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Recap of Eucalyptus Oil
Using Eucalyptus Oil in a Diffuser
Using Eucalyptus Oil in a Massage
Using Eucalyptus Oil in a Bath
Using Eucalyptus Oil in Cosmetics
IN ESSENCE…
When diffused, Eucalyptus Essential Oil relieves mental exhaustion, enhances spiritual practices, clears nasal passages, and eliminates harmful airborne bacteria.
In a massage, Eucalyptus Essential Oil revitalizes skin and tired muscles, facilitates easy breathing, enhances feelings of relaxation, and soothes nervous tension.
In a bath, Eucalyptus Essential Oil soothes irritated skin, relieves pain, protects against infection, and rejuvenates sore muscles.
In cosmetics, Eucalyptus Essential Oil relieves scalp itchiness, controls sebum production, boosts circulation, strengthens hair, and alleviates inflammation and pain.
A RE-CAP OF EUCALYPTUS OIL
Eucalyptus Essential Oil is reputed to purify, cleanse, clarify, and boost immunity. It is popular for its soothing, stimulating, and anti-bacterial properties and can be used in numerous body care products ranging from skin and hair care to emotional care through aromatherapy. This article highlights what can be achieved with natural homemade recipes that use the advantages of Eucalyptus Essential Oil.
USING EUCALYPTUS OIL IN A DIFFUSER OR ROOM SPRAY (SINUS RELIEF AND SPIRITUALITY)
Used in aromatherapy, the cooling and healing scent of Eucalyptus Essential Oil is known to relieve mental exhaustion by boosting circulation, stimulating the mind out of sluggishness and rejuvenating the spirit. Those suffering from sinus congestion or sinus tension that causes headaches can diffuse Eucalyptus Essential Oil to clear nasal passages and to eliminate harmful airborne bacteria.
As a natural disinfecting air spray, Eucalyptus Essential Oil acts as an anti-microbial, non-toxic air freshener that removes from the environment bacteria, viruses, and mold that could contribute to respiratory issues. Diluted with water, a Eucalyptus spray can freshen the room and eliminate the body odors trapped in shoes and sports gear. Those who suffer from allergies will benefit from its anti-inflammatory properties that make it easier to breathe.
- EUCALYPTUS MELTING SHOWER CUBE BLEND FOR SINUS RELIEF
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 5-7 drops |
| Green Food Coloring (optional) | Enough for desired shade of green |
| Water | 2 Tbsp |
| Cornstarch | 1 cup |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add the Eucalyptus Essential Oil and Cornstarch to a mixing bowl. Using a spoon, thoroughly mix them together until the mixture appears to be a crumbly powder.
- (Optional) Add in a few drops of the food coloring and thoroughly mix it into the powder. The coloring might not be very concentrated until step 3 is complete.
- Combine the water into the powder until the food coloring disperses evenly throughout the mixture and clumps begin to form in the powder. (Note:This amount of water will not be sufficient for forming a paste; however, from this starting point, more water can be carefully rationed to form a paste.)
- Continue adding a few drops of water at a time, mixing it in well. (As soon as water touches the Cornstarch, the latter begins to harden, so adding water slowly is critical.)
- Once a thick paste has formed, transfer the mixture to a mini ice cube tray. Smooth and flatten the mixture so that it is level with the top of the ice cube tray, in order to form perfect cubes.
- Freeze the tray contents for 1 hour or until the mixture is set.
- When the shower cubes are ready for use, place them on the shower floor and turn the water on. To prevent slippage in the shower, place the cube in a shallow dish or near the shower drain.
- Shower as usual and enjoy the aromatic vapor from a cube as the water melts it and diffuses its decongestant scent.
- Store unused shower cubes inside a jar in a cool, dry place. If the cubes are runny due to too much water in the mixture, store them in the freezer.
- If the cubes do not diffuse a strong enough aroma for personal scent preference, more essential oils can be added to the finished cubes. This can be done by first crushing the cubes in a mixing bowl, then adding a few more drops of essential oils to the powder, and stirring in small amounts of water to recreate a paste. The paste can then be placed in an ice cube tray and frozen until ready for use.
- EUCALYPTUS FACIAL STEAM TO RELIEVE COLD AND ALLERGY SYMPTOMS
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 20 drops |
| Sweet Marjoram | 20 drops |
| Ravensara Essential Oil | 15 drops |
| Tea Tree Essential Oil | 15 drops |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add all essential oils together in a 5 ml amber glass vial/bottle that has an orifice reducer.
- Thoroughly cleanse the face.
- Boil 3 cups of distilled or purified water.
- Remove the water from the heat and allow it to cool in a bowl for 5 minutes.
- Add 1 drop of the essential oil blend to the steaming water.
- Place the bowl somewhere stable and comfortable where you can sit for 10 minutes.
- Drape a large bath towel over your head, shoulders, and the bowl.
- Lean over the bowl with your face 10-12 inches away from the water.
