SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend combines four pure plant oils – Lavender, Himalayan Cedarwood, Vanilla Oleoresin, and Lime, in a comforting aromatic blend created for relaxation, unwinding, and emotional wellness rituals during stressful or overwhelming moments.*
Stress doesn’t always end when the stressful situation does. Sometimes the day is over, but your mind is still going. Your shoulders are tense. You’re replaying conversations, thinking about tomorrow, or simply having difficulty shifting out of “doing” mode.
SAS! gives you a simple aromatherapy ritual for those moments.
Diffuse the blend to create a relaxing aromatic environment, or properly dilute it in a carrier oil, lotion, or cream and incorporate the aroma into EFT tapping, meditation, journaling, breathwork, quiet reflection, or your evening wind-down routine.*
Lavender and Cedarwood provide the soft, calming foundation. Vanilla adds a warm, comforting sweetness. Lime brings a fresh citrus note that keeps the blend bright and balanced.
Choose SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend when you want aromatherapy to become part of your personal ritual for slowing down, relaxing, and reconnecting with yourself during stressful days.*
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Why Choose Essential Oils for Stress and Anxiety?
Stress is part of life, but that doesn’t mean every stressful moment needs to follow you through the rest of your day.
Aromatherapy can provide a sensory transition between what you were dealing with and what you’re doing now.
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend gives you four complementary aromatic plant oils in one professionally formulated concentrate, creating a ritual you can return to when you want to pause, decompress, and intentionally create a more relaxing environment.*
Use essential oils for stress and anxiety as part of your personal wellness practice to:
- Create a relaxing aromatherapy ritual during stressful moments*
- Establish an aromatic transition between work and personal time
- Complement EFT tapping for stress and emotional overwhelm*
- Add aroma to meditation, journaling, breathwork, or quiet reflection
- Create a sensory cue that it is time to slow down*
- Complement an evening wind-down routine
- Create a comforting atmosphere after a demanding day
- Pause and reconnect with your own need for rest and self-care*
- Make intentional relaxation part of your regular wellness routine*
The goal isn’t to pretend that stress doesn’t exist.
Sometimes you still have a difficult problem to solve, someone to care for, a deadline to meet, or circumstances you cannot immediately change.
SAS! can become part of a ritual that reminds you that even when you can’t control everything happening around you, you can still create small moments of intentional care for yourself.*
Which SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Product Is Right for You?
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Concentrate
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Concentrate gives you the complete four-oil formula in concentrated form.
Add it to a diffuser according to the manufacturer’s instructions or create your own topical preparation using an appropriate carrier oil, body oil, lotion, or cream.
Four Plant Oils for Stress & Relaxation in One Targeted Blend
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend gives you four complementary plant oils for stress, relaxation, emotional wellness, and calming aromatherapy rituals in one professionally formulated concentrate: Lavender, Himalayan Cedarwood, Vanilla Oleoresin, and Lime.*
Instead of purchasing several individual oils and trying to balance the aroma yourself, SAS! combines soft floral, woody, warm-sweet, and bright citrus notes into a comforting yet fresh aromatic experience.
Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) provides the soft floral foundation of SAS!
Lavender has a long history of use in aromatherapy practices centered around relaxation, tranquility, rest, and emotional balance.*
It is also one of the most extensively studied essential oils in aromatherapy research.
A 2023 systematic review examined 11 clinical studies involving 972 participants and found that 10 reported significant reductions in measured anxiety following lavender inhalation. The authors nevertheless emphasized the need for additional high-quality research with better standardized methodology.
Within SAS!, Lavender provides a familiar, gentle aromatic foundation for slowing down and creating a more relaxing atmosphere.*
Himalayan Cedarwood Essential Oil
Himalayan Cedarwood (Cedrus deodara) contributes a warm, woody aroma that complements the softer floral character of Lavender.
Cedarwood has traditionally been incorporated into aromatherapy, meditation, and spiritual practices centered around stillness, grounding, reflection, and rest.*
Its deeper woody aroma gives SAS! substance and helps balance the sweetness of Vanilla and brightness of Lime.
If you enjoy aromatherapy as part of meditation, explore our guide to essential oils for meditation.
