Essential oils
You can find essential oils in many places, including drugstores, health food stores.
Use lavender oil to help with sleep issues and sleeplessness. The main use that most everyone knows about is for anxiety and help with sleeping. We have used it for this purpose for a very long time! It’s WONDERFUL this way! This is also a great use for the fresh and dried leaves, as well as the oil! We simply diffuse the oil or place on a cotton ball and stick in pillowcases.
Relieve headaches naturally. I get headaches a lot. Lavender oil has been my go-to natural drug. I don’t like using OTC meds too often due to risks associated with them. However, lavender has been amazing and I am so grateful and thankful that don’t have to worry about it being to harsh on other parts of my body. Have a headache, rub diluted lavender oil in a roller ball (I dilute with fractionated coconut oil, but many carrier oils will work) and roll this on your temples, the base of the back of your neck and sometimes the feet/toes., relief in 15 minutes –
Heal and relieve burns. Accidentally burned from a pan or something, a drop of lavender oil will help to heal the burn and heal much quicker.
Heal, clean and relieve cuts. If there is a skin abrasion, this is the go-to oil!
Help clear acne. Due to it’s antimicrobial and healing properties, it can clean out the acne and help your skin to recover.
Help relieve and heal sunburns. Dome have also used vinegar, but follow some burns with lavender because of how helpful lavender is for the skin. In this case, it is best to apply by spraying. Dilute the lavender in a glass bottle with purified water.
Seasonal allergy reliever! Smelling lavender, diffusing lavender oil and even rubbing it on your feet or temples helps to relieve seasonal/environmental allergies like hay fever.
Menstrual cramp reliever. Just rub it on your abdomen during that fun time of the month!
Cold Sore healer. Similar to the acne issue, cold sores can be relieved the same way.
Achy muscle soother. If you have a muscle ache, rub lavender oil on your sore muscles for relief!
Most any issue involving the skin, lavender is a great option!
Spa Baths – Enjoy a calming, relaxing and healthful bath with a few drops of lavender essential oil. Even use epsom salts with lavender oil in your bath!
Lavender pillow or rice warmer. Fill a small pillow with rice and then sprinkle lavender oil and warm this up in the microwave for less than a minute for a sinus, headache, calming treatment.
it is a GREAT ingredient to add to homemade cleaning products for a chemical-free option.
Cooking Uses (only the high quality, pure, therapeutic grade essential oils for this purpose!)
Teas – brew your own tea with dried lavender or even with lavender oil. As a tip, don’t let the water boil – remove the water right before it reaches boiling point. If not, it will burn the oil.
Homemade breads – adding a drop of lavender can really enhance and make a very earthy and yummy flavor to your breads. This requires experimentation, but lavender is an herb and think about how yummy breads are with herbs!
Flavor enhancer in recipes. Yogurt, salads, ice cream, Soups, Mediterranean and Italian dishes are nice with a very slight hint of lavender – one drop is more than enough.
Lemon Essential Oil! It is very useful for many purposes around the home!
Laundry refresher – if you accidentally left your laundry wet in the washer, you know that it can already be developing a smell – which means bacteria. It has to be rewashed. Well, add a few drops of lemon essential oil to help eliminate the odors that developed and freshen your laundry naturally!
The fridge is getting a not so great smell, you can use baking soda of course. But you can up the effectiveness by a lot by adding lemon essential oil to cotton balls and stick into your fridge for a few days.
Microwave cleaner – heat lemon essential with vinegar and water in the microwave to clean and deodorize your microwave.
Laundry – more than just refreshing day-old laundry, you can just use it in your laundry in each load. You can add it to your detergent, or even use a bit of vinegar with lemon oil as a fabric softener H
Keep garden pests away – Make a solution of water and lemon oil in a spray bottle and spray your garden plants with it. They are perfectly safe for your plants, but pests do not like the citrus smell of lemon and will stay away. Spraying at the base of the plant is best.
Degreaser – lemon essential oil is great for removing grease from skin and surfaces. Just add a few drops to a soap mixture or baking soda paste and you are set to degrease!
Disinfectant – make a simple disinfectant spray using lemon essential oil.
Remove sticky residues – simply use a bit of lemon essential oil and remove sticker residue, tape residue, gum and gum residue and other sticky substances from a surface by rubbing lemon oil into the residue and wipe away.
Polish wood furniture – make a mix of lemon essential oil and olive oil for a natural wood furniture polish.
Perk up, moisturize and clean leather – Just use a corner of a rag with lemon oil to gently buff leather.
Odor neutralizer – neutralize odors on food surfaces and containers
Rag refresher – Does your dish rag need a “pick-me-up?” Well, just put a drop of lemon oil on it before you use it next!
Keep pests away – similar to the garden plants, keep pests out of your home with lemon oil. You can add it to a spray bottle with water or a baking soda and lemon powder at the doors and windows or other area of your home where pests are a problem.
Stainless steel polisher – Clean smudges and clean your stainless steel with lemon essential oil.
Brighten carpets – by adding a few drops of lemon essential oil to carpet shampoo mixture. It will clean and brighten carpets.
Remove tough marks – rubbing a bit of lemon oil into crayons, scuff marks and pencil marks should remove them from most hard surfaces.
A Key ingredient in homemade natural cleaners – finally it is a key ingredient in many homemade cleaners. If lemon essential oil was the only essential oil you had, you could make a lot of household cleaners anti-bacterial and deodorizing with the addition of lemon essential oils for no matter what the recipe may be!
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*Please note, this article is not intended to PROMOTE any SINGLE PRODUCT, or to diagnose, treat any medical condition or replace any medicines or medical treatment, it is purely our opinion from our experience and research from a non-medical perspective. Please confirm any, all of these things with your doctor.
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