Drowsy Sleep Guide

Sleep or retinol: which one for looking young?

While we might be biased towards sleep as the foundation for everything, we took a hard look at the research behind retinol as an anti-ageing ingredient to give you a fair rundown. Our advice, of c...

Do Sleep Masks Help Prevent Morning Eye Puffiness?

Do you often wake up with puffy eyes, feeling like you've barely slept despite a full night's rest? Morning puffiness can be a common frustration, but incorporating a simple solution into your nigh...

Your Ultimate Guide to Finding the Ideal Silk Sleep Mask for Long-Haul Flights

If you often fly long distances, you know how tough it can be to get some sleep amidst the constant engine drone and bright cabin lights. This is where the right sleep mask proves invaluable. When ...

Easing Dry Eye Symptoms: The Benefits of Using Sleep Masks

When selecting a silk sleep mask means opting for unmatched comfort and effective dry eye relief. Each mask is crafted from soft, breathable materials that block out light perfectly, facilitating a...

Does Sleeping with a Mask Trigger Acne? Find Out the Truth

Securing adequate sleep is crucial for good health and optimal functioning. The use of sleep masks at bedtime has increasingly become a favorite method for many aiming to boost their sleep quality....

5 trendy beauty traps to avoid

One minute you’re told it’s the best thing to hit the market, the next minute everyone is saying it’s harmful… When it comes to health and beauty, the advice can be tricky to navigate. So we’re her...

5 new health heroes

We’ve already called it, 2024 is going to be the healthiest yet – with more consistent sleep habits at the root of it all. While we’ve already given you new sleep rituals to try, now we’ve uncovere...

A sleep ritual for everyone

We’ve previously established that sleep is the foundation of health. It keeps your mind and body functioning as it should, it helps process stress and emotions from the day before, and lets your mu...

Out with the old, in with the new

There are many ways to describe the new year reset period – when one year ends and all of its goals and resolutions go with it, to be replaced with the fresh page of a new year. We like to think of...

Unlock your best year yet: our top 5 resolutions

Positive changes can be made and new habits formed at any time of year. But it’s arguably most pertinent right now – as we are reflecting on the year gone, and looking forward to the year ahead wit...

Happy Holidays

The festive season can be a magical time full of lazy mornings, long lunches, afternoon naps and late night singalongs with Aunty Jac. But being out of your standard routine or away from home means...

The best anti-ageing treatment is sleep

We’re being sold on anti-wrinkle injections and anti-ageing treatments constantly. Muscle paralysing proteins can prevent or diminish wrinkles, and other treatments can rejuvenate your skin, improv...

Why DO we sleep? The answer is bigger than you think

Here at Drowsy, we’re huge advocates of the wonder drug we call sleep – that’s pretty clear. So we were excited to read neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker’s take on it, in his book ‘Why...

Release what isn’t serving you

A mind-body technique rooted in ancient Chinese Medicine, tapping is also known as Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT. It works with your meridian points to shift energy, restore balance, and help...

Menopause can wreak havoc on your sleep. Here are some tips to help.

Perimenopause (when your body starts the shift into menopause) and menopause (when you stop having periods) can mark some pretty big changes in a woman’s life, and body. It’s a natural transition t...

4 - 7 - 8 Breathwork practice for calm and sleep

Breathe deeply with Anna Sillanpää  Breathwork teacher, Anna Sillanpää, knows first-hand how a breathwork practice can transform your life. It saved her from a state of burnout and mental ill-healt...

Gut health and good sleep are more related than you think

The research has been mounting for years: our gut and our mind are intrinsically linked. And same goes for the connection between gut health and sleep quality, too. It has been proven that lack of ...

3 phase bedtime ritual for a good night's sleep

Calm your mind with the help of an expert “We have 60,000–70,000 thoughts running through our minds every single day, and 70–80% of those thoughts are negative.” This is why breathwork and nervous-...

Cotton Vs Silk: The Showdown

Cotton is a natural fabric that is most popular in the form of a classic tee. And maybe your favourite pyjamas. Silk is a different natural fabric – woven from the fibres of a silkworm, no less – t...

The best lighting for a sleepy scene

Lighting is so important. It can change our brain, alter a mood, set a scene. Light – in both its natural and artificial forms – also affects our sleep, for better or for worse. So here, we have th...

Four luxury stays you deserve to see

Extend the free-spirited summer vibes another couple of weeks. Distract yourself from the impending change of season. Recoup from all of the good times with a luxury break. Whatever your reason for...