You can also explore our information about essential oils for sleep.
Vanilla Oleoresin
Vanilla Oleoresin (Vanilla planifolia) is not the same as ordinary vanilla extract used in cooking.
Its rich, warm, familiar aroma gives SAS! a comforting sweetness that softens the woody Cedarwood and complements Lavender beautifully.
Within aromatherapy and sensory-wellness practices, Vanilla’s aroma is often incorporated into environments intended to feel warm, comforting, familiar, and inviting.*
Rather than describing Vanilla as a “powerful sedative,” which would be an unnecessarily strong medical-style claim, SAS! uses Vanilla for what it does exceptionally well in the formulation: creating a warm aromatic experience that feels comforting and soothing.*
Lime Essential Oil
Lime (Citrus aurantifolia) adds the bright counterpoint to SAS!
Its light, fresh, green-citrus aroma keeps the blend from becoming too heavy or sleepy.
In traditional aromatherapy, citrus aromas are often incorporated into practices centered around freshness, uplift, and creating a brighter aromatic environment.*
That makes Lime particularly important to the personality of SAS!: this isn’t simply a heavy nighttime blend.
Lavender relaxes the aromatic profile. Cedarwood grounds it. Vanilla comforts it. Lime brightens it.*
Together, the four create a balanced blend suitable for stressful days, moments of emotional overload, intentional relaxation, and quiet self-care rituals.*
Read Our Formulation & Ingredient Research
Lavender is the ingredient in SAS! with the strongest human aromatherapy research related to anxiety.
A 2019 systematic review and meta-analysis included 65 randomized controlled trials and 25 non-randomized studies involving Lavender administered in different forms. The authors found indications of reduced anxiety with Lavender inhalation, while emphasizing substantial heterogeneity and generally low study quality.
A broader 2020 meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials also reported reductions in measured anxiety associated with inhalation and massage aromatherapy using various essential oils, although the authors noted that optimal dosing requires further research.
These findings provide research context for aromatherapy as a complementary wellness practice. They do not establish that SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend treats an anxiety disorder or another medical condition, nor should aromatherapy replace appropriate mental-health or medical care. See citations at the end of this page.
FREE Emotional Healing Bonus Included with Purchase
Stress isn’t always caused by having too much to do.
Sometimes it comes from feeling responsible for too many people, too many outcomes, too many expectations, and too many things that were never entirely yours to carry.
That’s why your purchase of a qualifying Citrus, Serenity, Relaxing, Calming, or SAS! Essential Oil Blend Concentrate, Roll-On, or Spray includes our curated Emotional Healing Support Bundle via email at no additional charge.
9 EFT Scripts & Meditative Resources for Stress, Self-Care & Emotional Resilience*
Your downloadable resources include:
- Caregiver Stress and Emotional Relief
- Reclaiming Your Sovereignty for Self-Care
- Over-Responsibility Release
- Restoring Inner Authority Amid Stress
- Healing from Long-Term Emotional Erosion
- Burnout Recovery: Restoring Confidence and Creative Spirit
- Affirmation of Self-Care
- A Mother’s Journey with a Special Needs Child
- EFT Tapping for Resilience
These materials explore themes that can sometimes sit underneath chronic feelings of overwhelm: over-responsibility, difficulty prioritizing yourself, caregiving demands, emotional erosion, depleted confidence, and the belief that you have to keep doing everything for everyone.*
Also Included: Affirmations & Journaling Prompts
Use the resources alongside SAS! for continued reflection and personal growth.*
Consider questions such as:
- What am I carrying that doesn’t actually belong to me?
- Where have I made everyone else’s needs more important than my own?
- What would meaningful self-care look like today—not someday?
- Which responsibilities are truly mine?
- What can I release, delegate, postpone, or simply stop doing?
- What would change if rest didn’t have to be earned?
The goal isn’t to eliminate every source of stress.
Sometimes the more meaningful shift is learning to recognize where your responsibility ends and where your own care begins.*
Your Emotional Healing Support Bundle is included FREE with your qualifying SAS! product purchase.
How to Use SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Concentrate
The concentrated formula gives you several ways to incorporate aromatherapy into your stress-management and relaxation rituals.*
For Topical Aromatherapy
Always dilute SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Concentrate before applying it to your skin.
