Try a drop of Young Living Thieves® on a splinter. I had a sore spot on my finger recently and had a feeling there was a splinter buried in there somewhere. Having heard this tip from a few people over the time, I put on some Thieves®, covered it with a band-aid and re-applied/replaced it a [...]
Tennis elbow? Apply a drop of authentic peppermint essential oil after tennis for a fresh and cool effect. Essential oils are potent, so please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use. Thank you! Our preferred choice of essential oils and natural products is Young Living. Discover why we love them so [...]
Apply authentic melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) essential oil for toenails you're happy to put on show. Put a few drops in your palm, dip the fingertips of your other hand into the oil and rub it into your toenails daily to keep them feeling and looking in good shape. Essential oils are potent, so please follow [...]
Drip 1- 2 drops of authentic sandalwood essential oil onto the crown of your head to help meditative focus while doing yoga. Our preferred choice of essential oils and natural products is Young Living. Discover why we love them so much here and here. Young Living supplies Royal Hawaiian Sandalwood (Santalum paniculatum) as its sandalwood. Young [...]
Not long into Spring, I gave the air-conditioning in my car its first workout for the warmer months. And I could tell I hadn’t used it lately. There was a very odd odour that I can’t attribute to anything in particular — much as it resembled old socks, wet dog and month old takeaway wrappers, it [...]
“Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.” Dogen (Companion oil: Young Living Gathering™) Yesterday, we touched on the multitude of choices we face daily and how overwhelming they can be. Today’s [...]
We humans can be a funny bunch. We love having options. But give us too many and we can put them into the Too Hard Basket. (I spent ten minutes searching through organic coffee options at the supermarket yesterday. Maybe they need to start merchandising alphabetically or via the Dewey Decimal System.) With over 80 single [...]
Eucalyptus: one word, 700 plus species and a multitude of medicinal properties. We’ve already covered the fundamentals, including the history of its journey to distant shores and three ‘mainstay’ eucalypts commonly regarded for respiration and the benefits imparted by their high levels of eucalyptol: Eucalyptus radiata, globulus, polybractea. As promised, today’s post delves into several other [...]
Do you have the timer running? Let’s go! It’s late afternoon, you have a big night ahead but there’s no time for a speed nap and you’re trying to stay away from harsh energy drinks. (You're a clever cookie.) Here are my three quick tips you can do in five minutes, with the help of a [...]
Eucalyptus is the universal language of koalas, but did you know around 700 species of this tree exist? In part 1 of our eucalyptus series, we explored the somewhat romantic story of its cleansing powers being unveiled to the rest of the world at the Paris Expo back in 1867. Of all the eucalypts, there are [...]
