Young Living Essential Oil Start Living Kits

If you read Lavender Essential Oil - Tips for Use and How to Use Peppermint Oil then you would have 45 reasons to use the Lavender and Peppermint Essential oils included in Young Living's Start Living Kit.

The Young Living Start Living Kit is the easiest and most cost effective way to introduce yourself to the wonderful world of Young Living Essential Oils.


The Starter Kit is specifically designed to support the needs of a new Independent Young Living Distributor but it isn't limited to those who want to start a business. The basic Start Living Kit will familiarize you with Young Living’s products, services, sales aids, and training materials. It includes free products and a 50% off coupon for a diffuser.


By purchasing the kit you immediately receive wholesale pricing for the lifetime of your membership; this is a 24% savings on all Young Living essential oils, nutritional supplements, and health care products.

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Young Living's Start Living kits are an excellent value and the cost of the basic kit pays for itself when you use the 50% off Diffuser coupon included in the kits. The coupon can be used on either the Young Living Essential Oil Diffuser or the new Ultrasonic Diffuser. Diffusing is one of the best way to begin enjoying the benefits of essential oils and to experience immediate positive results from them (please note that the coupon must be used within 60 days of receiving it).

Here is what's included in the Young Living Start Living Kit:

• 1 - Welcome Letter


• 1 - Start Living Brochure


• 1 - Diffuser Coupon (only one per enrolling account)


• 1 - Essential Rewards Brochure


• 1 - Restore Your Core Brochure


• 1 - 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse Brochure


• 1 - Thieves Booklet


• 1 - Everyday Oils Booklet


• 1 - Essential Oils User's Guide


• 1 - Product Guide1 - Price List


• 1 - Policies & Procedures


• 1 - Roadmap for Success Booklet


• 1 - Creating Abundance Booklet


• 1 - Compensation Plan Flyer


• 1 - Team Performance Flyer


• 3 - Distributor Application/Agreement


• 3 - Customer/Preferred Customer Form


• 1 - NingXia Red DVD


• 1 - Gold of the Ages DVD


• 1 - A·R·T DVD


• 1 - 5 ml Lavender


• 1 - 5 ml Peppermint


• 3 - NingXia Red Singles
  

Young Living also offers Start Living Kits featuring some of our most popular products. These include:

Start Living with 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse™/Core Essentials Complete™

In addition to the product information, service explanations, sales aids, and training materials included in the Start Living Kit, this exclusive enrollment offering also contains two of our most popular nutritional collections, the 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse and Core Essentials Complete, to provide new distributors complete nutritional support for their first 35 days.



Start Living with Everyday Oils™


In addition to the product information, service explanations, sales aids, and training materials included in the Start Living Kit, this exclusive enrollment option also contains nine of our top-selling essential oils and essential oil blends. The specially-selected oils in this collection offer ongoing benefits for your health, home, and body. Enjoy the relaxing benefits of lavender and Peace & Calming, the cleansing power of Thieves and Purification, the comforting touch of Valor and PanAway, and more!



Start Living with NingXia Red®


In addition to the product information, service explanations, sales aids, and training materials included in the Start Living Kit, this exclusive enrollment option also contains the energizing benefits of NingXia Red, Young Living's naturally delicious nutrient infusion in a value priced 4-pack.


Start Living with Thieves®.


In addition to the product information, service explanations, sales aids, and training materials included in the Start Living Kit, this exclusive enrollment offering also contains the purifying action of Thieves essential oil blend in a variety of products for the home. Featuring our newest addition to the renowned Thieves product line, Thieves Foaming Hand Soap, Young Living's Thieves enrollment kit ensures the benefits of this revolutionary essential oil blend are always on hand.


Ready to begin the journey of a lifetime? Contact me by e-mail or by phone (732-406-0890) and I'd be happy to help you or simply go online to sign up.

Now is the perfect time to join Young Living and experience first-hand the power of essential
oils.

Order your Start Living Kit today!

Yours in Scentsible Wellness,

Elizabeth

Natural Carpet Cleaning Recipes

If you are looking for reasons to ditch your toxic household cleaners and switch to non toxic natural cleaners you need look no further than the dirtiest, most used area of your home - your carpet! Consider this:

Carpet cleaning products, especially those used as a spot or stain remover, are often made with chemicals that dissolve dirt without soap and water. Because they are not rinsed with water they leave residues and strong odors behind. These fumes and odors are often created from toxic substances such as formaldehyde, acids, pesticides, disinfectants, lye, fragrances, and antibacterial chemicals all of which are harmful to your wellbeing in so many ways.

