DIY Throat Spray with Essential Oils and Honey
Use this quick and easy all natural DIY throat spray with essential oils and honey anytime you, your husband, or your kids gets that raw, itchy feeling in the back of your throat.
How to make a throat spray essential oils and honey
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Supplies for your Homemade Throat Spray
Throat Spray Bottles with 360 degree atomizer
You’ll want to pick up one of these special throat spray bottles. These will make the spray so much more effective because the little extender piece will get the spray directly to the back of the throat. Right where it’s needed.
These are the same types of spray bottles you’ll get if you buy a commercial throat spray.
- 360 degree rotation atomizer spray bottle, idear for saline water sprays/ nasal wash /medical irrigation;
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Mini Funnel
These mini funnel will make getting your essential oils, and especially the honey and water, into your spray bottle super easy and mess free!
You’ll be able to use these funnels for many DIY projects including my DIY Body Wash, and DIY OnGuard Hand Sanitizer.
- Stainless steel mini funnels are the perfect tool for filling up any small portable travel bottle with all of your necessities. Whether you’re traveling or putting together a gift bag or gift basket, these silver stainless steel funnels will help you fill up all your bottles with the essentials.
Raw Honey
Local Raw Honey from your farmers market is the best choice for this spray.
You could also choose to use Manuka Honey which is a very powerful medicinal honey. It does cost a bit more than honey from your farmers market, but it is well worth the cost.
No teddy bear honey from the grocery store, please. Those have no medicinal value in them.All the good stuff has been processed out and it’s just a sweet tasting sticky substance.
Can’t make it to your farmer’s market? This Raw Honey from Amazon is a great option! I’ve used it and love it.
- GO WILDFLOWER: Carefully harvested from remote apiaries in Ontario, this honey has a lighter sweetness and floral undertones, with subtle notes of mint, lavender, and other fresh seasonal herbs.
Use as a Throat Gargle Instead of Spray
Essential Oils for your Throat Spray
Let’s talk about essential oil safety. Since you’ll be ingesting these oils, please make sure you are using an essential oil that is safe to consume. It may surprise you to know that most essential oils from the grocery store, superstore, or drugstores are fragrance only. Meaning they aren’t safe to ingest or consume internally.
How to tell if an essential oil is safe to consume? There will be a supplements fact chart on the label, just like there is on our food packaging.
If you’ve ever ordered an essential oil from Amazon and it smelled off, you were the victim of oil tampering. Mos. It’s very easy to put on a new tamper proof cap to have it look as if the oil bottle has never been opened. Anyone can buy these caps anywhere.
I’m bringing this up here because I want you to stay safe. Since you will be ingesting these oils, please know what you are ingesting.
Please make sure you buy your doTERRA from a safe source. Look for doTERRA certified websites that have the seal. I have the seal displayed on my home page and you can click the link down below in my footer to verify it is active.
DIY Throat Spray Recipe with Essential Oils and Honey
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 oz glass spray bottle with 360 degree atomizer
- 5 drops doTERRA OnGuard essential oil
- 3 drops Lemon Essential Oil
- 3 drops Frankincense Essential Oil
- 1 TBL Raw Honey
Instructions
- Add the essential oils to your spray bottle
- Add the Honey to your spray bottle
- Top the spray bottle with Water.
- Put the sprayer cap on the bottle and gently shake to mix up the ingredients together.
Notes
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Dawn Goehring is the founder of Desert Naturals where she writes educational articles on essential oils, DIY’s on natural beauty products, homemade cleaners, and provides related essential oil accessories like planners, trackers, tshirts, and custom designed essential oil storage. She has been featured in articles on Porch.com, Redfin.com, MommyOnPurpose and more.
Dawn has earned an aromatherapist degree and has earned a doTERRA essential oil specialist certification which is a fancy way of saying she has learned a lot about the chemistry of essential oils and how they work in the body.
How long does this list for and does it have to be refrigerated?
Hi Julie – it will last indefinitely (at least as long as the expiration date on your oils that you use and likely longer), and nope – doesn’t need to be refrigerated. Raw Honey is shelf stable so no need to refrigerate.
Awesome, Thanks for the info. I can’t wait to try!
Raw honey is a bit thick, would it need to be diluted?
Hi Nita – The recipe calls to top off your bottle with water. Once you do that, shake it up to combine everything and it should be the right consistency.
How often can it be used on your throat do you think?
Andi, You can use this every couple hours as needed. It’s honestly fine to use more frequently than that if needed.
Great information. Thank you for sharing
Made this to help with my recovery and it worked well for me. Only change was I doubled the amount of honey. Used before bed and by morning my throat swelling and discomfort were cut at least in half, maybe more. Helped sooth and calm to allow healing. This recipe is one of my new go-tos.
I’m so glad it helped and that you are feeling better! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you for sharing that detail.It was fascinating and insightful. Continue to share useful resources over these blogs…
what can I substitute frankincense with
Hi Suitumua, You could try some Lavender instead, or leave it out.