Essential Oils - Page 3

Sunshine Kate · ‎03-10-2010

A friend of mine got me started with essential oils through Young Living. Their oils are 100% pure and can be ingested. (I'm talking a drop or two).

I love the smell of lavender in my YL diffuser as well as many others. I use grapeseed oil as a carrier and put it on the bottom of my feet (a small amount) nightly and it makes me sleep well.

Eucalyptus is nice if my nose is stuffy and Thieves is great for warding off sickness, or a natural antibacterial.

I can't say enough about Young Living essential oils.

EO's look and act like an oil, but they are not oily at all. If it feels oily, that means it's not pure.

Campion · ‎10-21-2011

I used to make a "burn oil"--something to heal burns you get from ironing or cooking, etc. It really works to reduce the dark scarring. I even gave it to my (rather wild) secretary years ago when she came in on Monday morning with rope burns on her neck (I didn't ask....oh to be 20.)

You take about 20 mils (ounce) of sweet almond oil or grapeseed oil and add about 2 mls (1/10 as much) wheat germ oil. Then you add 30 drops lavender oil (the real thing, not artificial), 10 drops bergamot oil. Mix up and apply this to healed over but still reddened skin after a burn. Do not apply this onto skin that is open or weeping.

Keep applying 2x a day until the burn disappears. I've removed a terrible burn scar after I got scalded in the kitchen and it really works.

RinaRina · ‎03-13-2010

@suzyQ3 wrote:
I didn't read your other thread.

Just for clarification, are you talking about essential oils (e.g., lavender oil) or carrier oils (e.g., argan oil, marula oil, etc.)?

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I've found that E-oils work more effectively with a carrier oil.

"The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become."

RinaRina · ‎03-13-2010

@Toppers wrote:

I don't understand your post, and what you are saying? Oils are very concentrated. You don't need a large amount to work with, as it is. When you use them on your skin, they are mixed with a carrier oil.

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Toppers,

IMHO, this is correct. Based on my experience, when used on the skin/body, the oils are more effective when used w/ a carrier oil.

"The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become."

Rachb · ‎10-07-2012

I will most likely use Argan as my carrier oil.

Tigriss · ‎03-12-2010

I am attending a Young Living Essential Oil class on Tuesday that my herbalist gives. My mother is a distributor because she is a nurse. We just buy for ourselves, but I also use Plant Therapy, which is much cheaper but just as good. I will say for ingesting essential oils, the YL oils don't give heartburn for my mother as the Plant Therapy do, but I recommend putting the oil in an empty capsule instead of openly taking it orally. The flavors can linger all day and them some. I took Frankincense once without a capsule, and that was the last time I did that.

I bought a book called The Complete Book of Essential OIls & Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood that is full of recipes for various puposes of essential oils. It has everything in one book and indexed by condition and oil. It is really helpful and fool proof to follow. I find it better than the YL books for an EO resource.

RinaRina · ‎03-13-2010

Adding to this thread because I've been using a lot of E-oils lately .. primarily for PAIN in my knees.

Started out with Frankincense, Lemon & Lemongrass. Used it all up, now rotating to others.

I found that Texas Cedarwood and Red Thyme really killed the pain, but I can't stand the smell. My house smelled like an infirmary, and the stuff made my dog sneeze. LOL!

Currently using Rosemary & Lavender. Also helps me sleep peacefully.

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"The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become."

Danishgal · ‎03-09-2010

@RinaRina wrote:
Adding to this thread because I've been using a lot of E-oils lately .. primarily for PAIN in my knees.

Started out with Frankincense, Lemon & Lemongrass. Used it all up, now rotating to others.
I found that Texas Cedarwood and Red Thyme really killed the pain, but I can't stand the smell. My house smelled like an infirmary, and the stuff made my dog sneeze. LOL!
Currently using Rosemary & Lavender. Also helps me sleep peacefully.
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Rina--How are you using the Rosemary and Lavender? TIA