This product is designed for one's pleasure only, cosmetic purposes, and is not intended to treat medical conditions. Lavender's fragrance comes from the oil glands in the flowers, leaves, and stems, surrounded by tiny star-shaped hairs called trichomes. Lavender is grown for its essential oil, used in aromatherapy and topical products like massage oils and lotions. Lavender is also being studied for its antibacterial and antiviral properties. Lavender is a short, branching shrub that can grow up to 2 ft tall. It has woody branches with gray-green, narrow leaves covered in a silvery down. The flowers are small, blue, violet, or lilac and grow in clusters at the tips of long stalks. Lavender oil has many uses for treating the skin. It naturally reduces inflammation, lessens pain, and cleans the skin's surface.
You can use lavender oil on your face, legs, and hands. If you experience any side effects from using the oil, such as a skin rash, stop using and talk with a Primary Care Provider. Essential Oils can be potent, so please use them with caution. These bath bombs contain <5% EO. Lavender has been suggested to ease symptoms of anxiety. However, how and why it helps is debated, and some studies, albeit scant, indicate the use of Lavender induces calm and enhances sleep. When applied to the skin, Lavender is possibly safe. It's usually well-tolerated but can sometimes cause skin irritation. When inhaled: Lavender essential oil is perhaps safe. It's been used safely as aromatherapy for up to 12 weeks. Pregnancy and breast-feeding: There isn't enough reliable information to know if lavender is safe to use when pregnant or breastfeeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. Children: not intended for children, and applying products that contain lavender oil to the skin is possibly unsafe for young males who haven't reached puberty. Lavender oil seems to have hormone-like effects that could disrupt normal hormones. In some cases, this has resulted in breast growth. DO NOT INGEST.
Lavender Bath Bomb
These 5.6-oz bath bombs are handcrafted with the best-sourced ingredients, including baking soda, cornstarch, citric acid, Epsom salt, carrier oil, alcohol, and Ylang Ylang Essential Oil. They are a compacted mixture of wet and dry ingredients molded into any of several shapes and then dried. Bath water effervesces at the surface of a bath bomb, with attendant dispersion of ingredients such as essential oil, moisturizer, fragrance, or colorant. These bath bombs do not contain an emulsifier so that they will reveal oil on the water's surface. These bath bombs do not contain any colorant aside from natural colors included in the essential oil, which could give the bath bomb a slightly off-white color. Bath bombs' primary ingredients are a weak acid and a bicarbonate base. These are unreactive when dry but react vigorously when dissolved in water to produce their characteristic fizzing over seconds to a minute or two.
How Much Do We Know?
- Studies have been done on the use of lavender for a variety of conditions, but there hasn’t been enough high-quality research to reach definite conclusions about its effectiveness.
What Have We Learned?
- Studies of a lavender oil product taken orally (by mouth) have suggested it might be beneficial for anxiety, but because of the limitations of the research, including the small size of the studies, no definite conclusions can be reached about its effectiveness.
- It’s uncertain whether lavender oil used as aromatherapy is helpful for anxiety or other conditions.
What Do We Know About Safety?
- DO NOT INGEST
- The topical use of products containing lavender may cause allergic skin reactions in some people.
- A few cases of swelling of breast tissue have been reported in children who used topical products containing lavender. However, it’s unclear whether the lavender was responsible for the breast swelling, a condition that can have many causes.
- Little is known about whether it’s safe to use lavender during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
Keep in Mind
- Take charge of your health—talk with your health care providers about any complementary health approaches you use. Together, you can make shared, well-informed decisions.
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