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Winter Wellness Tips
Winter Wellness Tips Prevention Prevention is key as we focus on quality of life. By prevention I don't mean getting a flu shot and calling it good. Prevention includes eating healthy, taking supplements, and little things like washing your hand or using hand spritzer. We use On Guard foaming hand-wash at both our kitchen and bathroom sinks. I don’t personally use store bought hand sanitizer. I feel that it kills the good and the bad…
How Using Essential Oils Saves you Money
When trying to convince sharing oils with people one of the biggest roadblocks for NOT trying them is cost. Quality oils are an investment. It does take some time to build up your supply. Can I tell you where I am saving money, now, as a result of using doTERRA? My household budget. Now you are asking how can you save money when you are spending it on essential oils. Well, let me tell you. I…
The Best Enchilada Sauce Recipe Ever
This recipe is for the BEST enchilada sauce ever! For real! It was so good. The leftovers the next day were even better. I think I will try this again in the crockpot and see if that makes a difference as well. Best Enchilada Sauce Recipe 2 C. Chicken Broth 2T Olive Oil 2T Flour 1T Garlic Powder (or more if you like garlic) 1/2 t Salt 1 t Cumin (I used because we really…
Tips to Stay Healthy This Winter
Get outdoors: Take up snowshoeing or cross country skiing. Get as much natural Vitamin D as you can. Boost your immune system: Look natural ways to boost your immune system and with the seasonal influx of flu and colds there is never a better time to get started. I take natural supplements everyday and try to eat a healthy diet, low in sugar. Probiotics also help for good gut health which helps overall health. Look…
Ways to use Soothing Blend Essential Oil
What does one do with Soothing Blend you ask? Think sports creme of some kind. Like can you smell it now? Well. I will tell you. The Soothing Blend has an aroma to it, but it doesn't make you think of old guys golfing. Soothing Blend is a blend of: Wintergreen Peppermint Camphor German Chamomile Blue Tansy Osmanthus Helichrysum A Few Uses for Soothing Blend: • Perfect for the athlete in your life, Soothing Blend…
Cooking with Essential Oils
I love that quality, which can be safe to ingest, are also ok to cook with. NOT ALL OILS ARE SAFE. Not even all of my trusted brand of oils are ok to cook with. Some of the blends are not. The bottle will say if they are safe to ingest. One of our FAVORITE recipes is Fruit Dip Do you have the shake mix? Peanut Butter Bliss • 1 Scoop of shake mix •…
Reducing Your Toxic Load ~ Personal Care Products
Your skin is your biggest organ. Your skin has pours which absorb toxins. More reducing the toxic load. LESS CHEMICAL! Detox people, detox. So what have I done to reduce my toxic load, besides the cleanse? I have made a few products. shaving cream, diaper rash cream, and deodorant. doTERRA carries a WHOLE line of facial products that are totally natural. No fillers or synthetics. Verage is *NEW* and also a complete line of skin…
Reducing your Toxic Load ~ Cleaning
There are so many toxins in cleaning products. I get a headache just thinking about it. Using essential oils to clean with is not only frugal (really, it is) it is not toxic. So safe your kids can clean with them. I have made room spray (8-10 drops of cleansing blend in a cobalt blue 8oz spray bottle of water) and laundry detergent. I now use protective blend laundry detergent. It take 1Tbsp to do…
Traveling with Essential Oils
While you are reading this I am currently on a plane heading east. I am attending the Allume blog conference in Greenville, SC. Something about traveling from my little corner of the country, that you might not know, is unless I am only going to Seattle or Denver I have to get on many planes to get to where I am going. I will have 2 layovers each way on this trip. A total of…
Essential Oils are Germ Fighters {Part 2}
The content for this post had to be removed. The FDA has said making claims that oils help a clinical diagnoses to be non-compliant as the FDA has not approved said claims.