• naturalLiving
  • activitiesfor kids
  • Easyrecipes
  • yourhome
  • just formoms
  • Start Here
  • About
  • Start Here
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • Natural Living
    • Essential Oils
    • Natural Homemade Ideas
    • Natural Solutions
  • Activities for Kids
    • Arts and Crafts
    • Playdough and Slime
    • Sensory Activities
  • Recipes
  • For Your Home
    • Backyard Chickens
    • Easy DIY Projects & Crafts
    • Organizing Tips
    • Tips and Hacks
  • For Moms
    • Caring for Yourself
    • Parenting
    • Product Reviews
    • Travel
  • About
  • Start Here
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • SHOP
↑

Living Well Mom

I help moms with simple, natural ways to look after their families. Find recipes, fun stuff for kids, and simple DIY ideas. Plus natural solutions made easy peasy!

  • naturalLiving
  • activitiesfor kids
  • Easyrecipes
  • yourhome
  • just formoms
  • Start Here
  • About
  • Home
  • Seasonal
  • Essential Oils
  • Natural Solutions
  • Autism

The Top Lavender Essential Oil Uses + 11 Lavender Recipes

By Tania Griffis in Essential Oils

essential oil recipes essential oil rollers essential oil spray essential oils lavender essential oil

Jump to Recipe

Lavender oil doesn’t only smell amazing, but it’s incredibly versatile too! The properties of this amazing product can be used in so many ways that will benefit your mind and body alike! In this article, I’ll share my favorite lavender oil uses as well as the benefits it provides.

In fact, I am so obsessed with this oil that I always make sure I have it on hand. If I am ever at the risk of running out at my house, I quickly make sure to restock my supply because it is really that useful!

Whether I’m feeling stressed or impatient, this is the essential oil that I turn to. Many of my recipes include lavender oil because I find it to be so incredibly impactful to our bodies and our minds – a quality we could all benefit from.

If you are new to using essential oils, lavender is a great one to start with. It is generally a hit amongst everyone with its mild aroma and soothing properties. Lavender oil is one of the more gentle oils, so it can be used on sensitive skin and even children as long as it is properly diluted.

As a Certified Essential Oil Coach from the Essential Oil Institute, I love to share all the lavender essential oil uses that I have grown to love. Check out this handful of recipes that highlight the many benefits of this all-natural essential oil.

brown essential oil bottle next to lavender stems this idea now...

FAQs About Lavender Essential Oil Uses

What are the benefits of lavender essential oil uses?

Lavender has so many amazing benefits for your health, body, and mind! It is such a useful oil to have around for all kinds of reasons.

Some of lavender essential oil’s benefits include:

  • Improved sleep
  • Natural pain relief
  • Heals skin
  • Reduces blood pressure
  • Eases anxiety
  • Helps treat headaches
  • Treats nausea
  • Heals acne
  • Reduces scarring

What can lavender be used for?

Lavender essential oil is great for all kinds of things that you need in your life, and you may not even realize it! No matter the problem you have, it is one of the most useful and versatile oils on the market.

You can use for benefits such as:

  • Hair loss or hair growth
  • To heal scarring
  • To treat skin blemishes
  • As a relaxing soak
  • For a better night’s sleep
  • In a diffuser to release tension
  • As a body massage oil
  • In body butters
  • For minor cuts and bruises
  • To ease tension headaches

There are so many lavender essential oil uses, but these are just a few ways to use lavender oil in your everyday life. A gentle yet powerful oil, it not only smells incredible, but it can benefit you from the inside out.

Now, let’s learn some of those uses!

*Pin the image below to save the recipes for later.

collage of homemade bath and skin care products made with lavender essential oil

11 Uses For Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender essential oil is one of the most multi-faceted essential oils out there. And it doesn’t hurt that it smells absolutely divine! One whiff and you’ll be in an instant state of calm.

However, it can be a bit overwhelming to figure out how to start using essential oils, particularly if you are a beginner.

Here are a few recipes to try if you are interested in using lavender essential oil:

1. Lavender Lotion Bars

These lavender lotion bars are a great way to hydrate your skin as well as enjoy the aroma that the essential oil provides.

The bars are made of a blend of nourishing butters to create a perfectly moisturizing bar for even the dryest of skin. The lavender oil in the recipe adds a touch of calming aromatherapy while it works to nourish your body.

