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We have collected wonderful essential oil recipes over the last 15 years. We are excited to share them with you!

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Acne
Acne relief

Traditional Uses: For red, hot acne (get that thing of my face!)

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in 2 oz of aloe gel an dab on acne areas. Try on one small area first to be sue your skin likes the blend.

Sensitive Skin Acne Relief

Traditional Uses: Infected or painful acne

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in a 4 oz spray bottle of yarrow hydrosol
Allergies
Allergies

Traditional Uses: Reduce allergic symptoms (no more red nose)

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add these oils to the cotton part of a blank inhaler.
Use the inhaler whenever allergy symptoms arise.

Decongestant Steam Blend

Traditional Uses: Reduces sinus congestion and swelling

Ingredients:


Directions:

In a glass orifice reducer bottle blend the essential oils undiluted for an inhaler or steam. To do a steam, add 1 drop of this blend to a bowl of steamy water. Make sure the water is just steaming, not boiling. CLOSE YOUR EYES and lean over the bowl and breathe in the oil. To enhance the effects use a towel over your head to create a tent.

Anti Fungal
Antifungal Lotion

Traditional Uses: Inhibits growth of fungus

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend the essential oils in 4 oz of Unscented Lotion.
Apply to the area with fungus 3-5 times a day.

Bug Repellant
Bug Spray

Traditional Uses: Insect repellent (get off of me)

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in a 2 oz spray bottle filled with aloe vera gel. Our aloe vera gel is the perfect texture to spray on your body. Spray on your clothes and skin freely!

Cleaning
Abrasive Scrub

Traditional Uses: For kitchen and bathroom surfaces that need a more abrasive texture for cleaning

Ingredients:


Directions:

In a 16 oz wide mouth container mix all the ingredients listed with 1 cup of baking soda and
1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Easy!


Floor Cleaner

Traditional Uses: To wash a tile floor, or any floor that can be cleaned with water

Ingredients:


Directions:



In a bucket mix 2 cup of organic white vinegar with a gallon of water, add all ingredients above and wash the floor while inhaling immune supportive, cleansing essential oils!

   
   
Hand Soap

Traditional Uses: To wash your hands using a skin nourishing, antimicrobial soap

Ingredients:


Directions:

Wash your hands with a squirt of this soap and hot water

Kitchen and Bathroom Disinfectant

Traditional Uses: Clean all kitchen and bathroom surfaces

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in a 16 oz spray bottle filled with 14 oz of water and 2 oz of white vinegar.
Spray freely and wipe with towel or sponge
Toilet Bowl Cleaner

Traditional Uses: To wash your toilet

Ingredients:


Directions:

To 1 cup of vinegar add 1/4 of a cup of Baking Soda and 1/4 cup of Borax. Add the essential oils listed above, pour into the toilet and let it all sit overnight. In the morning, scrub with a toilet brush. You can also use this recipe to clean the toilet without letting it sit overnight.

Wood Cutting Board Cleaner

Traditional Uses: To disinfect your wood cutting board

Ingredients:


Directions:

Use a paper towel with some organic white vinegar and scrub the cutting board. Then put 5 drops of the lemon essential oil on your sponge and thoroughly wipe both sides of the cutting board with your sponge.

Colds and Flu
Antibacterial Oil

Traditional Uses: Destructive to bacteria

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend in 1 oz of Trauma Oil.
Rub the blend on your throat, chest and feet 3-5 times a day. 

Antiviral Lotion

Traditional Uses: Inhibits growth of viruses

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in 2 oz of Unscented Lotion
Rub the blend on your throat, chest and feet 3-5 times a day.

Expectorant/Mucolytic Steam Blend

Traditional Uses: Removes excess mucus from respiratory system

Ingredients:


Directions:
In a small "orifice reducer" bottle, combine the essential oils for use in a steam. Use one drop of this blend for each steam. To do a steam, add 1 drop of this blend to a bowl of steamy water. Make sure the water is just steaming, not boiling. CLOSE YOUR EYES and lean over the bowl and breathe in the oil. To enhance the effects use a towel over your head to create a tent.
Digestive Support
Belly Lotion

Traditional Uses: Settles digestion and may assist in preventing gas

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 2 oz of Unscented Lotion.
Run on your belly before every meal and before bed.
Deodorants
Deodorant Spray

Traditional Uses: removes unpleasant odors

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils into 4 oz of Aloe vera gel. Our aloe vera gel is the perfect texture to spray on your body. Spray under your arms 3 times a day or as needed.

