Stress Less

$8.00

GREEN TEA | LOW CAFFEINE | STRESS AND ANXIETY SUPPORT

If you have been looking for something to calm your stress, you may have skipped  green tea because it has caffeine. Here is the part most people miss: green tea is calming precisely because it is naturally full of L-theanine, the amino acid behind the relaxed, focused ease people want that is now being added to all kinds of supplements and drinks. 

We say go to the source: green tea. This tea is naturally rich in L-theanine, with soothing lavender and a touch of bee pollen. A deep breath in tea form. Sip your stress away*.

Sold in 1 oz quantities. Makes 6-10 cups of tea.

Ingredients

green tea, lavender, bee pollen, natural flavor extracts

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How To Get the Most From this tea for Stress and Anxiety

The first rule with green tea is temperature. Brew at 175 to 185F, never boiling. Boiling water is 212F and it will burn the leaves and turn everything that is good about this tea bitter. If your cup tastes bitter, that is not a sign of a strong brew. That is acidity, and acidity in green tea is hard on your gut, increases inflammation, spikes cortisol, and ages you. If it is not bitter, you are doing it right.

Always steep covered. Keeping a lid on your cup or pot while it brews holds in the lavender's aromatic oils and keeps the temperature steady so the leaves steep evenly. Lift the lid and take a breath before your first sip. That is part of the ritual.

The second rule is to make your leaves work for you. We teach our customers to drink this twice a day using the same leaves. Here's how:

Your first cup in the morning steeped at 175 to 185F for 2 to 3 minutes. Then about 3 to 4 hours later, re-use those same leaves for your second cup. Same temperature, but double the steep time to 5 to 6 minutes. The leaves have opened up and the second steep pulls a deeper, steadier calm from them.

One of our regulars, a graphic designer from San Clemente, traded her second afternoon coffee for Stress Less and told us a month later she had stopped reaching for that second cup entirely and was sleeping better at night. Two cups, same leaves, one small habit.

Make it a ritual. Hold the cup in both hands, take three slow breaths before your first sip. That pause signals your nervous system to downshift and it matters more than it sounds.

Learn more about stress and cortisol regulation on our Tea and Wellness podcast Ep 23 - Wired but Exhausted? How to Lower Cortisol Naturally.


* Health benefits have not been evaluated by the FDA. Consult your doctor if you are on medication, have a health condition, or are pregnant or nursing.

  • Why does this tea work?

    Green tea: the backbone of the blend, and the natural home of L-theanine. It brings a gentle, clear-headed calm and a modest lift, not a spike.

    Lavender: a classic calming herb with a soft floral aroma. It takes the edge off a tense day and rounds out the cup, and even the scent of it as you brew is part of the effect.

    Bee pollen: a little nutritional boost and a touch of natural sweetness. Think of it as the quiet helper that makes everything in the cup feel more complete.

    These statements are based on traditional herbal use and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

  • Which tea is right for me?

    Stress Less is the light, easygoing one in our collection of stress teas. It is a green tea, so it has a little caffeine, which makes it the pick if you want gentle calm while staying focused.

    If what you really need is deeper nervous system support and you would rather skip caffeine entirely, look at our Anti-Anxiety and Depression Herbal Tea. It is caffeine-free and built around adaptogens like ashwagandha with valerian and other calming herbs, designed for daily use over three to six weeks for a cumulative effect.

    And if your main concern is stress that runs on cortisol, the wired-but-tired kind, our Stress Busting Adaptogenic Support Tea is the right option. It's an adaptogen-forward caffeine-free blend with ashwagandha, reishi mushroom, schisandra and warming spices meant to retrain your stress response over time.

    These last two are the longer, deeper projects.

  • Who should use extra caution?

    Not recommended if you are pregnant, nursing, have a medical condition or are on medications without checking with your healthcare provider first.

    This blend contains bee pollen, which can cause allergic reactions in people who are sensitive to pollen or bee products, sometimes serious ones. If you have a pollen or bee allergy, skip this one or check with your doctor first.

    Bee pollen is also not recommended during pregnancy. And because this is a green tea it does contain some caffeine, so if you are very caffeine sensitive, keep it to earlier in the day.

Questions from our Laguna Beach Store customers about this tea

This is one question we hear often across the counter, and the answer is the whole reason this tea exists. Green tea calms because of L-theanine, the amino acid that promotes the relaxed, focused state people chase with meditation. That is the same L-theanine now extracted and sold in capsules everywhere. Our take has always been to go back to the source and drink it the way it was meant to be taken in tea form.

The caffeine worry is fair, but green tea carries only about a quarter of the caffeine of a cup of coffee.The pairing with L-theanine is what gives green tea its calm-alert character instead of the jittery edge coffee can bring. Stress Less tea leans into that with lavender for an extra layer of soothing, so you get steadied without getting slowed down.

For most people it does not, and that is the point of green tea specifically. It has roughly a quarter of the caffeine of coffee, and the L-theanine that occurs naturally alongside that caffeine smooths out the stimulation into more of a calm focus than a buzz.

That said, everyone is different. If you are genuinely caffeine sensitive, keep this one to the morning or early afternoon and you should be fine.

A daily cup is the way to go. The in-the-moment ritual of a warm cup helps right away, but the steadier, calmer feeling people are after tends to build with regular use rather than landing all at once. Most folks who make it a daily habit notice the difference more than the occasional drinkers do. Think of it as a small, repeated signal to your nervous system rather than a one-time fix.

Yes to both. Lavender has a long traditional history as a calming herb with some encouraging research behind it for easing tension (though the evidence is still building and it is milder than a heavy sedative herb.)

What it reliably does in this blend is add a soft floral calm and a lovely aroma, and that scent is part of how it works, since smelling lavender as you sip is its own little nudge toward relaxation. It will not knock you out, it just takes the edge off.