organs begin to function. This is why foreplay is so important, humankind's evolution depends on it!

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Health Benefits of Sex

The multiple health benefits of sex have been touted by health practitioners and Cosmo magazine alike for decades. We know that sex is good for your mental and physical health. It strengthens emotional bonds, boosts the immune system, and lowers blood pressure and it's even decent exercise if you're doing it right.

With so many benefits and so much pleasure to be found, why would anybody not make it a daily practice? Well, life just...happens. If you're in a relationship you can take the availability of your partner for granted, and prioritize other things before it. Sometimes you're not feeling well, or tired from a long day and that can get the best of you. Getting older also changes the duration in which our brain gets those signals going. It can take longer to reach an erection or to feel ready for intimacy. These are issues that can throw anyone off their game, but there are solutions to help everyone get ready for some fun.

Essential oils for sex are a natural way to address those issues and to work past them using the terpenes found in essential oils. When you inhale an essential oil, your brain receives messages from that oil through the limbic system, which tells it to perk up or calm down, and provide a host of other unique messages to the olfactory system depending on the essential oil used.

Many of the essential oils have overlapping properties and can be used as aphrodisiacs. The two best essential oils for sex are Patchouli essential oil and Ylang Ylang essential oil. These sedative oils relax our brain and tell us it's time for some sensual fun.

TOP ESSENTIAL OILS FOR SEX

Patchouli essential oil is a musky scent that grounds us and gets us ready to perform. The oil increases sex drive and has been shown to improve erectile dysfunction in men over time. When Patchouli is inhaled, it increases blood circulation and boosts your confidence, so that you can provide penetration for longer and keep your stamina going. 

Ylang Ylang essential oil is a great choice for women as it increases estrogen levels, and loosens sexual inhibitions. This oil provides presence and keeps you in the moment so that you can truly enjoy yourself without feeling anxious or self-conscious. The petals of the Ylang Ylang plant are strewn on the beds of newlyweds in an Indonesian wedding ritual to promote fertility for the new couple.

These oils should not be applied to the genital area, as it can irritate sensitive skin. To use these essential oils for sex, simply blend 1-2 drops each of Ylang Ylang and Patchouli together in a diffuser, or mix 1-2 drops into a pump of base oil like Almond, and then give yourself or your partner a sensual massage.