Essential Oil in Your Eye?

I had my Make-And-Take party and it was a lot of fun! During said party, my sponsor told a story about getting essential oil in her eye, and what she did to clear it up. I thought, that's neat - but I'm super careful. It'll never happen to me.

Well ....

I can safely say I would not recommend touching under your eye with peppermint. I was cleaning up by making the remainder of my lip balms so I wasn't wasteful, and apparently a bit of the pepperming had dripped down the side of the bottle, because when I touched my face to move a hair away from my eye - all of a sudden I felt the peppermint working it's way. The aroma slowly rising and making my eye super uncomfortable.

So what do you do? DO NOT RUN TO THE FAUCET! Oil and water don't mix. They separate, so an attempt to flush out your eye will only drive the oil to recede deeper into your pores. Take a small dab or two of a diluting carrier oil like coconut or olive oil (as most of us will have this in our kitchens). Dab the area gently around the eye, and very carefully over your lid. Within a few minutes you should begin to feel some relief.

Truly, this worked. I am sitting here 30 minutes later writing this because of that. I am very thankful for the knowledgeable people in my life that are sharing the love and joy of essential oils - and the blunders that can be fixed when using them!