Is it safe to use essential oils everyday? Well, over the years, essential oils have gained popularity for their various benefits and uses. These natural extracts from plants are known for their pleasing fragrances.  They are also known for their potential health and wellness advantages. To incorporate essential oils into your everyday routine can be a simple yet effective way to improve your well-being.  You can even save money in the process because prevention is better than cure. Here are some everyday ways that essential oils can make a positive impact:

1. Aromatherapy: Start your day with the invigorating scent of essential oils. Use a diffuser to disperse your favourite oils into the air, promoting relaxation, focus, or energy. Which oil you use will all depend on your need at that time. OilGrow has a range of powerful blends, each for a specific purpose.  Peek through the lot and see which one you might like.  If you’re unsure of which one to pick, why not try our EO101 box – it has a 2ml sample of each of our blends along with some popular single pure essential oils.  This way you can smell and test all our blends to get to know them.
2. Skin and Hair Care: Essential oils like Lavender, Tea Tree, and Rosehip oil are wonderful oils to use in your skincare and hair care routine. They offer moisturizing, antibacterial, and rejuvenating properties. Prone to acne? Why not try the OilGrow Activated Charcoal and Lime soap as part of your skincare routine? Follow up with Rosehip oil as is to moisturize.  You can even add one or two of our pure natural essential oils to enhance the benefits of Rosehip – Tea Tree and Lime complements and support an acne prone skin.
3. Reduce Stress and Anxiety: To inhale essential oils like Lavender, Chamomile, or Eucalyptus can help alleviate stress and anxiety. Keep a small bottle with you for on-the-go relief. You can add the combination to a roller bottle with some Grapeseed oil and just give yourself a roll in the nape of your neck. Remember to inhale deeply.  The following OilGrow blends are great for stress and anxiety relief: Focus, Calm, Forest, Bliss and even Bloom.
4. Home Cleaning: Make your own natural cleaning products with essential oils. Oils like Lemon and Tea Tree have powerful antimicrobial properties and can help keep your home clean and safe. We have a few cleaning recipes with oils such as Cinnamon Bark that can help keep surfaces clean.  Our Clean Blend is based on the very popular Thieves blend that is known to have strong anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal benefits.
5. Oral health: Use Fractionated Coconut Oil with some Clove Bud, Myrrh and Peppermint essential oils in an oil pulling recipe to help keep your mouth clean.  Oil pulling is known in Ayurvedic medicine to help detox the body and rid the mouth of bacteria that causes illness in the body.
6. Aid Sleep: Diffuse Lavender or Cedarwood essential oils in your bedroom to promote a restful night’s sleep. OilGrow’s Calm blend is made specifically for this and consists of Roman Chamomile, Lavender and Marjoram.  All oils that is known to help calm you down.
7. Relieve Headaches: Peppermint and Eucalyptus oils can be used topically to relieve headaches and migraines. Our Relief blend will help with that too amongst other relief such as for muscle pain and even asthma.
8. Cooking: Certain pure natural essential oils are safe for consumption and can add unique flavours to your recipes. Just be sure to use them sparingly and follow proper guidelines. OilGrow has a Responsible Usage Guide to help you along the way as well as some fabulous, tried and tested recipes.  Use Cinnamon Bark in your next bake of cinnamon buns.  Peppermint essential oil works great in brownies and ice creams. The options are endless. Just make sure you only ingest essential oils from plants that you would normally eat.  No human eats Eucalyptus leaves or Tea Tree leaves. Don’t consume these.
9. Baby Care: Some essential oils are safe to use on babies from 3 months upwards.  OilGrow has a Baby-zzz blend that is diluted enough to use on babies as a massage oil after bath to get them to settle down and sleep well.  It is known to assist to bring down a fever because the Lavender oil addresses any microbes responsible for fevers.  It is a great oil to use for baby’s bum burn when they teethe.  Another use is for mozzie bites and actual not-serious burn wounds.  This is an all-round powerful massage blend that is a must in your home.  When you buy a Baby-zzz product, we donate to our special baby charity, The Rock of Hope, Place of Safety – a safe house for babies born to moms in difficult circumstances.  Go ahead – buy one, test it and know you’ve contributed to the safety of many babies.
10. During sickness: Let’s be honest. There is nothing as terrible as when your loved ones are sick! This is made better when you know and use essential oils regularly. Why not work on it to developed an understanding of how they work and in which circumstances to use which one? You will be better equipped to face any sickness. Essential oils, much like herbs, are known for their powerful benefits to the human body. Lavender for example can help with calming a burn. African Immortelle is known to be a powerful pain stiller. Nothing beats Clove Bud essential oil for tooth ache. And Ginger is an amazing gut-health support oil. Get to know the oils! Start to use one or two and learn all you can about them.

We could find a ton more ways in which it is safe to use essential oils everyday, but this is a great place to start.  Why should you use essential oils everyday? One big reason is that you can save money in the long run.  When you make your own cleaning products, personal care items, and even perfumes with essential oils, you can reduce your shopping bill and avoid harmful chemicals found in commercial products. You can incorporate essential oils into every aspect of your life if given a little thought.

Is it safe to use essential oils everyday?

To use essential oils everyday is safe. As long as you use them wisely and correctly you can use them daily. Our oils are all natural, meaning no other ingredients are in a bottle of single oil essential oil. No additives, no filler oils. Pure, natural essential oils is potent and perfect for everyday use. Our Blends have only a mix of the pure essential oils, but no carrier oils are in these blends, so they are safe to use in your diffuser daily. You can use them topically by mixing them with a carrier oil.

Our carrier oils are also pure natural seed oils with no fillers or other oils added. Safe to use daily and also to ingest if they are edible oils – Fractionated Coconut Oil, Grape seed oil, Avocado oil. Our Massage blends are a mix of our pure essential oils and our pure carrier oils, no other added products. Again, refer to our responsible usage guide – this way you know to use essential oils everyday – but in a safe way.

To incorporate essential oils into your daily life can enhance your overall well-being while also saving you money by reducing the need for commercial products. Remember to use essential oils safely and consult with a healthcare professional if you have any concerns, especially if you plan to use them topically or internally. Enjoy the benefits of these natural wonders in your everyday routine!