ESSENTIAL OILS

• Inspire a positive emotional state. Each essential oil’s complex, pleasant, and unique scent triggers emotions and memories, which can help in your search for a more fulfilling and balanced life. This is because our olfactory system, our sense of smell, is directly linked to our limbic system, the part of our brain that processes memories and emotions. To help myself rediscover peace, balance, and joy during times of distress, I use essential oils by diffusing them into the air, in soothing baths, in massages, and through topical application. Here are a few oils to get you started:
  • Citrus EOs: Lemon, Citrus Fresh, Jade Lemon, Orange, Grapefruit, Bergamot – uplifting and happy scents.
  • Lavender EO – everyone’s favorite that has a number of uses outside of emotional support.
  • Valor EO – our bravery oil!
  • Joy EO – it’s all in the name! I love starting my day with this one.
  • Peace & Calming EO – for dreamy night sleeps and peaceful mornings.
• Enhance physical wellness. Modern lifestyles don’t always create optimal conditions for physical wellness. Poor diet, lack of exercise, and an overabundance of environmental toxins can leave the body unbalanced and low on energy. Essential oils and essential oil-infused products can help you replace products that have unhealthy toxins and help restore your energy levels. Here are a few products to get you started:
  • Peppermint Vitality & Copaiba Vitality – for happy muscles and joints!
  • NingXia Red – our favorite wolfberry drink that is full of antioxidants, which are incredible for energy levels and many of our body systems.
  • AminoWise – BCAAs for pre or post exercise.
  • Sulfurzyme – MSM and wolfberry combined. Sulfur is incredibly important for healthy skin, nails, hair, and connective tissues.
  • MindWise – a brain health powerhouse.
• Beauty routine. Young Living allows us to replace unsafe ingredients from our personal care products with ones that are toxin-free and safe for our families. Essential oils can help promote a clear-looking complexion, soften the appearance of signs of aging, and nurture healthy-looking hair. Young Living uses naturally derived ingredients and are incredibly particular about the quality of their products (think: multimillion dollar testing facilities). Here are a few products to get you started:
  • Savvy Minerals Makeup – safe, gorgeous makeup? Yes, please! Savvy was started by Melissa Poepping, a Minnesota native, and her dream and vision aligned with Young Living’s so well that they decided to bring Melissa’s line into YL for safe, natural beauty.
  • ART Skincare System – my favorite is the ART serum which contains hyaluronic acid – an esthetician’s favorite!
  • Copaiba Vanilla Shampoo and Conditioner – for soft, healthy hair.
  • Lavaderm After-Sun Spray – for those moments you spend a little too long in the sun. Loaded with essential oils!
• Purify your home. Harsh chemicals aren’t your only option when it comes to cleaning your home. In fact, many of today’s sensitivities come from a build-up of toxins in our systems, or what scientists term as “bioaccumulation”. Enjoy peace of mind for your kids, pets, and yourself when you wash floors and countertops, wash sticky hands, and clean laundry. Here are a few products to get you started:
  • Thieves All-Purpose Household Cleaner – this stuff had me hooked immediately! Super cost-efficient and smells like Christmas. Thieves cleaner is a powerhouse household cleaner that can replace almost every cleaning product you have in your cupboard.
  • Seedlings Baby Line – the safest ingredients for your precious littlest ones!
  • Insect Repellent – that actually smells good and deet-free.
  • Thieves Laundry Detergent – what I use to wash all my massage sheets. Super safe and free from harsh chemicals, and is easily stretched and diluted to make it last longer.
  • Purification EO – amazing for smelly odors. Put a drop in your garbage, put it on the bottoms of your feet, and spray it in your shoes. Your loved ones will say “thank you!”.
• Enhance spiritual awareness. Incense and essential oils from plants have always played an important part in religious and spiritual ceremonies. The pure constituents in these oils stimulate olfactory receptors and activate regions in the brain’s limbic system associated with memory, emotion, and state of mind. To enhance your spiritual practice, dilute and apply empowering essential oils directly to wrists, feet, and behind the ears or diffuse the oils in a quiet space. Popular essential oils and blends for spiritual focus include:
  • Frankincense EO – grounding and uplifting.
  • Idaho Blue Spruce EO – like walking through a forrest in the mountains. One of my favorite ways to bring nature indoors.
  • Sacred Sandalwood EO – the most relaxing smell. Woodsy and mystical.
  • White Angelica EO – when I diffuse or brush it over the tops of my shoulders, this one brings me a sense of peace & security.
  • Transformation EO – this one is my new favorite and one that I have started using daily. Amazing for any time you feel the need for a change or feeling like you are stuck in a rut!

Using Essential Oils In Every Day Life

You actually use essential oils a lot in every day life even if you don’t know it. They are used to flavor foods and can be found in things like toothpaste and mouthwash to give it that minty kick. Oils are also in perfumes and skin care products. They are many places that you wouldn’t guess, but not all oils are created equally. Oils found in food and cosmetics are typically something that is synthetic, your body processes it as a toxin therefore it becomes harder to break down or can be stored in fat cells. These types of synthetic oils work against your body.

Young Living Essential Oils are therapeutic grade which gives them the ability to work with your body. Within 20 minutes of applying oils they can be found in every cell. These pure oils are distilled from plants and are made up of tiny molecules that can support your body in a variety of different ways depending on the chemical make-up of the oil you choose. When you pick a rose and break off the stem, you’ll always notice there is a bit of watery substance. This is the source that the pure essential oils come from, which allow them to benefit our whole body.

It is a highly temperamental process to distill oils from plants and it can not be rushed. Young Living is a part of the entire process from “Seed to Seal”. They make sure that the soil the crops are planted in have never been touched with pesticides or herbicides so that toxins are never present in the plants or in the oils. Young Living oversees each step ensuring that the correct temperature is used for the correct amount of time so that every constituent is intact. They go above and beyond to guarantee that every drop of oil is what we call “beyond organic” – stricter requirements than those that are required to label something “certified organic”.

We have seen countless testimonies of how many families have received amazing benefits from these pure, therapeutic grade essential oils, and we can’t wait to hear your testimony!

Why Young Living? Young Living has been harvesting and distilling essential oils for 24+ years. YL was started by Gary D. Young as a small family business and has rightfully established themselves as the world leaders and pioneers in essential oil research and the distillation process.  YL oils are beyond organic & each batch of oils is rigorously tested in house and in 3rd party testing facilities for therapeutic viability (they are the only company to submit their oils to AIRASE for purity testing). Young Living is the only company that has a line of essential oils dedicated to the use of essential oils internally. They own their own farms across the globe & are proud to allow anyone to visit the farms and participate in the harvest/distillation process. They have also formed close partnerships with other farms whose standards match the high quality and purity that YL stands behind. With over 200 singles and blends, YL has an extensive selection of oils available, and even more plant-based products that are created with the same high standards in place. Because they truly have an unmatched Seed to Seal process to guarantee the purity and potency of every oil and product, I cannot recommend this company enough for all your natural product needs.