Everything you need to know about using lavender essential oil! With natural, beginner-friendly recipes.

You want to care for your family as naturally as possible. But you don't want to make a bunch of natural recipes that don't work… or worse, are unsafe. One of most versatile and effective tools for making homemade recipes for kids, first aid, pain relief, and more is lavender essential oil. It's a multi-purpose oil with a long list of researched benefits. Learning to use it gives you the know-how to take care of a number of issues that pop up-from bee stings to bruises to dust mites (ew). In this guide, certified aromatherapist Leslie Hedrick walks you through making lavender essential oil recipes to:

• Care for children
• Calm anxiety
• Finally get some sleep
• Soothe pain and minor first-aid issues
• Blast the heck out of dust mites
• Make high-quality organic skin care
• Start a home apothecary
• And more!

This guide is your roadmap to starting your own collection of healing essential oil products that don't suck, understanding why they work, and knowing what NOT to do. Beginners will find it the perfect intro to using essential oils at home. And those with a little experience with oils will appreciate the explanations of lavender's science, and popular myths that should be ignored.