I’ve been reading a lot about the power and therapeutic benefits of essential oils. Essential oils are those wonderful fragrances that come out of extracting the “essence” of the plant into a single, condensed oil. Often times, it can take many plants just to come up with a single ounce or so of an essential oil.
So these essential oils can many times be very potent in their therapeutic benefits. They contain many different constituents, often times hundreds of them, which make them very powerful on a bioactive level. You’ve probably read before about the essential oil of the tea tree, and how it may benefit skin with acne, but I’ve recently read that lavendar is another essential oil that can have powerful anti-acne properties as well.
Many of the essential oils today possess antimicrobial and antibacterial qualities. For instance, just spraying a mist of cinnamon bark oil mixed with water into the air can totally inactivate any type of microbes and bacteria that are floating around in the air.
Tea tree oil is the same. It can greatly reduce harmful bacteria on the surface of the skin, which takes one very important component away from acne formation – the bacterial component that gets into the pores and causes inflammation.
Lavendar essential oil, which smells a heck of a lot more pleasing to many noses than tea tree oil, has also been identified as a great topical anti-acne aid as well. It smells really soothing, and it has even been used as aromatherapy to help reduce stress and anxiety as well as depression.
Parents are even urged to use lavendar aromatherapy to help calm their children’s antsiness, or to help with ADD and insomnia. Lavendar has many uses. It may be one of the most multipurpose essential oils that we know today.
So, you may want to start looking into products and soaps that contain lavendar in them as well. Not just “scented” lavendar, but actually containing lavendar essential oil, which is key to getting the right benefits. Only the real thing can deliver the therapeutic benefits. There are many scented chemical imitations that do not have the genuine chemical constituents that make lavendar so beneficial.
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