The Lovely Benefits of Lavender
/Lavender essential oil is one of the most commonly used essential oils on the planet. Its pleasant scent and versatile benefits make it easy to use and combine with other therapeutic oils.
FUN FACT: Did you know that it takes around 3 pounds of lavender flowers to get just one 15 ml bottle of lavender essential oil?! It is obtained by the process known as steam distillation of fresh and dried flowers, and what you get is a clear, pale yellow, highly concentrated essential oil.
As an aromatherapy oil, lavender’s clean, fresh floral scent is famous for its relaxing and calming properties. You can use it to soothe anxiety, treat insomnia, ease depression or nausea, relieve headache, and reduce your stress levels.
This amazing oil also has many benefits for your skin when you apply it topically. Here are 5 excellent reasons to use skincare products with lavender essential oil as often as you can.
ADD IT TO YOUR PRODUCTS TO DELAY WRINKLES
You can use products that contain lavender essential oil or simply add a drop to your nighttime moisturizer to improve its anti-aging effect. Either way, this oil can help prevent premature aging and keep your skin firm and smooth for as long as possible.
Lavender essential oil also protects against wrinkles and fine lines from antioxidants and phytochemicals that protect the skin against free radicals and damage from UV rays, pollution and other environmental stressors.
SOOTHE YOUR ACNE & PREVENT NEW BREAKOUTS
If you have acne-prone skin, you will absolutely love this oil. Lavender can help soothe inflamed acne, prevent new breakouts, clear your skin and even fade post-acne marks. If you don’t like applying it to your whole face, no worries! You can at least use it, properly diluted of course, as a spot treatment.
Lavender oil also gently moisturizes the skin without clogging your pores. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, so it can help purify your skin, reduce redness, balance out the sebum production and help the skin to heal faster.
USE IT TO TREAT DRY SKIN & ECZEMA
Dry skin and skin conditions connected to it can be more than unpleasant. Especially during the cold months, the itching, roughness, and the unpleasant feeling can make you feel very uncomfortable. Not to mention how dull and tired dry skin can look.
Moisturizers with lavender oil can help you soothe and control the condition. This oil moisturizes the skin, calms it and it has natural antiseptic properties. To maintain healthy moisture levels in your skin, you need a healthy skin barrier, and lavender essential oil can help you improve and reinforce it.
SOOTHE & HEAL DAMAGED SKIN
In ancient times, lavender has been used to enhance the healing of wounds, burns, cuts, and other skin injuries. Even back then, people knew how beneficial lavender’s antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties can be for these purposes.
You can use lavender skincare products to keep your skin healthy and smooth and to treat damaged or compromised skin’s protective barrier. You can also use lip balms and hand creams infused with this precious oil, to help you soothe chapped, damaged skin and speed up the regeneration process.
IMPROVE THE HEALTH & CONDITION OF YOUR SCALP
Just like the rest of your body, the skin on your scalp needs proper nourishment and care. Lavender oil’s antibacterial, anti-fungal, soothing and moisturizing properties can help you prevent and get rid of dandruff, treat dryness and inflammations and keep your scalp nourished and optimally hydrated.
Of course, a healthy scalp equals healthy hair. So by maintaining your scalp skin healthy and conditioned, you also enhance the health, beauty, glossiness, and bounciness of your hair. There is also much anecdotal evidence that lavender essential oil could promote hair growth.
LOOKING FOR PRODUCTS WITH LAVENDER OIL?
You already know Flora’s Angels has you covered! From our body butter to our infused body oil, even our exfoliating body scrub, our lavender products will leave your skin smooth, moisturized, and calm throughout the day.
WARNING – As all essential oils, lavender oil has the potential to cause sensitivity and allergic reactions when applied topically. Make sure to always perform a patch test before using it on a larger patch of your skin and never apply pure, undiluted lavender oil.