What is Lavender essential oil used for?!
Question: Lavender Essential Oil is one of the few essential oils that you would use without diluting. It is highly anti-viral, and can be applied below the nose and around the neck to avoid catching a cold or flu while flying. Here are some other ways that Lavender EO can be used:
-for any type of burn, sunburn, or scald it works much like aloe
-removes the pain from stings and bug bites
-is anti-bacterial and can be used on cuts and scrapes
-stops painful muscle spasms, helps relax tense muscles
-can help you go to sleep in a strange place
-can relieve stress when you are in new situations
-can be used in a hot bath at the onset of a cold to release exterior pathogens much like echinacea does
-can be applied to the temples to relieve a headache
Answers: Lavender Essential Oil is one of the few essential oils that you would use without diluting. It is highly anti-viral, and can be applied below the nose and around the neck to avoid catching a cold or flu while flying. Here are some other ways that Lavender EO can be used:
-for any type of burn, sunburn, or scald it works much like aloe
-removes the pain from stings and bug bites
-is anti-bacterial and can be used on cuts and scrapes
-stops painful muscle spasms, helps relax tense muscles
-can help you go to sleep in a strange place
-can relieve stress when you are in new situations
-can be used in a hot bath at the onset of a cold to release exterior pathogens much like echinacea does
-can be applied to the temples to relieve a headache
Essential things!
massages or rubbing it after showers for your skin to look shiny. Even just if you feel sexy or summin...
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Used with peppermint it works great for a migraine. My husband uses it as a sleep aid. It is very relaxing.
Lavender essential oil is a good choice to use in a bath tub for a calming relaxing bath. I like the smell but my husband does not. But it's my bath anyway, right?He's not even in the room when i have my bath. So go ahead if your feeling stressed get out the oil put in bath or on a pillow case lay back and relax.
It is so soothing. The aroma is soothing. I even spray my bed linens at night with a lavender linen spray. Sleep like a baby!
It's all good.
I use it for mosquito bites... WORKS GREAT!
In addition to the wonderful properties that others have posted, lavender has a great calming effect. My step-mom said that her family inevitably had conflicts arise at family holiday gatherings. One year, she put a few drops of lavender oil on cotton balls and placed one cotton ball in each room in her house. She said it was the most peaceful holiday they ever had up to that point. Now, she routinely puts out the lavender when family comes to visit!
I use it for cuts and grazes on my 4-year old. And have used it to get splinters out of my hnd before too.
It doesn't relax me though, matter of fact, too much of it gives me a headache.
Essential oils are a personal thing. What works for one doesn't always work for the other when it comes to the psychological effects of oils in my experience. Juniper oil really relaxes me.