How Can Calming Wax Melts Help Your Dog?
Do you wonder how Calming Wax Melts can help your dog?
Like our other calming products, Calming Floral Spray and Comfort Blend, our wax melts contain essential oils. These oils not only smell lovely ( some even say divine ), but they have therapeutic properties, which is the main reason why I chose them for our calming products.
Not just a nice smell.
The Calming Floral Spray was not created as a perfume or a spray that would cover the doggie smell. But to help nervous dogs calm down, help them deal with difficult situations, overcome motion sickness, etc.
And we thought of our Calming Wax Melts the same way. We were not looking for a fragrance that would fill your room, that wouldn’t have any other value, just a pleasant smell—nothing wrong with that, but that was never my goal.
Our wax melts are made from natural soy wax and a blend of calming essential oils. When you heat the wax melt cube in your oil or wax burner, the molecules of essential oils slowly evaporate from the wax.
Olfactory system.
To understand how essential oils work in the body; we have to look at the sense of smell and olfactory system.
The olfactory system is organized in two patches of olfactory epithelium located high up in both nasal passages.
When a dog inhales odour molecules, they dissolve in the mucous in its nose. Mucus makes the volatile molecules water-soluble and helps them on their way to the receptors.
These receptors transform the messages into nerve impulses. Then the olfactory bulb, which is a bulb of neural tissue within the dog’s brain, directs them to various areas of the brain. And it is also influencing the limbic systems that support a variety of functions, including emotion, behaviour, and long-term memory.
Nerve impulses travel so fast that dogs’ behaviour after inhaling calming essential oils can change in seconds.
Dogs have another pathway how to “read” the smell. One is via the nose, as described earlier, and also via the mouth. In the nasal cavity, just above the roof of the mouth (the hard palate), is an organ called the Vomeronasal organ. VNO is an “alternative” smelling system in most mammals.
When you spray your dog with Calming Floral Spray, did he start “grimacing”, puffing cheeks, or licking his lips? That’s the VNO working, and your dog is trying to get more of the smell/aroma in, more molecules, therefore, more information. And he can do the same when he smells the Calming Wax Melts.
Using Calming Wax Melts in the Grooming salon or at home.
One cube of this little magic should last up to 15 hours. In the salon we use only one cube of Calming Wax Melts per day and put it in the well of our oil burner in the morning. And sometimes it will last till the next day. If we get an extra anxious dog we would recommend to replace the cube with new one.
Bea xx