Top 10 Essential Oils for Your Summer First Aid Kit + Free Guide
Why buy multiple store-bought summer products (including your first aid kit) when you can craft a range of natural remedies at home with essential oils?
Essential oils are your summer must-haves for tackling sunburns, bug bites, and minor cuts/scrapes with plant-based power. These versatile oils not only soothe physical ailments but also uplift your mood through aromatherapy, making them perfect for warm-weather adventures. Plus, crafting your own home and body products with essential oils, like cooling sprays or soothing balms lets you control ingredients, save money, and prioritize your health naturally.
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Why are essential oils better for home remedies and summer first aid kits?
Well, they are known for their therapeutic properties, making them a versatile and natural option for home remedies and first aid kits, especially during summer.
Here’s why they stand out:
Oils are a natural and non-toxic alternative:
Unlike many store-bought first aid products that may contain synthetic chemicals, essential oils are derived from plants, offering a natural approach to healing. For example, lavender oil can soothe burns or insect bites without the harsh ingredients found in some over-the-counter creams.
They reduce reliance on pharmaceuticals.
Versatility for Summer-specific needs:
Summer brings unique challenges like sunburns, insect bites, dehydration-related fatigue, and heat-induced stress. Essential oils like tea tree (antiseptic for cuts), peppermint (cooling for heat relief), and eucalyptus (bug repellent) address these issues effectively.
Their compact size makes them ideal for a portable summer first aid kit, perfect for camping, hiking, or beach trips.
Cost-effective and long-lasting:
A small bottle of essential oil goes a long way, as only a few drops are needed per use. This contrasts with store-bought remedies that may need frequent repurchasing.
You can customize blends (e.g., a cooling spray with peppermint and aloe vera) to suit specific summer ailments, reducing the need for multiple products.
Empowering self-sufficiency:
Using essential oils encourages a DIY mindset, allowing you to tailor remedies to your family’s needs.
Aromatherapy Benefits:
Beyond physical remedies, essential oils like citrus or lavender uplift mood and reduce stress, which is valuable during summer’s busy, social season. Aromatherapy enhances mental wellness, a key aspect of holistic health.
Here are my top picks for “The Best Essential Oils For Summer”
Peppermint: for cooling sprays, after sun care, aches and pains, bug bites and digestive upset, (after too many marshmallows).
Lavender: Known as the “Swiss Army Knife” of essential oils, if there’s only one oil you should have in multiple places this Summer, it’s lavender. Specifically, Lavendula angustifolia. Your lavender can be used for burns, wasp stings, sleep, soothing rashes and after sun remedies.
Lemon: This oil is so wonderfully affordable and is extremely versatile. Use it all summer for cleaning, (add to a spray bottle with a splash of dish soap for a multi purpose cleaner), diffuse in the camper to keep everything smelling fresh, sanitize countertops etc.
Citronella: such an excellent insect repellent, diffuse or add it to your own outdoor spray.
Geranium: this is a staple in many diy insect sprays, but especially effective for ticks, has been studied and has been proven to repel the pesky critters, (as or more powerful than deet, way healthier too).
Tea Tree: Next to lavender, this is the other essential oil that has a regular place in our first aid kit. Use for cuts, infections, skin issues, cleaning, sanitizing. Soothing, yet powerful anti-fungal.
Helichrysum: Known for its anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and anti allergenic properties, this prized oil is considered the “liquid bandage” of essential oils. It promotes cell growth, making it valuable to have on hand to heal wounds and cuts.
Eucalyptus: Known for its anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, antiviral and pain relieving properties, a wonderful oil for cold compresses when you have heat stroke, or diffuse (with lemon), in the RV when the pollen is a little too much to handle. It is very effective for hay fever.
Lemongrass: Not only is this my favourite oil in making my yoga mat spray, lemongrass is actually very soothing for muscles after a long hike or bike up that mountain!! How does it work? It stimulates the circulation and helps eliminate lactic acid, easing muscular aches and pains and aching feet.
Copaiba: This essential oil is a super safe, soothing, calming oil. We keep it on hand to add to our doTERRA®Deep Blue® for injuries, and aches and pains. It’s also extremely safe for pets, so if your dog or cat doesn’t travel well, you can add a drop to a carrier and rub on the pinnae of their ears.
TerraShield®: This blend is doTERRA’s “Repellent Blend”. On its own, you can make your spray, or add it to an unscented lotion and apply as a repellent in the summer. Ingredients- Citronella, Lemongrass, Thyme, Cedarwood, Geranium, and Peppermint essential oils in a base of Sesame Seed Oil. The full recipe to make your own outdoor spray is in my handout, HERE.
Deep Blue®: Deep Blue is a really popular blend from doTERRA®. You will find it in a blend, rollerball, rub and now in a really awesome stick, (that’s blended with copaiba). We keep a small container of the rub in our first aid kit for soft tissue pain and general injuries from summer activities.
OnGuard®: Also known as the “protective blend”, it is a blend of rosemary, clove, cinnamon, eucalyptus, wild orange. Keep a rollerball (25 drops in a 10 ml roller + top off with fractionated coconut oil) or DIY hand sanitizer ready for travel when soap and water aren’t available.
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