Essential Oils
Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender essential oil is the number one of must have essential oils for first aid. Lavender essential oil can be used to disinfect wounds and burns, promote healing, and reduce scarring. Lavender essential oil is commonly used to help with inflammation from bug bites, bee stings, and sunburns, and is known for its antihistamine properties.
Lavender essential oils gentle uplifting aroma is deeply soothing and relaxing making it very helpful for insomnia. Lavender essential oil is known to help relieve high temperatures in children (do not use on newborns). This oil is also great for help with bruises, headaches, muscle inflammation, and sprains. For example mix a couple of drops of lavender essential oil into a lotion or aloe vera gel and use for minor burns, headaches, mosquito bites, sunburn, even sore muscles. Make a travel friendly inhaler with lavender essential oil for inhalation in the case of headache or insomnia.* You may also like our lavender essential oil rollon. Safe for direct skin contact. Convenient to carry in pocket or purse.
Helichrysum Essential Oil
Hel•i•chrysum essential oil is commonly used as a painkiller due to its analgesic properties and is helpful for bruises, sprains, and swelling. It is known to stop bleeding in seconds, and reduces bruising remarkably. Helichrysum essential oil when applied to any injury that does not involve broken skin is reported to have wonderful results in speeding up healing. For a bruise immediately apply diluted (10% dilution in jojoba carrier oil) to helichrysum essential oil to ease the pain, swelling and discoloration, reapply frequently.* Do not omit helichrysum essential oil when building your must have essential oils for first aid kit.
Peppermint Essential Oil
Peppermint essential oil can aid in healthy digestion, soothe nausea, and help relieve muscle aches and pains, headaches, and fever. This oil is great to have in the car to keep the driver awake and aware and is also great for car sickness. Peppermint essential oil is also beneficial for indigestion or constipation, migraines, sunburn, congestion, poison ivy and other itching.* Peppermint essential oil is wonderful for sinus congestion caused by summer pollen. Inhaling diluted peppermint essential oil helps clear a stuffy nose, or blend with some diluted lavender essential oil and gently rub into cheekbones and forehead to ease a summer sinus headache.*
Tea Tree Essential Oil
Using tea tree essential oil for first aid helps disinfect skin irritations such as bug bites, and scrapes.* Tea tree essential oil has been known to help with healing of chicken pox, relieving the itching and helping with healing. After washing a scrape, try diluted tea tree essential oil to help keep the injury germ free.*
Frankincense Essential Oil
Frankincense essential oil is a great oil to use in first aid blends as it helps enhance the properties of other essential oils. It is also commonly used for skin issues. See our blog on the 20 Uses of Frankincense Essential Oil to see what benefits this oil has in first aid.* Frankincense essential oil is a truly versatile oil that should be in everyone’s first aid essential oil collection!
Citronella Essential Oil
Citronella essential oil works wonders as a natural insect repellent. It may also help rid pets of fleas. Mixed with a carrier oil and rubbed on the skin, citronella essential oil will keep mosquitoes from biting. See our blog article on Essential Oils that Repel Insects like mosquitoes, flies and ticks. Citronella essential oil is also known for its tonic effect on the body as it helps stave away colds, flu, and minor infections.*
Lemon essential oil is a great oil for first aid. In aromatherapy, lemon essential oil is known for aiding sore throats, nervous conditions, blood pressure, digestive problems, gallstones, debility, fever, and anxiety.* This oil can also be used as a tonic, astringent, and antiseptic. The body is aided from lemon essential oil due to its abilities to ward off infections, sickness, and fatigue.*
Roman Chamomile Essential Oil
Roman chamomile essential oil supports relaxation, lessens panic attacks, relieves sore muscles, muscle spasms, skin abrasions, and scrapes .* This oil is antispasmodic and is useful for intestinal cramps (massage diluted oil clockwise onto abdomen).*
Cajeput Essential Oil
Cajeput essential oil can be applied undiluted immediately to fire ant bites, reapply several times the first day. On the second day, switch to diluted lavender essential oil to hasten healing. Cajeput essential oil has been known to be used for colds and congestion, headaches, toothache, skin infections, and pain.*
Lemongrass Essential Oil
Lemongrass essential oil is used as a natural remedy to heal wounds and help prevent infection. Lemongrass essential oil has properties of relieving headaches, sore throats, respiratory problems, and fevers, as well as being a tonic, antiseptic, and insect repellent.*
These must have essential oils for first aid can be used in many ways. Salves, creams, sprays, or simply diluting with a carrier oil before applying to an area of pain or swelling are a few ideas.