- Ensure that your eyes are closed during the entire steam, as the oils may irritate open eyes.
- Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. Enjoy the relief from congestion, mucus, inflammation, itching, and other cold and allergy symptoms.
- EUCALYPTUS ROOM SPRAY BLEND TO ENHANCE SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 15 drops |
| Distilled Water | 60 ml (2 oz.) |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Mix the essential oil with the water inside the spray bottle. (Increase the volume as desired, adding 15 drops of the essential oil per 2 oz. of distilled water.)
- Tightly close the spray bottle with the cap and swirl the mixture together to blend everything thoroughly.
- Spritz the room spray into the air to enhance spiritual practices.
USING EUCALYPTUS OIL IN A MASSAGE (REDUCE PAIN AND CELLULITE)
Diluted with a carrier oil and used topically in a moisturizer or a blended massage oil, Eucalyptus Essential Oil’s stimulating properties may help to revitalize the skin and tired muscles. It facilitates easy breathing, enhances feelings of relaxation, creates a refreshing feeling, soothes nervous tension, and helps clear the mind. This soothing oil provides relief to minor burns, sores, bites, and cuts by decreasing pain, inhibiting bleeding, eliminating bacteria from the wound, and promoting the closing of scars
- EUCALYPTUS MASSAGE OIL BLEND TO RELIEVE PAIN
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 8 drops |
| Peppermint Essential Oil | 8 drops |
| Lavender Essential Oil | 8 drops |
| Grapeseed Carrier Oil | 14 ml (½ fl. oz.) |
| Sweet Almond Carrier Oil | 44 ml (1 ½ fl. oz.) |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine all ingredients inside a 60 ml (2 fl. oz.) amber glass bottle.
- Replace the bottle cap and shake well to thoroughly blend all oils.
- To use, dispense up to 1 Tbsp of the blend into the palm of your hand and massage into affected areas.
- EUCALYPTUS MASSAGE BLEND FOR SINUS RELIEF
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 8 drops |
| Peppermint Essential Oil | 5 drops |
| Rosemary Essential Oil | 5 drops |
| Jojoba Oil | 60 ml (2 oz.) |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine all the ingredients inside a 90 ml (3 fl. oz.) amber glass bottle.
- Replace the bottle cap and shake well to thoroughly blend all the oils.
- To use, dispense up to 1 Tbsp of the blend into the palm of your hand and massage into affected areas.
- EUCALYPTUS MASSAGE BLEND TO DIMINISH CELLULITE
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 5 drops |
| Lemon Essential Oil | 4 drops |
| Cedarwood Essential Oil | 4 drops |
| Sage Essential Oil | 2 drops |
| Cypress Essential Oil | 2 drops |
| Hazelnut Oil | 60 ml (2 oz.) |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine all ingredients inside a 90 ml (3 fl. oz.) amber glass bottle.
- Replace the bottle cap and shake well to thoroughly blend all the oils.
- To use, dispense up to 1 Tbsp of the blend into the palm of your hand and massage into affected areas.
USING EUCALYPTUS OIL IN A BATH (BOOST IMMUNITY AND SOOTHE MUSCLES)
Eucalyptus Essential Oil’s germicidal and antiseptic properties make it a popular choice for use on wounds, cuts, burns, bites, stings, and sores. Besides soothing the irritated skin, it relieves pain, protects any openings from becoming infected, and promotes faster healing. Added to warm baths, Eucalyptus Essential Oil’s analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties help to rejuvenate stiff and sore muscles.
- EUCALYPTUS SOOTHING AROMATHERAPY BATH BLEND
| Ingredient | Amount |
| Eucalyptus Essential Oil | 15 drops |
| Peppermint Essential Oil | 10 drops |
| Sweet Orange Essential Oil | 10 drops |
| Rosemary Essential Oil | 5 drops |
| Tea Tree Essential Oil | 5 drops |
| Carrier Oil (Jojoba or Apricot Kernel Oil suggested) | 125ml (4 fl. oz.) |
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine all the oils in a dark glass or PET plastic bottle. Shake the closed bottle to thoroughly blend all oils.
- Pour 1 Tbsp of the blend into warm bath water.
- This blend can also be used as a decongestant and immune-boosting massage blend for the chest, back, and feet.
- Store the unused blend in a cool, dark place outside of the humid bathroom.
A LIST OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND INGREDIENTS IN THIS RECIPE ARTICLE
Cornstarch: As an odorless thickening and binding agent, this ingredient helps hold a shower cube together and allows the shower cubes to harden and become sturdy. Cornstarch acts as a softening agent, if the shower cubes are used in a bath instead. It can also absorb moisture to prevent body odors from forming. Its anti-inflammatory properties make it soothing and relieving for rashes, burns, and itchiness.
