Lavender and Cedarwood

Lavender and Cedarwood

You’ve heard me talk about lavender and cedarwood before, in my post about my Top 5 Individual Oils. While I love both of these oils on their own for many reasons, I typically use them together. It’s a powerful combination that I use for so many things. Here are few of my favorite uses of lavender and cedarwood together.

Sleep and dreaming

It’s commonly known that the smell of lavender has a calming effect and helps promote sleep. Did you know that cedarwood does the same thing? Put the two together and you will sleep like a baby! I don’t have trouble sleeping very often, but when I do, this is the only thing I need to help me fall asleep and stay asleep all night. I put a drop or two of each in the palm in my hand and then rub it on the bottoms of my feet just before getting into bed.

Not only do these oils promote sleep, but cedarwood is said to sometimes cause very vivid dreams. For me, this isn’t necessarily always the case, but I have noticed that when I do have crazy, vivid dreams, it happens to be on a night when I used cedarwood and lavender.

Longer Eyelashes

Add one drop of lavender and one drop of cedarwood to the bottle whenever you buy new mascara, and gently roll the bottle around in your hands to distribute the oils. Then use the mascara as you normally would, enjoying the pretty smell every time you open it. Before too long, you’ll notice your lashes are longer.  Some people thing this sounds crazy, and I’ll admit I was a little skeptical at first. And as usual, I didn’t take any before pictures because I never anticipated that I would have this urge to share all of my Young Living experiences with the world. But I can absolutely say that my eyelashes are longer than ever!

Hair Growth

There are numerous testimonials regarding lavender and cedarwood for promoting hair growth. I have even seen pictures of people with hair loss who were able to regrow their hair, and a story about someone regrowing her overwaxed eyebrows. There are a lot of different ways to attempt this, and I chose what seemed easiest for me. I have a separate bottle of shampoo for myself, so that my kids don’t use it and waste my precious oils, because they are serious shampoo wasters. I added 5 drops each of lavender and cedarwood to the bottle and shook it up to distribute the oils.

My hair grows fast anyway, and I haven’t been doing this long, so it’s hard to tell if it’s helping me gain length yet or not. Plus I keep having to cut off the fried ends as I recover from the my insane experiment with going blonde last year. However, my hair definitely feels fuller and I’ve noticed new little baby hairs growing along my hairline, so it seems that I'm growing more hair. Hopefully I can quickly replace all of the hair that I killed with bleach. I’ll keep everyone updated on my overall success with this as I go.

Have you tried lavender and cedarwood for any of these purposes? Don't they smell wonderful together? Tell me about your experience!

DISCLAIMER: I am not a medical professional. Any information I share is a personal testimony of what has worked for me and not intended as medical advice. Please see your doctor before trying essential oils if you have medical concerns.