During holiday season, many people like to bake cookies and make home made crafts. As an essential oil lover, I like to create with essential oils. This DIY essential oil soap recipe is super easy, fun, and at the end you’re left with homemade stocking stuffers for your whole family (or other list of giftees)….
How To Use Essential Oils
So you've received your starter kit and are looking to start using your essential oils. Look no further! These articles are a collection of handy ways to use essential oils for day to day things like cleaning, dry skin, or emotional balancing. You'll also find recipes for better sleep, to help with nausea, or snoring.
These are just example topics. I think you'll also enjoy my seasonal how-to guides, for example on cold and flu season, or how to repel pesky mosquitos.
Whatever your reason for starting with essential oils; have a browse around, and I hope you enjoy!
How to Balance Your Emotions using These Essential Oils
Have you ever imagined that essential oils could relax, energize, and calm your emotions, or make you concentrate on your goals? According to research, inhaling aromatherapy oils can influence your feelings, behaviors, moods, and even memories. Your nostrils are the gateway to your olfactory system (=sense of smell), through which you will access the therapeutic…
5 Best Essential Oils to Enhance Your Meditation Practice
Meditation, like essential oils, has been used by various cultures for centuries. The practice of stillness – of simply breathing and paying attention to your senses in stillness – can make a huge difference in your day to day life. It helps in clearing your mind, calming your body, and lifting your spirits. Meditation is…
10 Essential Oils for Cold Sores
Cold sores are a real nuisance! Cold sores are also referred to as fever blisters, and are among the most popular oral disorders that affect millions of individuals. Luckily, there are plenty of home remedies for cold sores which are easy to use and simple to follow. One of the absolute most helpful remedies for…
10 Essential Oils for Cough and Chest Congestion
Do you have a cough? A congested chest? Cough and a congested chest are symptomatic of many acute and chronic ailments such as the common cold, pulmonary diseases, respiratory dysfunction, pneumonia, bronchitis, flu, and other respiratory tract infections. If you’re reading this article, chances are that you’re looking for an easy home remedy that will…
13 Benefits and Uses For Geranium Essential Oil
Geranium essential oil (Pelargonium graveolens) is a wonderful staple essential oil in your medicine cabinet. If I had to summarize it in one word, it would be “balancing”. Geranium is perhaps most commonly known for balancing the mind and sorting out emotions to help you relax and have that stress-free feeling after a long day…
Make This Easy DIY Cinnamon Oil Soap for the Fall
Ah, the fall. Who doesn’t love the way the crisp breeze blows through hair, the leaves change colors to brilliant reds and oranges, and the days get a little shorter, making cuddling up in bed ideal? It’s the time of the year that brings out an internally cozy feeling; it makes us seek out warmth…
Top 5 Best Essential Oils for Acne, Pimples, Blackheads & Blemishes
Are you worried about the growth of pimples and acne on your face? Have you tried several acne and spot removers including soaps and facial cleansers but to no avail? Why not switch to using essential oils for acne and see the wonders of nature’s own medicine on your skin. Essential oils are extracts from…
Cleaning with Essential Oils
I love when my home is fresh and clean. I think better. I feel better. I get more done and I relax more. Nothing cleans my home better than when I use essential oils for cleaning. Cleaning with essential oils not only disinfects, they smell great, which helps create a nurturing and healthy environment for…
Hydrosols Guide (Floral Waters)
Have you heard of essential oil hydrosols? They are also called floral waters or essential waters. Maybe you’ve come across the term in a DIY recipe or have seen it in the online store of your favorite essential oil brand, and are wondering about hydrosols. This guide to essential oil hydrosols provides you an overview…
