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What You Need to Know about Carrier Oils and Your Skin

May 12, 2017 by spcadmin

With summertime just around the corner, there’s a lot of emphasis on skin and how to keep it healthy while you’re out and about in the sunshine. Applying Young Living essential oils onto your skin can be a great way to strengthen your system and promote internal peace and wellness during these fun and busy months, but it’s important to know how to save your skin from potential damage or irritation with one very important ingredient – carrier oils.

Whether you are new to essential oils or if you have already adopted a few oils into your home and lifestyle, understanding the necessity of carrier oils can benefit everyone to ensure safe and satisfying use!

What is a Carrier Oil?

When we talk about carrier oils on EssentialOils.love, we are referring to Young Living’s V-6 Vegetable Complex or another pure vegetable oil. The most important point to remember about carrier oils is this: while carrier oils help dilute the intensity of essential oils, they do not dilute the powers of essential oils. In fact, all essential oils should be partially diluted with pure carrier oils to receive the best benefits from the oils.

How Carrier Oils Amplify and Protect Your Essential Oils Experience

Young Living’s pure essential oils are never cut with any other ingredients and are always created with the Seed to Seal® guarantee, but introducing oils directly to your skin without a carrier oil can actually do more harm than good. This is referred to as “neat” application, and it can lead to:

Skin irritation that can hinder the benefits of essential oils from fully reaching your skin
Evaporation of the essential oil from the skin before it is fully absorbed
Becoming potentially “sensitized” to the oil, a permanent skin response similar to an allergy that can prevent you from using the oil in the future.

In addition to keeping your skin protected from the strength of the oil, pure vegetable oils contain their own nutrients that can nourish the skin. Carrier oils also ensure that the essential oils are properly massaged into the area.

Looking for a Carrier Oil? Start with Your Kitchen!

While Young Living’s proprietary V-6 Vegetable Complex serves as a great carrier oil for all essential oils, you can find options that are just as good right in your own home!

Olive oil: Who doesn’t have a bottle of olive oil in the pantry for cooking or to use in your homemade salad dressing? This common culinary oil can also be a great carrier oil, but be sure to check the ingredients to make sure that there are no contaminants such as similarly-colored oils that are often added into grocery store varieties.
Coconut oil: Made of saturated fat, coconut oil easily absorbs into the skin without leaving a sticky film.

Are you ready to learn more about carrier oils and how to incorporate Young Living essential oils into your home and lifestyle? Contact us today or click on Getting Started!

Trending: The Dangers of Essential Oils and Sunlight

May 3, 2017 by spcadmin

Typing “essential oils” into any search engine or social media platform this week may not be for the faint of heart, as one of the most trending topics right now involves chemical burns on the skin from photosensitive essential oils.

The post, which has been shared over 139,000 times on Facebook and has now made the rounds on Buzzfeed and other online news outlets, was meant as a PSA from Elise Nguyen, a woman in Wisconsin who used essential oils to help calm her before yoga class and did not consider the consequences of using a tanning bed right afterward, resulting in horrific burns on her neck and wrists.

Although Elise took responsibility for what happened and the essential oils were not produced by Young Living, there are two very important lessons to take away from her story: 1. If used as directed, essential oils are not harmful, and 2. It is important to use high quality oils, such as those produced with Young Living’s proprietary Seed to Seal® process, to get the best results from your experience with essential oils.

Proper Use of Photosensitive Essentials Oils

In the article, the essential oil that created the reaction was wild orange, which, among other citrus-based oils, can cause photosensitivity to the skin. It is typically recommended to avoid UV contact 12-48 hours after applying the oil to help protect your skin and make sure that your personal experience with essential oils continues to be relaxing and tranquil. When it doubt, remember that each bottle of Young Living essential oils is precisely labeled with these warnings for the continued safety of our community.

Know How Your Skin Reacts to Essential Oils with a “Patch” Test

Know thyself, especially when it comes to putting oils on your skin! Performing a patch test on your skin is a good idea for any oil you are using for the first time. The more you know how your skin reacts to certain oils, the less likely you will be to develop a severe reaction such as the chemical burns experienced by Elise. Don’t let nervousness keep you from incorporating the benefits of essential oils into your life; if you have delicate skin conditions or medications that you are unsure about, consult a physician who is familiar with essential oils before use.

Don’t forget that there are multiple ways to enjoy essential oils besides direct application to the skin. Most oils can also be diffused or applied to a cloth for relaxing inhalation.

Finding the Best Quality Oils with Young Living’s Seed to Seal® Process

If you’re new to essential oils or curious about their benefits, emphasis must also be put on finding high-quality, uncut essential oils for the best results. Young Living oils are created using a proprietary Seed to Seal® process, which is a guarantee that from the hand-selected seeds until the oil reaches the bottle, the blend of Young Living’s modern technology and back-to-basics principles bring the very best to you, every time.

