Getting Started with Essential Oils

I’m sure you have heard about essential oils? You could be very skeptical like I was last year before I tried Essential Oils.  Personally, I’m still a bit skeptical about some of the very wild claims.  I have found that I do love my essential oils for so many things like natural air freshener, moisturizer, cleaning, and relaxation.

How We Use Our Essential Oils

• Bug Bites. This is was my very first use of Young Living Lavender oil and we continue to utilize lavender oil for many skin discomforts.
• Muscle Relaxation. I love to soak in the bathtub with epsom salt that I have combined with my favorite oils! One of my favorite is Panaway, which may help with deep muscle relief.  I also use Peppermint, Lavender, Lemon Grass, or a combination of a few of these essential oils
• Beauty Routines. I love using essential oils with my beauty routine. Add a little essential oils to your sugar scrubs like in this Peppermint Sugar Scrub recipe or your shea butter for a delight! You can also check out this absolutely divine Lavender Body Butter recipe using Young Living Essential Oils. These diy beauty products also make excellent gifts!
• Air freshener. I diffuse oils like no tomorrow! It is a great chemical-free air freshener for your entire house. Purification oil is THE perfect essential oil to get rid of that stinky boy smell in our basement after the boys have had numerous friends over. I also like to diffuse Peppermint during the day when I’m working at my desk and Thieves at night. Thieves has so many awesome properties and I absolutely LOVE the scent!
• Cleaning. Mix vinegar with essential oils to clean your home without chemicals. When I’m traveling, I take a small bottle of the Thieves spray with me so I can easily and quickly sanitize any areas that I will have quite a bit of contact with. (i.e, airplane trays!) Check out these Frugal Green Cleaning ideas with essential oils.
• Perfume. Rub your favorite essential oil on yourself for a mild and pleasant scent. I love Stress Away! (Stress Away is actually the oil that got my hooked!)
• Drinking. I love to make a big pitcher of water and add Grapefruit and Lemon essential oils to help me get my recommended daily value of the all important H20.
• Hang over relief. I am almost ashamed to admit, I have had to use this one a couple times within the past year. After a little too much fun at a July 4th celebration last year, I was feeling a little icky…and had several kid’s baseball games to attend. I slathered my forehead with peppermint oil (helps with the aching head), and made a combination of shea butter with lemon oil, which I rubbed all over the top of where my liver is positioned. I’m happy to say, I made it through the games in the blistering heat with the help of my essential oil friends.

(Read all my past posts on how I use Essential Oils.)

Getting Started with Essential Oils

We use our oils for so many different things and I will sharing more ways that we use our essential oils in some upcoming posts!

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