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Tuesday Tidbit

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Hello Everyone! Happy 2019

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I decided to take December off from a lot of social media, and keeping up with the bare minimum. This enabled me to have time to rest, I hibernated a lot in December! I was working a lot in my new business.

For those of you who missed it, my husband and I went into business together. This has also been a fantastic shift. We love the time we are spending working together. Our family time has increased and we are now working with the kids on work ethic. They also have been helping the family by working!

 

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Balancing schedules has been the largest shift in going 100% self-employed. I have had to really take a look at the time I have and make things a priority.  The Tuesday Tidbit has a large audience and taking the month of December off allowed me to see what my schedule is able to accommodate.

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Top 10 Essential Oils

TOP TEN ESSENTIAL OILS

  1. Lavender: The calming essential oil. Used for peaceful sleep, and any kind of calming in general. Apply 1-2 drops of lavender to the temples, or diffuse aromatically to help ease tensions. A drop can also be used to soothe minor skin irritations, burns. Helps the skin recover faster and takes the sting away.
  2. Peppermint: Has a variety of uses. It is a natural energy booster. Peppermint promotes healthy respiratory functions, clear breathing. Rub some on your chest or simply use aromatically. A drop of peppermint can be added to a glass of water for occasional stomach upset. Also great when you have an occasional ache, you can rub Peppermint on that area. It also is effective for head tension.
  3. Frankincense: The King of all Oils. Many uses, including helping build a healthy immune system. Also great for relaxing, calming anxious feelings and boost mood. It will promote cellular functions, and is wonderful for the skin. Just rub a drop on the back of your neck each morning. This simple routine can also give you peace and relaxation.
  4. Breathe: A blend of several essential oils, it is what it says….BREATHE. Help assist in breathing and maintaining clear airways. It also helps cut down on seasonal threats, and can relieve some of those discomforts. Add some to a diffuser or a drop to your chest and back.
  5. Melaleuca: Commonly known as Tea Tree Oil. It is very soothing and loved by many. It is used for its cleansing properties, soothing and rejuvenating effects on the skin. Several products contain this essential oil to help with many skin issues. Melaleuca also helps keep the air clean and protect against environmental threats.
  6. DigestZen: A blend of essential oils to support your digestive system. Sooths occasional stomach upset, nausea and helps support a healthy gut. Rub a drop or two on your stomach, add to a glass of water or put a drop under your tongue.
  7. Deep Blue: This essential oil is actually blue! It is formulated to assist in soothing sore muscles, and achy joints. The essential oil is great for pre and post workouts, there is a comforting sensation of cooling and warmth. This also supports healthy circulation to our muscles and joints.
  8. Oregano: Yes. The herb in OIL form. It is a wonderful and powerful cleansing agent. It has immune boosting benefits and is an excellent source of antioxidants. It also helps support healthy digestion and respiratory function. It also can be used for cooking in small amounts, use toothpick method.
  9. Lemon: This is one of my favorite essential oils. We use a lot of it in the kitchen. It is a great cleansing agent. Both to the body and to our environment. It supports the urinary tract system, and can also be used internally. Use in your diffuser to cleanse and purify the air. Use on surfaces to cleanse and purify. Great for a mood booster, and nice for irritated throats in hot water.
  10. On Guard: This special blend of essential oils creates Christmas in a bottle. It is packed with immune boosting properties, you can use daily to keep your family healthy. Rub a couple of drops to the bottoms of your feet each day. In our home this is a must during the school season. We had perfect attendance on year in our home with both kids! Now that was a testimony.
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Essential Oil Mishaps & Solutions

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This blog topic came up in a Facebook thread. One of our team members posted about a mishap with her oils. I knew that many of us avid oilers have had mishaps with our essential oils. Most were accident, lack of education, just learning how to use essential oils….and some were just down right comical.

I decided to reach out to my team to learn what some of them have encountered while using essential oils. The comments begin to pile up, and I have to go through them the next morning. I realized that we have all been here. The purpose of this blog is to make you giggle a little bit, learn some of the tidbits of oils gone wrong. Most importantly, I want to share with you some solutions to these OILER problems.

First of all I always want to teach the safety guidelines of using essential oils. Click the link to read the guidelines. Another piece of education I offer on this site is our Beginners Guide. This guide goes over many of the basic use of essential oils. I have found the easiest way to get these guidelines to others is on the website. People can watch and learn at own pace, come back later if they have questions.

So…. What kind of mishaps have happened to our OILY crew??

“Putting too many oils in the diffuser”

Solution: You can either dump it out and start over…or I have in the past taken half the water out and put in a mason jar… add new water to the left over water in the diffuser….use the mason jar at a later date diluted or add to a different diffuser that day.

“Too much Lemon oil in my water”

Solution: Less is more. You can do the same principle above, putting half your potent lemon water in another waterbottle…. or dump. Remember ONE drop is all you probably need. The oils are concentrated… One drop of peppermint is equal to 28 cups of peppermint tea.

“I didn’t wash my hands, and rubbed my eyes”

Solution: Grab a carrier oil. Most people use coconut oil, you can put a little coconut oil on a q tip and place next to the eye, hold in place. The essential oils draw to the coconut oil, and let the eye flush. This advice is of course is for small incidents, larger accidents can be dangerous….and likely avoided by hand washing after dispensing. Make sure to wash you hands after application.

“I decided to use essential oil hand sanitizer for deodorant. OUCH.”

Solution: Don’t use hand santizer for deodorant 🙂 , All jokes aside, when oils trigger a response from the skin… DILUTION IS HUGE. As mentioned in our beginners guide and essential oil safety guidelines, dilution is needed for safe application of essential oils. Now perhaps, the sanitizer diluted may of worked without the burn. Add more carrier when in doubt.

“I used too many drops and my skin was on fire”

Solution: More Carrier oil. Keep putting the oil on the area that is hot. Eventually it will calm down…but for now keep adding the carrier oil. DO NOT USE WATER. It will make it worse. Your best bet is to keep using carrier oil to cool the skin and dilute the oils.

Being a new essential oil user can be intimidating at first. Just remember that less is more…and I hope some of these tips help you in a time of “oops”.

So do you have an essential oil mishap? Message me. I would love to add to this blog.

Thank you team OILsome for sharing your stories with me. Xoxo