LOVELY AND VERY HANDY: LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL
Lavender oil is a must have for the medicine cupboard. It can be used for so many things! It’s probably the safest and most well known of all the essential oils and can be used on the skin straight from the bottle without diluting.
Note: Always make sure you buy a good quality, pure 100% essential oil! Not a cheap fragrant oil or mixed oil. Lavender oil is commonly tainted, if it’s cheap, it’s probably not pure and therefore unsuitable for use on your body!
Lavender oil is anti fungal, anti bacterial, anti viral, soothing, restorative, healing and just amazing stuff!
For this I’m going to list its uses - it has so many! I either have used it or still use it for the following:
- Massage - mix a few drops with a good quality cold pressed vegetable oil (Olive or Sweet Almond or Grapeseed) - make sure it’s cold pressed though!
- Rub a little on the temples for headache
- Use straight on bites and stings - especially ant bites!
- As described earlier, mixed with slippery elm, and use as poultice for splinters, spider bites, boils - anything requiring drawing
- Applied straight for thrush - it burns a bit, but calms itching quickly and I always found it got rid of it quicker than pharmaceutical creams/treatments.
- Use straight on pimples
- Use straight on cuts, wounds etc
- Put a drop on babies bedding and they will sleep soundly
- Use a few drops in the bath for relaxation
- Use on sunburn, burns and scalds it is one of the absolute best treatments!
- Burn it in the oil burner - it’s relaxing and helps stop the spread of colds, flu etc
- Use in ointments or in skin care
- Add it to natural hair treatments and products
There are so many uses for Lavender oil! I always pack it whenever we go away anywhere - it’s a must have.