I’m showing my vintage with today’s post title. (If you’re lost, help is at hand thanks to Fred and Ginger.) Whether cacao or cacao, it tastes just as good to most of us once processed and melded with other ingredients to create one of our favourite foods: chocolate. If you’re with me among the 70% of [...]
During the month of July in lavender growing regions, you could almost close your eyes and imagine the sky is tinted purple by the drift of aromatic clouds hanging over the harvests. From Provence to Idaho, July to early August is when the flowering tops are ready for harvesting, processing, preparation and steam distillation to produce [...]
Parts 1 and 2 in our series on fast-tracking spring will have you diffusing floral essential oils and tackling mould from the inside out by making sure you’re including some valuable foods and supplements in your diet — simple things like garlic and ginger — and topping up your Vitamin D the free way (hello, sunshine! [...]
If winter is starting to wear thin, help is at hand. Yesterday we talked about diffusing floral essential oils to bring visions of spring to mind: drifts of jasmine, geranium, lavender, and Young Living essential oil blends composed of a mixed bouquet of floral notes and feel-good constituents. So now that you’re feeling chirpy, let’s get [...]
Have you hit the Winter Wall yet? Sure, it’s lovely to have a bit of a cold change. Long comfort food lunches. Log fires. The chance to wear spectacular coats and boots. (Or so I hear from the women I know.) Drives in the country. And here in Australia, four codes of football to choose from. [...]
Here it is — the third video in our series of simple and safe essential oil application techniques for beginners and non-professionals. If you haven’t yet watched the first and second videos in our series — the Valor® Balance and Essential Touch ‘How to’ demos — they provide important foundation techniques and you’ll feel more comfortable [...]
Once you’ve dipped a toe into the essential oil waters, I’m pretty certain you’re going to want to show at least one of your family and friends how amazing they feel. So, welcome to the second video in our series of simple and safe essential oil application techniques for beginners and non-professionals. If you haven’t yet [...]
You know the look. Bloodshot raccoon eyes. Stifled yawns. The occasional groan. You ask someone, “Are you having a nice day?” and they respond with, “Where’s the peloton?” Yes, it’s le Tour de France season again. For sporting buffs in Australia, the timing is relentless — no recovery period from overnight Wimbledon watching and the 2014 [...]
Do you find yourself thinking the cicadas are chirping longer and louder than usual? If your ears are ringing, it could be a good time to have your vitamin D levels tested. Research presented at the 2013 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy showed that vitamin D deficiency increases the incidence of ear infections and [...]
Young Living really is about people helping people. Young Living’s passion for humanity extends way beyond providing products to profoundly improve lives and a business model that empowers people to create abundant lives while doing so. The ‘not-so-often’ talked about side of Young Living is its philanthropic arm: the D Gary Young Foundation. Rewind several years [...]