After cleaning the carpet, the residues of these chemicals remain on the carpet where they are easily transferred to skin, feet, and onto hands where they can make their way into the mouth especially by children and pets.

Using natural cleaning products is the way to go for sure and certainly there are more and more natural cleaning products on the market but you have to be sure of what's in your cleaner. You can read the labels but be warned; as with most household cleaners, reading the label on carpet cleaners may not be enough.

Companies often times won't list all the ingredients on the label for fear of giving away their secret formula. Many times it is these very ingredients that are most harmful to us. If you'd like to learn more about the safety of chemicals in carpet cleaners read "Are Carpet Cleaners Safe"

With all the rolling and romping my children do on our carpets I absolutely make sure there are no chemicals being used to clean it. I use Young Living's Thieves Household Cleaner and Young Living Essential Oils for most of my household cleaning - my carpets are no exception.

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The advantage of using Thieves Household Cleaner over other natural cleaners is the added benefit that its made with Thieves Essential Oil Blend. This blend is comprised of oils which are found to be highly anti microbial, antibacterial, anti fungal, and antiseptic. So while its cleaning, the oils are killing the germs that are carried in from shoes and even feet. And if odors are coming from your carpet, the oils will help destroy the bacteria that is causing the odor. The essential oils work as a natural disinfectant. Now that's natural cleaning at its best!

Its important to note that a carpet that is not regularly maintained will often require stronger chemicals to get it clean. Avoid that and enjoy cleaner and healthier carpets by using Thieves Household Cleaner in your steam cleaner on a regular basis.

Following are some carpet cleaning and deodorizing recipes using Thieves Household Cleaner and essential oils. Note how little of the Thieves cleaner is necessary which makes it very cost effective as well:

Spot and Stain Remover

Use the Thieves Household Cleaner recipe for MEDIUM DEGREASING (1:30)
(1 capful cleaner: a little less than 2 cups water)

Spray directly on the stain, wipe with a clean cloth.

(Always spot test an inconspicuous area to ensure no problems occur.)

Carpet Cleaning for Steam Cleaner

I have a couple of different recipes for the steam cleaner style carpet cleaners and I list them below. Personally, I determine my mixture based on the need of the carpet. You'll get a feel for your own machine and how much Thieves Household Cleaner to use.

Carpet Shampooing (1:100) 1 capful cleaner : 6.25 cups water
1 teaspoon Thieves household Cleaner.......filled it with water.

All essential oils have some antibacterial/antimicrobial properties so they're useful to use as a carpet deodorizer. I like to make different mixes based on my preferences at the time. I like Purification for the carpet in my car. Its a great way to replace the air freshener you have hanging from the mirror.

Carpet Freshener

Mix all ingredients in a widemouthed glass jar and tighten the cap or mix in a bowl with a wire whisk and cover.

Set aside for 24 hours to allow the aromas to permeate the powder.

Sprinkle over carpeting, leave for 10 to 15 minutes then vacuum .

Lavender: 60 drops

Cinnamon: 20 drops

Orange: 20 drops

Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda): 1/2 cup (120 ml)

Recipe from the book 500 Formulas For Aromatherapy: Mixing Essential Oils for Every Use by Carol & David Schiller, ©1994.

Got a Stinky Vacuum Cleaner

or just want to freshen the room while you vacuum? Saturate a disposable cloth or tissue with several drops of essential oil and place into the collecting bag of your vacuum. This will diffuse a pleasant odor as you clean.

Does your vacuum cleaner collect dirt into water? Simply add a few drops into the water reservoir before cleaning. This is excellent for freshen up the carpet and the room.

Would you like to learn more about Thieves Household Cleaner? Here is a great tips and usage document from the excellent website Secret of Thieves.

We live in a very toxic world and I feel removing toxic chemicals from our lives is of paramount importance and should be part of every one's wellness plan. Using natural non toxic household cleaners is one to control what goes in you and your family's body and is one of the easiest ways to move toward optimal wellness.

I hope you'll consider greening your cleaning for you and your family. If you'd like to learn more about green cleaning and the toxins that are in your home Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning by Dierdra Imus is a great, informative read. It is filled with tons of information on personal care and household cleaning products.