Ravensara Essential Oil: This anti-allergenic oil alleviates allergic reactions, allowing the body to build resistance against allergy-inducing substances. By eliminating bacteria, Ravensara Oil treats infections while preventing new infections from forming. It relieves severe and spasmodic coughs and allows muscles to relax, thereby alleviating breathlessness, cramps, and a sensation of pulling pain in the abdomen.
Sweet Marjoram: This anti-viral oil effectively eliminates harmful bacteria and viruses associated with colds, flu, and other viral illnesses, thus treating infections. The expectorant properties of Marjoram Oil make it effective in clearing congestion caused by colds and infections.
Peppermint Essential Oil: This oil is popular for its powerful cooling scent, which improves focus and mental clarity, boosts energy, clears the respiratory tract, and releases muscle tightness. It is used to soothe and reduce pain, redness, inflammation, aches, and digestive discomfort. Its anti-microbial property protects the body against bacteria. When used topically, it closes pores and tightens skin. Its simultaneous cooling and warming sensation on skin makes it an effective numbing agent.
Grapeseed Carrier Oil: This light, non-greasy, moisturizing, and fast-absorbing oil promotes the speedy healing of wounds and minimizes the look of scarring. It is odorless and is not known to stain fabrics. Grapeseed Oil boosts circulation and, when used in hair products, conditions hair to help retain moisture and restore shine while preventing hair breakage and hair loss.
Rosemary Essential Oil: This pain-relieving oil stimulates blood circulation, which makes it a popular remedy for arthritis, muscle and joint pains, and headaches. It promotes faster healing for wounds by facilitating the process of coagulation.
Lemon Essential Oil: This stimulating oil is known to detoxify, disinfect, and induce sleep. Its ability to relieve stress contributes to its ability to boost immunity, which prevents fevers and infections. It is an anti-fungal oil that is known to rejuvenate skin by soothing irritations, increasing skin luster, and reducing excessive oil.
Cedarwood Essential Oil: This oil is known to enhance concentration and to promote the retention of information. It tightens and tones the skin, promotes hair growth, and prevents wounds from developing infections. Its anti-inflammatory property soothes skin irritations and relieves muscle and joint pain.
Sage Essential Oil: The anti-oxidant properties of this essential oil help slow the appearance of aging and its symptoms such as wrinkles, sagging skin, and loose muscles. Sage Oil promotes the quick healing of wounds and cuts. It reduces skin inflammation as well as the appearance of marks, spots, and scars on the skin.
Cypress Essential Oil: This oil promotes perspiration, which facilitates the expulsion of bodily toxins as well as excess salts and water. This, in turn, benefits all body systems, especially the skin, as it prevents acne and reduces the build-up of toxicity. By stimulating circulation and eliminating excess fluids, Cypress Oil diminishes the bumpy appearance of cellulite as well as other unsightly skin conditions, which are caused by fluid retention and/or poor circulation.
Sweet Orange Essential Oil: This oil positively influences the body by providing a sense of upliftment, peacefulness, and cheerfulness. Its ability to alleviate anxiety, anger, and depression makes it beneficial for relaxing muscles, which promotes restfulness, drowsiness, and thus increased sleep duration. Orange Essential Oil is known to prevent fungal infections and to inhibit the growth of further bacterial growth, which is useful for disinfecting wounds.
Carrier Oil: Carrier oils help to dilute essential oils before topical application, as the potency of essential oils can be harmful when used in high concentrations without dilution. Carrier oils also help essential oils remain on the skin longer without quickly evaporating.
Tea Tree Essential Oil: This is a powerful, anti-septic immune system stimulant that is beneficial for eliminating bacteria, viruses, and fungi. It can treat wounds, provide soothing relief for aches, pains, and congestion, promote a sense of calm, and disinfect surfaces. This stimulating and nourishing oil promotes the growth of healthy hair and prevents dryness. It soothes itchiness and inflammation while preventing the accumulation of dead skin cells.
Castor Oil: This nourishing oil stimulates circulation to promote the growth of stronger, thicker hair. By moisturizing, smoothing, and softening hair, it prevents hair from becoming dry and brittle.
Moroccan Argan Carrier Oil: This conditioning oil is known to make hair softer and smoother. By penetrating and moisturizing hair, it repairs damage while leaving it looking shiny without the greasy residue. Moroccan Argan Oil boosts the growth of hair that looks thick and healthy.
Jojoba Carrier Oil: This carrier oil is actually a liquid wax that resembles sebum, which is produced by human skin glands and which acts as a conditioning agent for skin. It is best known for its ability to balance skin’s oil production by removing excess oil and for preventing skin irritations. It locks in skin’s moisture and protects it from harsh environmental elements.
Lavender Essential Oil: This calming oil is a popular choice for those looking to relieve both emotional and physical stress ranging from sadness to headaches. Its soothing scent diminishes feelings of restlessness and exhaustion. It improves sleep by reducing feelings of anxiety and emotional distress as well as reducing pulse rates. It promotes a sense of inner peace by diminishing irritability.
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