Essential Oils are Hormone Disruptors!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

I have been pretty tolerant of the essential oil/ion crap but lavender oil is disrupting hormones and making boys grow breast tissues. This can't be good for a person planning a pregnancy. Are Essential Oils Safe? | Time (http://time.com/5203122/are-essential-oils-safe/)

Proceed with EXTREME caution, if you MUST use them, stop at ovulation and do not continue using them in pregnancy. Don't use them on your kids or your husband. And be aware that just because something seems harmless, doesn't mean it is.

It doesn't matter on some of these things if they sway pink, blue, or plaid, they mess you up. We don't know the long term effects of any of them and I can promise, since people were getting baby boys and baby girls long before the invention of essential oils, they are not prerequisites for getting a baby boy or girl.

[Blushpinkbabyxx]

Wow, that is very interesting. I don’t personally use essential oils but I’ve thought about using them, more specifically using Lavender for relaxing and calming effect. Now it is making me second guess using it at all, and especially not before swaying.

[Throwaway_panther]

I had been on my husband ro drop the lavendar oil he used in his beard oil for the silly ion reason. I've been on him about all of the rest of the ones now because of this! He can't afford anything else messing his sperm up!

[atomic sagebrush]

OMGosh Panther, wouldn't that be crazy if that was causing problems for you guys?? Thank you for letting me know that, I am definitely adding this to my list of "things to consider".

FXFXFX!!!

[Throwaway_panther]

OMGosh Panther, wouldn't that be crazy if that was causing problems for you guys?? Thank you for letting me know that, I am definitely adding this to my list of "things to consider".

FXFXFX!!!

He didn't start growing out his beard and using these oils until I was already pregnant with DD, so I am seriously wondering! He said he's going to stop using them and only put nut oils in his beard for conditioning since he just used them for the smell lol

Everybody drop those oils!

[SoFullofHope]

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[Filzma]

Thanks Atomic! Just learnt something new. How many mums use lavender oil for their sons and have no clue!![emoji47]

[atomic sagebrush]

I suspect it has to be pretty concentrated like the oils are, but I honestly don't know. I would probably avoid them just to be on the safer side.

[gwynn18]

Dear atomic sagebrush,

Does this only apply to the oils or to other lavender products too? Been using lavender soap for swaying and still occasionally do now during pregnancy :-( Would it be safer to stop doing so?

I don’t know the answer about the lavender products, I don’t know if anyone really knows the answers because the research is not all there. There are so many ways people are using these oils, drinking them in tea, inhaling concentrating doses, but a drop of diluted essential oil here and there is not likely to affect your hormones, in my opinion.

[atomic sagebrush]

I don’t know the answer about the lavender products, I don’t know if anyone really knows the answers because the research is not all there. There are so many ways people are using these oils, drinking them in tea, inhaling concentrating doses, but a drop of diluted essential oil here and there is not likely to affect your hormones, in my opinion.

While I'm definitely inclined to agree (small amounts don't affect much) for those who are pregnant I'd probably avoid them totally and especially in a higher risk pregnancy which is where Sofullofhope is at. Why risk it.

[SoFullofHope]

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[Blushpinkbabyxx]

A few days before this was posted, I had ordered a small bottle of 100% Pure Essential Lavender Oil. I had a dream last year about swaying for a girl and I had rubbed a drop of lavender oil on my wrists, so on notion of my dream (silly I know lol), I bought some... And then this was posted. The other day I received the oil in the mail and now I’m not sure what to do with it.

[atomic sagebrush]

Some people really do believe in it, but to my way of thinking, since boys and girls have been conceived for all of human existence, we ~should~ be able to sway effectively without any of these things. It's totally up to you, after all for all we know "disrupting" hormones may be good for swaying pink, it's just that I personally wouldn't want to use them when pregnant and keep them well away from your sons!

[Parying4agirl]

Wowsers how interesting. I used lavendar with DS1 and 2 as i had awful headaches and dont like taking tablets 😖
My friend said its great and yes it helped alot but not good reading this. I’ll deffo avoid this time. Sorry could someone explain what it does in pregnancy that you should avoid?

[atomic sagebrush]

It interferes with hormones - disrupts them. You need hormones like testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and others at certain levels and able to bond with receptors properly during pregnancy not only to sustain the pregnancy, but also for the baby's development.

[MrsEnglish]

I've never believed in essential oils, but in my 3rd trimester I had a few pimples and read that tea tree oil helps with that and started using it because I figured that using something natural would be better than chemicals. Then I read online that tea tree oil has been shown to disrupt labor, so I stopped using it.

[atomic sagebrush]

That's what people assume, but the thing is, botulism is natural. Strychnine is natural. Ptomaine is natural. Large amounts of salt, sugar, and even water can kill you. Oxygen is one of the harshest, most harmful substances of all.
Medications at least have to be fairly well tested (although of course they get those wrong too) and so it's best to go in distrustful of natural products that are in high concentrations and that you use more oftener than once in a while. :)