2. Lavender Bath Bombs

Homemade recipe for lavender bombs for baths.

This lavender bath bomb recipe is another way to reap the aromatherapy benefits of lavender essential oil. They are simple to make and are such a fun bath product to enjoy after a long day!

For an especially relaxing night, drop one of these bombs in a hot bath and soak for a while. Pair this experience with a cup of herbal tea or your preferred beverage to wind down.

If you want to experience a strong dose of calming effects lavender, this is one of the best lavender oil uses out there!

essential oil pdf download for moms on blue background

3. Diy Lavender And Orange Bath Salts

homemade bath salts with essential oils

The combination of lavender and orange in these sweet-smelling salts is the perfect mix leading to ultimate relaxation. This DIY is the perfect project if you aren’t quite ready to dive into making bath bombs. Bath salts are extremely easy to make. It only requires a little mixing, then you’re done!

DIY bath salts are yet another excellent way to enjoy the aromatherapy benefits of using lavender. Sprinkle a cup of these bath salts into your evening bath, and you will feel relaxed and ready to slip into sleep.

As an added bonus, these bath salts will nourish your skin and leave you feeling silky and clean – even the day after.

4. Homemade Lavender Bubble Bath

homemade all natural essential oil bubble bath for kids

This kid-friendly homemade bubble bath is so much more soothing and natural than the stuff you can buy in the stores. Not only is it moisturizing and bubbly, but it also smells amazing and promotes an instant state of calm.

This bubble bath is perfect for fussy children or bedtime baths. It’s wonderful for chilling out after a long day – for your children or for your own little bit of self-care.

And honestly, who doesn’t enjoy a good bubble bath?

5. Lavender Foot Soak

homemade salt foot soak with wooden spoon on purple tray with essential oils

This lavender foot soak is one of my all-time favorite lavender oil uses! It’s is incredibly soothing and calming on tired or sore feet after a day of being up and about.

Lavender has some anti-fungal benefits, too, which makes it perfect for foot care and hygiene. It will also leave your feet feeling refreshed and less tender.

Try out this lavender foot soak DIY to indulge in a little extra self-care when you don’t have time to take a bath. It can be just as enjoyable – with all the same benefits. You can even plop down a container filled with water and this foot soak in front of the tv so you can reap the benefits while you watch your favorite show!

6. Lavender Facial Scrub

This homemade lavender facial sugar scrub is easy to make and a wonderful way to pamper yourself. Using 3 all-natural ingredients, this sugar scrub works as an exfoliator to remove dead skin cells and moisturizer at the same time. Plus it only takes about 5 minutes to make!

This lavender facial scrub is an all-natural facial product that energizes your skin and leaves it looking glowy and feeling fresh.

Lavender essential oil has a variety of skincare benefits, from being able to reduce blemishes and acne as well as minimize scarring. This facial scrub also helps to remove any dead skin to leave your face feeling squeaky clean, and revitalized.

Just be careful if you have very sensitive skin – even lavender oil can be irritating to certain skin types.

7. DIY Lavender Milk Bath

all-natural lavender milk bath

Sometimes, hot baths can be drying, which is why this DIY lavender milk bath is a perfect solution! This milk bath is a wonderful way to soothe dry or irritated skin and moisturize yourself all over.

Made with milk and Epsom salt and plenty of lavender essential oil for amazing fragrance, this recipe creates a soothing and therapeutic bathing experience.

If you wonder how to use lavender oil, this milk bath DIY is very easy to whip up, creating a skincare product full of those essential oil properties you’re looking for.

8. Homemade Lavender Honey Face Wash

Homemade Lavender Honey Face Wash in 5 Minutes! This face wash takes just 5 minutes to make and uses essential oils and all-natural ingredients as a wonderful homemade cleanser. Get the step-by-step easy directions here:

This homemade lavender and honey face wash can incorporate lavender essential oil into your regular skincare routine. It’s much more natural than what you would buy in a store and is so calming to the skin.

The honey and lavender combination creates a healing and relaxing combination to soothe any skin irritation. It’s also a great face wash for sensitive skin or those prone to blemishes or acne. The lavender essential oil in this face wash recipe can even help prevent other skin issues from coming up and is good for reducing scarring from previous blemishes.

