Secrets Recipes Using Spearmint Essential Oil

The spearmint plant is also known scientifically as Mentha Spicata. The cute little green plant is one of the most popular medicinal herbs in North America. Before doing my research on this beautiful plant, I knew it was used in lots of commodities and of course in my favorite Christmas candy and Easter minty chocolate. However, I learned a lot of surprising facts about the use of Spearmint Essential Oil. And I will share with you some of the most precious spearmint essential oil recipes that I discovered lately because they should not be a secret.

 “The United States produces almost 10 million pounds of peppermint and spearmint, with about 55% of that amount going into toothpaste, about 30% into chewing gum, 10% into candy, and 5% into pharmaceuticals, soap, and shampoos.” ¹

If you pay attention, you already know that we already use spearmint in some aspects of our daily life. It is one of the most popular oils in the mint family. Fun fact, most people assume that spearmint essential oil is extracted from the leaves, but it also comes from the flowering part of the plant. Spearmint essential oil shares many of the same properties and benefits as peppermint oil, but it also has another variety of uses that are not shared enough. Let me give you some kept secrets about this cute plant.

Mama Inhaler Recipe

While I was researching the topics of essential oil recipes using spearmint essential oil I found out about a recipe that will probably change my future life and can change yours too. As a woman in my 50s and like a lot of other women, I am having midlife changes. I am not complaining! Most of them are being good. First of all, transitioning to menopause means I will finally get rid of my wild heavy periods. That is going to be a blessing, believe me.  

But there is this new acquaintance called hot flashes. The annoying, and disturbing hot flashes.  Last week, at around 3 p.m. I started feeling my head boiling like a presto. My husband, knowing what was happening,  saw me and started joking. He said that it was early to get drunk. Funny Dad joke!! My face was so red from the hot flash. And I was feeling a huge pressure in my body like my whole being was a huge presto. This feeling is not great and I thought I could be able to find something to stop it. Well, out of the blue, I found a great way of escaping the hot flashes and it includes a couple of drops of spearmint oil.

Hot Flashes Blend

Spearmint Essential Oil Health Benefits

Supports a healthy digestive system

Promote Oral Health

Sore Muscle Massage

Emotionally energizing & uplifting

Cools & refreshes skin

Antibacterial properties

Spearmint oil’s general safety precautions

Dilute before using on the skin

Kid safe: 2 +

Cat Safe X | Dog Safe X

For sensitive skin, always use a very low dosage and increase the amount used as you get confident. Especially for topical use.

Road Trip Roller Blend

Here is another spearmint essential oil recipes. This roller blend is great for occasional, stomach upset. I used it on my son when he was little. For some reason, getting up in the middle of the night to drive on a road trip, was too much for his little stomach. I was using a medication before I found out about the roll-on. When I discovered the blend, we stopped using the medication and he started enjoying the road trip. At some point, we didn’t need it. 

The spearmint plant in your garden

Spearmint is an easy medicine plant to grow. The spearmint plant thrives in my garden. In my zone 6 in Ohio, this perennial herb is so generous that it can be an invasive plant. If you harvest a lot of this herbaceous perennial plant, it won’t be a problem. But I see it as a humble plant. It looks like not much with its fragile tiny pink and lilac flowers. But you can do so much with it, I add this one little plant to my herbal spring teas. I also did a relaxing pillow stuffed with dried spearmint plants that as a pleasant aroma. I believe that it is in its essential oil state that spearmint shines the most. 

Diffuser blends to try at home

In our home, we use two misty essential oil diffusers. There is one, working on my desk right now with a blend for relieving headaches with the minty aroma that I like. A great choice in the office where there is stress with all the screens and electricity. Every time you enter the room, you are enveloped by the uplifting atmosphere and the mental clarity that the diffuser blends is making for you.

Quick Blend For Headache

The essential oils molecule can be dispersed by the diffuser with a refreshing scent!

Simple Way to deodorize your car with Essential Oil Car Diffuser

Clean and fresh scents essential oil blend benefits

You can find the recipe on The Simply Earth Website. Here are their recommendations.

“Lemongrass Essential Oil has a fresh and citrusy scent! It has purifying properties that can help eliminate nasty smells in your car. Spearmint Essential Oil has a sweet minty aroma that blends nicely with the Lemongrass Essential Oil! It uplifts and eases tension so that you can go along with your day with ease!

This recipe is not recommended for use close to dogs and cats. If your pets are present in the car where you have a diffuser, be sure a window can be opened so they can escape the scents of the oils.”²

Never ingest any essential oil, even if it’s generally regarded as safe. For more information on why we don’t ingest essential oils, or internal use, check out this blog post from Simply Earth.

*“These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”

Possible skin sensitivity. Keep out of reach of young children. If you are a pregnant woman, or a nursing mama, or under a doctor’s care, consult your physician. Avoid contact with eyes, inner ears, and sensitive skin. Always dilute essential oils in a carrier oil or water for a diffuser.

Curious about other solutions for women

If you are looking for other ways to relieve some periodic women’s symptoms, the Motherwort plant could certainly help you. I wrote a post on the way I use it, click here to get to it. 

Thank you for reading the post until the end. I hope you have a wonderful happy day!

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1. Worwood, Valerie Ann, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded: Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments, New World Library, 1991 ↩︎
2. Simply Earth, https://blog.simplyearth.com/clean-and-fresh-essential-oil-car-diffuser/#title-link5 ↩︎