Happy Saturday, Everyone!
I would like to say thank you to all of you who follow me here on my page and support me and my family on our journey to healthier lifestyle.
Did you know that when you buy from a small business owner, you directly have an impact on that family and local community?
I would love to help more families and support them on their own journey as well.
As a thank you and welcoming you to our Young Living family, I am giving you back $25 on your Premium Starter kit, which is a wellness box and “natural medicine cabinet” in one. This starter kit contains 11 essential oils and home diffuser, which you will fall in love with right away.
I will also show you and teach you:
– how to use the oils everyday on everyday basis
– how to ditch the chemicals and switch to more natural supplies and show you plenty of easy DIYs projects
– things you no longer have to buy every month because you have this set.
You and your family will love this natural lifestyle and not just your body will benefit from the aroma properties of essential oils but your home will also smell amazingly without harmful toxins.
This kit makes wonderful Christmas gift. I know what I am talking about because I got one two years ago. <3
So let’s create a wonderful local community. This offer is valid till tomorrow, Sunday, Nov 26th 10pm PST only!
Get your kit here.
Once you register, please send me a note and I will send you your $25 back.
Don’t hesitate to reach out for more details.
I was recently asked how to make a natural exfoliating face scrub. This was not something I had done before and I was up for the challenge. Whenever I experiment with new recipes, I always test them out on myself first.
After experimenting quite a bit and trying different scrubs on my own face, I settled on a favourite that contains only three ingredients – coconut oil, sugar, and lemon essential oil. Coconut oil may sound a bit too greasy for your face, but I find that using the scrub right before a shower and then rinsing it off in the shower, leaves my skin feeling soft and supple but not greasy. The benefits of coconut oil are immeasurable. It keeps skin smooth to the touch and helps it to retain its moisture content. It also has strong disinfectant and antimicrobial properties. Additionally, it contains Vitamin E which is incredibly nourishing for the skin. The sugar, of course, is an exfoliant. I recommend using berry sugar rather than regular granulated sugar. You don’t need to scrub very hard, just lightly on your face. The heavy hitter in this little recipe is the lemon essential oil. It is calming, astringent, detoxifying, and antifungal, to name only a few of its powerful properties. The number one thing that I love about this scrub is that it reduces the redness and blotchiness in my face.
The recipe is below. Give it a try yourself!
~Sue
Lemon Coconut Oil Face Scrub
1/2 cup coconut oil
1 cup sugar
30 drops lemon essential oil
Place coconut oil in a microwavable measuring cup or bowl and microwave for about 30-45 seconds to soften. Then mix in sugar and lemon oil. The mixture should be more on the sugary side, so add a bit more sugar if it seems too oily to you. I store mine in small mason jars. This scrub does not need to be refrigerated.
Enjoy!
Ditch the chemicals in your home and start your holiday season naturally.
If you have been thinking about transforming your home to more toxin free and have been on the fence to try out Young Living essential oils and their natural products and learn more about the benefits of going naturally, tonight (starting 11.01pm MST) and tomorrow November, 28th is the best time to start!! Get $20 product credit on your 100 PV order.
Using essential oils has helped my family so much! From sleeping issues, treating everyday ailments naturally and boosting our immune system to speedy recoveries after workouts. I can’t imagine my life without these magical bottles anymore!
Please let me know if you have any questions and I would be happy to show you how to go more natural.
I always went for, what I thought were, “safe and gentle” products at the store before I started digging more into natural care. I bought lotions for my kiddoes in the past labeled as for sensitive skin and you know what? Before I knew what to look for on the ingrediens list, I thought that those products were safe. Well, those gentle baby lotions gave rash and hives to my kids because those were full of chemicals!
Since we switched to more natural, clean lifestyle, there haven’t been any side effects from using skin care products anymore. We’ve started making our own homemade body lotion/cream. With just a few ingredients, you can make a batch of cream which is not only safe to use, but it’s prepared very quickly and the best part is that you can use it for so many different things! All you have to do is to add some pure therapeutic essential oils depending on your needs at the moment. We use Young Living Essential oils, it’s just our family’s preference, because we trust their quality thanks to their Seed to Seal Process.
For dry skin I put a few drops of Lavender into my cream, for pain relieve and massage we use PanAway, I love to use mix of Frankincense and Lavender for my skin. You can use few drops of Eucalyptus for could & cough season instead of store bought VapoRub. And the list goes on.
So if you ever run out of your lotion and have these few ingredients at home, you can create your own cream/ lotion in no time. Your body will definitely thank you for that.
Natural Base Cream:
- 3/4 cup grapeseed oil (you can use apricot or almond oil as well)
- 1/3 cup coconut oil (I like to substitute half of the coconut oil with shea butter or cocoa butter, just my personal preference)
- 1/8 organic beeswax (1 oz = 2 tbs)
In a double boiler, melt these oils together on low heat. Allow oil and wax to cool and harden. Then add these ingredients:
- 2/3 cup distilled water (or rosewater)
- 1/3 cup aloe vera gel
- 1/4 tsp vitamin E
Using a handheld immersion blender or the wire whisk attachment on your Kitchen Aid, blend the hardened oils and liquids together. If you use the wire whisk attachment, your cream will be more fluffy and light. Add few drops of Tea Tree oil, which is antimicrobial and antiseptic essential oil to the mix. Then scoop your cream into glass containers and you are done. Depending on what I will be using the cream for, I label my jars with the oils used/usage – for example: container including cream with mix of lavender, frankincense and geranium essential oils will be labeled as a skin care.
