Essential Oils can be used throughout the day to help you regulate your moods, emotions and your focus. It is often as simple as a drop of oil in your palm or a swipe over your wrists and temples. Or if you love using your diffuser try these oils to keep your day on an Continue Reading
What oil should I use for Inflammation and Pain?
Essential Oils can be used to reduce inflammation and pain in the body. It is amazing how many oils have anti inflammatory properties. This is great for you if you have some Essential Oils at home because it means that when part of your body is aching, swollen and in pain you are likely to Continue Reading
What oil should I use for Skin Repair?
There are so many commercial creams and treatments for skin repair. Sometimes we just need some moisture to repair dry skin, but sometimes we need a little more help. For example, have you cut your finger lately or grazed your shin? We need help with healing in these instances as well as some moisture. There Continue Reading
What oil should I use to Build Immunity?
Essential oils can be used in your everyday life to help build immunity. There are many oils that will help, some are very expensive but there are also a range of reasonably priced oils that will help you with your immunity. Four reasonably priced oils to build immunity are listed and describe below: Basil Basil Continue Reading
What oil should I use for Cleaning?
One of the first things I researched when starting to use Essential Oils was how I could use them in my home for cleaning purposes. It didn’t take me long to find that I can use many oils for cleaning. I have developed some preferences and so I thought I would share them here to Continue Reading
What oil should I use for that?
If you are familiar with Essential Oils you will know that they are very helpful for use in our everyday lives. But do you find yourself wondering how specific oils or blends of oils can be used to replace complex and harmful chemicals in our everyday life? Of course Essential Oils are also chemicals and Continue Reading
Invitation to Our ‘Doing it Safer Series’ – cleaning the safer, low tox way!
We use Essential oils in our personal care and household cleaning products and everyday we live out the mantra ‘we have an oil for that’! Why? Because we are committed to reducing the toxic load of chemicals in our home and in the homes of our family and friends. In doing this we have learned Continue Reading
5 tips to help keep up enthusiasm for working at home
This year has been horrible for many of us, but there have been some wonderful innovations and positive changes to the way we live. People can work from home, talk to the doctor over the phone instead of waiting around in a room with sick people, attend virtual conferences and hold virtual dinner parties! Who Continue Reading
How to Diffuse Essential Oils for Health & Wellbeing
My first introduction to Essential Oils was at the yoga studio where my yoga teacher diffuses oils during our practice. I did not really understand the benefits of the oils, I just liked their lovely aroma and so I became hooked!! Of course, now I use oils for all sorts of reasons i.e. in any Continue Reading
DIY Chest Rub with Essential Oils
It’s that time of the year again when we are bothered with colds and flu. Some of my earliest memories as a child were when I was sick with bronchitis and my mother rubbing my chest with Vicks. These days I try to stay clear of commercial health products and like to make my own. Continue Reading