Chemical Free - Everything Cream!

Making the Everything Cream!

For about 1/2 cup (which lasts a long time) find a small 1/2 cup - 1 cup sized jar or storage container and use about 1/2 cup of organic, unrefined, cold pressed coconut oil and about 10 drops of Lavender Essential Oil. Mix ingredients together in a bowl and place in your jar & use!

Watch just how easy it is to make!  If I wasn't talking so much, it would be even quicker!

Some of the ways that I use this Everything Cream is for sunburnt skin, shaving cream, baby butts, moisturizing, calming, make up remover, underarm freshener, soothing chest, back and foot rub and even toothpaste!

When in doubt - use it!  You won't be disappointed!

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Weekend Oily Tip - Making Roller Balls!

Making roller balls!

Specifically, one of my personal favorites, it supports your sinuses & digestive system!

In a 5ml bottle, I use 10-20 drops of DiGize Essential Oil and top the bottle off with a liquid carrier. Pop a roller fitment on & start using!  

Be sure to watch the video below for where I apply this roller ball blend & other useful info!

You can make so many different roller ball blends. You can make them for energy, focus, calming, wellness, muscles and joins, enhancing workouts, balancing emotions of all kinds, and more!  

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Chemical Free - Foaming Hand/Face/Body Wash!

Making a foaming hand soap/face wash/body wash!

This is such a great way to monitor the chemicals coming into contact with the largest organ on your body - the skin!  

Use an 8oz foaming pump container
1/4 - 1/3 cup of Castile Soap
1 tablespoon vegetable glycerin
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil (or your favorite carrier oil)
15 drops of the essential oils of your choice
Top off with tap water
Shake before each use

Buy some foaming pump containers and a few simple ingredients and replace your old hand soaps today!  Put one at each sink.  Bonus - if you want to wash your face quickly, just use the same soap!  Not too harsh either!  And bring it with you in the shower too for your very own body wash!  Switch up the essential oils to target different conditions - dry hands, blemishes, cleanliness and even just wanting a new scent!

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Let's Learn! - Purification Essential Oil!

After the holidays and Christmas/Winter Break, once all the decorations are put away, I'm sure many people are feeling like their house needs a deep cleaning - like it needs to be purified!  I know I've been working on cleaning mine!  I'm ready to start the year off with a clean house and a renewed focus on the health and wellness of my family and myself!

Enter Purification Essential Oil, a trademarked Young Living Essential Oil blend known for it's cleansing properties.  It has a distinct sweet, refreshing scent which deodorizes and neutralizes the air!  Purification EO is made up of six (6) different single essential oils.

Single Essential Oils in Purification EO
Citronella (Cymbopogon nardus) oil - respiratory system & bug/insect repellent
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) leaf oil- immune system & mental clarity
Lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) oil - immune system & purifying
Tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) leaf oil - immune system & cleansing
Lavandin (Lavandula hybrida) oil - cardiovascular system & calming
Myrtle (Myrtus communis) oil - respiratory system & uplifting

In our house, we use Purification EO regularly!  I use it on the wool balls in our dryer to give our laundry that amazing fresh and clean scent - no more chemical laden dryer sheets!  When the children sound like they are hacking up a lung, I diffuse Purification EO in their rooms.  If I feel a blemish coming on, or even after I mess with a blemish, I dab some Purification EO on the spot.  It feels better quickly and begins looking better sooner too.   And for some of those tough smells - burnt food, stale air and wet, dirty kids (or pets is we had them), I use an air freshener with about 10 drops of Purification EO, 2 oz of water and 2 oz of witch hazel, or I diffuse Purification EO.  Goodbye stinkiness!  I'm thankful that this essential oil blend is available in a 15 ml bottle, because the 5 ml bottle that came in my Premium Starter Kit was gone in a flash!

How do you like to use Purification EO?  

(I've heard it's great for stinky gym/sports bags & shoes too!  I'm sure I'll be using that trick as my two active boys grow up!  I can't even imagine what I'm in for!)

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Let's Learn! - Lemon Essential Oil

Let's learn about Lemon Essential Oil!  Talk about a versatile oil!  A must have for everyone!

Lemon Essential Oil comes from the rind of the lemon fruit from the tree Citrus limon.  I found a wealth of information on the Purdue University Horticulture Website concerning Citrus limon.  Lemon EO contains the naturally occurring constituent limonene.  Limonene is colorless and is the main main odor constituent of the Citrus family.  Dr. Axe did a great write up on Lemon Essential Oil complete with resources. (I guess you can say I'm feeling a bit lazy today, and why try to redo something that has already been done well?)  Young Living recommends Lemon EO as a dietary supplement.  It is also found in many of YL's essential oil blends (such as Thieves EO) and wellness products (like NingXia Red). 