Your existing product directions recommend adding 5–10 drops of concentrate to 10 ml (2 teaspoons) of carrier oil, body oil, cream, or body lotion.
Because dilution requirements can vary with the individual oils and intended use, follow your current formulation-specific safety guidance.
We offer a variety of carrier oils including jojoba, grapeseed, coconut, apricot kernel, sunflower, and sweet almond oil.
For Diffusion
Add SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend to your aromatherapy diffuser according to the diffuser manufacturer’s directions.
Use the aroma while reading, journaling, meditating, practicing EFT, or transitioning out of work mode.*
For EFT Tapping
Diffuse SAS! or use an appropriately diluted topical preparation before beginning your tapping sequence.
Take several comfortable breaths and identify what feels most stressful right now.
You might begin with:
Even though I feel overwhelmed by everything I have to do, I acknowledge how much I have been carrying, and I give myself permission to create a little space for myself right now.*
For Meditation & Breathwork
Diffuse SAS! and allow its floral, woody, warm, and citrus aroma to become part of your meditation or breathwork practice.
You don’t have to force yourself to relax.
Simply notice your breathing, your surroundings, and the aroma, and allow yourself a few minutes in which you are not required to solve anything.*
For Journaling
Diffuse SAS! while writing and begin with:
What is creating the most pressure in my life right now?
Then ask:
Which part of that pressure can I actually change?
When Stress Is Really Over-Responsibility
Sometimes stress isn’t simply about having a busy schedule.
It’s about believing that everything depends on you.
You may be the person everyone calls.
The person who remembers.
The person who fixes things.
The person who keeps the peace.
The person who takes care of everyone else.
And eventually, being capable can quietly turn into being chronically responsible for far more than one person should reasonably carry.
Self-care isn’t necessarily a spa day or an escape from responsibility.
Sometimes self-care means recognizing that another capable adult can solve their own problem.
Sometimes it means saying no.
Sometimes it means asking for help.
Sometimes it means allowing something to remain unfinished.
And sometimes it simply means giving yourself ten quiet minutes without believing you need to justify them.
SAS! was created to accompany those intentional moments of slowing down, breathing, reflecting, and remembering that your well-being deserves space in your life too.*
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Sizes & Packaging
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Concentrate
Available in:
- 0.5 fl oz / 15 ml
- 1 fl oz / 30 ml
The concentrated formula gives you flexibility for diffusion or properly diluted topical aromatherapy.
Products are safety shrink-wrapped for your protection.
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Ready to Make SAS! Part of Your Relaxation Ritual?
You don’t have to wait until you are completely depleted to give yourself permission to slow down.
Diffuse SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend, create an appropriately diluted topical preparation, or incorporate its aroma into EFT tapping, meditation, journaling, breathwork, or a few quiet minutes at the end of your day.*
Lavender. Himalayan Cedarwood. Vanilla. Lime.
Four very different aromas brought together in one blend created for those moments when you want to shift from doing, managing, solving, and carrying—to pausing, breathing, and simply being.*
Choose SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend and make aromatherapy part of your personal relaxation and emotional-wellness practice.*
And remember: your qualifying purchase includes the 9-part Emotional Healing Support Bundle with EFT scripts, meditative resources, affirmations, and journaling prompts at no additional charge.
Frequently Asked Questions About Essential Oils for Stress and Anxiety
What essential oils are in SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend?
SAS! combines Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), Himalayan Cedarwood (Cedrus deodara), Vanilla Oleoresin (Vanilla planifolia), and Lime (Citrus aurantifolia).
Together they create a floral, woody, warm-sweet, and fresh citrus aroma.
What essential oils are commonly used for stress and relaxation?
Lavender is among the most extensively researched essential oils used in aromatherapy for relaxation and anxiety-related outcomes. Other oils are selected in aromatherapy according to their individual aromatic profiles and traditional uses.
SAS! combines relaxing Lavender with woody Himalayan Cedarwood, comforting Vanilla, and fresh Lime to create a balanced relaxation blend.*
Can essential oils treat anxiety?
SAS! is not intended to treat an anxiety disorder.