Get the most out of your holiday glow

Just because the temperature is starting to drop and days are beginning to shorten… doesn’t mean your summer skin needs to wane with it. Keep the glow alive, and ride that summer skin high as long ...

Why daytime naps are your summer essential (and how to get them right)

Oh, Summer. When the days are brighter and longer, the nights more vibrant and social. When the festivals, beaches, holidays, road trips and picnics in the park feel endless. Make sure your body an...

The visionary skincare founder disrupting the beauty world

The Romilly Wilde ethos has always been to disrupt the norm. From the start, they wanted to create something unlike anything else on the market. Their products create an immediate sense of integrit...

Our top sleep tools for tracking your sleep

You try to do all the right things to enhance your sleep, and rest your body. Sleep masks and bedtime rituals included, of course. But how do you know that it’s working? We’ve rounded up our favour...

9 minute breathwork for better sleep

How to get the summer glow while you sleep

Sleep is a natural wonder. While we just lie there, our brains are taking stock of things, our muscles are working themselves right, and our skin is flushing the bad and plumping up the good. So w...

Understand your sleep

Drowsy Sleep Assessment Quiz Please read each question carefully and select the option that best describes your situation in the past month. This questionnaire will help you determine if you are ge...

The best kind of skin care is sleep

You know that look, when someone looks so radiant you can’t help but tell them they’re glowing? Their skin looks fresh, hydrated, plump. And most likely, the reason for that, is great sleep. Resea...

The Surprising Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Your Eye Area

When it comes to the beauty-sleep equation, science backs up the claim - good sleep equates to healthier skin. And guess what? It's even more critical when it comes to the delicate area around your...

How to wind down a busy brain

 You deserve glorious sleep. It’s that simple. Stress, overthinking, worries - the culprits that keep you awake, prevent peaceful sleep. And when waking up rested is the name of the game, it’s time...

Binaural Beats Playlist for Sleep

Meditating for sleep? Did you know that binaural beats use different frequencies in each ear to create a perceived tone. This can slow brain waves, promoting relaxation and sleepiness.Max out the e...

Meditation for sleep - 3 ways to destress and zone out fast

Stress and anxiety at bedtime is the worst. It could be the reason behind your poor sleep. But worry not. These quick fix meditations will wind down the busiest of minds. They’re easy to remember, ...

3 Reasons why you can’t sleep

We’re no strangers to the effect poor sleep has on our mood during the day. But what about when you go to sleep? Have you thought about how your state of mind from the day might affect how you sle...

5 Steps to Unleashing Your Natural Beauty

The Drowsy hierarchy of health is our inhouse pathway to unleash your natural beauty through a holistic wellness lifestyle, powered by sleep.   Sleep is the foundation of wellness and the first s...

The Language of Choice

How often are you saying the words: I shouldn't, I can't, and I have to? Probably every single day, multiple times a day. These words are things that really make you feel disempowered. There's a s...

How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs

Limiting beliefs. Have you ever thought about where they come from? They come from all over. They come from culture, they come from movies we watch, from voices we heard inside of our homes as a c...

Creating Your "To Be" List

Most of us have been conditioned to really value the future. We put an emphasis on how we spend our time: being productive, making sure we work really hard. We say things like time is money now, t...

How to Manifest the Live You Want to Live

At the beginning of a lot of manifestation journeys, people really focus on the things they don't want because it's easy to say, well, I don't want this and I don't want that. But it's a lot harde...

How to decode your sleep chronotype and increase productivity

Whether you are a morning person or night owl, discovering your body’s natural circadian rhythm personality or “sleep chronotype” could be key to unlocking optimum productivity, according to a lead...

Food for thought

The go-to foods to ensure a good night’s sleep and those to avoid Food and sleep. Besides air and water, they are the most essential things we humans need to live. But the two are not always happy ...

How to manage your sleep as a shift worker

As night falls and nocturnal animals start to slowly emerge there’s another, often forgotten, creature of the night heading out into the dark just as the rest of us begin our nightly wind-downs — t...

Meditation for time poor beginners

Here’s a little secret for ya — setting yourself up for a good night’s sleep doesn’t start the moment you get into bed. In fact, it starts with a sleep schedule and a good sleep environment as well...

5 dreamy places where you can sleep under the stars

As the clocks get ready to ‘spring’ forward and the nights begin to warm up there’s no better time to start planning a weekend experience of sleeping under the stars. And we’re not talking about sl...