How Often Can You Use Essential Oils? | Using Essential Oils With Kids

How often can you use essential oils? | Using Essential Oils With Kids

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We’re back with video 11 in our series all about the top fifteen essential oil questions we get here at Plant Therapy! Today, we’re talking about how often you can use essential oils and guidelines to follow when using essential oils with kids.

Can you build a tolerance to essential oils?

Can you build up a tolerance to essential oils? Well, if you overuse essential oils, you can diminish their effects, just like any other medication or treatment. However, like other medications, you can avoid building up a tolerance by not overusing them (which is always pretty practical advice, no matter what you’re using)

How often can essential oils be used?

So how often can you use your essential oils? Let’s start with topical application. There is no “rule of thumb” and is definitely a huge gray area when it comes to how often you can use essential oils topically. But there are some guidelines:

If you’re sick, or have a short-term injury, you can use essential oils more frequently and up to several times a day, but only in the short term.
For chronic issues like arthritis (or emotional issues like stress or anxiety), you would want to use a lower dilution and use “as needed.” Basically, you don’t want to overdo it!
For problems with sleep, or help falling asleep, you can apply essential oils topically each night, just keep the dilution to 2% or lower.

When you’re diffusing essential oils, the guidelines are just a little bit different. Plant Therapy recommends diffusing 30-60 minutes at a time, 1-2 times per day. If you want to diffuse all day or all night, you should be using a diffuser with intermittent settings (like 30 minutes on - 30 minutes off) to avoid overexposure.

If you’re using a personal inhaler for your essential oils, you can basically use your inhaler whenever you need to. Super simple!

How often should I apply essential oils on hair?

What if you’re using essential oils on your hair, how often should you apply them? Well, Since most hair products used with essential oils are wash-off products (like shampoos and conditioners) they can be used every day. You can check out videos 4, 5 and 8 in this series to see some of the ways I like to use essential oils and carrier oils in my hair.

Using essential oils with kids

If you want to use essential oils with your kids (because who doesn’t want a more natural way to treat their kiddos?) you need to make sure you take a couple extra precautions.

When you’re using essential oils on babies under two, only use essential oils when you absolutely need to, like for a sick kiddo or a random sleepless night. When my kids were babies I did [Retha to add a personal example] And only use essential oils that are considered safe for children, like our KidSafe line!

When using essential oils on kids two to ten years old, follow some of the same guidelines you would for an adult that I mentioned earlier, just be sure you use KidSafe essential oils, and only use essential oils at the recommended dilution when applying topically.

Using essential oils for kids ages ten and up is really simple, just follow the same guidelines as adults! Use the recommended dilutions listed on your oil’s bottle.

That’s it for our video on how often you can use essential oils! Like always, if you have more questions please comment below, and one of our awesome aromatherapists will be happy to answer them! And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don’t miss video number 12!
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