6 reasons tired parents keep a tub by the kettle
Kids asleep by eight. You, still awake at eleven?
Your body is done. Your head clocked back on the second the house went quiet. Here’s a whole night, moment by moment, and what helps at each one.
What one scoop of Settl is built for:
- Get to sleep faster
- Wake less at 3am
- Sleep deeper
- Wake up refreshed
The only quiet hour of the day, and you can’t use it.
Bath, books, one more glass of water, the third trip back in. By 8:30 the house is finally quiet and you have one hour that belongs to you. You spend it on the couch, wrecked, scrolling.
Then you go to bed and your head starts the to-do list. The school form. The thing at work. Whether anyone has clean socks for tomorrow. Tired but wired, every night.
I’ve got four kids. I know this hour. Here’s the night as it actually goes, and what one scoop is built to do at each point.
A parent’s night, in six moments.
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9:00pm
Kids down. Head still running.
The house goes quiet and your brain takes it as the cue to start. You’re exhausted and completely, infuriatingly awake.
What helps
Every scoop has 200mg of L-theanine, the amino acid found in tea leaves. Drink it while you tidy the kitchen and the evening has somewhere to land.
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10:45pm
Lights off. Tomorrow’s list starts.
Lunches, the school form, the email you forgot. It’s the moment you most want to be asleep and least are.
What helps
3,000mg of glycine in every scoop. Settl is built to help you get to sleep faster, instead of lying there going over the list twice.
Then $89.99 a month. Cancel, pause or skip anytime. Not sleeping better in 30 nights? We refund your first tub.
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1:40am
Someone’s at the door.
A bad dream, a wet bed, a cough. You need to be up and making sense in about four seconds.
What helps
Settl isn’t a sedative and has no melatonin. It supports your own wind-down instead of knocking you out, so a 1:40am wake-up is just a wake-up, not a fight through fog.
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3:10am
Awake again, and dry as a bone.
Eight hours is the longest you go without water all day. Add a 1:40 wake-up and you surface again at three with a dry mouth, reaching for the glass.
9:30pmLast glass9 hours, no water6:30amAlarmWhat helps
An electrolyte layer, so eight hours without water does not wake you dried out and needing to get up. Settl has 1,000mg of sodium and 200mg of potassium in every scoop. If you take a morning electrolyte sachet, you’ll know the dose.
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6:15am
First one up, and you need your head.
Breakfast, uniforms, the car, the hunt for the other shoe. A foggy start turns a normal morning into a hard one.
What helps
No melatonin, so there’s nothing to clear out of your system at 6am. Sleep deeper, wake up refreshed.
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9:00pm, every night
Ten seconds you’ll actually do.
Parents don’t need another routine to manage. Tablets end up in the drawer. A scoop in cold water at the kitchen bench, while the kettle boils, actually happens.
What helps
Scoop, stir, drink, about 30 minutes before bed. Passionfruit, dissolves in about ten seconds. Keep the tub where you make the lunches.
Then $89.99 a month. Cancel, pause or skip anytime. Not sleeping better in 30 nights? We refund your first tub.
One-time order. Nothing renews.
Every dose is on the label.
Most sleep products go quiet here. Settl shows each ingredient at its dose, per scoop. Seven ingredients, no melatonin.
- 3,000mgGlycine
- 200mgL-theanine
- 1,000mgSodium, the electrolyte layer
- 200mgPotassium
- 900mgInositol
- 146mgMagnesium, from magnesium glycinate
- 50mgChamomile flower extract
Natural passionfruit flavour, sweetened with thaumatin. No melatonin, no caffeine, no colours, low sugar. Packed in Sydney, in a TGA-licensed GMP facility.
Why I made it.
For two years I bought every ingredient on this page separately. Six jars on the bench at 9pm, six scoops, and me counting doses after the kids were finally down. Four of them, so it was never early.
So I put it in one tub. Same ingredients, same doses, one scoop. I’m taking it tonight, same as last night. Give Settl 30 nights. Not sleeping better? Email us and we refund your first tub. Keep the tub.
Cheers, Roy
Founder, Settl
From parents who were up at 3am too.
“Three kids under seven. My wind-down used to be a glass of wine and an hour of scrolling. Now it’s this, and I’m asleep before ten most nights.”
“Two tubs in and the change I would point at is the second half of the night. It used to fall apart after two. Now it holds together until the alarm.”
“I was on melatonin for a year and hated the fog the next morning. This doesn’t do that. Clear head at six, none of that hungover feeling.”
The questions tired parents ask.
What if I’m tired but still wired?
That’s the one Settl is built around. One scoop in cold water as the last thing you do, with 200mg of L-theanine and 3,000mg of glycine, so the evening has somewhere to land.
Will it leave me groggy?
No melatonin, so there’s no hormone to clear when you wake up. That’s exactly why it isn’t in the formula.
Will it knock me out?
No. Settl isn’t a sedative and has no melatonin. It supports your own wind-down rather than knocking you out.
What does it taste like?
Passionfruit, salty-sweet, a bit like a cordial. It tastes a little salty on purpose: that’s the 1,000mg of sodium. Sweetened with thaumatin, no caffeine, no colours.
What if it does nothing for me?
Give Settl 30 nights. Not sleeping better? Email us and we refund your first tub. No forms, no reason needed, no return shipping. Keep the tub.
How do I cancel or pause?
Skip, pause or cancel anytime from your account. No calls, no fees.
When will it arrive?
Order before 2pm Sydney time and it leaves Sydney the same day. Free shipping Australia-wide, 1 to 4 business days, tracking by email.
Who is it for?
Adults only. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding or on medication, check with your GP first. Settl is high in sodium, so if a health professional has told you to watch your salt, check with them before you use it.
Where is it made?
Packed in Sydney, in a TGA-licensed GMP facility. Settl is a food, not a listed medicine. That licence is not a TGA approval of this product and we do not hold one.
Try it for 30 nights.
Not sleeping better? Email us and we refund your first tub. Keep the tub.
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