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 [...]
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 [...]
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Today’s essential oil spotlight shines on one of the ‘blue oils’, yarrow. And like its similarly-hued cousins German chamomile and blue tansy, it aligns with the colour psychology of indigo – intuition and perception – and it’s helpful for promoting focus during introspection. This makes it a great companion oil for meditation and tuning into our [...]
You’ve made your fitness goals and written them out. Maybe you’ve put reminders to yourself on your fridge door. Maybe even inside it! Now it’s time to do all you can to support your willpower and if you can choose naturally healthful drinks that empower you and help you to achieve those goals, you’re a smart [...]
Lemongrass is widely known, but how about red lemongrass? That’s the common name for Xiang Mao (pronounced ‘Shung Mao’). You’d easily think from the closeness of their botanical names that essential oils of lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) and red lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) would have similar key constituents and properties. Let’s take a closer look! They are both [...]
Statistics are showing that we’re still slow to get the message that it’s vitally important to slip on sunnies, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat. Such simple things to do but slopping on sunscreen still seems to be a drag to many of us. And a day at the beach can be potentially very [...]
Gaultheria procumbens. If this essential oil was an actor, the first thing its agent would do is come up with a stage name. Lucky for us, ‘common names’ are the botanical world’s equivalent, so we can call this mouthful ‘wintergreen’. And we do! Wintergreen is a wonderfully warm oil so it’s conveniently appropriate that its name [...]
Bathing is a daily ritual that’s easy to take for granted. Nowadays, we rarely even talk about how busy we are. It’s become a permanent state for the vast majority of us. Deliberately taking time out to smell the roses is so important, but if that’s constantly eluding you: better turn those daily must-do routines into [...]
