6 Ways to Use Peppermint Essential Oil
Peppermint is one of the most versatile essential oils out there!
Its scent can help improve mental focus, boost energy, relieve headaches, and give off a cooling sensation when applied to the body.
Here are some of our favorite ways to use Peppermint Essential Oil .
1. Get Rid of Headaches
Massage a few drops around your temples, the base of your skull and along your hairline to zap your headache away
2. Improve Your Focus
Add a few drops to a diffuser or add a few drops to the palms of your hands and rub them together. Then bring your palms and cup your nose while taking a few deep breaths.
3. Curb the Munchies
Take a couple of deep sniffs/inhales from the bottle or apply a couple of drops to your chest.
4. Great for Massages and Sunburns
When combined with a carrier oil, cream, or lotion, peppermint will bring a cooling feeling to your skin. It can also reduce the redness of inflamed or sunburned skin as well as reduce itchiness.
5. Reduce Bloating or Relieve Constipation
Rub a few drops on your stomach and lower abdomen to help with bloating and to get things moving again.
5. Great Essential Oil to Make Blends With
Try blending with eucalyptus, lavender, lemon, and rosemary in a diffuser, spray bottle, and rollers!
6. Natural Bug Repellant
Ticks, ants, spiders, cockroaches, mosquitos, mice, and lice all HATE peppermint oil.
5 Responses
Kelly
I am going to have to try this! I get headaches a lot and I hate having to take motrin all the time. I will see how this works for me instead. Thanks!
Jacinta
This is great info! I’m definitely going to try peppermint oil as a headache remedy.
Christine
I just had an awful sinus infection and headache so I took a bath with peppermint and eucalyptus oil in it to try to kick it. It made me feel better! Nothing like a hot, warm bath with some oils. Thanks for sharing!
Sara
Love how such a simple thing can have so many uses! Thank you for sharing ?
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Kristen
April 20, 2017
I LOVE essential oils, especially the mint ones! Mint is so powerful and I always use it when I have a headache. I didn’t realize it had all of these other benefits as well :)
Kristen | www.sophisticatedgal.com