9. Lavender Goat Milk Soap

This homemade lavender goat milk soap recipe is easy to make (it takes less than an hour to make 12 bars!) and smells incredible with added essential oils.

Easier to make than you might think, lavender goat’s milk soap is one of the best ways to use lavender oil. This melt and pour soap recipe is beginner-friendly and yields 12 beautiful, delicious smelling bars of soap.

Lavender soap is a good option for children (or adults) with sensitive skin, as it is soothing and gentle. It naturally moisturizes the skin instead of stripping it and can help to relieve itching and dryness.

10. DIY Renew Patience Essential Oil Blend with Lavender

A glass spray bottle and roller bottle filled with DIY essential oil blend for moms.

This essential oil blend for moms is a relaxing and calming blend of essential oils that includes – you guessed it – lavender! Made up of a combination of all of the most calming oils, it can be used as often as you need it…and trust me, some days you’ll want it a LOT!

For those days when everything seems to be going wrong, and no one is happy, this Renew Patience Oil blend is peace in a bottle and perfect for when you desperately need a do-over. Just rub a drop or two on your wrist and breathe in deeply.

When you are feeling like you’re on your last nerve and you could lose it any minute – try out this DIY recipe using lavender essential oil. This relaxing blend is just what you need.

11. Natural Bug Bite Itch Cream

An open jar of DIY insect bite cream with a paper label on the lid.

Homemade bug bite itch cream is great to have around if you have kids that love to play outside or your whole family enjoys the outdoors. A natural result of time outside are pesky bug bites unfortunately!

Insect bites can be miserable to deal with, especially if you have children who just can’t keep themselves from scratching. This DIY bug bite cream solves that issue, as it’s made up of some very soothing essential oils, including lavender, which reduces discomfort and itchiness. It is an absolute lifesaver to help calm the area down.

Plus, lavender oil is great at healing the skin, which can help the bug bite quickly heal up on its own.

Dear Mom, Join the Living Well Mom Insiders

You’ll get exclusive content, “Sunshine for Your Day,” and more stuff Erika doesn’t share anywhere else!
    By entering your info, you’ll become a LWM Insider! Everything is delivered straight to your email inbox. You can unsubscribe at any time.

    Filed Under: Essential Oils, Natural Homemade Ideas, Natural Living, Natural Solutions Tagged With: essential oil recipes, essential oil rollers, essential oil spray, essential oils, lavender essential oilPublished on September 2, 2021

    You May Also Love

    washing berries with homemade vegetable wash soak
    Easy Homemade Fruit and Veggie Wash (That Actually Works)
    putting liquid homemade dish soap on a sponge
    Easy Grease-Cutting Homemade Dish Soap with 3 Ingredients
    DIY Poo Pourri “Before-You-Go” Spray

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Erika Bragdon sitting on a bench drinking a drink out of her mug

    Welcome! I’m Erika and I’m the creator behind Living Well Mom.

    More About Erika

    The Latest

    • Printable Road Trip Games with a Fun DIY Travel Binder For Kids
    • Easy Homemade Fruit and Veggie Wash (That Actually Works)
    • Chewy Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies
    • 32+ Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids (That Will Keep Them Busy!)
    • Bubble Painting – How to Paint with Bubbles

    Trending Now

    • playdough in a container Make the Easiest Homemade Playdough Recipe That Lasts for Months {With Video!}

    • outside holding tick spray bottle with dog Simple All-Natural Tick Repellent for Dogs – with Video!

    • Taco Pizza is a great as an easy family dinner (you can even make it the night before) or a tasty appetizer. Kids love this recipe and the cream cheese/sour cream “sauce” and spicy taco flavor are a hit with adults too. Taco Pizza – The BEST Easy Dinner Recipe

    • homemade macaroni and cheese on plate Easy Baked Mac and Cheese Recipe (That Your Kids Will Actually Eat!)

    • Hand pressed into a ball of fluffy slime Fluffy Dish Soap “Slime” (Borax Free)

    • big strong homemade bubble solution How to Make Bubble Solution (Easy + Strong Bubbles)

    • Home
    • Seasonal
    • Essential Oils
    • Natural Solutions
    • Autism

    Living well is a journey not a destination

    copyright ©2025, Living Well Mom. / Site by Pixel Me Designs
    Privacy PolicyTerms & ConditionsDisclaimer
    63 shares