Lavender Oil: Co-Creative First Aid

I recently heard someone refer to Young Living’s Lavender Oil as her “first aid kit.” Until then, I hadn’t considered using lavender oil for much of anything other than relaxing. This “first aid kit” woman told me that whenever there’s a cut or bruise in her home, she reaches for the bottle of YL Lavender Oil first. This weekend, I had the opportunity to try this in my own home (read: I sliced open my finger instead of a carrot while doing lunch prep on Saturday…eesh). I washed and dried the cut, applied direct pressure and held my hand above my heart while moving to my kitchen’s essential oil shelf. (See? I did pay attention in the first aid unit of my 10th grade health class.) I placed one drop of Young Living’s Lavender Oil on the pad of a band-aid and wrapped up my cut finger. For the rest of the day, that band-aid smelled divine! (A far better odor than Neosporin, I have to say.) By Sunday night, when the band-aid fell off while I was washing dishes, the skin on my finger had completely knitted together. I stood there stock-still in awe for a couple of minutes, staring at my finger, hardly believing that the cut had already healed — that’s the fastest any of my kitchen injuries has ever healed (and my husband will testify, if necessary, that I have had many, many kitchen injuries…). Plants sure do carry remarkable medicine — and better-smelling medicine, at that.

Note: Please use only therapeutic-grade lavender oil, such as that from Young Living. Most lavender oils are laden with harsh chemicals that can hurt far more than they can heal.