### LEMON ESSENTIAL OIL
#### PROPERTIES AND USES IN HEALTH
Lemon essential oil is traditionally used for: liver comfort, fatigue, exhaustion, immunity, slimming, weight loss, vomiting, and nausea. Appreciated for its fresh and invigorating scent, lemon essential oil is ideal for diffusing to purify the air, especially during epidemic periods.
**Properties and Uses:**
In health, lemon essential oil is recognised for the following properties:
– Supports the proper functioning of natural immunity, regulates metabolism
– Studies show its regulatory properties on the liver system and anti-nausea effects.
– Digestive tonic, carminative, general depurative
– General antiseptic and bactericidal
– Antiviral disinfectant and airborne in diffusion
Lemon essential oil is traditionally used to improve the following situations:
– Nausea, motion sickness
– Digestive, liver, and pancreatic fatigue
– Prevention of epidemics and infectious diseases (colds, flu, gastroenteritis, etc.)
– Fighting premature aging: high blood pressure, capillary fragility
– Venous stasis, heavy legs, haemorrhoids
– Obesity, overweight
– Air disinfection
#### PROPERTIES AND USES IN WELL-BEING
As a tonic, lemon essential oil is an ally in cases of fatigue or exhaustion. Its fruity citrus scent encourages good mood and is ideal for diffusion.
**Properties and Uses:**
In well-being, lemon essential oil is recognised for the following properties:
– General tonic
– Energising, stimulating
– General fatigue, state of tiredness
– Decreased concentration
– Essential in the care of soft or brittle nails, lemon essential oil is also appreciated for hair care when combined with oily hair.
#### PROPERTIES AND USES IN COSMETICS
In beauty, lemon essential oil is recognized for the following properties:
– Tonic lotion
– Purification, balancing
**Uses:**
– Brittle nails, soft nails
– Combination and oily hair
– Combination to oily skin, facial seborrheas
– Problematic skin, acne-prone skin
**Precautions:**
– Keep out of reach of children.
– Certain natural compounds contained in this essential oil may present an allergy risk to some sensitive individuals when the essential oil is incorporated into a cosmetic composition (according to the 7th Amendment of the European Cosmetics Directive (2003/15/EC)): limonene and, to a lesser extent, citral (geranial and neral), linalool.
– As a general rule, always do a test application of your preparation, in the crease of your elbow, at least 48 hours before use.
– Irritant in its pure state, it should be used diluted for any application on the skin.
– Not recommended during the first three months of pregnancy.
### Hand and Nail Care Oil Recipe
**Ingredients:**
– Vitamin E capsules: 5 capsules
– Sweet almond oil: 1 tablespoon
– Avocado oil: 2 teaspoons
– Olive oil: 2 teaspoons
– Jojoba oil: 1 teaspoon
– White sandalwood essential oil: 10 drops
– Lemon essential oil: 10 drops
**Procedure:**
1. Open the vitamin E capsules and pour their contents into a 60 ml bottle.
2. Add the oils and shake vigorously.
3. If possible, let it sit for 4 days to allow the different substances to synergise their effects.
**Usage:**
Pour 4 to 6 drops into the palm of your hand. Massage. Use this oil after washing your hands and before going to bed.