Essential oils provide many benefits for your self-health and are naturally extracted, but how do you know where to begin? Well, it depends on what you’re looking for! Here’s a list of 10 essential oils and their benefits to get you on your way.
1. Lavender – The Calming Oil. Use on irritated skin, for muscle tension, headache, to calm and relax the mind, to reduce stress and to promote restful sleep.
2. Peppermint – The Cooling Oil. Use for respiratory issues, digestive discomfort, pain, headaches, fevers, acid reflux, and to flavor food.
3. Lemon – The Detox Oil. Use for sore throat, seasonal discomfort, balancing pH levels, gout, kidney stones, and to uplift mood.
4. Melaleuca – The First Aid Oil. Use for cuts and scrapes, acne, dandruff, lice and fleas, athlete’s foot, insect bites, rashes, earaches, and pink eye.
5. Frankincense – The Universal Oil. Use for skin conditions, headaches, relaxation, depression, anxiety, trauma, wounds, scares, and thyroid issues.
6. Oregano – The Immune Support Oil. Use for viruses, infections, fungi, colds and flu, mold, ulcers, parasites, warts, melanomas, and MRSA.
7. Clary Sage – Use for depression, anxiety, hot flashes, stress, balancing hormones, inflammation, PMS, cramps, infertility, and to uplift mood.
8. Lemongrass – Use for diarrhea, H-pylori, tendonitis, nerve pain, carpal tunnel, muscle aches, sore ligaments, candida, and anti-perspirant.
9. Eucalyptus – Use for coughs, asthma, congestion, respiratory issues, sinusitis, bronchitis, allergies, pneumonia, joint pain, and hot flashes.
10. Helichrysum – Use for scars, scrapes, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, tissue repair, acne, stretch marks, hematomas, and liver problems.
Essential oils can be a great, natural way to topically treat a variety of different things. Not only that – but most of them smell great as well! Use this guide to start trying essential oils, and then branch out into even more!
