I am still nursing some really bad chapped lips from using lavender oil under my nose at night for sleep.
- I didn’t know that it eats away your skin if left on it, but I know now and am trying to recover from it.
My lips and skin under my nose were bleeding because the skin broke open, so now I am staying out of the sun and trying to get the skin back to normal again. I have been putting coconut oil on my lips and skin for a few days now and I think it’s okay now. HVAC work at the local business had to go on hold for a day this past week because my lips were too hurting to even talk. If I tried to talk my lips would break open and bleed, which is not a fun or pleasant thing to go through. The cooling representative told me about the oil a few months ago but forgot to mention not to put it on the skin, so she understands why I had to miss work at the HVAC company this past week. I think the oil is great for sleep, but the best way to use it is to diffuse it in the room somehow and not put it directly on the skin. My air purifier is a good diffuser and I like to put a drop or two on the filter at night on the HEPA filter just before bed, and then let the smell diffuse into the room and lull me to sleep with its pleasantly sweet aroma.
