Lavender Essential Oil Uses

Lavender is such a beautiful plant. I love how the silvery green mounds form a base for the spiky flowers. Those pictures of lavender fields in France are just unbelievable. But the look of this plant is nothing compared to its signature scent. Who can help running the spiky flowers through their hands to release the potent scent into the air? I know that I can't.

Lavender was one of the first essential oils that I began to play with when I received my Family Physicians Kit from doTERRA. The very first night, I opened the little vial and dropped a single drop of essential oil onto my pillow. What a delightful treat! Honestly, I use my essential oils mainly for my own luxurious indulgences, and the other benefits they provide are kind of secondary.

For many months lavender was my go to for facilitating relaxation, its much easier to relax when a delightful scent to breathe. The list of actual uses for lavender essential oil is crazy long, quite frankly many of the popular essential oils have huge lists of uses and I get lost in those lists. Its not until I have an ailment that I discover some of the great uses for many of these oils.

Most recently I got some gnarly blisters on my heels (I don't know why I keep trying to wear Converse tennis shoes, they just don't seem to work with my anatomy). These were beastly blisters about an inch across! My normal care for such an ailment is usually nothing. Maybe a bandage to reduce further friction or some Tiger Balm depending on where the blister is. So I decided to look up what essential oils could combat a blister. Believe it or not, lavender was one of the recommended oils! These big blusters were gone within a couple of days without losing the top layer and exposing the fresh skin.

Plus, lavender is gentle enough for me to use with Evelyn. Not that she's getting blusters or burns, but sometimes she does need a bit more help settling down. Lavender has worked almost instantly to calm this little lady down so that she can focus on eating or going to sleep.

There are well over 80 common primary uses listed in the Modern Essentials Usage Guide that I use as my primary reference. That is so many that looking at the list really doesn't give me any real guidance as to when I would use it. Plus there are so many little household uses that keep popping up in my Pinterest feed (using it with baking soda to freshen a mattress, putting a drop in the cardboard roll of the toilet paper, simply misting a room with a diluted solution). I can tell you it was the first oil that I ran out of, and there was no doubt in my mind that I needed to buy more.