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How to use Lavender // Top 10 Essential Oils

How to Use LAVENDER

  • Widely used for its calming and relaxing qualities
  • Soothes occasional skin irritations
  • Reduces appearance of skin imperfections
  • Use on your wrists and temples to helps ease feelings of tension*
  • Add a few drops of Lavender to pillows, bedding, or bottoms of feet for a restful night’s sleep
  • Freshen your linen closet, mattress, car, or the air with a light mist of Lavender combined with water in a spray bottle
  • Add to bath water to soak away stress or apply to the temples and the back of the neck
  • Use in cooking to soften citrus flavors and add a flavorful twist to marinades, baked goods, and desserts
  • Take internally to reduce anxious feelings*
  • Take internally for a peaceful sleep*
  • Use a couple drops on each dryer ball when drying sheets or blankies 🙂

RECIPES:

Lavender Hand Scrub

Mix  Together:

  1. 1 ½ cups of Epsom Salt, sea salt, or sugar with 1 cup almond oil
  2. Add 20 drops Lavender essential oil
  3. Add 3–5 teaspoons vitamin E oil in a bowl.

Place in a container with a tight fitting lid. Massage about a teaspoon of scrub into hands, then rinse lightly.

Lavender Eucalyptus Bath Salt

  1.  Combine Epsom salt, coconut oil, Lavender essential oil, and Eucalyptus essential oil.*
  2. Mix ingredients together.
  3. Store in container of choice

Postpartum Soothing Spray or Diaper Spray

Ingredients:
6 tablespoons witch hazel
4 tablespoons filtered water
5 drops Lavender oil
5 drops Frankincense oil

Instructions

  1. Combine witch hazel and water in a small glass spray bottle. The bottle pictured here is much larger, to demonstrate a larger portion.
  2. Add Lavender oil and Frankincense oil.
  3. Shake well for Postpartum women: apply to perineum, or spray onto feminine hygiene pads for a cooling effect

Don’t have LAVENDER in your life? Click here to purchase yours 🙂

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