40+ Favorite Uses for Clove Essential Oil & FAQs

Clove essential oil has a spicy, warm, almost woody aroma, perfect for everything fall and wellness. Clove essential oil is created by steam distilling the flower bud and stems from the syzygium aromaticum shrub and tree plants.

It's key constituents are eugenol (75-85%), eugenol acetate (8-15%), and beta-carophyllene (2-7%).

Clove oil is the most concentrated antioxidant known with an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value of over 1,000,000. By comparison the ORAC score for blueberries is only 2,400.

Aromatically, Clove encourages sleep, stimulates dreams, and creates a sense of protection and courage.

Table Of Contents

Our favorite clove essential oil uses and benefits include:
Our Favorite Diffuser Blends with Clove Essential Oil
Clove Vitality Essential Oil Recipes and Uses
Which essential oils blend well with clove essential oil?
Frequently Asked Questions About Clove Essential Oil
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Safely using clove essential oil
Where to find Clove Essential Oil
- Warning: DO NOT purchase your oils through Amazon or similar websites!
Pre-made essential oil blends and oil-infused products featuring clove essential oil:

Our favorite clove essential oil uses and benefits include:

Supports cardiovascular wellness
Stimulates the limbic system
Cleansing to the digestive tract when taken internally
Soothing to sore muscles when applied topically
Soothing and mildly numbing to sore mouth, gums, and teeth when swished in your oil pulling routine
Mentally stimulating when diffused or applied topically
Stimulates dreams
Enhances courage
Mildly numbing when applied topically
Promotes restful sleep
Helps you feel courageous
Great to use with peppermint in a spray to deter ants (20 drops each peppermint and clove with a pinch of salt in a 16oz glass bottle, and filled the rest of the way with distilled water)
Use it in your homemade DIY Pumpkin Spice Cleaner
Add it in your homemade DIY Foaming Hand Soap Recipe

Our Favorite Diffuser Blends with Clove Essential Oil

Christmas Cookies: 2 drops lemon, 2 drops bergamot, 2 drops cinnamon, 2 drops clove, 1 drop nutmeg
October Breeze: 2 drops juniper, 2 drops clove, 2 drops cedarwood
Cozy Home: 2 drops tangerine, 2 drops rosemary, 1 drop clove
Snowed In: 2 drops clove, 2 drops cardamom, 2 drops copaiba
Spa Day: 2 drops clove, 2 drops patchouli, 1 drop basil, 1 drop geranium
Through the Fog: 3 drops clove, 2 drops cypress, 2 drops frankincense, 1 drop peppermint
Pumpkin Pie: 4 drops cardamom, 2 drops orange, 1 drop each cinnamon and clove
Warm Home Diffuser Blend

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DIY essential oil diffuser blends for fall. Don't forego your home smelling like the autumn candles you used to love... use these instead to avoid the toxic ingredients found in candles.

Clove Vitality Essential Oil Recipes and Uses

Clove vitality is another excellent immune system enhancer, and is present in Thieves Vitality, ImmuPower, Inner Defense, and Longevity formulas.
Uses for Clove Vitality include:

Helps boost your immune system when taken as a supplement (please make sure to heavily dilute)
Cleansing to teeth and gums when you add to your toothpaste or oil pulling routine
May help reduce toothaches and discomfort when you add to your favorite mouthwash or oil pulling routine
May substitute ground cloves in recipes
Add a drop to ginger bread, molasses cookies, and spice cakes
Add clove, lemon, cinnamon, and nutmeg vitality oils to spice up a batch of apple cider
Use 2 drops of clove vitality in your favorite homemade butternut squash recipe
Add a drop or two to your favorite pancake or waffle recipe, along with nutmeg, cardamom, and cinnamon vitality essential oils.
Use a few drops of clove essential oil in your favorite pumpkin pie recipe
Add a drop of clove essential oil in your homemade spiced pumpkin coffee creamer

Spiced pumpkin creamer recipe featuring clove, ginger, and cinnamon vitality essential oils

Which essential oils blend well with clove essential oil?

Clove essential oil blends well with

Basil essential oil
Bergamot essential oil
Cinnamon bark essential oil
Clary sage essential oil
Grapefruit essential oil
Lavender essential oil
Lemon essential oil
Nutmeg essential oil
Orange essential oil
Peppermint essential oil
Rose essential oil
Rosemary essential oil
Ylang ylang essential oil

Frequently Asked Questions About Clove Essential Oil

Can you be allergic to clove essential oil?

There are a few reasons why you could have some sort of reaction to clove essential oil that may or may not be allergy related. Please review our article about being allergic to essential oils for specific information.

Many people mistaken an uncomfortable or painful rash as an allergic reaction. This happens a lot when you use essential oils without diluting them. Clove essential oil is no exception. Please ensure you're diluting with a carrier oil (any cold pressed seed-based oil)… not water. If you experience an uncomfortable or painful rash, be sure to add carrier oil to the spot you applied clove oil to. This will help the sensation calm down within a few moments. See our 12 rules for using essential oils safely for more info about how to use oils safely on your skin.

