Busy Being Jennifer

What doesn't kill you make you blonder

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Recipes
  • DIY Projects
  • Crafts
  • Essential Oils
  • Every Day Boss

February 18, 2016 by Jennifer

Everyday Uses for Essential Oils

This post may contain affiliate or brand partner links. Read our full disclosure here.

I am an Essential Oils BELIEVER y’all! I’ve been using them, learning about them and slowly incorporating them into every aspect of my life for the last year and a half!

Every Day Uses for Essential Oils - BusyBeingJennifer.com

Essential oils are a natural way to treat skin conditions, scent the home, and stay healthy. They are cold-pressed from natural plants and flowers. Due to their condensed form they’re usually diluted with other oils such as coconut, grapeseed, almond, and olive. There are many everyday uses for essential oils, such as medicinal, cleaning, massage or aroma therapy and stress and discomfort reduction. They do have expiry dates, so you’ll want to learn more about how to use them in your home, rather than having them sit unused in a dark cupboard.

A few everyday uses for essential oils to get you started:

Peppermint essential oil can be used as a stomach remedy. Add just one drop to a large glass of water and drink. You’ll be avoiding the sugar from eating peppermints to settle your stomach. Peppermint and spearmint essential oil can be mixed with a small glass of water and used as a breath freshener. Swish around in your mouth for a minute or so, then spit out. This is a safer way of freshening your breath, without placing unpronounceable chemicals from store-bought mouthwashes into your body.

You can add essential oil to your aromatherapy diffuser. Place several drops of lavender or other flowery smelling oil into the carrier oil of your diffuser. It may be grapeseed oil, safflower or almond, something that will last without going rancid. Some people add water and rubbing alcohol to make the diffuser last longer. Place your reeds into the diffuser and set up in the bathroom or any other room to make it smell good.

Mix one drop of peppermint essential oil with a tiny amount of olive oil. Rub this over your forehead and temples to get rid of a bad headache. It may also help to lie down to recharge your batteries.

Lavender essential oil can be sprinkled on your pillows at night to help you to get to sleep. The lavender is naturally relaxing, and can aid you in falling sleep.

Tea tree oil is known to achieve healthy looking skin. It works on everything from acne, to dry skin and eczema. Dilute it with a bit of coconut oil before rubbing on your face. Contrary to popular belief, more oil won’t exacerbate your acne. Acne is caused by a microorganism, and the natural antiseptic properties of tea tree oil will keep colonies down. The coconut oil will naturally soften skin that has likely undergone harsh treatments to eradicate the acne.

Essential oils can be used for cleaning the home. Reuse an old spray bottle. Fill with filtered water, and add 10-15 drops of lemon essential oil, and 1/4 cup vinegar. It will not only make surfaces smell good, its natural anti-microbial properties will help kill bacteria, along with the vinegar.

Oil of oregano often comes ready to use in the bottle, already suspended within a carrier oil. A few drops a day can prevent viruses and parasites from taking hold in the body. Oil of oregano is a great all-purpose remedy. It can kill fungus on skin, relieve sore muscles, and remove warts.

#EssentialOils are AMAZING! Learn more about some of their Every Day Uses from @BusyBeingJenn

Click To Tweet

*This essential oil advice is based on my experience with essential oils and the research that I’ve done. This information is my opinion and should not replace the advice of a doctor. When it comes to your health and well being, I always recommend that you do your own research. If you’re interested in leaning more about essential oils, I’d love to talk with you! Send me an email at [email protected]

Filed Under: Essential Oils Tagged With: essential oil knowledge, Essential Oil Recipe, essential oils, every day essential oils

❮❮ Previous Post
Next Post ❯ ❯

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About Me
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Search

Categories

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Places I Party...

[instagram-feed]

© 2021 · Busy Being Jennifer · Privacy Policy

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings.

Busy Being Jennifer
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Read our complete privacy policy here.

You can adjust all of your cookie settings by navigating the tabs on the left hand side.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.