Sleep Easy with Girls Travel Club!

We all need our beauty sleep but sometimes sleep doesn't come as easily as we'd like it... Here at GTC we favour natural remedies and practical solutions that will help you on your way to a peaceful and well deserved slumber.

Tisserand ethically harvested lavender oil 9ml is essential; brilliant for insomnia and rumoured be one of the best ways of helping naturally prevent and treat jetlag. Smudge a couple of drops on your pillow at night and add a few drops to a warm bath to aid relaxation and sleep.

Make (and drink!) a cup of camomile tea, then throw a couple of camomile teabags into a warm bath. Lie in the water and be soothed by the calming scent and essential relaxing properties of the camomile, whilst placing the damp teabags over your eyes to soothe them.

Lavender oil is also just the perfect treatment for many of life's little knocks and bruises. A natural antiseptic, it's wonderful for burns; soak the burn (having run it under a tap for at least ten minutes) in a bowlful of water with a few drops of lavender oil to supposedly prevent scarring.

Use it on insect bites to prevent itching and infection or on spots to make them disappear faster. The scent of lavender is also apparently repellent to insects, so dab some on at dawn/dusk! Add a few drops to a cup of cool water and sponge over sunburn to soothe and relieve pain.

GTC also stocks the bestselling Quiet Zone earplugs (£6.99). These earplugs are invaluable for long flights or journeys, or even if your partner has a heavy cold and is snoring more than normal! Also very useful for noisy hotels or if you have to share a hostel dorm.

The Jet Rest luxury eyemask (£9.99) isn’t your average eyemask but instead a very reasonably priced luxury model. Normal travel eye masks tend to press down on the eyelids making it hard to sleep, while the straps tend to be elastic and non-adjustable, leading to the dreaded “hair-bulge” effect! Our blackout sleep eyemask has a contoured body, allowing you to blink and thus feel like you’re actually relaxing in the dark, rather than desperately trying to snatch a few minutes nap in a crowded plane or coach.

The straps are fully adjustable to ensure complete comfort (and it even comes in its own little carrying case) and your eye makeup won't get smudged. GTC says “This is by far the best of all the travel/sleeping eyemasks we have tested. Perfect for planes, it also allows you to have a good night’s sleep if your partner wants to read in bed, or if you’re staying in a crowded hostel dorm or chalet. It’s even been recommended to us as invaluable for those mornings when one is slightly worse for wear from all that après-ski!"

GTC also have a large range of high quality sleeping bags, eyemasks, accessories and many other natural remedies in their online boutique specialising in female travel and health accessories. Perfect for the female traveller and perfect for gifts! Come and visit us at http://www.girlstravelclub.co.uk/