How To Use Essential Oils
You’ve heard about healthy benefits of essential oils thousand times but still wondering how to use essential oils to take advantage of them?
Here are 5 simple ways to make a difference to your life with natural essential oils:
How to Use Essential Oils Right:
1) Relaxing Bath
It will help you to relax and unwind while improving your skin and preventing ageing. The safe and effective way of using essential oil in a bath is to combine it with a fatty substance, such as a carrier oil or milk. These two are used to dilute essential oil in order to prevent possible skin irritations.
The most relaxing and skin-loving essential oils to use in a bath:
Lavender, Chamomile, Frankincense, Eucalyptus, Vanilla.
2) Foot Bath
Essential oil infused foot bath is a solution for dry and cracked feet skin. This procedure serves as a natural moisturizer that brings a softness back to your skin.
To get started , you’ll need ½ cup of sea salt and 10 drops of pure essential oil (Lavender, Lemon, Patchouli, Peppermint or Geranium would have great anti-fungal and moisturizing effect). For better results, we recommend repeating this procedure every day before the bedtime.
3) Furniture Spray
Essential oils mix can become a natural furniture freshener for removing unpleasant odours. Comparing to popular commercial brand fresheners and cleaning supplies with hazardous chemicals, essential oil freshener provides positive health effects. For a DIY home furniture freshener, you need a spray bottle, a tablespoon of baking soda and 10 drops of essential oil. Here you may take those essential oils, which scents you like the most.
If you are hesitating about which oil to choose, check the benefits of essential oils and select the oil based on its healing effects.
4) Hair Care
I admire using essential oils for my hair. Besides having a nice long-lasting smell, they nourish, moisturize and strengthen your hair. Essential oils also have some medical properties for treating such problems as dandruff, premature greying or hair loss. All you need to do is to dilute an essential oil with carrier oil by following 50:50 proportion and massage it into your scalp for a few minutes. Then rinse it.
The most effective essential oils for hair care include Rosemary, Chamomile, Cedarwood, Juniper.
5) Skin Care
Essential oils provide your skin with minerals and protective properties that are able to improve your skin conditions. A DIY facial moisturizer is easy to make: mix carrier oil with an essential oil and use it repeatedly in your skincare routine.
Discover how to use essential oils by skin type and make your own natural beauty remedy.
The essential oils that work well for all skin types are Frankincense, Geranium, Lavender, Myrrh, Ylang Ylang.
