Lavender Oil

What is lavender oil?

Essential oils are increasingly popular home remedies. Among them, lavender has become a widespread essential oil favorite.

Boasting many uses and a heavenly scent, lavender essential oils are made directly from the lavender plant. Using special distilling techniques, the end-product is a highly concentrated extract of lavender’s useful compounds, full of health benefits and more.
These include pain relief, migraine relief, air freshening, cleaning, and even hair care perks. Studies suggest it has many advantages for hair and healthy, beautiful locks.
We’ll look at these in this article.

• Lavender oil for acne
• Soothes eczema and dry skin
• Lavender oil skin lightening
• Lavender oil for face wrinkles
• Anti-inflammatory ability
• Wound-healing properties
• Insect repellent
• It’s antimicrobial

• Lavender also has antimicrobial properties, noted in this 2014 review. This means it helps prevent bacteria and fungi from growing.When applied to hair or scalp, this may prevent common hair or scalp issues. In particular, it may prevent itchy scalp or dandruff and even infections.

• Fungal infections– A study published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology found that lavender oil could be effective in combating antifungal-resistant infections.The researchers found that the oil was lethal to a range of strains that can cause disease in the skin.In the study, the essential oils distilled from the Lavandula genus of the lavender plant seemed to work by destroying the membranes of fungal cells.The study showed that Lavandula oil is potent and demonstrates antifungal activity on a wide spectrum.

• Anxiety disorder and related conditions- A review article in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice evaluates how effective Silexan might be for patients with different anxiety disorders. Silexan is a lavender-oil preparation available in 80-milligram (mg) gelatine capsules.The team found that Silexan had an anxiolytic, or anxiety-reducing, effect on patients with generalized or subsyndromal anxiety within 2 weeks.
  
  Researchers have also found that lavender scent may help anxious dental patients.The investigators measured the dental anxiety levels of 340 adult patients during their wait at the dentist’s waiting room for their appointment.Half the patients were exposed to lavender scent, while the other half were not.The team found that those exposed to lavender scent reported lower levels of anxiety compared to the other patients. The calming effect of lavender was present regardless of the type of scheduled dental appointment.