When your schedule is filled with helping and taking care of everyone else, it’s easy to forget about your own needs. Thankfully, it only takes a few steps to create a night that’s all your own! Our three tips will help you plan a much-deserved night to yourself.
Step 1: Plan Ahead
You’ve heard it before—fail to plan, plan to fail! Taking time to care for yourself is no different. Pencil your special night into your calendar and treat it like the priority it is. You wouldn’t cancel on a friend in need, so give yourself the same respect.
After you have it booked, make any necessary arrangements. Get a sitter for the kids or have your spouse take them out for a few hours. Take care of household to-dos and grab any special treats you need, whether it be a new book or some indulgent snacks. Try your best to eliminate as many distractions as possible so you can focus on just yourself for the night.
Step 2: Set the Scene
While everyone’s perfect pampering looks different, the goal is to create the environment that’s most relaxing for you. A great place to start is playing calming music, dimming the lights, lighting candles, and diffusing your favorite essential oil or blend.
Want to really indulge? Invest in a new diffuser to make your experience extra spa-like. Choose a simple and chic style like the Dewdrop™ or Desert Mist™ Diffuser, pick up the luxurious Aria™ Ultrasonic Diffuser, or look through all our diffusers to find your perfect match. Whichever diffuser you use, it’s just as important that you diffuse the perfect aroma during your relaxing night. We’re fans of classics such as Lavender, German Chamomile, Cedarwood, Jasmine, and Ylang Ylang.
Step 2: Relax!
Once your prep work is done, it’s time to treat yourself! Settle in with a good book, a TV show you’ve been wanting to catch up on, or a favorite hobby. Need some help planning the perfect night? Check out our ideas below, all infused with the goodness of essential oils.
Spa Bath Treatment
Unwind in a spa-like atmosphere from the comfort of your home. We love bath bonuses like face masks, bath salts, a captivating book, bath gel, and body lotion.
YL Tip: Apply body lotion to damp skin to lock in moisture.
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Relaxing Facial
Get an at-home facial in just four steps! The basis of beautiful skin starts with a cleanser, toner, serum, and moisturizer, and you can add some extra oomph with a gentle exfoliator. With the additional attention, you’ll experience beyond-skin-deep pampering.
YL Tip: Try a DIY stress-reducing facial massage.
With your eyes closed, massage the sides of your jaw in large, circular motions. Create a path past the sides of your mouth, along your nostrils, and over your cheekbones. Eventually move to your forehead and temples. Tension accumulates in this area, so spend some extra time here. For about one minute, work from both temples to the middle of your forehead and back to the temples.
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Pedicure Pick-Me-Up
Feel great from your head to your toes. A DIY pedicure is easy, and it can save you a trip to the salon. Plus, a little time spent on a pedicure keeps your feet looking great for days or weeks!
YL Tip: Take a look at our Three Simple Steps to Fab Feet blog for ideas to exfoliate, moisturize, and pamper your feet.
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I am going to pamper myself by creating a lavender-oatmeal bath soak and going for a massage!
I would love to take a nice relaxing bath with some essential oils added. I have not taken the time for a relaxing bath just for me in such a long time…I’m usually the last to get in the shower and its either cold or rushed! Definitely need to take some time for myself…thanks for writing this blog post – it hit home for me tonight!
I think this is going to be my next day off project. A “me” day. It has been a while and I can’t wait to try some more products!
LOVE the idea of making a space for some “me” time :)
Take long oil infused baths and use sensation message oil afterwards
Great tips!
I enjoy diffusing Joy and soaking my feet in a peppermint scrub ,just relaxing
I’ve got a 8 week old newborn and could use a pedicure – since there’s no time to go to the salon I’m going to do the pedicure pick me up. Genesis is my favorite YL lotion!
This weekend I am going to pamper myself with a relaxing foot soak and pedicure. I love the tips for Fab feet and Bergamot is one of my newest favorite oils.
Need to do this ASAP!
I love to turn the diffuser on (Aria w/music), and have a very peaceful meditation.
Love these ideas!
A relaxing bath with Epsom salt and an essential oil for my mood, diffuser going recently preferring citrus and release.
A warm bath with lavender. I love my Lav.
Would love to try all these ideas. Summertime is so busy that between the job, the house, the garden and the hubby, I fall to the bottom of the priority list. This would be a great way to bump myself to the top of the list for a change!
Relaxation is so essential! I’d also suggest getting a Raindrop Technique done. My husband always falls asleep when I do them for him!
