Essential Oil Recipe Blog

Basic First Aid essential Oil Recipe

Serious injuries and cuts will need a doctor for the best treatment but aromatherapy oils can offer basic first aid, especially for the minor injuries you might get at home.

Cuts

For minor cuts and grazes wash the wound thouroughly and make sure there is no debris in it. This is best done under cold running water. once you are sure the wound is a minor one then you can use essential oils as antiseptics on the wound. Choose from:

• Lavender oil
• Eucalyptus oil
• Tea Tree oil
• Lemon oil
• Pine oil
• Rosemary oil

If you have the plants in your garden crushing a few clean leaves and applying them to the wound is perfect. A dressing helps psychologically for most children, and some adults.

Bruises

Wrap anything likely to bruise in ice initially (a bag of frozen peas is ideal). This stops the blood rushing to the area and the bruise forming. For bad areas at least half an hour is needed. My favourite remedy after this has nothing to do with aromatherapy, homeopathic arnica cream, drops or tablets will stop most bruises from forming. It will also heal bruises as if by magic. Suitable oils to use however are:

• Lavender oil
• Hyssop oil
• Geranium oil

Add thirty drops of your chosen oil to 30mls of a vegetable oil and apply twice a day.

Burns

Cool, cool and cool again. the most important first aid for a burn is to cool the burn as much as possible. If you are in any doubt about the size or depth of a burn seek medical help. This is particularly the case in young children or if the burn is on the face and neck area. Keep cooling the burn.

If you are satisfied the burn does not require medical attention you can cool it by wringing out a cloth in  a bowl of iced water with two drops of lavender oil added. The healing of aburn can be encouraged by using a vitamin E rich carrier oil or Aloe vera with essential oils aded. Use:

• Lavender oil
• Eucalyptus oil
• Geranium oil
• German Chamomile
• Yarrow oil

Essential oils make a very good addition to your first aid  cabinet for minor scrapes and injuries, but if in doubt seek medical help.

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Essential oil recipes for mouth care

Essential oils feature in many commercial mouthwashes, and flavour most commercial toothpastes so there is no reason that you cannot duplicate their actions at home: only without adding the toxic chemicals used as preservatives and colourings in most of them.

Toothpaste

• 6 teaspoons baking soda
• large pinch of salt
• 4 teaspoons glycerin
• 15 drops of peppermint oil

Mix the ingredients together to a toothpaste consistency and keep in a small tupperware type container.

If you don’t like the peppermint flavoiur a good alternative is cinnamon oil, with natural breath freshening and antibacterial properties.

For a super teeth whitening recipe mix hydrogen peroxide with baking soda.

Mouthwash

Make some fresh rosemary infusion by steeping fresh or dried rosemary leaves in boiling water for ten minutes. Strain. Add 10-12 drops of your chosen essential oil per cup of liquid. You can sweeten this mix with glycerin if you wish. Some people add vodka which acts as a preservative but I prefer not to. My children use this.

Suitable essential oils are peppermint oil, cinnamon oil and lemon oil. Cinnamon oil is particularly effective if bad breath is a problem.

If the taste is too strong just dilute it with water.

For a super strong rinse add a few drops of essential oil to suitably diluted hydrogen peroxide.

Toothache

The classic essential oil for toothache is clove oil dabbed on directly with a cotton bud. Don’t use this long term though because it will cause damage to the gums.

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Essential oil recipe for cleaning the kitchen

We all want to minimise the use of toxic chemicals around our families, but very often the kitchen is the one place we still use them. We are torn between the modern phobia about germs, and the modern want for organic alternatives. Essential oils can be used in many ways to help us in our quest for a clean kitchen without using toxic chemicals.

Eucalyptus oil

Eucalyptus oil is a natural antiseptic, with antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties. You can use it to clean the kitchen in two ways. On a major clean up half fill the sink with warm water and add a half cup of white vinegar and a few drops of eucalyptus oil. Use this water to wipe down all your surfaces. The Eucalyptus cleans marks off easily, and acts as an antiseptic as you go.

Any tough marks can be dealt with by leaving a damp patch over the mark and coming back to it in a few minutes. The Eucalyptus oil will strip most marks from your work surfaces, cupbaords and cooker very easily. If you have a particularly tough spot use the oil neat.

The second way of using the oil is to take a spray bottle and fill it with water. Add few drops of eucalyptus oil and shake. Keep the bottle handy and just shake, spray and wipe when you wipe down your work space.

The smell

I like the fresh smell of eucalyptus oil, but if you find it overpowering try lemon oil or lavender oil.

Synergistic spray bottle blend

For the more adventurous try blending a combination of the following oils in your spray bottle. ( About eight drops per cup of water.)

Lavender oil, lemon oil, Eucalyptus oil, Bois de Rose, Lime, Pine, Thyme oil, Cinnamon oil and clove oil.

Experiment until you find a blend you like, or change it with the seasons.

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Essential oil recipe for acne face scrub

The woes of the teenage daughter continue, and now she wants a face scrub. Not having the money to go and buy her a top of the range model I made her one from the things i already had in the kitchen.

• 2 tablespoon ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon raw egg white
• 3 drops lemon oil
• 1 drop tea tree oil

Mix everything together in  a teacup and apply to a wet face with wet hands. Gently scrub the skin and then rinse with water.

I make two toners for my teeangers, both are based on witch hazel. I add a few drops of lemon oil for the girls and a few drops of cedar oil for the boys.

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Acne and Aromatherapy

Oh woe is me! That was my teenage daughter yesterday morning as a spot broke out on her face, just before the “big date”. Luckily I have a couple of essential oil recipes up my sleeve for just such an occasion.

Usually we just use Tea Tree Oil, dabbed directly on the offending pimple. This is particularly good for septic looking pustules. It usually clears them within a day or so, and an improvement is seen far more quickly. This time, however I decided to try a recipe I found using  some new oils I have just got.

Essential oil Acne Recipe

1 drop each of Lemon oil, Lavender oil and Rosemary oil  in six drops of evening primrose oil.

It worked like a charm. The spot, which I admit was not very big to begin with, had gone thirty six hours later. I’ve made a bigger batch in a dropper bottle for her now because the mix will improve if left, and become more potent.

Lemon and Lavender are well known antispetic oils, and she much preferred the smell to the medicinal smell of the Tea Tree oil. ( I’ll admit I snuck a few drops of Tea tree into her special bottle.) Evening primrose oil is the ideal carrier for this because of its skin healing properties.

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