Essential oils are one of the most beautiful ways you can take care of your health and well-being.
While you might struggle to chew through kale and go for a jog (both great things, though!), inhaling essential oils, applying them to your skin and increasing the vitality of your food with them is always a pleasure.
BUT WHERE TO START?
Today we’re running through an overview of what essential oils are and how to introduce them into your life. Our favourites are created and sold by Young Living. They are a great source of the most pristine and magnificent essential oils on the planet, and an entire range of safe cleaning products, skincare and foods/supplements that are all infused with the highest-quality oils for extra vitality and potency.
Along with familiarising yourself with the basics of using oils and safety guidelines, we also highly recommend you acquire at least one well-respected reference book on oils to help steer your passage and get to know which oils are best suited to different situations. Using oils is a journey and it’s important to educate yourself so you can make the most of these lovely gifts of nature.
WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL OILS?
These are concentrated aromatic liquids extracted from various parts of the plants, including shrubs, flowers, bark, resin, wood, roots, seeds and so on. They are often called the ‘lifeblood of the plant’ and play in important role in protecting the plant and defending against insects, disease and harsh conditions. Plants depend on them to help them grow, evolve and adapt. And they’ve been found to help us humans do the same.
HOW DO YOU USE ESSENTIAL OILS?
You can enjoy the benefits of essential oils in these ways:
Smelling them (inhalation directly from the bottle, via a diffuser, from cupped hands held over your nose, and by creating a tent with a towel over your head and a bowl of hot water with a few drops of oil)
Applying them to the skin (topical application: 2-3 drops undiluted on the soles of your feet; place 2-3 drops in your hand or directly on desired area – dilute as needed following the usual guidelines for safe use; add to carrier oil for massaging larger areas)
Adding them to food and drink (ingestion/internal consumption; add 1-2 drops to meals when cooking, add 1-2 drops to a glass of water or juice). Please note that you should only ever use essential oils this way when the label clearly states it’s safe to do so. Few oils are of the necessary purity and not all oils are meant to be ingested, even if the purity is guaranteed. Check the labels, always.
HOW DO YOU CHOOSE OILS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY?
Oils that are cut with other compounds, blended synthetically or otherwise altered – or not produced correctly in the first place courtesy of distillation at incorrect temperatures and pressures – all these affect the quality and efficacy of the end result.
We always choose Young Living because their Seed to Seal® promise sets the benchmark for essential oil purity and efficacy.
- SEED Experts choose plants that will yield the highest value based in scientific research, field studies, university partnerships and on-site planting certification
- CULTIVATE Hands-on experience at every Young Living global farm ensures strict quality standards are met wherever their plants are grown, including responsible weed and pest control, proper soil preparation and irrigation, sustainable wild-craft harvesting techniques
- DISTILL Young Living’s proprietary low-temperature, low-pressure steam distillation process allows the natural, bioactive plant compounds in every batch of essential oil to remain uncompromised, ensuring optimal oil quality every time
- TEST Every essential oil is thoroughly tested, both in internal and third-party laboratories, to make sure the purity, potency and overall quality is worthy of the Young Living label
- SEAL The Seed to Seal process is complete when Young Living carefully inspects and seals each bottle of essential oil and encodes every label with information allowing them to trace it back to its source
WHICH OILS ARE GREAT ONES TO GET STARTED WITH?
Starting with a ready-assembled collection of oils is an awesome way to get started. Young Living has an Essential 7 collection and Everyday Oils collection of 5mL sized bottles and these contain a great selection of oils that will cover plenty of your needs. Then as you need others to target certain things, you can add them and grow your collection, and replace your popular favourites as needed with 15mL sizes.
Some of the oils included in one or both of these collections are:
READY TO ORDER?
We’d love to help you join. When you join Young Living with The Good Oil Team as your enroller/sponsor, we’ll help you with getting started in your Young Living and essential oils journey, both from the product usage side of things and the business side of things if you decide to start your own independent YL business. Please get in touch with us to learn more or visit this page for help and our special joining link. Thanks so much.
Essential oils are potent, so as always, please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use of authentic essential oils.
Please ensure you are choosing a brand with complete transparency from seed to seal, such as Young Living. You can learn in this short video why we only ever recommend and choose Young Living oils and love them so much!
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
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