I hope you will enjoy making your own creams as much as our family does. And if you are interested about learning how Young Living essential oils can improve your wellness, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Young Living Essential Oils is the ONLY direct-selling company producing Therapeutic-Grade essential oils in Canada with the ability to make legal claims about essential oils from a symptom relief standpoint.
Young Living Canada has registered 19 of their essential oils so far, there are more to come, which can be used for a variety of symptoms from colds/coughs to skin irritation/cuts/burns to joint/muscle pain to digestive discomfort, eczema/dermatitis and more! These oils are registered as NHPs or Natural Health Products.
Check out this video for more information, and if you aren’t a Young Living member yet, ask yourself why! Because I seriously don’t have a clue what people do without essential oils.
I LOVE my oils.
We use them every single day.
Who doesn’t like a gentle natural way of skin care. This is a re-post from Young Living’s blog .
When it’s time to recover from a long day, it’s best to climb into bed with a fresh face. Scrubbing with ineffective or harsh removers can do more damage than good though, especially near the sensitive eye area where the skin is thinner and more prone to fine lines and irritation.
Instead of harsh makeup removers, opt for gentle DIY makeup remover pads infused with Lavender essential oil. You’ll know exactly what goes into this formula, plus you’ll get the benefits of Lavender’s relaxing aroma. Use the instructions below to add them to your nighttime routine.
DIY Makeup Remover Pads with Lavender from Young Living on Vimeo.
In the next few weeks I will share with you the little steps I’ve made in my process of changing to a less / toxin-free household.
The very first step I’ve made on changing our home to more toxin-free was changing our soaps. Our skin is the biggest organ and a lot of people are not aware of it. It is not only what we put into ourselves (what we eat) but also what we put on ourselves, that’s what can change our health and wellness. We wash our hands so many times during the day and changing the soap can actually make a big difference. And it is such a simple thing to do!
I was born with a very dry skin, the top layer of my skin isn’t able to hold onto moisture. This skin issue has a medical name but I don’t remember it. As a kid my mom took me to dermatologists and they recommended so many different creams, lotions etc but every time I got out of shower or was just washing my hands a lot of times, the skin was always dry and cracked. In the past couple of years the knuckles of my hands cracked and were bleeding a little during the cold months of the year. I was worried every fall that I will go through this for the fall/winter season once again.
I switched all our store bought soaps in every bathroom and at the kitchen sink to the homemade ones in the first week of November, so we have been using them now for more than 3 months. Guess what? My hands are not terribly dry and no cracks! Not a single tear on my skin, no bleeding. Nothing. Zero! And my hands smell absolutely amazing after each washing!!
Funny little story: I gave my homemade soap to a few friends for Christmas. They came over in January and after the kids (boys age 10&11) went to the bathroom to wash their hands I could hear them saying how much they love the smell of it and that they use the same one at home (of course, they do!). The same boys came the next day for my son’s B-day party and after the cake all kids ran into bathroom to wash their hands and the boys were telling to the other ones that they should use this soap because it smells amazing. It made me chuckle a little bit but also very happy that even boys (and in this age) can appreciate the stuff they are putting on themselves.
So how do I made my soaps? It’s very easy. You need:
- foam soap bottle ( I use 8.4 oz | 1 cup | 250ml bottles)
- castille soap (scented or unscented)
- essential oil of your choice
- carrier oil (sweet almond, jojoba, grapeseed
- water (distilled or boiled is the best but I’ve used tap water as well)
Directions:
- fill the bottle up with water about 1 inch from the top
- add 2 tbs to 2 oz (1/4 cup ) of castille soap
- add 1/2 teaspoon of liquid carrier oil
- 3-4 drops of your favorite essential oil
Once you mix everything together, just put the pump head on the bottle and you are ready to go.
Foam soap bottle: on the first photo you can see two different kinds of bottles – one is clear plastic and the other one is amber glass. I use the plastic ones in our bathrooms as there is no direct light exposure and the glass one is sitting on the kitchen desk near our sink. You can get them online, at your local health/soap making store or on amazon.
Castille soap: the first time I bought Natural Pure Castille soap at our local soap making store. The next time I used Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps (I used Lavender but also Unscented Baby-Mild), it’s totally up to you what you prefer. If you want a specific scent and you want to save your essential oils, you can go with lavender or peppermint castille.
Essential oils: this is my favourite part! You can make your soap smell whatever aroma you want! I use Young Living essential oils, just my personal preference because I trust this brand I am guaranteed their quality. But it’s totally up to you what oils you will choose. I LOVE love thieves in our soap. In one bottle I mixed the lavender castille with thieves and one drop of peppermint. In my second bottle I used the natural pure castille and added lavender and thieves oils. It is totally up to you. Please note: if you use a citrus essential oil, do NOT use plastic bottles. Citrus oils, in particular, have a chemical com-position that is known to interfere with the chemistry of plastics. The best option is amber glass.
As you can see, changing soap can be very easy and non-expensive solution. You will enjoy the feel of your hands after each washing and your hands will thank you for that.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. And if you feel like saying hello, please do. I’m always happy to hear from you.
