Electrolytes play a crucial role in maintaining our body’s overall health and well-being. These electrically charged minerals regulate essential bodily functions, from controlling muscle contractions to balancing fluid levels. Many associate electrolytes with sports drinks, but their benefits extend beyond athletic performance. Unfortunately, most electrolyte drinks on the market contain harmful additives that aren’t actually …
Abundance. What does it mean? What does it mean to live abundantly? Are you looking to welcome more of something in your life? Can you really create more abundance in your life? Health? Wealth? Happiness? Time? Togetherness? Love? Yes! Leading a life of abundance can mean so many different things. By definition, Abundance is to …
Summertime is all about vacations… whether you leave home or not. Choose a fun DIY summer essential oil diffuser blend to help spice up your summer at home! Instead of reaching for air fresheners with harmful chemicals or the latest summer line of candles, spruce up your essential oil diffuser with these DIY summer essential …
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Water stains can be a real nuisance, and they seem to show up the most on stainless steel sinks. In this article, we’ll discuss how to clean stainless steel hard water stains with natural ingredients. First, we’ll cover what causes these unsightly blemishes, and then we’ll give you a few solutions for removing them as …
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There are many resources available across the internet about using essential oils for kids, but not many people are talking about the other end of our life cycle. Using essential oils in eldercare. While it may not be at the top of your mind during your initial essential oil resource searching, as we age, essential …
Leftover avocado? Don’t throw it away, and wait to compost it. It is common to use part of your avocado for salsa, toast, or smoothies while the other half sits on your counter or in your fridge, turns brown, and ends up thrown away or tossed into the compost pile. Instead, make the most of …
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Essential oils are excellent tools for increasing your energy, without dealing with the dreaded afternoon slump or caffeine crash. Here are 75 DIY energizing essential oil blends (plus our favorite non-DIY pre-made blends).
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Sugar scrubs. They are fantastic to use to exfoliate your skin and despite the high prices, you’ll pay at the store and online for pre-made sugar scrubs. Plus many most of them contain harmful ingredients. Keep in mind that what we put on our skin ends up being absorbed into our skin and then into …
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Do you realize how important it is to have mineral balance in the body? For example, did you know that you need sufficient copper in the body for your cells to absorb iron properly? Minerals are critical to enzyme function, hormone production, bone building and breakdown, creating long luxurious hair and nails, and transmission of …
DIY Frankincense Essential Oil Blends are perfect for helping you calm your mind, soothe your stress, energize your productivity, and increase the effectiveness of your self-care. Frankincense Essential Oil is a very versatile oil, with properties that compliment most other essential oils with DIY blends. It has a base note with a warm, balsamic, sweet, …
One of the factors of living inside is that at some point, there are funky smells to contend with (especially if you’re like us and have kids and dogs), where you will want to take necessary steps to deodorize your home. Gross smells in your home may be caused by a variety of events, whether …
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If you’re looking for a delicious, healthy appetizer to serve at your next get together, you’ll want to make this delicious fresh take on homemade Herb Goat Cheese and Yogurt Dip Recipe, featuring vitality essential oils. We love using cheese dips and yogurt dips as appetizers and snacks, and naturally they work together brilliantly, especially …
This recipe is is an essential oil inspired rendition of Disney’s Gingerbread Cream Cheese Muffins. This timeless recipe is redone using vitality essential oils in the recipe. Why? Because I don’t always have fresh or dried spices on hand, especially with us being on the move a lot and often full time living in an …
Essential oils have many uses that may enhance your quality of life. Using essential oils for improving your clarity and focus are among hundreds of ways you can improve your quality of life without totally disrupting your overall lifestyle. Essential oils that improve your clarity and focus Blue Cypress Eucalyptus Lavender Lemon Lemongrass Frankincense Peppermint …
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I will be sharing a series of posts with information on how essential oils can be used along with crystals to enhance and improve your overall wellness. *A Quick Disclaimer* these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration nor Health Canada. This event is for informational purposes only and is not …
Albert Einstein taught us everything is energy. Essential oils and the moon are no different. Both provide different energy frequencies that impact how we feel both physically and mentally. And when you use essential oils intentionally with the different moon phases, you’re able to amplify their effects. When I first started using essential oils, I was …
Essential oils are powerful tools for helping us navigate our emotions, enabling our moods to shift from tense chaotic thoughts to embracing gratitude, calming down, and continuing to live feeling less restricted and more capable. In this article, we are sharing how we use essential oils to help contribute to our emotional healing journey, and …
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You receive your Premium Starter Kit after an anticipated wait, and are thrilled to see and finally smell your 12 new oils. What an exciting moment! Then… a little overwhelm sets in. What are you supposed to do with these 12 oils? While the blends are pretty simple to figure out, you know that there …
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Self-care is a hot topic as more and more people dive into learning the true meaning of loving yourself, and how that love extends from within us into what we do and other people we are around. It’s so much more than your massages and manicures or pedicures… self-care is all about appreciating your life, …
Thieves essential oil blend has may uses and benefits that keeps it on the list of top 5 essential oils and blends to keep on hand. It has a rich history in helping support your overall wellbeing and immune functioning. Unfortunately sometimes it does go out of stock or sometimes we overlook what oils we …
Sometimes you just need to change things up in life and embrace the little things. There is just something about having different aromas in the diffuser, and different smelling hand soaps at different times of year that just make your heart light up. Take a break from the monotony and indulge in a little extra …
