How to Use Essential Oil Throughout Your Day

Can you really benefit from essential oils all day long?  Every day?  Is that excessive?

All great questions and I can guarantee from personal experience: with the tippy top best possible quality of essential oils, it’s not only safe to use them often throughout every day, it’s bound to enhance your quality of life a gazillion-fold.  Or tenfold, at least.

Why do I make the point about quality?  Again, another great question.  Here’s why.

A long, long time ago, before the invention of synthetics and dibble dabbling in laboratories to attempt to replicate natural substances like essential oils, all essential oils were genuinely natural.  Mind you, they would still vary in quality.  Some enterprises distil or extract oils at higher temperatures and speeds than is optimal for capturing the complete beautiful profile of the ‘lifeblood of the plant’. Rushing the distillation process leaves constituents behind and produces an oil without the delicate balance and complexity needed to have its proper efficacy and benefits.  But this is something embraced by some manufacturers who place ‘time is money’ above quality.

Then along came the advent of fillers like propylene glycol (a known irritant) that are sometimes used to increase the volume of an oil.  More lavender essential oil is sold than produced so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how.

And here we arrive at the importance of quality when using essential oils.  These are highly concentrated and potent substances.  And if they include synthetic fillers and potentially harmful additives, including herbicides and pesticides and non-pristine water in the processing, they can’t be beneficial for your health.

So I urge you to thoroughly check the quality and credentials of the brand you’re using, as I’ve done with Young Living.  Discover why we love them so much in this short video.  When you’re certain you’re getting the real deal and can count on the purity, you can enjoy using your essential oils throughout the day.  Be sure to follow guidelines of safe use and as with anything, rotate your choices around from time to time and give yourself say one day off a week from daily routines.

If you’d love to turn your passion for essential oils into a business, you can with Young Living.  As a member, you have the opportunity to introduce other people to the products and when they join through you and order, you’ll make a sales commission – and this flows on to include the product purchases of people those people help, and so on.  Please get in touch with us to learn more.

When you shift your buying from supporting the local health food store or supermarket with your personal care, household cleaners and supplements to ordering beautiful, safe products through your own Young Living business, it’s super easy to come up with a monthly order that also generates generous free product rewards and qualifies you for earning commissions (when the necessary conditions are met).  And that’s before you even take essential oils into account.

So let’s take a look at just a snapshot of how essential oils can energise, support and cheer you from the time you climb out of bed to when your head hits the pillow ready for pushing up Zzzzs.

Rise and shine!

Set your diffuser to start diffusing an invigorating oil single or blend like peppermint, rosemary or En-R-Gee™ five minutes before your alarm is due to go off.  This will help you throw back the covers and get those feet out onto the floor.  Kiss your Snooze button good-bye.

Fitness First

Heading outside for a morning walk?  Good for you.  Help your muscles to warm up with a blend like Young Living Ortho Ease Massage Oil or DIY with good quality carrier oil and a few drops of basil, marjoram and peppermint.  Use the same to help your warm down stretches.

Brekkie time?

How about an antioxidant juice boost rich with NingXia wolfberries and enhanced with feel-good lemon, orange, yuzu and tangerine essential oils.  Delve into Young Living NingXia Red®’s benefits here.

Work Worries

Feeling a bit concerned or meh about heading to work, school or uni?  Inhale restorative lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) or Young Living Joy™, Harmony™ or Stress Away™.  If you’re prone to worry, keep a Stress Away™ Roll-on in your purse, pocket or backpack for moments of extra need.

Fuel Your Focus

Rub a drop of Young Living Clarity™ or rosemary on your temples to help your mind stop drifting.  (Never let essential oils get into your eyes.)

Refresh with Tea

Sip on herbal tea at work by keeping a bottle of Young Living peppermint or lemon essential oil in your desk drawer and adding a drop to a cup of very warm water.  Boiling water is not recommended as it can damage the fragile oil molecules.  Important note: only ever add genuinely-pure essential oils to food or drink and only when the label says it’s safe to do so.

Mid-afternoon slump? 

Rub peppermint oil into the calves of your legs then close your eyes (the menthol in peppermint oil can be a bit fresh if you get it too close to them) and cup your hands over your nose.  Inhale deeply to re-energise without hitting the confectionary vending machine.

Revitalise for After Work Activities

Need to freshen up before leaving work and heading to a social engagement on the way home?  Re-energise again with peppermint, use the tiniest touch to freshen your breath, rub a little Young Living Thieves Waterless Hand Purifier™ on your underarms, rub a drop of your favourite blend behind your ears to use as 100% natural perfume (Young Living Harmony™ and Valor™ / Valor II™ are popular for both men and women).  You’ll feel as fresh as a daisy and revitalised and balanced after the rigours of the day.

Drop Your Cares at the Door

Unwind when you arrive home by diffusing a blend of lavender and orange or Young Living Peace & Calming™.  This is awesome for the entire household.  Put away the electronics from 7pm if you can possibly bring yourself to (click here for our recommended night time routine to help a good night’s sleep) and before you go to bed, find a quiet spot for 5 minutes to inhale Young Living Gratitude™ and give thanks for five beautiful things you have in your life.

We haven’t even scratched the scratch but this gives you some ideas as to how to incorporate oils throughout your day as a way to fortify your overall wellbeing.

Essential oils are potent, so as always, please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use of authentic essential oils.

Enjoy the good oil daily.

The information on this site does not constitute advice. Please consult with your health practitioner. When using any of the products mentioned throughout this site, please be sure to read the labels and follow their suggestions for safe use. We make commissions from sales via many of the products we recommend but we only suggest products we genuinely enjoy and want you to benefit from.