Benefits of drinking chamomile, lavender & elderflower tea.

Sleepy Head is one of our most popular tea’s packed full of goodness and benefits, we want to tell you a bit more about why drinking chamomile, lavender and elderflower tea is good for you.

Sleepy Head is a herbal tea which means it is completely caffeine free, making it the perfect tea for before bed. The ingredients consist of purely chamomile, lavender and elderflower, lets go through just some of the benefits of these three ingredients.

Chamomile

1. Reducing menstrual pain.
2. Treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.
3. Slowing or preventing osteoporosis.
4. Reducing inflammation.
5. Cancer treatment and prevention.
6. Helping with sleep and relaxation.
7. Treating cold symptoms.
8. Treatment for mild skin conditions.

Lavender

Caffeine too close to bedtime can lead to disrupted sleep can cause sluggishness, a bad mood and poor eating the next day. Instead, try a caffeine-free, herbal blend that helps to aid sleep. The Kettle Shed Sleepy Head tea, which has a calming blend of chamomile, elderflower and lavender to relax your stress and anxiety levels, helping you to get a great undisturbed night of sleep and feel refreshed in the morning.

When you drink lavender tea, it can provide relief from inflamed tissues, arthritis, insomnia, high anxiety, gastrointestinal upset, tension, skin irritation, and headaches, just to name a few. Regardless of what ails you, the benefits of lavender tea will likely be able to help!

The natural soothing qualities of lavender tea and its active components make it ideal for people who suffer from chronic stress and anxiety. It can stimulate the release of certain neurotransmitters that can offset the excess stress hormones in your body and help prevent mental exhaustion. In a similar way, the use of this tea has also shown itself to have analgesic effects, basically making both your body and mind less sensitive to painful stimuli.

Elderflower

Elderflower tea contains vitamin C, which is important for the health of your skin, blood vessels, tendons, and ligaments. They also protect the skin from harmful free radicals.

Elderflower tea contains quercetin, which is a flavonoid and it has powerful antioxidant properties. The detoxifying effects of the antioxidants found in elderflower tea can help to regenerate and repair cells by protecting your body from oxidative stress, which can lead to common chronic diseases.