Lavender Essential Oil plus Recipe

 

 

Lavender Essential Oil

*Considered one of the top 10 essential oils
*Floral, fresh, sweet, and sometimes fruity aroma
*Has calming and sedative properties making it a wonderful oil to relax, help fight stress, and promote sleep.

*Anti-bacterial

*Safe enough to use on children when properly diluted.

*Uses: Anxiety, bruises, burns, headaches, insect repellent, stress and many others.

****information adapted from here.****

Relaxing Lavender Bath Salts Recipe

1 1/2 Cups Epsom Salts
1/4 Cup Baking Soda
1 1/2 tsp. dried lavender flowers
1 tsp. almond oil
1/2 tsp Lavender essential oil

Combine ingredients.  Use approximately 1/4 Cup per bath.  Relax and enjoy!

Chamomile and Calendula

 How do you describe Chamomile and Calendula?  Chamomile has a soft floral, herbal, apple aroma.  Calendula?  Pretty close to the same.  Both essential oils blend extremely well together.  So well that you probably couldn't pick the two apart in this mix.  I chose to use this combination of essential oils in a goats milk/glycerin bar soap and also some bath salts.  I also added dried chamomile flowers to both for appearance, texture, aroma, and color.  Chamomile is known to be anti-inflammatory.  It is wonderful for dry, achy, itchy, flaky skin amongst other things.  Calendula contains many of the same properties and is a wonderful healer.  This combination is also safe for babies in small amounts treating cradle cap, diaper rash, and others.  You can find a million different recipes for bath salts all over the web.  A very simple recipe could contain just a mixture of salts (epsom, sea salt, etc), a carrier oil, and the essential oils.  The soap is simply a melt and pour soap.  You buy the soap in blocks, melt, mix in your additives and pour into molds.  It really couldn't get any easier. 

If you are looking for a good start in finding your herbs and oils, I suggest mountain rose herbs.  I have ordered from them many times and their quality is unbeatable.  I am not compensated in any way for saying that, I just really love the company and the products it provides.

*** I am not a doctor or claim to be an expert.  Please see your physician if you have any ailments.  The recipes/ideas represented here are from my own personal experience and in no way meant to diagnose, treat, or cure anything.

Summer Bath Salts

I am a sucker for all things that remind me of my childhood years and this recipe reminds me of  those infamous orange push pops.  I have made more things than I can count with this essential oil blend.  This is too good not to share:

2 cups epsom salt
1 cup dead sea salt (I used pink himalayan)
20 drops vanilla essential oil
20 drops orange essential oil
1-2 tablespoons of carrier oil (almond, grapeseed, etc.)

Simply combine the ingredients above  in a container and give it a really good stir and shake to make sure the oils are well dispersed.  Add the mixture to your bath.  Then, just relax and enjoy!