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Clarity Essential Oil Blend is a blend of essential oils that together create an aroma that enhances a sense of mental clarity and alertness. Clarity Essential Oil Blend Ingredients Clarity Essential Oil Blend is comprised of: basil essential oil cardamom essential oil rosemary essential oil peppermint essential oil geranium essential oil lemon essential oil palmarosa …
Everyone transitioning out of the military back into the civilian culture goes through different struggles at different severity levels. Some hide their emotions better than others. Some manage to transition smoothly without any issue at all. My transition and the transitions of most disabled veterans that I’m friends with were more severe, filled with some …
Raven essential oil blend is a cool, refreshing essential oil blend with lightly sweet undertones that provides a cooling sensation specifically comforting to your throat and lungs. that is proprietary to the Young Living essential oil brand. We love how Raven provides an invigorating and empowering experience when applied topically, particularly before or after a …
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Young Living’s Premium Starter Kit features 11 of the most used essential oils and oil blends. It is the fastest and most efficient way to dive into the world of essential oils. Essential oils include: Lemon, Lavender, Frankincense, and Peppermint Essential oil blends include: Raven, Citrus Fresh, Pan Away, Thieves, DiGize, Valor, Peace and Calming, and Stress Away The oils in the …
The military lifestyle. It’s not really understood until you’re knee-deep in all it entails. Stress. Abandonment. Stress. Consistent inconsistencies. Dreaming of a glimmer of stability. Stress. Love. Joy. Heartbreak. Loneliness. Did I mention stress? As a Navy Wife, I’ve personally been incredibly thankful for the little things that have helped us navigate life much more …
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Losing someone close to you not only effects your mental wellbeing and emotional health, but also may impact you physically as well. Stress, grief, anger, sorrow, resentment, and feeling too hurt to forgive may actually do more damage to our bodies than we realize. Thankfully there are several aromas that we can use to help …
Hello Spring! What a refreshing season to bask in. Snow melting. Flowers popping up. We have some of our favorite DIY blends for spring right here, for you to enjoy! Spring Blossom DIY essential oil blend is made with jasmine, eucalyptus, and peppermint essential oils. It’s crisp, bright, and energizing. Perfect for waking your soul …
Recently I was asked: “Can I use essential oils in my hair?” by a friend who recently had a baby. Her question made me think back to when my first son was born, I remember all too well what it was like being 3 months postpartum when my hair fell out by the handful. I …
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Sometimes you just want a pickle, without the canning hassle… or perhaps you’re like me and would love and eat pickles more if you had access to some that weren’t quite so… pickle-y. Lets face it… I could easily eat my weight in cucumbers (#noshame), especially when its warm outside. And there are no refuting …
Do you have strong-willed child emotions running rampant in your home? The thought is often enough to make any mother cringe. I don’t know how your family is, but my boy is fantastic at displaying his wide array of intense emotions in what may often seem to be the most lawless way possible. Fear Nervousness Anger …
Being an active advocate within the essential oil world, I’ve had numerous questions recently from my readers and friends asking for my thoughts on CBD, whether or not it is an essential oil, what my thoughts are about how it is made, what my thoughts are over the legal controversy polarizing the US, and if …
Everyday we wake up to a new day, even though sometimes our days are so similar they seem to melt together in our memories, making us feel stuck in monotony to the point where you’re stuck thinking “Now what?” I know this feeling all to well. After separating from the Navy in 2008, I spent …
In the middle of a hot summer, on of the best ways to cool down and refresh yourself is with an ice-cold glass of lemonade. But, what if your lemonade could be more than just refreshing? Adding some lavender to your lemonade can provide many healthy benefits… especially when you choose to skip the sugar. …
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How often do you catch yourself obsessing over the past events that made your life the way it is today? Or perhaps you’ve caught yourself obsessing over how those past experiences will forge your future into something you don’t particularly want… We’ve all been there. So wrapped up in taking care of life priorities with …
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What could be worse than the sneezing rampage as you dust your furniture? That dust poofs up and achoo! It never seems to end. And forget leaving the windows open in the spring, during the pollen-apocalypse that just coats every surface in an endless cycle of constant dust and sneeze frenzy that never seems to …
You’re up… Coffee brewing… Starting your day. You make your way to the mirror, seeing reminders of all the obnoxious imperfections the mirror so judgmentally reflects. Those dark, dull spots… the ones that didn’t use to be there in your younger days. Sigh… the struggle is real. Desperate to look like the you that you …
Citrus Fresh essential oil blend provides the BEST citrus fragrance, being made of a blend of orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, mandarin, and spearmint essential oils. It has a very citrusy, bright aroma to it. There are many uses for Citrus Fresh essential oil blend that range from using it as a perfume, to an air …
Jade Lemon has an uplifting citrusy aroma much milder than a lemon with a unique lemon-lime scent that is oddly reminiscent of Bath and Body Works’ Lemongrass Sage. It is an oil cold-pressed from the peels of a unique hybrid of lemons and limes from the Rutaceae family (citrus). Jade Lemon is very high in …
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Have you ever heard of oil pulling? I decided to try it myself, and I thought these little coconut oil chews would make the process even more convenient. I figured that adding in a few drops of essential oils would only add to the benefits. Gather your oils. I used 5 drops of lemon essential …
Thieves essential oil blend has its roots deep in history. It was created from research based on the infamous 15th century thieves who rubbed oils and herbs on themselves to avoid contracting the plague while they robbed bodies of the dead and dying. Legend has it they told their secret recipe to the King of …
Lemon essential oil is cold-pressed from the rinds of lemons, giving its aroma all the brightness of the freshly picked fruit. Cheerful, sweet, and nostalgic, Lemon oil can eliminate odors and infuse your whole home with its clean, lemon-drop scent when diffused. With its bright and joyful aroma, Lemon oil benefits skin and hair as …
This is a question I recently came across while helping coach a friend into a healthier lifestyle, and with her permission, I thought I would share it with you. She asked me during our long conversation: “… but do you really need to use essential oils to be healthy?” So, Do you need to use …
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