It goes without saying that self-care is significant. But between planning a marriage, being a beauty editor with an unpredictable schedule, and attempting to spend quality time with my family members (especially my best friends, who don’t live in the identical city as me), carving out time for self-care felt unimaginable. That’s where the Bath & Body Works Aroma Breathe Deep Eucalyptus and Spearmint Shower Steamers. (Hey, I even have to shower daily, right?)

Open the jar to disclose six individually wrapped discs which are about two inches in diameter and half an inch thick. They type of feel and look like dishwasher pods, that, in accordance with the directions on the packaging, are supposed to be placed on the ground of the shower, separately. (“Breathe deeply for the perfect results,” the directions go on to say.)

The primary time I used one in every of the shower steamers, I placed it near the drain, but away from the water coming from the jets of my ReFa Fine Bubble S shower head. As water slipped down the bath toward the drain and hit the disc, it began to dissolve and release a scent of eucalyptus and mint.

The fragrance wasn’t intense, but it surely was enough to assist ground someone who is perhaps extremely stressed like me. “Aromatherapy will be useful within the management of certain symptoms similar to anxiety, pain, nausea, and insomnia,” Megan E. Voss, assistant professor on the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healingpreviously told Allure. At any time when I bent over to grab something — like a bottle of shampoo that is perhaps situated near my feet — I used to be hit with a wave of calm.

This dreamy experience was only five minutes and 46 seconds long due to where I placed it. (The capsule quickly dissolved since it was it began to maneuver closer and closer to the drain, where the water from my shower was moving the quickest.) I discovered that placing it behind me (in order that I used to be between it and my shower head) made it last 3 minutes and 21 seconds longer. OK, you would possibly need two pods if you happen to’re indulging in an “every thing shower.”