Essential oils
The power of nature...in a bottle!
What Are Essential Oils?
When I first heard about them, I didn’t know much about them. Truth be told I thought they were a little airy fairy and were just something that smelled good. Man, was I wrong!
Essential oils have enriched lives for thousands of years, offering a variety of benefits from cosmetic and dietary purposes to spiritual and religious use.
Essential oils are the aromatic, volatile liquid, found within many shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds. Our pure essential oils are very concentrated, making them far more powerful than the plants they are extracted from.
Each essential oil is a complex structure of hundreds of different constituents that help us live above the wellness line and support our physical and emotional wellbeing.
Oftentimes, essential oils are referred to as the lifeblood of the plant. Just as you have thousands of different types of molecules floating in your bloodstream, plants have thousands of different constituents flowing through their parts as well.
Essential oils have been around for thousands of years with well-documented research supporting their use for physical and emotional wellbeing. If you like science, like I do, then I encourage you to check out essential oils on Pub Med as the information there is all scientific, peer reviewed journal articles, studies and more. It is fascinating!
Benefits of Essential Oils
Essential Oils can be used in many ways, including:
- Promote emotional wellbeing and balance
- Support physical wellbeing
- Purify the home
- Create a calm, relaxed environment
- Promote a restful sleep
- Smooth skin appearance
- Reduce the look of blemishes
- Ease feelings of tension
- Promote focus
- Feel energised and invigorated
- Ease everyday stress
- Support a calm, clear mind
- Release worries and unwind
- Promote courage, self-esteem and strength
- Ease mental exhaustion
- Create a sense of peace, harmony and creativity
- Promote feelings of love and happiness
- Encourage emotional transformation
- And so much more!
How to Use Essential Oils
One of the things I love about essential oils is how easy they are to use and how everyone can experience the benefits! You can access the power of pure essential oils via inhalation, topical application and/or food flavouring. These methods bring the pure essence of these health supporting botanicals to you, your home and your family!
inhalation
Inhalation can take place by simply putting a drop of essential in your hand, rubbing them together to activate the oils and then cupping your hands over your nose and mouth and inhaling. You can also smell directly from the bottle, wear a diffuser necklace, or, my personal favourite, diffusing.
When you start using your essential oils, you’ll be using your diffuser a lot. I diffuse most of the day when I work from home, diffuse at the clinic, diffuse at bedtime, and I always bring a diffuser when I travel. I even have a diffuser in my bathroom! It is the easiest way to get going with your oils.
topical application
You can use essential oils topically by simply applying the oil on a desired area. You dilute essential oils with a carrier oil to cover a larger surface area, to cool a “hot oil”, to slow down the absorption of an essential oil and when applying essential oils on infants, children and furbabies.
Believe it or not, the feet are a great place to apply essential oils. The reason being, the feet are less sensitive and the pores on the feet are very large and absorb things quickly. This is great when applying oils, not so great when you have chemical cleaner on the floor! So be sure you get some of our non-toxic all purpose cleaner!
food flavouring
You can use our pure essential oils as food flavouring in cooking and in beverages. That's because our culinary oils meet Food Standards Australia New Zealand’s guidelines for food flavouring. Not every company can say that!
Because essential oils are known for their life enhancing properties, even when you use them in food or in beverages, you will feel their benefits. Add a drop to a glass of water or to your daily shot of NingXia Red. Pop a drop in a cup of tea or coffee. You can even add essential oils to your baked goods. Did someone say Peppermint brownies?! What about adding the delicious taste of Tangerine to your bliss balls....yum!
Why Young Living
Not all oils are created equal!
Let me talk about Young Living’s quality standards for a minute. Young Living has a Seed to Seal guarantee and promise. The company abides by very strict guidelines to fulfil this promise to us. In addition:
- YL owns its own farms, which no other major company does. It has partner farms that have to abide by the same standards.
- YL won’t plant on soil that has had been in contact with ANY chemicals within 50 years. (Organic standards are only five years)
- YL picks the absolute best seeds from strong thriving plants.
- YL hand weeds and uses its own oils on plants for pest control to avoid harmful chemicals.
- YL harvests at peak times.
- YL distils on site without chemicals.
- YL tests every batch multiple times throughout the process with state of the art equipment.
All of these factors make a huge difference in quality and effectiveness. If a batch doesn’t meet YL standards for any reason, it doesn't get bottled up to distribute. YL would rather have something go out of stock than let an inferior product slip through to us. It's rare to find a company with such high standards.
