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When using genuinely pure essential oils, it’s important to follow essential oil safety cautions and guidelines. For sure, authentic essential oils are 100% natural. But they are highly potent and not all are suitable for inhaling deeply close up or rubbing on anywhere and everywhere. We’ve already covered guidelines for safe use in this post here, [...]
When you’re on a ski vacation and feeling weary after a long day of plummeting down the piste, you’ll regret not setting aside a small corner of your luggage for essential oils if you opted to leave them at home. In the battle of one suitcase versus a mound of bulky ski gear, it’s easy to [...]
Cardamom essential oil is an ingredient in one of the first Young Living blends I ever tried: Clarity™. While commonly known as a spice, it’s not so commonly known as an essential oil. You might be wondering what it’s good for. So let’s take a look at some background and if it sparks your interest, please [...]
Essential oils are awesome mood-lifters. But we can forget to use them when we're down and could benefit from them most - for instance, if unemployed and struggling with fears and doubts that can start to take over when feeling vulnerable. In the initial days, you bounce out of bed ready to search and positive you’ll [...]
Decades ago, I visited Japan. I still have a souvenir bottle of sake to prove it. I try not to move it often. It might be combustible by now. If I’d known about essential oils back then, I would have dedicated some time to communing with hinoki trees, also called Japanese cypress. The pinkish-brown wood from [...]
Before kale and chia were food rockstars, there were carrots. Humble, rustic, tasty both raw and cooked. Bugs Bunny fuel. And you can turn them into cake. What's not to love about carrots?! Fun fact: carrots are members of the parsley family. When we think of their herby, dill-like stems, it shouldn't come as a surprise. [...]
Back in the day, no beauty routine was complete without suffocating clouds of highly perfumed hairspray and holding your nose. Considering smoking was very much in favour at the time, it’s a miracle hair wasn’t being set fire to on a regular basis. Maybe it was and we just didn’t hear about it. You can probably [...]
First date jitters? Butterflies doing a salsa? Or you're dancing the salsa and petrified of having two left feet? Have no fear, essential oils are here! Feeling generally relaxed can be achieved with authentic lavender essential oil. It’s important to choose the right lavender, both in quality and type. Look for lavandula angustifolia specified on the [...]
