1. Uses:
Cures flu, colds, coughs, headache, abdominal pain; stimulates blood circulation; prevents cancer; supports poor digestion; supports curing neurological disorders; regulates menstruation; beautifies hair; takes care of scalp; treats dandruff; used to massage to beautify the skin, nails, heels; remedy for underarm odor. Lemongrass essential oil is highly antiseptic; deodorizes odor; repels mosquitoes, cockroaches, insects safely.
2. Instruction:
- Steam inhalation, inhale or massage on the skin (dilute it with carrier oil or use a small amount); add a few drops to your bath; disperse by an essential oil diffuser.
* CAUTION: Avoid contact with eyes and sensitive skin areas because lemongrass essential oil may create a hot sensation.
3. Common uses
3.1. Repel mosquitoes, cockroaches, insects safely:
- Using an essential oil diffuser to disperse lemongrass essential oil is the best way to repel mosquitoes. Applying this method in the bedroom will bring high efficiency. The other way is to drop lemongrass essential oil to mosquito-net, curtains, blankets, pillows, clothes of children to kill bacteria and repel mosquitoes.
- Add a few drops of lemongrass essential oil to cotton wool, or a bowl of water and put it in the kitchen cupboard to repel cockroaches and insects without affecting food stored in there.
- The more convenient way is to hang lemongrass essential oil in the room.
3.2. Helps deodorize and kill bacteria:
- Lemongrass essential oil is very powerful at deodorizing and killing bacteria. Therefore, there should be an open bottle of lemongrass essential oil in kitchens and toilets.
- Hang a bottle of lemongrass essential oil in cars to get rid of odors, create pleasant sensation inside cars.
3.3. A safe remedy for flu, colds or respiratory disease:
- Use lemongrass essential oil to massage the entire body, or the abdominal area to stimulate digestion, cerebral circulation, prevent colds, headache, dyspepsia, and flatulence. Only use a small amount because lemongrass essential oil may create a hot sensation.
- Dilute some drops of lemongrass essential oil in a glass of warm water to drink as a remedy for colds, coughs, and wheeze. This helps minimize the utilization of antibiotics (can be used by pregnant women).
- Steam inhalation: drop essential oil into hot water instead of cooking fresh lemongrass, cover with a towel to steam to cure colds. The essential oil is slowly taken through the respiratory system, helping create relaxing and pleasant feelings.
3.4. Lemongrass essential oil is effective at treating other diseases according to folkloric experience:
- Dilute lemongrass essential oil in coconut or carrier oil to rub onto children's bellies when their bellies are bloating, gurgling or when they have poor appetite or poor digestion.
- Add some drops of lemongrass essential oil to cold gauze (handkerchief) to put on temples, forehead or nape, helping clear the mind and relax the body.
- Besides, lemongrass helps reduce pain, lower blood pressure, reduce menstrual pain, kill bacteria, fungi, etc.
3.5. Beautify yourself using lemongrass essential oil:
- Lemongrass essential oil is also effective at beautifying, just as the way other expensive cosmetics do: massage through skin, remedy for oily skin, steam inhalation, remedy for underarm odor, treat dandruff, smoothen hair.
- Remedy for underarm odor: dilute lemongrass essential oil in warm water, then massage underarm area several times a day.
- Remedy for dandruff: Dilute lemongrass essential oil in warm water and brew your hair for 15 minutes so that the scalp can absorb it.
- Lemongrass essential oil has many benefits which we should not skip, it is safe to use, especially to pregnant women and children.
4. Importants:
- Read the instructions carefully before use.
- Keep out of the reach of children, avoid contact with flame.
- Avoid contact with eyes, sensitive skin areas, do not rub essential oil into open wounds.
- Stop using if the essential oil is smelly, has a strange color or if an allergy occurs.
- Can dilute in a ratio of 1/10 or 1/20 to use.
