Lavender Oil: A Miracle in a Bottle!
Did you know that lavender is one of the top 10 essential oils? It’s a miracle in a bottle with many different beneficial properties that were pinpointed over 2,500 years ago. Not only is Lavender purifying and germ-destroying, it helps reduce unwanted bacteria or pathogens and has many other features making it the most used and versatile essential oil worldwide.
Now that you know just how much lavender is loved, let’s explore the top ten Lavender Essential Oil uses.
Top 10 Lavender Essential Oil uses
1. Enhance Relaxation and Sleep
Adding a few drops of lavender to your Epsom salt bath will boost the calming effects of your spa night. Likewise, you can also add a drop or two on your pillows, and bedding. Alternatively, rub some into your feet to promote a restful night’s sleep. Diffusing some into the air before bed will have a similar effect.
2. Heal the Skin and Combat Irritation
Lavender is great for minor cuts, scrapes, and burns. It boosts the recovery process and helps lessen irritation as well. Applying the Lavender essential oil to burns soothes the area, reducing redness and puffiness. Applying to cuts and scrapes banishes microbes and promotes healthy healing. You can even use a tiny bit to relieve sensitive gums, chapped lips, minor sunburn, and post-shave sensitive skin.
3. Ease Muscle Tension and Soreness
Feeling tense? Reach for the lavender. Applying lavender to the back of the neck and on the temples helps reduce muscle tension. At Heavenly Embrace, our AromaTouch massage treatment combines lavender with 7 other essential oils to bring your body into vital balance and homeostasis. For example, according to a 2012 study, aromatherapy with lavender essential oil also helps combat headaches and migraines due to its sedative nature and tension-relieving benefits.
4. Improve your Mood and Lower Stress
When it comes to the neurological system, Lavender is a real wonder oil. Studies have shown that ingesting and inhaling lavender does a fantastic job of alleviating feelings of self-doubt or sadness, lowering stress levels, and lessening feelings of anxiousness.
5. Freshening Up
Lavender has a lovely smell, and its therapeutic aromatic properties make it a great option for freshening up both the air and items around your home. By mixing water and lavender, you create a mixture you can spray just about anywhere. You can even use it dry by combining it with baking soda and vacuuming up the mixture after it’s had time to instill its scent, similar to a carpet freshener.
6. Promote Healthy Hair
The fact that lavender destroys germs and helps reduce unwanted bacteria makes it an irreplaceable tool in hair and scalp care. For example, these properties help relieve common conditions such as dandruff, dry scalp, itchy scalp, and inflammation. It’s also known to help prevent and treat head lice. Furthermore, lavender oil also boosts hair growth, which signals that the oil may help with alopecia and other hair loss issues.
7. Support Your Skin
By mixing lavender oil with a carrier oil such as coconut oil, you can create a great salve to add to your skincare routine. Lavender helps reduce unwanted bacteria properties. It is a great choice in fighting acne as well as other skin conditions such as canker sores and rashes triggered by allergic reactions. The salve will also help improve dark spots and other tell-tale signs of aging skin.
8. Support Brain Function
Lavender provides mental clarity thanks to its stress-relieving and negative mood-busting properties. Both diffusion and applying oil directly to the back of the neck and temples help it impact the neurological system. Moreover, Lavender essential oil has been shown to potentially improve conditions such as difficulty remembering, memory loss, focusing problems, and stroke.
9. Unique Flavor to Your Cooking
Lavender has a host of benefits for the body, mind, and soul. Its less-known option is in cooking! Lavender is known to soften citrusy flavors in dishes where it’s overpowering and can add the perfect twist to anything from marinades to desserts. NOTE: When cooking, make sure your essential oil is food-grade.
10. Purifying & Germ Destroying
Lavender essential oil is naturally purifying. The oil helps destroy germs in the body, glutathione, catalase, and SOD which supports your body’s fight against the free radicals that you come across daily.
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dōTERRA Lavender Essential Oil
dōTERRA sources its oil from some of the best places on the planet. They partner with artisans in 40 countries who know the importance of having excellent seeds, soil, and growing environments. In the case of their lavender oil, the plant comes from the Provence region of France. By sourcing the lavender from its native area, the plant produces higher ester and sesquiterpene alcohol content, increasing its helpful benefits.
This is why Heavenly Embrace only uses dōTERRA in its unique aromatic massage experiences. Purchase your own here or request a sample first.
Make the most out of your Essential Oil Experience with tools such as storage containers, diffusers & books.
We hope this list of 10 Lavender Essential Oil uses was interesting to you. Book your AromaTouch Session here. We incorporate lavender along with 7 other essential oils for a truly unique and therapeutic treatment. Come and experience a session for yourself! Check out our Essential Oil FAQ page for some basic info about essential oil usage.
Love & Light,
Liraz
Liraz Bergman-Turner is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master. She is the owner of Heavenly Embrace Wellness, a massage and energy healing practice in Boulder, CO
“Liraz is incredible to work with, she is so in tune with others and wants nothing but to help and support them. From using essential oils catered to what your needs are during your session, to making sure the pressure is just right. To the use of hot towels and also true energy work, each massage session is a little rejuvenation of the body, mind, and spirit. Having come off of a very difficult year, it was Liraz’s healing hands that truly helped me recover and become more attuned to listening to my own body. I would highly recommend working with Liraz if massage therapy and/or energy work is something you are thinking about/wanting to explore! Thank you for everything Liraz!”
– Lindsey S.
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