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Using Lavender And Lavender Blend Essential Oils.
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Lavender blend essential oils and lavender oils are easy to find in local store or online market. They come in variety products such as for bath spa, massage, or for healing properties.
Lavender essential oil is one of the most commonly used in aromatherapy. It has a pleasant aroma, healing properties, and also it is easily blended with other essential oils to provide for maximum effect.
Lavender and lavender blend essential oils can be used for :
* Mosquito bite, just apply lavender oil on the skin. It will stop the inflammation and skin irritation, also reduce the chances of further swelling and redness.
* Soak in soothing bath can give your muscles relax. Adding lavender to a soothing bath makes an enormous difference. It will soothe your skin and mind, relax you, and invigorate your skin.
* Highly recommended for the nervous system relieving depression, anxiety and insomnia. Best if you use a lavender and lavender blend essential oil into a massage. lavender massage oil relaxes the muscles and tissues.
* Foot spa bath is also best if using lavender and lavender blend essential oils. You can add it to foot scrub for a cramped feet or foot lotion with a message for relaxing tired feet.
* For Hair care you can add two to four drops to your hairbrush and brush your hair. Lavender it s believed to stimulate hair growth and its antibacterial properties can help eliminate scalp conditions.
* You can even use the lavender as a perfume behind the ears if you are allergic to perfumes.
* For all skin care due to its powers of rejuvenation and balancing effects. Helps to heal burns, sunburn, acne, boils, bruises, eczema, psoriasis and wounds and sores of all descriptions.
You can’t go wrong when using lavender and lavender blend essential oils. It is easily absorbed by the skin, and soothes the deeper layers of it. Lavender can be also used in cases when you burn your skin, as long as the wound is not open, there should be no problem. It heals the burns effectively. If you have a dry skin, Use just a little bit of the lavender to bring moisture back to the skin. Or you can blend it in lotion to keep your skin nice and moist.
Lavender essential oil can be used neat, meaning without diluting it in a plant based carrier oil, but it must be done in small amounts and only for minor skin problems. However, it is advised to dilute lavender with a vegetable carrier oil such as olive oil, jojoba, sweet almond oil, etc., just to make sure that your skin doesn’t have an allergic reaction.
Purchase only pure lavender oil if you want to use this oil for minor medical burn treatment.
What is pure lavender oil ?
Pure lavender oil is a distillate from the herb Lavandula angustifolia , having density 0.905 and also containing the lowest amount of camphor ( below 8%). “Since alternative treatments exist, medicinal use of camphor is discouraged by the FDA, except for skin-related uses, such as medicated powders, which contain only small amounts of camphor.” (From wikipedia)
Please do not take lavender essential oil internally!
Author's Bio
Liani Widjaja is the owner of Aromatherapy-at-Home.
A website about aromatherapy and essential oils' guide. By knowing which the best essential oils for you, you will be able to get a maximum benefit of aromatherapy. Visit her site right now.
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