If you have any questions or would like help ordering Thieves Household Cleaner please contact me. I would love to help.

Yours in Scentsible Wellness,
Elizabeth

A Natural Sweetener with Health Benefits?

Imagine a natural sweetener, a sugar substitute, that you could add to your healthy lifestyle that actually enhances your health.

Imagine a natural sweetener that you could add to your diet and still experience weight loss.

Imagine a natural sweetener that's high in antioxidants that help prevent the DNA damage that causes cancer; one that's fat free, caloric free, and lowers and balances your blood glucose level.

Impossible right? Wrong!

There is such a sweetener and its called Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana).

Stevia rebaudiana is a South American shrub that grows in semi-arid areas of Brazil and Paraguay. The leaves of the plant have been used for generations as a sweetener by the Guarani people and more recently throughout South America and Asia. In fact, Japan's diet coke is sweetened with Stevia.

Yet despite its uses in Japan, Korea and Brazil, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to allow it as a food additive or sweetener here in the United States. The FDA approved it for dietary supplemental use only. That is, until recently, when two companies formed an alliance and were successful in getting Stevia approved as a food additive here in the U.S.

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The companies are the Coca-Cola Co. and Cargill Inc. Cargill Inc. has tested Stevia extensively and published the results of studies backing its safety in the scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicology in May 2008. Their studies paid off because the FDA has officially approved the first Stevia product to be used as a food supplement.

This is a great win for those of us wanting a healthier substitute for sugar and comes at a time when there is so much controversy over substitute sugars such as aspartame being linked to cancer, leukemia and lymphomas and sucralose (Splenda) promoting obesity and weight gain. I am sure we'll be seeing many new products that will be stevia enhanced.

For now though, we don't have to wait for Coca - Cola or Cargill to provide us with these products (although I'm secretly hoping that they'll "stevia enhance" my guilty pleasure - Diet Coke ) You can replace your current sugar, aspartame or sucralose with Young Living's Stevia Extract.

There are plenty of ways to use this sweetener and get the health benefits now. You can add it to your tea or coffee and even replace it with the sugar you use for cooking. Because of its incredible sweetness strength, its 15 times sweeter than sugar, you need very little. 2-3 drops of Stevia liquid can replace 2 teaspoons of sugar. For cooking 1 teaspoon of liquid Stevia Extract is equivalent to 1 cup of sugar.

Here is a recipe for Lemonade from The Stevia Cookbook: Cooking with Nature's Calorie-Free Sweetener copyright 1999

LEMONADE (Yield: 10 8-ounce servings)

2 cups fresh squeezed lemon juice
8 cups water
2 teaspoons stevia liquid concentrate
ice cubes
lemon for garnish

1. Combine all of the ingredients in a pitcher and stir until well
blended

2. Pour into ice-filled 10-ounce glasses, garnish with lemon slices, and
serve.

If you have any questions regarding Stevia Extract please contact me. If you need help ordering I would be happy to help.

Yours in Scentsible Wellness,
Elizabeth


Following are some interesting articles to read if you would like to learn more about Stevia Extract:

A Tale of Incredible Sweetness and Intrigue

The Bittersweet Tale of Stevia

Natural Sweetener Stevia Loaded With Antioxidants; Protects Against DNA Damage

Coke, Cargill Launch Stevia-based Sweetener

New Scientific Studies Establish the Safety of Rebiana, a Sweetener From the Stevia Plant

How to Use Peppermint Essential Oil

PEPPERMINT: (Mentha piperita) is one of the oldest and most highly regarded herbs for soothing digestion. Jean Valnet, M.D., studied peppermint's effect on the liver and respiratory systems.

Other scientists have also researched peppermint's role in affecting impaired taste and smell when inhaled. Dr. William N. Dember of the University of Cincinnati studied peppermint's ability to improve concentration and mental accuracy. Alan Hirsch, M.D., studied peppermint's ability to directly affect the brain's satiety center, which triggers a sense of fullness after meals.

PEPPERMINT IS GROWN AND DISTILLED AT THE YOUNG LIVING FARMS.

Following are 25 ways to use Peppermint Essential Oil:

1. Rubbing 4-6 drops in the palm and rubbing over stomach and around the navel may help relieve occasional indigestion, flatulence and diarrhea.



2. Adding a drop of Peppermint oil to herbal tea may help aid digestion and heartburn.



3. Massaging several drops of Peppermint oil on an area of injury may help to reduce tenderness. Applying Peppermint oil immediately to an injured area may be soothing.