Emotional Support
Antidepressant Spray

Traditional Uses: Can help to prevent and alleviate depression

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend in a 4 oz Spray bottle filled with water.
Spray the blend into the room and breath deeply! Use as often as needed.

Anxiety Relief Oil

Traditional Uses: To reduce or eliminate anxiety

Ingredients:


Directions:
Add essential oils to 1 oz. of Jojoba oil
Apply to your wrists, chest, neck and feet as often as needed.
Headaches
Headache Oil

Traditional Uses: To relieve pain and headache

Ingredients:


Directions:
Add essential oils to 1 oz. of Jojoba oil.
Apply to the back of your neck every hour for the first few hours.
Inhalers
Emotional Calm

Traditional Uses: To bring a deep sense of calm

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add these oils to the cotton part of a blank inhaler.
Use the inhaler whenever anxiety symptoms arise.

Immune Support

Traditional Uses: To support a stronger and more vital immune response

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add these oils to the cotton part of a blank inhaler.
Use the inhaler daily during seasonal changes or when you feel low energy.

Mental Focus

Traditional Uses: To increase your ability to focus

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add these oils to the cotton part of a blank inhaler.
Use the inhaler whenever needed.

Open Sinuses

Traditional Uses: To relieve sinus congestion

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add these oils to the cotton part of a blank inhaler. Place the cotton part in the small cup and press firmly into the bottom of the inhaler.
Use the inhaler whenever symptoms arise.

Immune Support
Immune Tonic

Traditional Uses: Strengthens and restores vitality

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 2 oz of Unscented Lotion.
Apply to your neck, throat, and chest 3 times a day.
Insomnia
Sleep Lotion

Traditional Uses: I would rather sleep than count sheep!

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add essential oils to 2 oz. of Unscented Lotion
Apply to your chest, feet and neck before bed.

Lips
Lip Gloss (in a tin or jar)

Traditional Uses: For luscious shinny lips

Ingredients:


Directions:
Melt 1 oz. beeswax and 2 oz. jojoba and 4 oz coconut oil in a double boiler. When melted take off the stove, add the shea butter, 4 teaspoons of honey and the orange essential oil. Stir until melted and pour immediately into lip balm tins.

For a double boiler, try a pyrex measuring cup rested in a soup pot filled half way with water. Will make about 4 one oz. tins.
Lip Stick (in a tube)

Traditional Uses: Healing for chapped lips

Ingredients:


Directions:

Melt 1 oz. beeswax and 1 oz. jojoba in a double boiler. Once melted add 2 oz. coconut oil. When melted take off the stove and then add the lime and orange essential oil. Stir and pour immediately (or use a pipette or dropper) into lip balm tubes. This is easiest if you have a lip balm tray for holding the tubes while you pour.

For a double boiler, try a pyrex measuring cup rested in a soup pot filled half way with water. Will make about 24 sticks if you use 5 ml size tube. How many tubes you fill will vary with how high you fill them and how exact you are when you weigh your ingredients.

Muscle Spasms
Antispasmodic Lotion

Traditional Uses: Relieves spasms and cramps

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 4 oz of Unscented Lotion.
Apply to area of spasm every 15 minutes until the spasms subside. Use preventively when the area feels tense.
Pain and Inflammation
Anti-inflammatory Oil

Traditional Uses: Alleviates inflammation and pain

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend in 1 oz. of Trauma Oil
Apply gently to inflamed area 5-6 times daily.

Antirheumatic Oil

Traditional Uses: Prevents and/or relieves chronic rheumatic pain and swelling

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 1 oz. of Trauma Oil
Apply gently to painful, inflamed area 5-6 times daily.
Diuretic Lotion

Traditional Uses: Aids in reduction of fluids

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 2 oz of Unscented Lotion.
Apply gently to inflamed area 5-6 times daily.
Injury repair

Traditional Uses: Muscle injury

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 1 oz. of Trauma oil
Apply gently to injured area 5-6 times daily for 1-2 weeks.
No More Pain and Inflammaion Butter

Traditional Uses: For reducing muscular pain and inflammation

Ingredients:


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Directions:

Melt all ingredients in a double boiler and pour into glass jars.

