15 Ways You Can Use Rosemary Oil Today
Rosemary is one of my most favorite essential oils! I love the fresh smell and I use it in all of my home made cleaning recipes to keep my house smelling like spring. It's such a versatile oil and here are 15 ways you can start using it in your home today!
Respiratory Aid - Rub on your chest every couple of hours to aid with chest congestion and cough. Diffuse for sinusitis and nasal congestion.
Memory/Focus - Diffuse to stimulate memory, focus and inspiration
Antiseptic - Rosemary has antiseptic qualities and can be used on scrapes, cuts and even in mouthwash!
Pain Relief - Use topically, diluted with fractionated coconut oil to ease headache and muscle pain, use in the bath to soak tired achy muscles.
Hair Health - add to coconut oil to use as a conditioner for your hair or rub into the scalp for a stimulating massage. Rosemary is said to stimulate hair growth so use on areas you want to grow more hair.
Increase Circulation - Great for stimulating circulation in legs and energizing the body
Cooking - use as a substitute for rosemary in culinary dishes
Soothing massage - Dilute with fractionated coconut oil and rub into sore areas to aid in easing muscle pain.
Support Immunity - Support the bodies natural immunity by diffusing or adding to veggie capsules and taking internally.
Oral Health - 1 drop in a shot glass of water for fresh breath and to disinfect the mouth
Aid digestion - Use topically on the stomach or bottoms of feet to help with digestion or take internally in a veggie capsule.
Spot treat acne - Dab onto acne or pimples to reduce pain and inflammation and promote clear skin.
Stress Relief - Rosemary helps calm the mind and body, diffuse or inhale to lower stress.
Anit-inflammatory - use topically to reduce inflammation on sore joints.
Antiviral/Antifungal - Use in your cleaning recipes to help disinfect and sanitize. I add 8 drops to an 8 oz spray bottle. Try combining with lemon and melaleuca for a powerful disinfecting combo.
Did you know???
Essential oils also have emotional properties that they encourage and discourage that can be very beneficial for our emotional well being. I use the Emotions & Essential Oils Guide and highly recommend it if you are interested in this sort of thing. Here is just a snippet of the information contained within about Rosemary:
