Essential Lavender Oil For Your Skin And Your Home

Lavender not only spreads a pleasant scent, this plant also works wonders for skin and hair.

Lavender essential oil is a very versatile natural remedy. Which promotes health and creates a pleasant atmosphere at home. The pleasant scent on skin and hair also has a calming effect on the soul!

Lavender oil  contains an abundance of active ingredients that have a positive effect on your health. You too can benefit from it! You will then find various possible uses.

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When you hear this keyword, many of us think of the wonderful lavender fields in France. Lavender is a wild plant native to the Mediterranean basin, but it can also be found in various regions of Africa, Asia, and India.

This wonderfully fragrant plant  loves dry fields and hills and a sunny climate. It also contains important oils.

Lavender essential oil for your health

Lavender has the following medicinal properties:

• Lavender has long been known for its calming properties. This aromatic plant was already used in Rome for relaxing baths. Lavender works very well against anxiety, nervousness, insomnia and stress.
• Lavender is also antiseptic. That is why it is also used for disinfection and faster healing. For wounds, burns, insect bites or bruises, among other things.
• Lavender is excellent for treating various skin problems. You can use it to reduce inflammation and itching.
• Lavender oil calms the nerves of the stomach, which is why it also has a digestive effect.

• Lavender essential oil soothes inflammation and pain.
• Travel sickness can also be prevented.
• In addition, lavender oil is effective against high blood pressure and hair loss.

Oils and essences

Lavender oil is extracted from the plant and contains aromatic substances in concentrated form. As a result, you need special tools for this, which are very expensive. However, you can buy lavender oil from any pharmacy or health food store.

Alternatively, you can make the following lavender oil yourself at home:

• Let the lavender oil extract  (almond or olive oil) steep.  Use 10% lavender and 90% oil. Pour oil over the lavender in a sealable glass jar and then put it in the sun for a few weeks. Shake the mixture daily so that all of the active ingredients can dissolve well.
• Lavender tincture:  fill a glass bottle with dried lavender flowers and pour high-proof alcohol over it.

• Concentrated lavender blossom tea: You can also easily make lavender blossom tea to benefit from the benefits of this plant.

Application of lavender oil

Lavender oil can be used in the following areas:

• In teas:  against insomnia and nervousness.
• As a gargle:  reduces inflammation in the airways.
• Massages:  to combat stress.
• Rubbing in with lavender tincture:  helps against rheumatic pain, sore feet, back pain and migraines.

Use for skin and hair

Simple and very effective: use a few drops of lavender essential oil for the health of your skin or hair!

Skin or face cream: A few drops of lavender essential oil in your cream relaxes the skin, thus removing impurities and improving the skin.

Shampoo:  Adding a few drops of lavender oil can help prevent hair loss.

The oil improves the effects of the natural ingredients of various cosmetics.

Applications for the home

Lavender oil is also very useful at home. For example, you can  add a few drops to your cleaning products to  create a pleasant scent.

These applications are also of great use:

• Treatment of insect bites
• Pleasant, relaxing room climate
• Agent against fleas in pets
• Lavender sachets for nice smelling cupboards
• Small pillows with lavender for a pleasant, relaxing scent in different rooms.

You too can benefit from all the advantages of this wonderfully fragrant plant!

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