Can I use essential oils on my baby…no age given, so clarity on use w/infants/baby, children and elderly etc?
Since our bodies are designed to continually try to maintain homoeostasis (i.e. the status quo), absorbed essential oil components can be removed from the body quite quickly in a number of ways, for example – by being exhaled during breathing, being metabolized and excreted in urine & feces etc. Babies and small children have less well-developed detoxification mechanisms than adults, and the bodies of elderly people may not work as efficiently. So we might regard both these categories as being more prone or more fragile than healthy adults – and therefore they might be more sensitive to essential oils, which should be used with caution. Because of considerations of relative size (adults to infants), and therefore potentially higher doses per kilo body weight with infants we must reduce the applied dose. If we were to use a 2% solution (EO in carrier oil) on adults, we must use MUCH less on a small child, or none at all. Older children enjoy baths with a couple drops of skin safe oils,
