The Benefits and Uses of Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender Essential OilLavender Essential Oil is a great natural beauty remedy, as it contains many beneficial properties, not only cosmetically, but for health as well. Lavender essential oil is the pure, undiluted form, steam distilled from the lavender flowers. It has been widely used for centuries around the world and has also most recently been recognized as having many properties that the body and mind can benefit from.

Using lavender essential oils can be relatively easy, and can be readily added to your normal beauty regimen without adding too much extra time, and even just inhaling the oil can help clear your mind, and relax you. You can also add lavender essential oil to some of your beauty products, such as lotions and liquid hand soaps to create an uplifting scent that will leave you feeling calm and cool. Soap-makers, and Cosmetic makers generally use lavender essential oil for baby products because of the calming effect it has on the body, and additionally, it has been widely used for centuries in soaps and room refreshers for its sweet, floral scent as well.

In addition to adding this oil to your beauty regimen you can also use lavender in a variety of other ways. Room diffusers and refreshers are very common, as is potpourri. Using dried lavender in your potpourri is also an option, but using the essential oil can be quicker and easier to manage. But its up to you really.

If health benefits is what you are after, lavender isn’t lacking in this area either. Lavender essential oils contain many health related benefits as well, such as anti-septic and anti-fungal properties, which help to clear up such things as athlete’s foot, and ringworm. It can also be beneficial for those aching muscles and joints. Soaking a towel into some water mixed with lavender and applying to tense areas of the body will help ease sore or stiff muscles and joints.


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