Essential Oils… more than basic Aromatherapy

Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns cites Young Living Essential Oil’s Raven™ essential oil blend as one of her favorite yoga and lifestyle products.

Christy’s favorite essential oil blend from Young Living - Ravenª is a combination of deeply soothing therapeutic grade essential oils that will provide comfort when applied topically to the chest and throat or diffused.

How to use: For aromatic use. Diffuse, apply topically on chest over lungs and throat, put on pillow at night.

Dilution not required; suitable for all but the most sensitive skin. Not for children under age 6.

Ingredients: Ravensara (Ravensara aromatica), lemon (Citrus limon), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), peppermint (Mentha piperita) and Eucalyptus radiata.

You can get Christy’s favorite Young Living essential oil blend

“Raven” and other fine essential oil products here!

Lavender essential oil - it’s long been known as the little herb that could. Used by the ancient Romans for its healing and antiseptic properties, lavender has been increasingly recognized for its soothing properties. Pure therapeutic-grade essential oils from Young Living can help with your beauty regimen and overall wellness.

Benefits of Lavender

Physical Health Benefits of Lavender: 

• Assists the healing process for skin burns
• Induces sleep and relaxation
• Soothes aching muscles

Mental Health Benefits of Lavender:
• Reduces stress and irritability
• Balances, calms, and soothes
• Improves concentration

Synthetic, Perfume-Grade vs. Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oils:
• Chemicals vs. natural oils
• Synthetic may be cheaper because diluted or adulterated
• Therapeutic-grade oils—4 P’s: plants, preparation, purity, and potency

Make-it-Yourself Beauty Recipes

Bath Fizzers:
2 Tbsp. baking soda
2 tsp. citric acid
8-10 drops Young Living lavender essential oil
Water in a spray bottle

Mix baking soda and citric acid in a small bowl. Spray one or two sprays of water into mixture. Stir to combine. Repeat process until mixture sticks together when compacted. Press small amounts of the mixture into small candy molds. Allow to sit for two minutes, then turn molds over and release fizzers onto wax paper. Let dry for two days or until hardened all the way through. To use: drop into warm bath water and enjoy!

Spray Air/Linen Fresheners:

Drop Young Living lavender essential oil into a spray bottle and fill with distilled water. Use approximately four to eight drops of Young Living lavender essential oil per four ounces of water.

Exfoliating foot/body Scrub:
¼ cup sea salt or raw sugar
¼ cup enhanced vegetable oil complex (unscented massage oil)
1-3 drops Young Living lavender essential oil

Mix ingredients well, pour into container. To use: place small amount in hand and scrub over moistened skin. Rinse off in tub or shower.

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More recipes using Young Living Essential Oils:

Essential Oil Bath Melts

Essential Oil Dish Soap

3 Ways to Use Young Living Essential Oils

Essential Oil Seasoned Baked Potato Wedges

What are Essential Oils Good for…

Members of the Young Living family know how important essential oils are to health and well-being. Now patients in a Fort Worth, Texas, hospital are using the power of essential oils on a clinical level. Nurse Susan Shields says that aromatherapy treatments are complimentary to a patient’s medical treatment and serve to enhance healing practices.

Essential Oils Now Used In Mainstream Medicine

April 2008

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News)

The healing powers of essential oils have been known for centuries.  Now a Fort Worth hospital is the first in North Texas to take those powers to a clinical level.

Megan Morrison’s high risk pregnancy has kept her on bed rest for the past six weeks.  Her clinical aromatherapy sessions at Harris Methodist Hospital are new.

“I can definitely tell a big difference,” Morrison said. “I’m definitely much more relaxed than if I was just to go take a hot bath.”

Nurse Susan Shields is trained in clinical aromatherapy.  It’s centuries-old tradition which uses pure essential oils. Harris Methodist has the only certified program in North Texas.

She said, “What we’re using is a combination of bergamot, [and] citrus vergania, which is the true lavender–the relaxing lavender.  It does not replace any of the medical treatment that goes on here.  It is in addition to; it is complimentary; it enhances.”

Shields says there’s a big difference between [learn more about quality and why it's important] the oils used at Harris and those you can buy at a department store.  ”We can predict what the effect is going to be because we know the chemical composition of the essential oils,” she said.  ”We know how to most effectively use them for the clinical effects that we’re looking for.”

In Morrison’s case, the goal is to relieve tension and anxiety.  Does it work?  She’s convinced.  “It gives me something to look forward to in the day and just helps relax me,” she said.

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This is pretty cool… there’s an interactive refrigerator … scroll over the foods and get an idea how many poisonous chemicals are either in or on common everyday foods! I really think we need to get serious and demand that these very toxic chemicals be banned - having them in our lives is no way to live.

The US Food and Drug Administrations - Total Diet Study 1991-1993 through 2003-2004:  a summary of pesticide results found in foods. It’s a very large PDF (121 pages) so be patient while it downloads.