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Essential Oil Travel Kit

You have saved, you have planned, and now you are headed on your dream vacation. All goes well until you get an upset stomach from that cute little restaurant, you get a sunburn from laying at the beautiful beach too long, or a mosquito decides to have you for lunch. If you have a few essential oils in your luggage, you can be prepared for some of the most common ailments that strike on vacations.
One thing to keep in mind is that essential oils are very strong, so you usually just need one or two drops to be effective. Peppermint oil has a calming effect on the stomach for those who get travel sickness. If you place a drop in a cup of hot water with honey or sugar and drink it before you start your trip, you will be much more comfortable. Or you can put a drop of peppermint on a cube of sugar, pop it in a baggy and take it when it is needed.
Ginger oil is good for seasickness. You can use two drops on a handkerchief and inhale as needed. Or you can put one drop in a little vegetable oil and rub your upper abdomen for travel sickness.
If you have a long journey in the car, put one or two drops of lavender, eucalyptus or peppermint oil on one or two cotton balls and place them on the rear window shelf of the car. They soothe the nerves and will keep the driver attentive. You can also put them in the air vents at the front of the car also. Basil oil dropped onto a wash cloth and rubbed over the body before leaving will keep the driver alert and sharpen their concentration.
Do you get nauseated when you smell the exhaust from trucks and cars? Put a drop of eucalyptus on a couple of tissues and place them around the car to counteract the smell.
Basic Travel Kit Emergency Reference
- Animals bites: Thyme, Lavender, Eucalyptus, Chamomile
- Blisters: Geranium
- Bruises: Chamomile, Geranium, Lavender
- Bumps: Lavender, Chamomile
- Burns: Lavender
- Chills: Ginger, Geranium
- Colds: Eucalyptus, Ginger, Thyme
- Constipation: Peppermint, Thyme
- Cramp: Geranium, Ginger
- Cuts: Lavender, Thyme, Eucalyptus
- Exhaustion: Lavender, Chamomile, Peppermint, Geranium
- Fevers: Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Lavender
- Fractures: Ginger, Thyme, Lavender, Geranium
- Hay Fever: Chamomile, Eucalyptus
- Headaches: Peppermint, Lavender
- Heat Exhaustian: Lavender, Eucalyptus
- Heatstroke: Lavender, Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Chamomile
- Indigestion: Peppermint, Ginger
- Infections: Thyme, Lavender, Chamomile, Eucalyptus
- Insect Bites: Lavender, Chamomile, Eucalyptus, Thyme
- Insect Repellent: Lemongrass, Thyme, Lavender, Peppermint
- Insomnia: Chamomile, Lavender
- Itching: Eucalyptus, Peppermint
- Jet Lag: Lavender, Eucalyptus, Geranium, Peppermint, Lemongrass, Grapefruit
- Muscle aches: Thyme, Lavender, Eucalyptus, Ginger
- Sunburn: Lavender, Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Chamomile
- Toothache: Peppermint, Chamomile
- Travel sickness: Ginger, Peppermint
- Vomiting: Peppermint, Lavender, Ginger


Thyme oil is a great disinfectant. To avoid getting some nasty germs from the toilets you use while you travel, wipe the toilet seat with a tissue that has a drop of thyme essential oil on it. Remember too the toilet flush knob and doorknob. Thyme, lavender and eucalyptus provide very powerful bactericide.
To avoid getting bed bug bites, spray a few diluted drops of lavender oil on the mattress. You can also drop lavender or eucalyptus oil into your bath water if you stayed too long in the sun.
To avoid heat exhaustion make sure you drink enough water. If you are feeling dizzy, faint, or nauseous, rub lavender or eucalyptus oil to the temples, back of the neck and upper abdomen and breathe deeply.
To keep insects at bay, use lemongrass or citronella oil sprayed around the room. To keep insects from landing on your skin, lavendar oil is a good choice. Thyme, Lemongrass, Lavender and Pepper can all discourage insects from disturbing your sleep. Just put a couple drops on a cotton ball and place by your bed.
Next time you head out on your long-awaited vacation, go prepared with the most appropriate essential oils for your family and your destination.
A basic travel kit would include Lavender, Peppermint, Geranium, Chamomile, Ginger, Eucalyptus, Thyme, and Lemongrass or Citronella.
Comments
Yay! Someone else who loves their essential oils! It's amazing how versatile and effective they can be. Thanks for some great information!
This is an interesting hub. It's good to know essential oils can be helpful for travel.
Very useful ;)
When your traveling it's not always easy to deal with circumstances that arise--motion sickness, allergies, insect bites, upset stomach from the local cuisine can all make travels less enjoyable.
These essential oil travel kit is very essential while on vacation but must have to follow the guidelines to get good result.Thanks for it.
Great hub! I will try your formula for sure.. keep up the good work m8
Thanks elayne001,
I will make use of your formula. Have a wonderful weekend.
Thanks elayne001,
What is the recipe or combination?
Hi elayne001,
A wonderful hub, great info. Did you tried lavendar oil to keep the insects away yourself? I am traveling to Thailand this summer & I was looking for natural body spray to use. I did find a recipe but don't remember if Lavendar oil was one of the ingredients.
Bye now & have a wonderful day later today.
Really informative & interesting hub. I am a natural healer, practicing massage therapy, which I feel, falls in to the same category that aromatherapy does.
I also make candles, so I am constantly using lots of scents. I just love how smelling something can truly affect our mindset.
Great hub & thanks for sharing!!!
Nice hub and congratulations!
What a great hub, and timely too. I am looking forward to trying some of these out on an upcoming trip. Thank you for all the wonderful information!
Wow I knew a couple of these but I did not know all of them. I wish I knew last year that Ginger oil was good for sea sickness, I shall remember this for next time.
Congratulations on the win, well deserved if you ask me!!
Love the title, love the hub Elayne..And those glass bottles in the opening picture remind of perfume bottles from my childhood. My mom used to order from some company in France and that's exactly how they looked! Great memory of mine!
What a good list, by the way, Elayne!
Congrats on winning Elayne! This hub is packed with a lot of good info, I'm going to have to bookmark this one. Thanks for sharing!
Terrific hub can see why it won woo hoo.
Great job, elayne. And congratulations on the win, too ;-).
Brilliant hub! So Simple and informative. When I was pregnant I discovered peppermint to help with my nausea and it works!
A travel kit is a great idea. What a good hub.
Thank you for all these wonderful tips. They will be very useful for me.
This hub has been bookmarked. What an easy way to carry some of my favorite herbs and some great ways to put them to good use.
Great information. I'm bookmarking this one and making a traveling kit for myself. Congrats on your win as well.
Congratulations, Elayne001! Your hub is very interesting and informative. Great job!
Congratulations and well done elayne001. I've just seen that you won the daily competition with this hub. It is a very well written and informative hub fully deserving of the prize.
Amber.
thats a very useful list of oils! Thanks.
Thank you for so many good tips. I appreciate it.
A very informative hub on this topic. Must say, a very much helpful hub. Thanks for giving this hub.
Nice information.
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