         

I have used Lemon EO in numerous ways.  I first began experimenting with Lemon EO while cleaning.  I was impressed at its ability to cut through the grease and stickiness!  It is also great in drinking water.  Warm or cold water, Lemon EO is great to help promote wellness!  The light refreshing flavor is perfect any time of day!  I've even made a lavender and honey lemonade with it!  (I'll post that recipe eventually!)  I've also used Lemon EO as part of a detox bath to encourage a healthy body.  As I experiment with essential oils, I'm sure I'll find so many more ways to incorporate Lemon EO into our everyday life!

How could I forget that one of my most favorite ways to use Lemon EO is cleaning my fresh fruit and veggies with it!!!  Read "The Best Way to Clean your Fruits & Veggies".  I was seriously sooo excited and impressed with the results from this!  You HAVE to try it!!!

How do you like to use your Lemon EO???

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LET'S LEARN! - DiGize ESSENTIAL OIL

Today, let's learn about DiGize Essential Oil!  DiGize EO is a Trademarked blend of Young Living's.  It is known to support overall wellness. 

Ingredients

Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) leaf oil

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) root oil

Peppermint (Mentha piperita) leaf oil 

Juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) aerial parts oil 

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) seed oil

Lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) leaf oil

Anise (Pimpinella anisum) fruit oil 

Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin) leaf oil

Within the ingredients listed above are naturally occurring constituents like menthol, citrol, and zingiberen.  Per the Medical Dictionary of Merriam Webster, Menthol is a crystalline alcohol (C10H20O) that occurs especially in mint oils, has the odor and cooling properties of peppermint, and is used in flavoring and in medicine (as locally to relieve pain, itching, and nasal congestion).  Citrol or Citral is an unsaturated liquid isomeric aldehyde (C10H16O) of many essential oils that has a strong lemon odor and is used especially in perfumery and as a flavoring, according to the Medical Dictionary of Merriam Webster.  The same dictionary defines Zingiberen(e) as a liquid sesquiterpene hydrocarbon (C15H24) constituting with bisabolene the chief component of ginger oil (Zingiber officinale).  So this blend may help when you're stuffed up, provides an intense lemon scent and is useful when your belly is turning!  

I have used DiGize EO in a few different ways.  The first way that I used DiGize EO was adding a drop to my tea.  WOW!  The smell was quite powerful!  But the taste wasn't strong.  Odd.  Next, I rubbed it (with Peppermint EO and a carrier oil) on my rockin n rollin tummy one morning after a long night of drinking.  All I'm saying is that I didn't have to spend the whole day sitting in the bathroom anymore!  I reapplied a couple times throughout the day and managed to have an enjoyable day with my Grandma, cousin visiting from Japan and my three young children. (Here is my post about that...) Most recently I have been applying DiGize EO to my toes in the morning and before bed.  The toes (and finger tips) are the Vita Flex Points for your sinuses.  Let me say that whatever was trying to brew up and cause me discomfort didn't last long!  What a relief!!!   

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WEEKEND OILY TIP! - STAYING ON TOP OF YOUR GAME

No one has time to be run-down as the weekend starts, let alone with a major holiday quickly approaching!!!  Here are some quick and easy things to try to start feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the tasks at hand!

In October, I posted So Now It Is Fall....  I briefly mentioned how to enhance your tea to help you feel better.  But there is more!  There is a delicious drink that is pumped full of wonderful antioxidants!  Do both to promote wellness so you're not stuck in bed or on the couch all weekend!

NingXia Red is wellness in a bottle!  The ingredients are listed below, and Wow!  There are so many fruits and essential oils which are full of goodness!  I first sampled NingXia Red when I received my Essential Oils Premium Starter Kit.  Two 1oz packets come in the PSK.  NingXia Red has a very unique taste and is a little thick.  It can be mixed into orange juice or drank out of a glass by itself or with some of your favorite essential oils added!  After a couple of months of not having NingXia Red, I finally got more, a 2-pack of bottles (shown in the picture above).  