Enjoy your oils safely and either contact us today or click on Getting Started to begin your personal journey to detoxing your life and home with Young Living essential oils!

How to Balance Your Mood with Essential Oils

April 28, 2017 by spcadmin

No matter how much we try, the daily stresses of careers, friends, family, and home can wear us all thin and affect our mood. It’s nearly impossible to be able to balance your mind and body when you feel worn out, but luckily, there are multiple Young Living essential oils that can help you balance whatever stress you are carrying in your life.

Essential Oils that Help with Irritability

Did you just barely make it to work in stop-start traffic, only to be greeted at the office by an angry email? Don’t let irritability control your life; try these relieving essential oils to help keep your mood in check:

Stress Away™: The name says it all. This blended oil is a combination of aromas to restore relaxation and comfort in your life.
Release™: Whatever you are holding onto that’s holding you back from achieving tranquility this week, this lovely essential oil blend will help you let go.
Forgiveness™: Whether it’s that person who cut you off on the interstate or the client that you just could not impress, this oil blend supports the release of negative energy and helps you not only forgive others, but also yourself.

Essential Oils for Feeling Overwhelmed

In today’s world, everyone wears multiple hats, and chances are you fulfill a lot of roles throughout the course of a day. Whether you are a mother, father, wife, husband, boss, student, or a combination of all of the above, you have no doubt felt burdened by all of the responsibilities that are put on you throughout the course of the week. Help yourself achieve peace again with these beneficial essential oils to help lighten your load:

Grounding™: This oil blend helps support spirituality and clarity during times when everything feels like too much.
Peace and Calming II™: The relaxing and comforting aroma of this oil blend is designed to do just that – bring peace and calm back into your life.
Transformation™: It’s a difficult practice to replace negative thoughts with a positive mindset, but this oil blend can help you start.

Calming Techniques to Pair with Essential Oils to Balance your Mood

Like chocolate and wine, calming techniques and essential oils not only pair nicely together but can also bring out the best in your experience. Learning how to take some “you” time, whether it be eating a healthy snack, reading a book, taking a walk, or whatever helps you unwind throughout the course of your day, can absolutely make the difference in how you balance your mood. Some other helpful techniques are:

Learning how to say “no”
Making a habit out of prioritizing your tasks so you don’t become overwhelmed
Adapting a positive affirmation that you use to keep yourself empowered throughout the day
Learning how to incorporate stress-relieving essential oils into your day, such as rubbing a few drops on the nape of your neck, diffusing oils in your workspace, or applying to a cloth and inhaling directly for portable aromatherapy.

Are you ready to learn more about stabilizing your mood and your life with the powerful benefits of Young Living essential oils? Sign up for our FREE newsletter or click on Getting Started today!

Spring Cleaning and Detoxing Your Home with Essential Oils

April 26, 2017 by spcadmin

No matter where in the world you live, we all embrace spring as the season to open the windows, let fresh air into our homes, and deep clean into the furthest corners to help refresh and revive your living space. While spring cleaning may seem like a daunting chore, using Young Living essential oils can help detox your home, freshen up your environment, and help support a harmonious mind and body to help keep you motivated along the way.

At EssentialOils.love, we have a full selection of both single and blended oils to help you get the most out of your spring cleaning and pamper yourself in the process! Contact us today to learn more about the benefits of essential oil for detoxing your home and your lifestyle!

Spring Cleaning with Tea Tree Essential Oil

The naturally cleansing properties and wonderfully crisp aroma of tea tree make this a great oil to have in your home. This versatile essential oil has multiple uses, including:

Homemade linen refresher: In a small spray bottle, combine tea tree essential oil and water. Lightly spritz onto towels and sheets to brighten up linens that have been stuck in the closet all winter!
For areas in the home that have a stale smell, diffuse tea tree essential oil per the instructions on the bottle and add a fresh, early aroma to any room
Once the heavy cleaning is done, pamper yourself by adding a few drops to one of Young Living’s replenishing skin moisturizers or hair masks to add a little zest to your beauty regimen

Detoxing Your Home with Lemon and Thieves® Essential Oils

Considered among the “Swiss Army knives” of essential oils, lemon and Thieves® are two of the best options for ridding your home of harmful toxins. Do you know what’s in the cleaning products that you use in your home every day? Many of the ingredients in some of the most common cleaning agents can be harmful to your skin and your overall health, but there is a way to get back to basics and refresh your home and your lifestyle with naturally-derived, never cut or diluted lemon essential oil and Thieves® essential oil products from Young Living.

At EssentialOils.love, we not only specialize in the distribution of Young Living essential oils and essential oil products, but we can also help you get started on your journey to implementing essential oils into your home, lifestyle, cooking, beauty regimen, and more! Contact us today to get started.