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Is it safe, a few drops of lavender oil in massage oil blend to make baby soothing baby?
I’m with Johnson & Johnson regular massage oil so far, and someone told me that the mixture of oil of lavender is reassuring when my baby massage. My baby is a month.
Some caution and advice…
Yes, you can use Lavender essential oil in your massage blend for your baby, HOWEVER… please know that there are different types of Lavender that are not interchangeablee. Lavender vera or officinalis are fine. Avoid a Lavender stoechas or latifolia. Bear in mind that the skin is an organ and that there is trans-dermal absorption of everything that you apply. Remember that when you are applying chemicals or essential oils to the whole body.
For a baby use less than 3% dilution, err on the side of caution and start with less than that. Less than 3% of the total is essential oil. Here is some math, it is easy. Go slowly and say it out loud, it helps. 30 drops in one ml. 30 mls in an ounce. If you have 100 mls of baby oil, you will use 3 mls or less of Lavender essential oil for a 3% dilution. That is 90 drops. 30 drops for a 1% dilution. A whole bottle of baby oil is how many mls??