Healthy Girl’s Champagne

Drinking a glass of wine, particularly red, a couple of times a week can keep your heart healthy with the antioxidant resveratrol.  The holidays, however, often seem a time of overindulgence with plenty of celebrating, rich foods and drinks.  In . . . → Read More: Healthy Girl’s Champagne

Cough Relief With Essential Oils

Cough syrups are some of the most chemical loaded products with artificial colors and flavorings added (does anyone really like the flavor?).  You can green up your cold & flu remedies quickly by having some basic food grade, Therapeutic Grade essential . . . → Read More: Cough Relief With Essential Oils

Best Body Care Products To Disrupt Hormones and Contribute to Thyroid Imbalance

This past summer my husband received some product samples when he participated in a triathlon.   My first instinct with any new body care  product I see is to look at the ingredients, just as if I was shopping for foods, and . . . → Read More: Best Body Care Products To Disrupt Hormones and Contribute to Thyroid Imbalance

Essential Oils For Pets

Therapeutic essential oils can be beneficial to humans and their pets.   Essential oils offer a holistic approach to pet care.  Pet’s like humans are sensitive to toxins and chemicals – even more so because of their small size.  Read about identifying . . . → Read More: Essential Oils For Pets

Everyday Oils Kit

The Everyday Oils kit is a Young Living collection of 9 oils that are useful in everyday situations.  These oils are the foundation of  a first aid kit I keep with me at all times.  This kit contains oils that are . . . → Read More: Everyday Oils Kit

Alternatives To Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers

We are a clean society, no doubt.  And now, after all the Swine Flu attention in the media, hand sanitizers are everywhere.  They are in bathrooms next to traditional soap machines, on counters in day centers, on the teacher’s desks and  . . . → Read More: Alternatives To Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers

Four Thieves Vinegar

The legend of the Four Thieves stems from the 14th century “Black Plague” which killed almost 25 million people.  The Plague was an aggressive infection that spread through the lymph system and killed 2 out of 3 people within days of . . . → Read More: Four Thieves Vinegar

Managing Headaches With Essential Oils

Headaches can be caused by a number of things including hormone imbalances, blood sugar imbalances, stress, spinal irregularities and inflammation.   Many over the counter medications offer temporary relief only to have a rebound effect once medications have worn off. I know . . . → Read More: Managing Headaches With Essential Oils

Lemon

One of the first oils I used in aromatherapy 15 years ago was lemon.  I had a recipe in my aromatherapy book for cooking, the label of my lemon essential oil however, stated “not for ingestion”.  Now I know this could . . . → Read More: Lemon

What are therapeutic grade essential oils?

Essential oils in the United States have little regulation and do not differentiate perfume grade oils from therapeutic grade essential oils, however, Europe does.  These standards are AFNOR and ISO and Young Living essential oils meet and/or exceed these standards of . . . → Read More: What are therapeutic grade essential oils?