I have been thinking about writing a post like this for some time to demonstrate how important Essential Oils can become to your daily health and how to make them part of your daily routine. My usage of Oils has increased over the past few months as I read more about their benefits and listen Continue Reading
Using Essential Oils to Help Manage Stress
How do you manage stress? Are you even aware of your stressors? If you are a person who is easily stressed it can be very helpful to stop and think about this so that next time you feel yourself getting worked up you can think about why and do something about it. I started using Continue Reading
3 Tips for Staying Healthy During Winter
It is officially Winter tomorrow in Australia and we are finally getting some cold weather! Of course the colder weather brings it fair share of health problems for many people and the doctors are already telling us that this year is going to be bad for the flu. So what are you doing to stay Continue Reading
Quick Guide to the Tools You Need for DIY with Essential Oils
Have you been making your own cleaning products? What tools do you use? I have quite a collection of tools and containers now that help make the DIY process easy. Of course you also need suitable containers to store what you make. This post is about the tools and the containers that you will need. Continue Reading
Lavender and Rosemary Soap (Melt and Pour)
Melt and pour soaps make it so easy to make a variety of soaps for you house and as gifts. You can vary the shape, the Essential oils and the Botanicals to make a range of beautiful and unique soaps. You Will Need: Silicone Moulds 1/4 cup Grapeseed or Olive oil 1 cup Goat’s Milk Continue Reading
Foaming Hand wash
This recipe is so easy to make. Most people don’t realise that to make the foam its all about the pump top, not the soap inside the bottle! Once you get your foaming bottle you are set. You Will Need: 1 x Foaming Pump bottle 1 x tablespoon of Castile Soap Protective blend and Lavender Continue Reading
Essential Oils for Aches and Pains
We all have aches and pains at times and need something to take the edge off. It’s so easy to reach for the painkiller or if the problem is muscular, the heat rub or the anti-inflammatory gel. I actually used paracetamol and quite powerful anti -inflammatory drugs for years as I had a dicky knee Continue Reading
Getting Organised for DIY with Essential Oils
In my last post about DIY with Essential Oils I outlined a plan of attack or the process I followed to decide what DIY products with Essential Oils to make and how to do it. It is really just a way to help you decide where to start. In this post I want to share some of what Continue Reading
DIY with Essential Oils – First Steps
In my last post I wrote about how I found a purpose for using Essential Oils by asking myself WHY. In a nutshell, I decided that I would use my oils to take a proactive approach to managing my health and embark on a mission to reduce the amount of toxic chemicals in my home Continue Reading
DIY with Essential Oils – Why would you?
In an earlier post I wrote about how overwhelming the world of Essential Oils could be. As I started to do some research about the oils I found that the terms DIY Low Tox and Green Households and Essential Oils were almost inseparable and whilst this interested me it also seemed like another mountain to Continue Reading