
Easy Lavender Recipes to make at home from your garden
Easy Lavender Recipes to make at home from your garden
This fragrant herb has become a key ingredient in almost every type of body care and home product on the market. The easily recognizable scent is both calming and cleansing. They say there are over one hundred uses for lavender. Lavender is one of the most fragrant and versatile herbs, especially when it comes to body care products. Lavender has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. If you have a troubled complexion, use lavender to calm and cleanse it. As a hair care product, lavender will deeply cleanse your scalp. Healthy hair results from a healthy scalp.
Lavender and lavender essential oil are useful in boosting hair growth and healing your skin. Just a dab of lavender oil on a small cut, scrape, or burn will help you heal. Make a simple skin balm by melting together some cocoa butter, beeswax, and adding a few drops of lavender oil. Let the mixture cool and you have a skin-soothing product that you can tuck in your backpack or tote and use when needed
If you have a bad sunburn, a strong infusion of lavender oil or lavender tea can help with some of the discomforts. Simply spray it on your scorched skin, or soak cotton fabric in a lavender solution and apply it to your body.
If you have lavender and Calendula growing in your yard you may use the dried buds in this recipe or they are also easy to find at most natural food stores or from local growers. Calendula flowers (pot marigolds) are a lovely shade of yellow-orange to red and have a sweet scent that compliments lavender. Marigolds are naturally antiseptic. Lavender is also a natural skin healer that is good for burns and insect stings because it has a mildly sedative quality. This gel is an excellent skin soother; and the fresh scent is especially appealing and comforting. Yield: 4 ounces
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You can find little bottles at the natural food stores with roller applicators or maybe you have one that you can repurpose at home. Fill them with my favorite natural oil blends such as jojoba, almond, avocado, and dried lavender buds. You can also add other dried herbs and a few drops of lavender essential oil. These make nice natural scents to use on your pulse points and are perfect for tucking inside pockets and totes. They also can be used on small cuts and scrapes. Yield: .5 to 1 ounce depending on bottle size
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This recipe is perfect for relaxing and also soothing for dry, sensitive skin. It contains oatmeal, baking soda, and lavender all of which have healing properties and can be used by all skin types. This bath soak works well in calming the skin especially if you have a bad rash, sunburn, or insect bites. Yield: 28 ounces
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