Citrus Essential Oils like Lemon, Citrus limon, Lime, Grapefruit, Tangerine, and Sweet Orange have anti-bacterial and astringent properties. Great skin tonics, citrus oils, stimulate microcirculation, balance skin oil production, and support tissue regeneration. Lemon essential oil can help give your complexion a refreshed, healthy-looking glow which is great for dull skin.
Lemon Oil possibly has the most powerful anti-microbial activity of all the essential oils and can be very helpful for acne-prone skin. Used topically in a carrier oil or skin care product, lemon essential oil helps boost circulation and soothe headaches and ease the discomfort associated with arthritis.
In hair care, lemon oil helps balance the production of sebum and refresh, invigorate, and cleanse the scalp.
Aromatherapy Properties: Purifying and revitalizing, citrusy lemon uplifts the mind and refreshes the senses. Citrus oil brightens and warms your mood, calms, encourages, clears the head, increases mental alertness, improves memory, and reduces stress and headaches. Their scents are fresh and stimulating. Citrus oils, in general, are believed to stimulate positive energy and thus cause feelings of joy and happiness. The scent of lemon, when inhaled can be helpful for nausea.
Often called the "sunshine scents," it is no surprise that the scent of citrus oils can help reduce feelings of anxiety and irritability and ease stress and depression. Lemon oil diffused in workplaces has been shown to improve employee focus and efficiency and to reduce the number of errors.
Pregnancy and Children: We do not provide information on the safety of essential oils during Pregnancy or for use in Children because the available information is very ambiguous and often contradictory. If you’re interested in using essential oils during pregnancy or with young children please do your own research and consult your doctor, midwife, or health care professional before use.
Precautions: If you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, have a medical condition, or have any medical concerns regarding yourself or your family consult a qualified, licensed health professional prior to use. For external use only. Keep away from eyes and mucous membranes. Keep out of reach of children.
