Essential oils- past use by date. Chuck or ignore?

[soppypreggyloon]

I have cleared out the medicine cabinet! There is now a tonne of space but I found many and varied random things. Including lavender and tea tree oil I bought in anticipation of ds' natural birth.
Well 1 emcs later and expecting dc2 (via elcs if they let me) I've found them and want to know should I chuck them because of them being past the use by date or do I ignore it?

I'm never sure with use by dates and it's not like it's medicine. But still ...
Any ideas?

If you are going to use it on your skin then id chuck it as it may cause a reaction. As for the affects of the smell i dont know if they would lose their affectivness over time or not

Same as peachybums. I don't use out of date oils on my skin or in the bath but are fine to burn or diffuse.

What are you going to use them for? I wouldn't chuck them, they're hardly going to be dangerous.

I would burn the lavender oil in an oil burner and add the tea tray oil to a bottle of hair detangler as a deterrent to nits!

TBH as they've not been used for much at all for the last 2 years i'm not sure what i'd do.
having said that i don't own an oil burner so it wouldn't be that.

chuck i think... cheers all!