What is the difference between clove essential oil and clove vitality essential oil?

Absolutely nothing. They are the exact same oil that is packaged using different labels. Young Living packages their oils with two different labels because of FDA requirements that state you cannot have a supplement that may be taken orally or in food and discuss that same supplement also be used topically or aromatically.

To continue to be able to share how to use clove essential oil in recipes, supplements, or even in oil-pulling routines, we legally are required to ensure that type of public discussion does not include using the same oils that are marketed for being used in your diffuser or on your skin.

Is clove essential oil safe to use when pregnant?

Clove essential oil is recommended to be used cautiously while pregnant. We tend to recommend to avoid using clove by itself during pregnancy. I personally and many of our members have used clove in the Thieves blend during pregnancy, diluted at 1 drop per 5ml without any issue.

If you choose to use it, please be sure to dilute more than normal.

Is clove essential oil safe to use around babies and kids?

While clove oil is often cited to use for teething, it is recommended across the essential oil community to not use clove oil by itself on kids under 6.

For using clove essential oil on children under 12, please be sure to dilute more than normal. I recommend diluting one drop per 5 ml of your favorite carrier oil.

For my kids, we do use clove in the Thieves Blend on occasion, diluting more as mentioned above.

Is clove essential oil safe for dogs and cats?

Yes, clove essential oil is generally safe for dogs and cats. Just be sure you're not using it at full strength, and if you're diffusing be sure to give your animals a way to leave the room if they need to.

If you're using essential oils around your family pets, be sure to allow them to access out of the room and into a room where you're not diffusing. This way they're able to escape when they feel they've had enough. Please also consider picking up a reference guide specific to using essential oils with animals. There are also reference guides specific to Young Living's oils too.

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Safely using clove essential oil

Please ensure you dilute clove essential oil before applying it to your skin by using your favorite carrier oil. I recommend diluting 1 drop per 1 ml of carrier oil for adults.

If you are choosing to use clove essential oil in your mouth, I highly recommend 1-2 drops per Tbsp of oil like sunflower or coconut oil. Then swish around like you're oil pulling.

A carrier oil can be any cold-pressed, seed-based oil (ideally organic and unrefined). This includes most cooking oil, like coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. Personally, we LOVE using sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil, and the V6 Carrier oil (made by Young Living). This is the best way to dilute your essential oils for topical use.

Where to find Clove Essential Oil

We purchase our oils through Young Living because they set a higher standard for essential oils than the rest of the industry. Their Seed to Seal guarantee is unmatched and shows their dedication to a farm-to-table type of approach.

Warning: DO NOT purchase your oils through Amazon or similar websites!

Any website that allows anyone to sell on, such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart… etc… are terrible places to purchase essential oils. While you may get a “good deal,” knowing who you're purchasing from is difficult. There are many counterfeit essential oils being sold that are causing health ailments, major skin reactions, and a lot of misery. These are NOT high quality essential oils. They are fakes being sold purely for profit.

I also do NOT recommend purchasing from grocery stores, Walmart, Target, department stores, or drug stores. Many of the brands found at those stores have been proven to not actually contain any essential oil (which is perfectly legal to do).

I STRONGLY suggest you know the company that makes your oils, how the plants are cared for, what they do for distilling, how and how many times each batch is tested (and when), and their bottling processes. Many companies throw out fancy language for marketing purposes, but actually have no clue how their oils are made because the oils come from a broker (which are almost always diluted in solvents). Transparency is key.

I highly encourage you to check out our How To Find Quality Essential Oils post for in-depth information about why quality matters, and what to look for.

We LOVE their farm-to-table approach to growing, distilling, bottling, and delivering your oils right to your door!

Pre-made essential oil blends and oil-infused products featuring clove essential oil:

Abundance essential oil blend
AromaGuard Medow Mist Deodorant
AromaGuard Mountain Mint Deodorant
BLM supplement for bones, ligaments, and muscle health
Deep Relief Roll On essential oil blend
En-R-Gee essential oil blend
Essential Beauty Serum for dry skin
Essentialzyme and Essentialzymes 4 digestive enzyme supplement
ImmuPower essential oil blend
Inner Defense supplement for wellness
K&B supplement
Kidscents Clique Toothpaste
Longevity essential oil blend
Longevity supplement for overall wellness
Melrose essential oil blend
OmegaGize omega supplement
PanAway essential oil blend for stiff, sore muscles and joints
ParaFree supplement for parasite cleansing
Progessence Phyto Plus
Progessence Plus serum for supporting healthy female hormones
Thieves essential oil blend
Thieves AromaBright Toothpaste
Thieves AromaBright Whitening Toothpaste
Thieves cleansing soap bar
Thieves cough drops
Thieves dental floss
Thieves Dentarome Plus toothpaste
Thieves Dentarome Ultra toothpaste
Thieves foaming hand soap
Thieves essence plus mouthwash
Thieves household cleaner
Thieves lozenges
Thieves Spray
Thieves hand sanitizer
Thieves wipes

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