The role of essential oils in health and wellness care has been personally and with client care so great we are posting a few of the MANY precious stories and educational information available for you here.

What are Essential Oils?

Essential oils absorb quickly through inhallation, skin and other tissues. They are light, small lipid-protein molecules readily absorbed through the cell walls and even through the blood brain barrier. Eoils are often the most potent healing part of herbs and about 95% is usually lost in drying to the form most people choose for herbal use!

This precious gift of Mother Nature brings quick and clean support to shift our experience in mind, body and emotions. Eoils often save us from self blame. They help remind us, with their potent life force, how we already have what we need within. It is easier, then, without guilt or blame to get to the rest our homework! Which is often important for changes to hold.

Benefits of all Grade A essential oils, in addition to individual plant gifts/focus such as hormonal, digestive, respiratory, pain and emotional supports, they all enhance immune system, antioxidant effects, oxygenation and prana in varying degrees!

Results will vary from person to person depending also upon which molecules are needed, oil quality, how alkaline or acidic or toxic their tissue accumulations are, appropriate use, and other factors

Highest Quality

There are about 100 times as many essential oils" sold in the world as there are produced from plants. The chemistry industry is very busy! Due to regulatory status, a bottle can say "100% pure Lavender Essential Oil" and only has to have 10% lavender essential oil, can have Lavendin in it (considered unsafe for pregnancy), can be synthetic, and can have any carrier/diluting oil. Food Grade is sometimes called grade B, Perfume grade, C.

YLTG Therapeutic Grade - Dr. Gary Young has rewritten the essential oils distillation and other protocols for best plant healing properties and his oils give so much vitality! Young Living's Therapeutic Grade really leads the EOil quality standard. He coined the term "therapeutic grade" in the US to reflect this quality. Many now say their oils are therapeutic grade without the many years direct experience farming, distilling and using the oils medically. Having visited Young Living farms and distilleries, and witnessed Dr. Young discuss the many issues as well as used these oils for over 12 years, I buy from almost nowhere else.

From soil to planting, harvest and distilling, there are many layers of issues. These YL essential oils are grown without pesticides or polluted water in super-green clean soil and air. Harvested according to best weather conditions and distilled by well trained staff in the complex art of distilling at the ideal (for that plant) low temperature and pressure. Some certified organic oils are now sold in some stores though we are not seeing this quality described above, and it is not required by organic certification programmes. What they DO require is such a huge financial fee investment in certification for each plant, the discussion is very interesting what that looks like, especially for farms outside of the US.
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Using Essential Oils - Basics

• Test a drop on inside of wrist and wait 10 minutes. I if you have sensitivity, use only diluted now or avoid.
  
• If you have environmental sensitivities or if you have been using many cheap body and home care products, or eating poorly do the Cleansing Trio or enquire about the Ayurvedic home detox first. Essential oils are still your friends. There is however guidance that is important; please ask for a free eoils consult.
• Then use the oils on an as needed basis; several times a day, week, month, whatever. Listen to your instincts!
• The body accepts multiple oils as layered intelligence let one dry to the touch and add another, or see the EODR for blending. (Note blends with a carrier oil will leave a heavier oil residue after the oil has soaked in - give yourself a minute or 3 before adding another works fine.)
• Be sure to stay hydrated; if diet, personal care products or lifestyle has been more toxic, use one at a time, with more time between to be sure you can integrate the effects comfortably.
• The NOSE often KNOWS. I let clients smell and choose their favorite (any they have a strong emotional aversion to tends to be indicated too).
• Anytime an oil is too penetrating or irritating, dilute with massage oil not water.
• With emotional issues, always use something grounding and energetically balancing, like the blend Valor first, as described in the following pages before going into higher vibration oils.

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Application Suggestions

Request your free compact 10 page full color User's Guide. The three categories of use - DIFFUSION, TOPICAL, and INTERNAL are well discussed there and summarized Here. A few specific ideas below:

1. Diffuse, spritz with water or shake a few drops into the room.
2. Dilute slightly in vegetable oil and apply topically.
3. Put on a cotton ball in baby's bed.
4. Try a drop with 2-3 drops vegetable oil in/around navel or on acupressure points.
5. Rub a drop on your palms and hold near baby's skin.
6. Add a 8 - 10 drops into a tablespoon of salt and add to (adult) bath.
7. Add a few drops to massage oil.
8. Again, anytime an oil is too penetrating or irritating, simply dilute with massage oil not water.
9. Other application suggestions will be available from your AyurDoula and as above resources. Excellent reference materials about working with high quality essential oils are listed here at reference materials (the EODR is awesome).

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Safety

• Request your free compact 10 page full color User's Guide.
• Caveat - The experiences reported on this website are specifically about therapeutic grade essential oils. No testimonies and the following warnings have to be made regarding use of any other essential oils.
• A few oils may create discomfort or sun sensitivity used improperly. Hot oils like cinnamon, clove, oregano, thyme, and penetrating oils like mints can feel too strong on tender skin; always dilute with several drops of carrier (vegetable or massage) oil first, and avoid moisture or they will sting. Citrus and evergreens can create photo sensitivity on local site of use particularly with repeated application. Bergamot should be avoided where they sun might shine for the next 72 hours to avoid serious burn.
• Infants Please do not apply Essential oils which are not organic directly (neet) on babies at any time. For safe uses on babies, Please contact us for a free essential oils consult or order the 75 page collection on Perinatal Uses of Essential Oils

  Safety Issues around Oil Quality and Body Conditions to Know About

• When oils and fats grow in nature, nearby toxins and other petrochemicals will naturally concentrate into the oil, more than into the rest of the plant.
• Many essential oils have trace solvents, used in washing the last batch off the distillation equipment.
• Soil history, growing, water quality, harvesting, multiple processing methods are factors
• WITH DEPRESSION OR OTHER EMOTIONAL ISSUES ALWAYS USE VALOR ON FEET FIRST FOR EMOTIONAL RESULTS FROM THE(SE) HIGHER VIBRATION OILS.
• If you get a rash, headache or nausea with an organic oilit almost always means petrochemical toxins are being released from the body. These are absorbed commonly easily from most body care and cleaning products in addition to edible sources.
  1. Reduce use, dilute with veg oil
  2. Drink room temp or warm/hot water not cold to help cleanse,
  3. If not pregnant or early postpartum, cleansing breath exercises (pranayama) can be used. Please enquire.
  4. Again if not early postpartum, exercise more.
  5. Rest more
  6. Attend to more antioxidants such as Vitamin C and our superfood drink, Ningxia Red (Please enquire for wholesale discount ordering choices or use referral # 25031).
  7. It is an important to support bowels moving 2 - 3 times daily and attend to other possible detoxification needs.
  8. Help your body to adjust and cooperate. Look to these things first before thinking you may have a rare allergy.

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More Choices and Newsletters

Use the links below to see the more pages or please ask.

• Archives
• Common Perinatal Uses List
• Flu Experiences with Essential Oils
• Thyroid Supports
• 101 Uses of the Essential 7 Kit (more than that!)
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