Clean and invigorating, lemongrass will uplift and refresh your home's spirits and yours, and today we'll show your our top 7 ways to use this delightful essential oil ! Lemongrass is steam distilled from the grasses of the Cymbopogon flexuosus plant. This rugged and very useful bush is tough in droughts, loves heat and humidity, full [...]
As a long-term user of essential oils, specifically those created so beautifully by Young Living, I’m often asked by people what’s the best way to introduce the Young Living essential oils to people who have zero experience or knowledge of essential oils. Generally, I think diffusing is awesome and a brilliant way to introduce essential oils. [...]
Gone are the days of having to use plain old lemon essence – usually made from artificial or so-called “nature identical” (seriously?) ingredients at worst, or at best, from non-premium ingredients distilled hastily for maximum yield. Instead, can you imagine infusing your cooking and baking with genuine essential oils, made to the highest possible standards of [...]
Let’s do a tummy check right now: is it relaxed and comfie or tied up in knots? When you’re feeling out of kilter or upset, your stomach is one of the first places this can show up. And it’s easy to get so used to it that you stop noticing. Storing your worries in this area [...]
Old habits die hard! That’s why it’s easier to replace them with new ones. I’m reading a fabulous book by Charles Duhigg on 'The Power of Habit' (published by Random House). Though I’m only partway through it, I’ve reached a crucial part in the process of habit forming and habit changing that made an essential oil-powered [...]
When I was a youngster, I read a lot. I’ve never stopped! I’ve always had a thirst for learning. And books are awesome for education and learning, not to mention entertainment, too. I’m so glad hard copy books are still alive and well, in spite of declarations of their pending extinction when downloading them digitally first [...]
When you use Ylang ylang essential oil, you’re looking for love in all the right places! This beautiful oil with its light-floral fragrance is uplifting and relaxing, both of which are wonderful for fostering self-love. But it doesn’t stop there: ylang ylang’s intoxicating scent is laden with all kinds of beneficial constituents that help to create [...]
It’s ever so tempting to keep using deodorants and antiperspirants that contain potentially harmful ingredients. The ads make them look amazing! Use those sprays, roll-ons and sticks and you’ll have people swooning in your way, looking admiringly at you on the bus as you raise your arm to hold onto a rail while exposing your drier-than-dry [...]
Personally, I’m all for comfort food in winter. And in summer! But in winter, I’ll give myself free rein to succumb. I figure the S seasons - spring and summer – are built more for Spartan food. Autumn and winter I classify as AW seasons: “Awww, I’ll have one more serving of casserole, please!” But comfort [...]
Which essential oils do you use in tandem? Do you have any favourites you like to pair up because they have great chemistry together? When it comes to hearty, chest-warming oils, Young Living R.C.™ and Raven™ essential oil blends make magic together. You can use them without each other, for sure. But when you alternate them [...]
