Lavender & Arnica For Healing Burns

I have a smooth top stove and one Sunday morning last summer, while making brunch for a family gathering I absent mindedly put my hand on a still HOT burner and burned my hand badly enough that I wanted to scream from the sudden, intense pain.
I immediately put ice on it and this helped the pain but as the ice quickly melted the pain immediately became unbearable again. Remembering that Lavender is said to be a wonderful healing agent for burns, I put some Lavender Essential Oil on my hand and waited hopefully to see what happened but as the oil dried into my skin the intense pain didn't let up at all.
Desperate to relieve the pain, I turned to Arnica, a homeopathic remedy that I had used many times for a variety of painful conditions with great success. (The Arnica that I used was a salve although it comes in other forms.) I slathered it all over my hand and the pain was better in a few minutes and disappeared entirely in a very short time. Of course I was glad, but also surprised, as Arnica has never - to my knowledge - been mentioned as useful for painful burns.
I kept a thick coating of the Arnica salve on my hand until the next day although the pain did not return and I was able to use my hand as I normally would. I will be writing more about Arnica in the future but for now let's get back to the results of the Lavender.
The next day when I washed the last of the Arnica off I was amazed that there was no sign of my hand having been burned. Incredibly, my skin looked completely normal! No blisters, no redness, no hint of the burn that had been bad enough to hurt very badly!
Lavender heals burns; Arnica vanishes pain. What a great combination.
Love that Lavender. Love that Arnica.
Blessings, Gilly

Happy Thanksgiving

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! I'll be back after the holiday with an interesting Lavender experience that just might help you as much as it helped me.
Blessings, Gilly

Lavender For Wrinkles and Dry Skin

Yes, really, it works great! I have been plagued with extremely dry skin all summer and was trying all kinds of products with little success. My hands were so dry that they had big, deep, wrinkles and looked and felt horrible. I had a tube of Lavender cream and finally started trying that and was amazed at the results. The wrinkles were better from the first application and just continued to improve every day. My hands now feel soft and look so much better it is hard to believe.
When I realized how great it was doing on my hands I started using it on my face and I am very pleased with my diminishing wrinkles, the skin tone, softness, and healthy glow. I can't say that it will make all of your wrinkles disappear - it depends on the amount of wrinkling, your age, etc. but you will definitely see improvements. I did and I am 64.
The funny thing is I have tried a lot of different skin care creams over the years , some quite expensive, and the results with this inexpensive tube of Lavender cream are the best I have experienced. I wish I had found this 20 years ago.
I would appreciate comments and am open to questions.
Blessings, Gilly

Lavender For Bad Hair Days

Sometimes a bit of a disaster turns into a great new discovery. Recently I had a bad hair day and I mean A BAD HAIR DAY! I washed my hair and for some reason my hair just decided it was going to give me a hard time. Actually it's been doing a lot of that lately. I have fine, totally straight hair and on that particular day it was dry, dull,unmanageable, fly away, and completely flat with no life to it at all. I also looked like I had a head full of split ends that had just appeared out of nowhere. I was going out that day and since I didn't want to scare people I started feeling a bit frantic . So I tried some mousse, brushing, hair spray etc. etc. and nothing helped.By now I was running late and getting desperate and had no clue what the heck to do with my hair disaster when my eyes fell on my tube of Lavender cream. Since at that point I had nothing to lose I put a small amount on my palm, rubbed my hands together and ran them over my hair. Instant Miracle!My hair was shining, the split ends were invisible, it had bounce, life, volume and was totally manageable! I was amazed and grateful and even more pleased that it stayed that way all day.
Just make sure you only use a little bit as too much will make your hair greasy. You can always add more but the only way too deal with too much is to wash it out.
Blessings, Gilly

I'm Back!

Hi, it's been a long month full of family disasters, illness, hospitals etc. for me but things are - finally - looking up. I can return to my blog and I am more excited about Lavender than ever as I discovered a couple of new and wonderful ways to use it. I will be putting this information in a separate post just to make it more convenient for you.
Blessings, Gilly