Using Essential Oils with Kids with

Eczema, Allergies and Asthma

We have used essential oils to support our son’s journey with eczema, allergies and asthma.

Actually, we started using essential oils in 2010 when I started to look into the ingredients that were in our son’s eczema moisturisers and I discovered, to my horror, that many of the ingredients were actually skin irritants and potentially harmful to his health!

Talk about a double take!

I had mistakenly trusted the fact that if it was on the shelf for sale, that it must be safe for my child.

Well, I was wrong. 

And no wonder it didn’t help his skin!

In 2010, it was much harder to find products that were harmfree… some were labelled as being ‘natural’ or ‘organic’, but most of the time this was somewhat misleading!

(Plus one of the ‘organic’ baby product companies in Australia has recently been fined for misleading their consumers with potential harmful ingredients in their products.) 

So, the only thing left for me to do, was to make my own moisturisers for my son.

And I did!

I tell you what, it was so much easier than I thought it would be.

(Plus so much more cost effective!)

AND… I knew EXACTLY what I was putting on his skin.

I had complete control. And I could tweak if I wanted to.

So… I’m still sharing the recipe for my 3 ingredient moisturiser that we used over 8 years ago, with parents of kids with eczema today.

Amazing, right?!

So, essential oils have amazing properties – and although they can’t cure anything, they are a wonderful tool to have in your toolkit.

They have supported not only Benjamin with his health issues, but our whole family.

From skin, to sleep, to energy, to helping with overwhelm, cuts and scrapes…and so much more.

I have loved using these oils and I learn about them more each and every day.

I always dilute more for Benjamin as he has sensitive skin – but they work so well used on the skin and in the diffuser, that we don’t go a day without using them for something. 

We have used them to help them through the kinder/school days, and to support Benjamin’s respiratory (lungs) system when he has been under the weather. 

I love being proactive about health, rather than the just ‘wait and rest and you’ll get better over time’ approach that is often suggested these days. 

For those interested in getting started and learning more about essential oils, I have an Oily Facebook Community of amazing people learning how to use them safely and effectively for themselves and their kids/family. 

So if you’re ready to dive into getting your hands on these beautiful oils for yourself or your kids, it’s important to know that not all essential oils are the same.

See below for some more info…

Essential Oil Kits

There are a range of essential oil kits that you can become a wholesale customer and receive a minimum of 25% of retail with dōTERRA. The most popular options are listed below, including the ‘chose your own adventure’ option of a $35 AUD enrolment fee and select the oils that you want.

The Essential Oil Kits are much better value as they waive the enrolment fee and these kits include an additional discount on top of the wholesale prices – definitely the most cost-effective way to get started.