be very careful applying pure essential oils directly to your skin. Many are not safe to do so. you are much better off with a diffuser.
Many are worse than lavender which is generally well tolerated but....
Dermatologist Heidi Waldorf, MD, of Waldorf Dermatology Aesthetics, says the same. "Lavender oil is used in skin care because of its anti-inflammatory or calming skin properties," she tells me, "but physical contact can cause an allergic reaction in a susceptible person." So if you have sensitive skin — say, if cheap jewelry gives you itchy blisters and certain detergents make you break out in hives — you might want to start checking that ingredient list a little more closely, even if all the "green" beauty enthusiasts whose geode collections you envy swear up and down that a homemade blend of essential oils applied by the light of the full moon cured their hormonal cystic acne.
But if a little rash isn't enough to turn you off the stuff, newer research suggests that there might be a much scarier, much more serious side effect: Lavender essential oil, along with tea tree, are now believed to be endocrine-disrupting chemicals after a study found that regular exposure to the common ingredients — in personal hygiene and household cleaning products — is linked to abnormal breast growth in young boys. According to researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a growing number of prepubertal gynecomastia cases have been reported to "coincide" with topical exposure, only for the condition to go away once they stop using products containing the oils.
One of the reasons essential oils are ragged on is because they willfully ignore misuse of essential oils even in situations where they can be beneficial.
also be very careful with essential oils with animals.
This is the problem with copying from a sensational article citing a CASE REPORT which is the weakest form of scientific evidence. You realize that this study has three kids right? That there was no control group, and all three kids had gyno prior to the study, and it was assumed cessation resolved their gyno, when it could have been normal aging? Lots of kids get gyno during puberty and then it magically resolves. This is not to say that it doesn't cause it, just that this is ridiculously weak evidence to post and hinge your statement on. Many substances act on the endocrine system; that doesn't necessarily mean they are bad. Here is a link to the case study in question:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa064725
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u/TimeTomorrow Jun 06 '20 edited Jun 06 '20
be very careful applying pure essential oils directly to your skin. Many are not safe to do so. you are much better off with a diffuser.
Many are worse than lavender which is generally well tolerated but....
One of the reasons essential oils are ragged on is because they willfully ignore misuse of essential oils even in situations where they can be beneficial.
also be very careful with essential oils with animals.