Discovering essential oils can feel like being a kid in a lolly shop — except that it's healthy for the body as well as the soul ! It’s exciting to explore the new smells you’ll be exposed to through essential oils, and how the oils relax you, revive you and restore you. Essential oils are often [...]
Travelling ? Authentic lemon, lavender and peppermint essential oils will cover a multitude of scenarios. To explore these essential oils further, click on each of the below for their top nine uses whether travelling or otherwise. lemon is great for cleansing, and promoting cheerfulness in the face of grumbling lavender is a ‘go to’ essential oil [...]
Boost your organic argan oil with authentic lavender essential oil (Lavandula angustifolia) and smooth into your hair before bed to hydrate winter hair. Don’t worry about being too precise. As a guide, try the dilution ratio of 4 parts argan oil to one part genuine lavender essential oil. To order Young Living lavender or the very [...]
Add authentic myrrh essential oil to vitamin E cream to help it soothe a nose chapped by tissues. It seems such an innocuous thing, but having a red-raw nose from constant blowing can feel pretty miserable. An ounce of prevention really helps. Keeping the skin under your schnoz well moisturised as soon as you get a [...]
Authentic melissa essential oil helps ensure cold sores don’t linger longer than usual. Esssential oil of melissa is steam distilled from aerial parts of the Melissa officinalis plant before flowering. It is a somewhat rarified essential oil, so on the costly side but remember, you only need a touch. A little goes a long way with [...]
Pesky ingrown hairs bothering you ? Add a drop of authentic peppermint essential oil to your natural body scrub to boost its exfoliating power. If certain areas are especially problematic, you could also try Young Living’s Satin Facial Scrub Mint ™. With very fine grains and 100% natural, this is formulated especially for the delicate skin [...]
Cracked skin on your feet or other over-exposed areas ? Add a couple of drops of authentic myrrh essential oil to your natural moisturiser to amplify its benefits. Needing to up the ante? Myrrh essential oil can be applied neat (undiluted) or with a smidge of pure carrier oil such as sesame, olive or Young Living [...]
"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (Companion oil: Young Living Transformation™) Do the words, "Spa Day!" fill you with yearning and a touch of desperation? Whether you need a holiday or you need a holiday to recuperate from your holiday, a DIY spa treat without packing bags [...]
Age spots? Mix authentic lavender, sandalwood and nutmeg essential oils with equal parts of pure carrier oil and apply regularly to help make them less visibly obvious. As always when using essential oils, patience and consistency are really important. So try this a few times a day for a couple of weeks straight to optimise its [...]
“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” Thomas Dekker (Companion oil: Young Living RutaVaLa™) Some people sail through life sleeping like a log from the time their head hits the pillow until the alarm — or sunrise — wakes them the next day. Is that you? If so, I’ll bet you’re [...]