Warming Oil

Traditional Uses: Will bring warmth to an area

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in 2 oz of Jojoba oil.
Apply to cold area 3 times a day.

Shingles
Pain Relief

Traditional Uses: Pain Relief for Shingles

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in a 4 oz spray bottle of aloe vera gel. Our aloe vera gel is the perfect texture to spray on your body.

Skin Nourishment
After Sun

Traditional Uses: For sunburned or tanned skin

Ingredients:


Directions:
Melt all the ingredients in a double boiler. Once melted add essential oils, and immediately pour into glass jars.
Astringent Skin Spray

Traditional Uses: Contracts and tightens tissue, supports oily skin conditions

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in a 4 oz spray bottle of aloe vera gel. Our aloe vera gel is the perfect texture to spray on your body. CLOSE YOUR EYES and spray on your face 3 times a day.

Body Butter

Traditional Uses: Moisturize and nourish your skin

Ingredients:


Directions:

Melt all the ingredients in a double boiler. Once melted add any 50-75 drops of any essential oils you love, and immediately pour into glass jars. This recipe makes about 15 oz.

I often add neroli, orange, sandalwood and geranium to my body butters. Be as creative as you like, and you can always add the essential oils another day by mixing them into an individual jar of body butter with a glass stir rod.

 

Dry Skin Lotion

Traditional Uses: To moisturize the skin

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 2 oz. of Unscented Lotion and apply for moisturizing your skin.
Healing Skin Oil

Traditional Uses: Cell-regenerative for skin, healing for scars

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend the essential oils in 2 oz. of carrier oil ( 1 oz. Avocado oil and 1 oz Jojoba oil mixed together).
Apply gently to damaged skin or scars 5-6 times daily over 2-3 months.
Mature/Aging Skin Lotion

Traditional Uses: Moisturizing for the skin

Ingredients:


Directions:
Blend essential oils in 2 oz of Unscented Lotion and apply for moisturizing your skin.
Scar Butter

Traditional Uses: Reduces old scars, helps new scars heal.

Ingredients:


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Directions:
Melt all ingredients in a double boiler, when melted add essential oils and pour immediately into glass jars. 
Sensitive Skin Oil

Traditional Uses: Soothing and moisturizing for sensitive skin

Ingredients:


Directions:
Add essential oils to 1 oz. jojoba oil and apply to sensitive areas.
Travel
Hand Cleanser

Traditional Uses: To clean your hands when soap and water are not available (aka: I hate germs)

Ingredients:


Directions:

Add 2-3 drops of the gel to your hands and rub them until it dries.

I am Freaked Out Lotion

Traditional Uses: Calming and supportive

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oil in 2 oz of Unscented Lotion.
Apply to your neck, throat, and chest 3 times a day.

I Need To Stay Healthy

Traditional Uses: Helps the body strengthen its own resistance to infections, helps fight illness

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend the oils in 1 oz of Jojoba oil.
Rub the blend on your throat, chest and feet 3-5 times a day.

My Poor Chapped Lips

Traditional Uses: Healing for chapped lips

Ingredients:


Directions:

Melt 1/2 oz. beeswax and 1 oz. jojoba in a double boiler. When melted take off the stove, add the shea butter and the orange essential oil. Stir until melted and pour immediately into lip balm tins.

For a double boiler, try a pyrex measuring cup rested in a soup pot filled half way with water. Will make about 4 one oz. tins.

Womens Issues
Cooling Spray

Traditional Uses: Will cool a hot, inflamed area

Ingredients:


Directions:

Blend essential oils in a 4 oz spray bottle of aloe vera gel. Our aloe vera gel is the perfect texture to spray on your body. Spray on hot area 3 times a day. If using with hot flashes CLOSE YOUR EYES and spray on your face as often as needed.

Cramp Oil

Traditional Uses: To reduce or eliminate cramping

Ingredients:


Directions:
Add essential oils to 1 oz. of Trauma oil.
Apply gently to the area of the cramps every 20 minutes until cramps are relieved.


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