Grapefruit Vitality in seltzer water… lavender diffusing… some cool jazz and a good book. What a night!
I enjoy a lavender epsom salts bath nightly and always diffuse in my bedroom in the evening as well as other areas durning the day
I’m a guy and I do this all the time. I haven’t gotten a pedicure in a while but, I’m not opposed to that sort of thing. I don’t know about facials but I will definitely use lotion. :)
Young Living Essential Oils have changed my life. A spa night for myself would be great.
I enjoyed a bath with lavendar body wash, a drop of lavender, a drop of panaway, and a drop of stress away while drinking a hot tea with lemon vitality.
Awesomeness!
I love this post. I love a pampering day, i start by getting up late and having my beauty sleep. Then i start by putting some home made hair mask and then facial. Lastly i massage my body with a carrier oil and an EO and then a shower with coffee and sugar body scrub. .That is how i pamper my self
Can’t wait to try these!
I would start with putting Joy in my diffuser. Then soak in a Lavender and Peppermint bath with a good book. Then apply lavender body lotion. Then lay down on the couch and let my husband rub my temples until I fall asleep.
It’s so incredible how something so simple as a bath with a couple drops of oil can do the trick for me. I’m not sure why it only happens once in a blue. I so blessed that I have access to Young Living’s amazing oils now and for life!!
My wife and I love diffusing lavender! It truly does help to provide a sense of peace in our home, and we diffuse it at night with bergamot too.
I love this! I enjoy a relaxing bath in my jetted tub using lavender bath salts! When I turn the jets on (Yes, I clean the tub first with Thieves Household Cleaner!), the sound of the water rushing reminds me of being at the beach! Before I get out, I scrub my feet with some Lavender Foot Scrub, so my feet are sandal-ready! Afterward, I feel like a new person!!!
Ah, now I want to go do this!! 😄
I think that Lavender Oatmeal Bath Soak is looking pretty invitin right now!
I work six days a week so just a simple bath (with any Young Living essential oil) is enough for me to feel pampered. :-)
A long soak in a salt bath with stress away does wonders for me! A good sugar or salt scrub always makes me feel pampered in a quick shower, which sometimes is all I get with three kids around!
I love how a diffuser and essential oils make a difference after a long day.
I’m new lavender?
I enjoy pampering myself by making refreshing spa drinking water with grapefruit vitality EO and some fresh mint, then cozy up next to my diffuser with lavendar EO and joy EO while I settle into a good book. I feel pampered from the inside out and very rejuvenated with my quiet time and simple pleasures.
I can’t wait to make the DIY Lavender-Oatmeal Bath Soak Recipe.
Lavender, peace and calming, baking soda, and epsom salts in a bath. Then I put on some relaxation massage oil.
Baking soda and Lemon for my face and a Peppermint foot soak.. With Citrus Fresh and Lavender in my diffuser!
I am going to take some quiet time with lavender in the diffuser and a DIY tea tree oil pedicure. Thanks so much for the tips!
I am recently “retired” from 12 years of watching the 3 nephews. I also just had them for 4 days and 3 nights, anything to help me relax is wonderful.
Riding our motorcycle! Peaceful & relaxing for me!!!! Also nights out with Friends & relaxing in a quiet room with oils diffusing!!
I plan to schedule my pampering, I always seem to get pulled away when I try. I’m going to diffuse and do the mini facial listed above! Thanks for the great reminder!
I love footbaths with tea tree, lavender, and Epsom salts. I also put tea tree in my shampoo for a great experience! Thanks for the chance to win YL!
A bath! I would love a bath without interruption!
I can’t wait to create a home spa night! I want to invite some of my down line friends over for a make and take spa gathering. Love the relaxing summer vibe!
As a mom I could definitely use some more me time. Picking a date and really sticking to it is so important. Otherwise it would never happen!
I love relaxing in an Epsom Salt bath infused with my YL essential oils!!
I will be checking the weather and try to find at least one day a week to take the dog for a walk. There is a park nearby with a trail around a lake, which is very peaceful. So before we head out I like diffuse Stress Away and Peppermint.
I would make a lavender and epsom salt bath while I listen to an encouraging podcast and enjoy a slique bar, or maybe the new chocolate covered wolfberry crisp if they come back in stock soon!!!
I think a nice spa bath treatment sounds amazing–although I really love the sugar scrub that I made for my face using some of my favorite YL oils! :)
I love adding Lavender to my bath water before bedtime.
Love this.