Many people drink NingXia Red daily for the extra boost of wellness and energy! Since consuming it regularly, I have found that drinking 1-2 oz of NingXia Red daily in the early afternoon gets me through the rest of the day without crashing and feeling like I need a nap. Being a mostly stay at home mom, I've realized that by the early afternoon I'm done already! I can't have that though! There are still a lot of hours left in the day for me to be mom before I can sleep! So I have been pleasantly surprised by not having the urge to nap anymore! Honestly, I haven't changed my exercise routine (there isn't one to speak of... yet... but that's another subject...) or my nighttime sleeping habitats (still usually only getting 5-7 hours of sleep each night). I'm attributing my new found alertness and wakefulness to NingXia Red! There is no turning back now. I'm finally doing something good and healthy for my body and I like it!  

Looking back, it would have been awesome had I known about NingXia Red when I was younger.  I was always tired and falling asleep in class while in high school and college, at professional continuing education events and even work!  It was embarrassing!  The to-go packets would be perfect for these situations!  

PS. I have also heard of people drinking NingXia Red to help them feel like themselves again after a night of drinking...  I'll have to report more on that later...

From Young Living's Website, following are the Key Benefits of NingXia Red:
• Sustain energy with the combination of select wolfberries and other superfruits. Contains powerful ingredients which are involved in many antioxidant processes and may help prevent against oxidative stress.
• Balanced ingredients make NingXia Red a whole-body nutrient infusion for health and wellness support
• Delivers citrus essential oils containing d-limonene, a powerful component in citrus oils.
• Halal and Kosher certified in 750ml bottles (Halal Certified in 60 ml sachets)
• Powerful formula includes wolfberry which is touted for its health benefits
From Young Living's Website, following are the Ingredients of NingXia Red:Proprietary NingXia Red Blend 29g 
Ningxia Wolfberry Puree (Lycium barbarum), Blueberry Juice Concentrate (Vaccinium corymbosum), Plum Juice Concentrate (Prunus domestica), Cherry Juice Concentrate (Prunus avium), Aronia Juice Concentrate (Aronia melanocarpa), Pomegranate Juice Concentrate (Punica granatum) 
Proprietary Essential blend 50mg 
Grape (Vitis vinifera) seed extract, Orange EO (Citrus sinensis), Yuzu EO (Citrus junos), Lemon EO (Citrus limon), Tangerine EO (Citrus reticulata) 
Other ingredients
Tartaric acid, natural blueberry flavor, pure vanilla extract, malic acid, pectin, sodium benzoate/natural stevia extract.

There are other NingXia products available as well.  I'll discuss them once I have some experience with them.

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LET'S LEARN! - COPAIBA ESSENTIAL OIL

Today let's learn about Copaiba (Ko-pah-EE-ba) Essential Oil. This EO is unique in that it obtained by tapping the tree, Copaifera officinalis. The clear, yellow oleoresin, is a mixture of naturally occurring resin and essential oil that accumulates in the tree trunk. When exposed to air the oleoresin thickens. Copaifera officinalis is a tropical tree primarily found in South America and the Carribean. I came across an old article concerning the Copaifera tree. The oleoresin from this tree has been long touted for its numerous beneficial uses, since at least the 1600's! Check it out! http://www.swsbm.com/ManualsOther/Copaiba-Lloyd.pdf

A more current explanation of the Copaiba tree and it's properties and potential uses can be found on "Raintree" a Tropoical Plant Database website. Of interest to those who want to know more about Copaiba, is a listing of published third-party research. Definitely worth a read! http://www.rain-tree.com/copaiba.htm#.VktKo_mrShc

In writing this post, I definitely increased my knowledge of the chemical make-up of essential oils. Copaiba consist of the naturally occurring sesquiterpenes beta-caryophyllene and alpha-humulene. Sesquiterpenes are found naturally in plants and insects, as semiochemicals, e.g. defensive agents or pheromones. (Thank you Wikipedia for the simple definition!) My search for easy to understand explanations of beta-caryophyllene and alpha-humulene were not as successful. The following article and the associated links are very useful in learning about beta-caryophyllene:
"Beta-Caryophyllene: The Dietary Cannabinoid That Could Make Synthetics Irrelevant"

More detailed information regarding alpha-humulene can be found on Wikipedia. It is interesting to note that beta-caryophyllene and alpha-humulene are often found mixed together in aromatic plants!

When I first received my Premium Starter Kit (PSK) I wasn't sure exactly how I would use Copaiba. But I soon began mixing Copaiba into many of my roller ball blends, especially those for pain, inflammation and overall wellness. I like that it is so versatile! As the graphic below shows, it can be used topically for skin care, as a dietary supplement to promote wellness and aromatically to help create a calm atmosphere. Further research may even lead one to experiment with more ways to use Copaiba or other essential oils to blend with Copaiba!   What is your favorite way to use Copaiba?   Or how would you use Copaiba? Comment below!

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