Lavender Essential Oil has a light, floral and woody scent, and is well known for its relaxing and healing qualities. The nurturing floral scent of lavender essential oil gently cools and calms our spirits. A medicine cabinet in a bottle, lavender is a must for the first aid kit. Lavender essential oil is popular for its relaxing and healing qualities and has been known to improve sleep and general wellbeing.
Key benefits:
- Improves sleep
- Calming
- Helps muscle aches & pains
- Regenerates skin
- Antibacterial
Uses and Benefits:
Skin & Hair: Tones and revitalises skin, and is useful for all types of skin problems such as abscesses, acne, oily skin, boils, burns, sunburn, wounds, psoriasis, lice, insect bites and stings. It also acts as an insect repellent.
Body: Very beneficial for problems such as bronchitis, asthma, colds, laryngitis, halitosis, throat infections and whooping cough and helps the digestive system deal with colic, nausea, vomiting and flatulence. Also relieves pain when used for rheumatism, arthritis, lumbago and muscular aches and pains.
Mind & Emotions: Calming, soothing, improves sleeplessness and has a soothing and calming effect on the nerves, relieving tension, depression, panic, hysteria and nervous exhaustion in general and is effective for headaches, migraines and insomnia.
Ingredients: Lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil
Face: Apply 1 drop to skin blemishes or wounds. A gentle face massage can be used to help fight acne and stimulate the lymphatic system. Add 1 drop to 5ml carrier oil. Try to direct massage stroke from the midline towards the outer edge of your jaw to promote lymphatic drainage.
Spot treatment: Apply 1 drop of essential oil to a blemish daily until it heals.
Hand or foot bath: Add 2 drops of essential oil to a bowl of water. For inflammation consider using cold/room temperature water. For aches and tight muscles use warm/hot water.
Steam treatment (face and respiratory system): Add 2 drops of essential oil to a bowl of steaming hot water.
Compress: to a bowl of water add 2 drops of essential oil. For treating inflammation or to cool down use cold to room temperature water, for aching tight muscles use warm to hot water. Agitate a face washer in the water, wring out excess moisture and apply washer to the affected area, repeat two or three times as the compress cools down or warms up.
Massage: Use a 2.5% dilution; 50 drops per 100ml carrier oil. Face massage blend, 1 drop of oil to 5ml carrier oil.
Bath: Add up to 5 drops, in a dispersant such as oil, to the bath.
Diffuser: Add 6-8 drops to help calm the nerves and promote relaxation.
Considerations:
Lavender is considered safe to use during pregnancy, illness, for young children and is non-sensitising to the skin. Use sparingly to encourage sleep, 1 drop on the pillow should be enough. Too much lavender can have the opposite effect and become stimulating.
Blends with: Black Pepper, Sweet Orange, Geranium, Lemon, Neroli, Ylang-ylang, Patchouli
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