Recipes with Lavandula Angustifolia
These recipes provide various ways to incorporate Lavender essential oil into your daily routine, whether for topical applications or aromatherapy purposes. Adjust the essential oil concentrations based on personal preferences and sensitivity. We constantly try to gather and share the favorite recipes from our community – find yours!
Recipes for Topical Use
Natural Lice Treatment:
We prefer to use natural solutions – even to treat lice!
Ingredients:
- 1-2 drops Lavender essential oil
- 10ml water (optional)
How to use: You can massage 1-2 drops on your wet scalp after shower or dilute with water to use as a hair wash every week, for three weeks.
Natural Anxiety Relief:
Lavender essential oil has been proven effective as a sedative with relaxing effect.
Ingredients:
- 1-5 drops Lavender essential oil
How to use: Lavender essential oil absorbs rapidly by the skin and has been proven effective when topically used through massage. If desired you can apply by massaging gently to wrists, behind ears and neck several times throughout the day.
Sleep Aid:
Lavender essential oil is a proven, gentle way to fall into a relaxing sleep because of its aromatherapeutic and medicinal compounds.
Ingredients:
- 1-2 drops Lavender essential oil
How to use: Apply 1-2 drops on your temples and massage gently.
Headache Relief:
When preferring a natural solution to headaches we turn to properties of Lavandula Angustifolia.
Ingredients:
- 1-6 drops Lavender essential oil
How to use: Apply 1 drop of Lavender essential oil to the forehead, back of the ears, back of the neck and temples – all common places to ease headaches. Massage it into the area where you’re experiencing the most pain. Before using you can also dilute the essential oil with a carrier vegetable oil, such as Jojoba or Rosehip, to make it less concentrated.
Relax Remedy:
There are many beneficial areas of your body where you can apply Lavender essential oil to enhance relaxation.
Ingredients:
- Lavender essential oil
How to use: Gently rub the oil on places you prefer, such as your neck, forehead, temples, wrists, chest, stomach, arms, legs and/or soles of the feet.
Natural Acne Treatment:
This recipe will instantly help to reduce swelling, irritation and inflammation where you suffer from acne. Additionally, it will calm, heal and prevent the acne from returning.
Ingredients:
- 1-2 drops Lavender essential oil
How to use: Apply Lavender essential oil with the help of a cotton ball to the area where you have acne. and it will reduce the swelling, irritation and inflammation. Additionally, it will calm and heal. You can mix Lavender essential oil with anti-acne masks for a more optimal result.
Natural Hair Conditioner:
When looking for a natural, nurturing DIY conditioner – this is our favorite!
Ingredients:
- 1-3 drops Lavender essential oil
- 1-3 drops Rosemary essential oil
How to use: Mix the oils and apply to wet hair. This will give your hair all the boosting perks of rosemary with the bonus of Lavender’s calming, conditioning benefits. It’s a winning combination for both hair and your senses!
Recipes for Aromatherapy
Anxiety Treatment:
Benefit from the calming and anti-anxiety compounds in Lavender essential oil!
Ingredients:
- 1-2 drops Lavender essential oil
- 1-2 drops Helichrysum Italicum essential oil (optional)
How to use: Apply a few drops in your diffuser to spread in your environment.
Natural Insomnia Treatment:
When struggling with insomnia this recipe is great to support the drift into sleep in a natural and pleasant way.
Ingredients:
- 1 drop Lavender essential oil
- 1 drop Peppermint essential oil
- 1 drop immortelle essential oil
How to use: Put the essential oils in diffuser approx. 1-2 hours before going to sleep for relaxation in body and mind improved sleep. This blend is also nice to use as a pillow mist!
Sleep Support:
The relaxing aroma of Lavandula Angustifolia will calm and improve sleep quality, beneficial for those who suffer from insomnia and restlessness.
Ingredients:
- 1-2 drops Lavender essential oil
How to use: Place 1-2 drops of Lavender essential oil in your diffuser, pillow or a cotton ball near the top of your head.