Research has investigated aromatherapy—including Lavender inhalation—for anxiety outcomes, with several systematic reviews reporting promising results while also identifying methodological limitations and the need for better-quality research.
Aromatherapy is best positioned here as a complementary personal-wellness practice, not a substitute for appropriate mental-health or medical care.
Can I diffuse SAS! Essential Oil Blend?
Yes. Add SAS! to an appropriate aromatherapy diffuser according to your diffuser manufacturer’s instructions.
Use it to create an aromatic environment for relaxation, meditation, EFT tapping, journaling, breathwork, or quiet reflection.*
Can I use SAS! with EFT tapping?
Yes. Diffuse SAS! or use an appropriately diluted topical preparation as part of your tapping ritual.
Research has examined EFT for anxiety and stress outcomes. A 2016 meta-analysis found reductions in anxiety scores but noted that evidence comparing EFT with established treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy was insufficient. A newer 2025 systematic review similarly described EFT as promising while emphasizing methodological limitations and the need for higher-quality trials.
How do I dilute SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend?
Your current formulation directions specify 5–10 drops in 10 ml (2 teaspoons) of carrier oil, body oil, lotion, or cream before topical use.
Browse our carrier oils for diluting essential oils for options.
Is SAS! only for nighttime?
No. Although its Lavender, Cedarwood, and Vanilla notes create a comforting aroma, Lime gives SAS! a brighter citrus character.
It can be incorporated into relaxation rituals during the day or evening.*
SAS! Stress-Anxiety Support Essential Oil Blend Safety
- For external use only. Do not ingest.
- Always dilute the concentrate before topical application.
- Avoid eyes, mucous membranes, broken, irritated, or hypersensitive skin.
- Discontinue topical use if irritation occurs.
- Because the formula contains Lime essential oil, follow formulation-specific phototoxicity precautions and avoid UV/sun exposure to treated skin as directed on your product labeling.
- Keep out of reach of children and pets.
- Follow appropriate precautions when diffusing essential oils around pets and provide adequate ventilation.
- Consult an appropriate healthcare professional before use during pregnancy or breastfeeding, or if you have a medical condition, take medication, or have questions about whether the ingredients are appropriate for you.
See our Safety Information page for additional essential-oil safety guidance.
Why BioSource Naturals?
BioSource Naturals was founded in 2006 by a traditional naturopath, aromatherapist, certified EFT practitioner, Reiki Master, and wet chemist from her work in a holistic healing and mind-body private practice.
Unlike brands created simply to enter the growing essential-oil market, BioSource Naturals grew from hands-on experience with aromatherapy, holistic wellness, emotional wellness, and mind-body practices.
Our blends are rooted in that original practitioner experience, not simply selected from a private-label catalog and repackaged for sale.
We supply pure essential oils with purity and quality verified by GC and/or other quality-control testing.
Our approach combines aromatherapy with practical physical, emotional, and spiritual self-care, which is why many BioSource Naturals products include educational resources designed to help you create a more complete wellness ritual.
SAS! brings that philosophy together in one distinctive aromatic formula: Lavender for its soft floral and traditionally relaxing character, Himalayan Cedarwood for warm woody depth, Vanilla for comforting sweetness, and Lime for fresh citrus brightness.*
You may find this related article helpful. Essential Oils for Nervous System Regulation – Bio Source Naturals
Research & References
1. Yoo O, Park SA. Anxiety-Reducing Effects of Lavender Essential Oil Inhalation: A Systematic Review. Healthcare (Basel). 2023;11(22):2978. doi:10.3390/healthcare11222978.
2. Donelli D, et al. Effects of Lavender on Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Phytomedicine. 2019;65:153099. doi:10.1016/j.phymed.2019.153099.
3. Gong M, et al. Effects of Aromatherapy on Anxiety: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2020;274:1028–1040.
4. Clond M. Emotional Freedom Techniques for Anxiety: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2016;204(5):388–395. doi:10.1097/NMD.0000000000000483.
5. Lee H, et al. Emotional Freedom Techniques for Anxiety Disorders: A Systematic Review. Healthcare. 2025;13(17):2180. doi:10.3390/healthcare13172180.
References for additional information about essential oils, aromatherapy, and traditional uses.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
