Lavender: An Awesome Essential Oil For Home And Skin

Lavender essential oil is too good to be left unused. Lavender is excellent for health, skin and a wonderful even fragrance at home. Want to learn how to use this awesome essential oil?

Keep reading to find out what the benefits are and how you can use it!

Lavender

When you think of lavender, you may think of purple lavender fields in France. This wild plant, with its typical purple flowers, is common throughout the Mediterranean coasts and in some parts of Africa, Asia and India. Lavender grows in dry fields and hills and keeps out the sun.

Lavender is rich in essential oils, acids, coumarin, tannins and saponin (in flowers). Simply put, it is an awesome essential oil.

What are the health benefits

Lavender has the following medicinal properties:

• Its main feature is its effective sedative effect, which has been known since ancient times. Lavender was used in relaxing baths in ancient Rome. It helps with anxiety, insomnia, stress, etc.
• In addition, it also has antiseptic effects that help disinfect, soothe and heal all kinds of wounds, burns, bites and bruises.
• Lavender is destructive to viruses and bacteria. Thanks to these two properties, it is an excellent way to prevent and treat respiratory ailments such as laryngitis, pharyngitis and tonsillitis, as well as intimate area inflammations.

• It cures skin ailments such as psoriasis and rashes, reducing inflammation and itching.
• It promotes good digestion and calms the nerves that affect the stomach.
• Thanks to its anti-inflammatory and soothing effect, lavender makes it an ideal essential oil for pain.
• It is helpful for motion sickness.
• Lavender lowers blood pressure slightly.
• It prevents hair loss.

Oils and other extracts

A small amount of lavender essential oil condenses all the good properties and aroma of the plant. The oil is obtained through a distillation process, using distillation equipment, and is therefore very difficult to produce at home. However, it can be found in health food stores and other stores that sell health products.

What extracts can be made at home?

• Lavender extracted with other oil (almond or olive oil): The ratio is 1 part lavender to 10 parts oil. Use a glass jar and put it in the sun, shaking from time to time.

• Lavender in alcohol: Fill a glass jar with dried lavender flowers and add ethanol, allowing to simmer for a week.
• Tea from dried lavender flowers: This is the most common and easiest way to use lavender. It is the best way to enjoy the plant, and is also suitable for swimming your feet or for use in a bath or mouthwash.

Lavender and health

The most common ways to use lavender for health are:

• Tea, insomnia and anxiety.
• As a mouthwash, to relieve inflammation of the upper respiratory tract.
• Relaxing massages with lavender oil, to relieve stress.
• For pain-relieving massages with lavender alcohol, rheumatoid arthritis pain, migraine, stiff neck and leg or back pain.

Lavender for skin and hair

One of the best ways to use lavender on skin and hair is to add a few drops of its essential oil to beauty products:

• Face and body cream: It relieves tension, helps with skin problems and stimulates regeneration.
• Shampoo: It prevents hair loss.

Lavender oil also has the ability to enhance the effects of other natural ingredients.

Lavender at home

You can add lavender to the cleaning products you use at home (Laundry detergent, fabric softener, air fresheners, toilet cleaning products  ), to give a nice scent and also to help with:

• To keep insects away.
• To make your home a soothing environment.
• Get rid of dog or cat fleas.

Small lavender flower bags are easy to make and can then be placed in boxes and cabinets, for example, to give a little fragrance. Larger bags can be used around the neck as a heating pad to improve sleep.