Our Herbal Tea Blends, featuring ingredients like organic chamomile, lavender flower, valerian root, and lemon balm, are crafted to support relaxation and better sleep. For the best results, brew these teas with a Rolling Boil to unlock their full soothing potential.
What tea is best for sleep and relaxation?
Herbal blends featuring calming ingredients such as chamomile, lavender, valerian root, lemon balm, passionflower, and tulsi may support relaxation and restful sleep. The best choice depends on your preferred flavors and the botanicals you want to include in your evening ritual.
Does Chamomile Tea Really Help You Sleep?
Chamomile is well-known for its ability to calm anxious thoughts and settle your nervous system, helping you relax into a restful sleep. This makes chamomile tea the perfect pre-bedtime ritual for those looking to unwind and drift off, free from the worries of the day. That's why we use this soothing herb in many of our sleep tea blends, such as our Aquamarine Dream.
When should you drink sleep tea?
Magic Hour recommends steeping a cup before bedtime as part of a calming nightly ritual. Taking time to enjoy the warm herbal infusion alongside practices such as meditation, mindfulness, or journaling can help create a peaceful transition into rest.
What is Magic Hour?
Magic Hour is a woman-owned tea company founded by master tea blender and ceremony keeper Zhena Muzyka. The brand creates premium wellness teas and tea rituals designed to bring healing, connection, and intention into everyday life. Magic Hour works with artisan growers, regenerative farms, and fair trade partners around the world.
How and where does Magic Hour source its teas?
Our teas are cultivated, harvested, and blended from soil to cup with the Magic Hour Rule of Love. The base of our teas is grown in the tea estate where I was married :)! The exquisite buds are grown and harvested by our friends in a garden that touches the sky at the top of the mountains in the high-country of Sri Lanka. The pristine Idulgashinna Bio Tea Garden’s perched above a wildlife preserve. It was the first tea garden to become certified Biodynamic and organic in the world, it’s home to our family of farmers and growers whose respect towards nature and one another has become the gold standard of tea estates all over the world. We also source from small organic family gardens in Taiwan, Rwanda, India, Yunnan, Kyoto and Kagoshima, Japan.
What does “natural flavors” mean in Magic Hour teas?
Our formulator, Zhena, is an aromatherapist and was one of the founders of the Organic and Fair Trade movement over 25 years ago. She was crucial in getting rules for organics passed and has had a long-time passion for organics, Biodynamics, and pure products. Her blending style is bold, and she uses Organic-Compliant extracts of fruits, essential oils, and spices that fall under the "Natural Flavors" broad-stroke ingredient description by the FDA. We only use extracts and flavors extracted with non-toxic methods, and they are 100% natural, coming from the fruit, spice, or flower that is distilled without chemicals.
Other companies may use "Natural Flavors" that are in a Propylene Glycol base, Zhena fought the label standards on this chemical 15 years ago and is dedicated to NEVER using flavorings with this or any other chemicals. Our flavors are entirely extracted naturally using alcohol or steam distillation. In the blending process, if the extract has alcohol, the alcohol dissipates. If you've ever used vanilla extract for cooking, you've used what Zhena uses in larger volumes.
When we write "Natural Flavors," it's not because we want to, but that's what the FDA requires. It's not a great description, and we assure you our standards are of the highest, using only natural extracts and essential oils.