4. Rubbing several drops of Peppermint oil on the bottoms of the feet may help lower high temperature.



5. Applying a drop of Peppermint oil topically on unbroken skin may help to stop itching.



6. For poison ivy or poison oak, applying Peppermint oil on location may help with irritation and be soothing.



7. Inhaling Peppermint oil before and during a workout may help boost your mood and reduce fatigue.



8. Massaging several drops of Peppermint oil on the abdomen may help relieve nausea.



9. Rubbing a drop of Peppermint oil on the temples, forehead, over the sinuses (stay away from the eyes) and on the back of the neck may help in soothing head pressures.



10. Applying a drop of Peppermint oil on each side of the fifth cervical vertebra (up three notches from the large vertebra at the base of the neck) may be beneficial in helping to stop hiccups.



11. Placing two drops of Peppermint oil on the tongue and rubbing another drop under the nose may help improve alertness and concentration.
    
    

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12. Diffusing Peppermint oil in the room while studying may help to improve concentration and accuracy. Inhaling Peppermint oil, when taking a test, may help in improving recall.



13. Rubbing 4 drops of Peppermint oil on chest and stomach may help to relieve travel sickness.



14. Placing a drop of Peppermint oil on the tongue and inhale into the nose and sinuses may help stuffiness.



15. Add Peppermint oil to food as a flavoring and a preservative.



16. To deter rats, mice, ants or cockroaches, placing two drops of Peppermint oil on a cotton ball and placing along the path or point of entry for these pest may help to send them elsewhere.



17. Mixing one 15 ml. bottle of Peppermint oil into a 5 gallon can of paint may dispel the fumes.



18. Place a couple of drops of Peppermint oil in a cup of hot water and enjoy in place of coffee.



19. Adding 4-5 drops of Peppermint oil to 4oz. of water and spray on plants may help get rid of aphids.



20. Drinking a drop of Peppermint oil mixed in a glass of cold water may help to cool off on a hot day.



21. Rubbing Peppermint oil on joints may be soothing.



22. Placing a drop of Peppermint oil on the tongue may help in stopping bad breath.



23. Inhaling the fragrance of Peppermint oil may help in curbing the appetite and lessen the impulse to overeat.



24. Applying a drop of Peppermint oil on a cotton swab and swabbing the tick may help it removal. Wait for it to unhedge its head and remove from your pet.



25. Mixing Peppermint oil in a footbath may help relieve sore feet. Keep water agitated while soaking feet.

If you have any questions regarding Peppermint Essential Oil or would like help in ordering Peppermint Oil , please contact me and I'd be happy to help you.

Yours in Scentsible Wellness,
Elizabeth


The above usage of Peppermint was taken from "101 uses For Young Living Essential Oils" - thanks to Peggy Brackett and the many others that have contributed to the creation of this list.

Essential Oils as a Natural Cologne For Men

Did you know that perfume and cologne can be dated back to Egyptian times? Actually, the Egyptians were the first to bottle perfume with the earliest use of perfume bottles dating back to around 1000 BC. Perfume was made from the essential oils of flowers and herbs and were not just reserved for women. Historical accounts tell of Roman men using perfumes after their baths and using the perfumes as an after shave. Yes, fellows, men have suffered the razor since Roman times!

In today's modern world true essences of plants have been replaced with synthetics and chemicals in men's cologne, shaving, and skin care products. These synthetic fragrances are found to cause, trigger, and exacerbate health conditions. Read more about the effects of synthetic fragrances here and the effects of pthalates here. And while these fragrances are affecting you directly they are also affecting those around you, the very ones you are trying to attract. All the more reason why you should make the switch to natural fragrances to enhance your manly magnetism.

In my previous post Beat the Blues and Smell Great Too I wrote about using essential oils as a perfume and the added benefits of these aromatics helping to beat the blues. The combination of essential oils that I offered are somewhat feminine and I thought that maybe some of my male readers would like some suggestions for replacing their current men's cologne to a natural fragrance - essential oils.

Keep in mind guys that just because they are essential oils doesn't mean they can't be manly - The added benefits to using essential oils as a cologne or after shave is that these oils are good for your health and good for your skin.

Here are some suggestions, in no particular order, that I have gathered from other Young Living distributors:

To use these oils as a cologne or after shave you can either use a couple of drops of oil straight or add them to a few drops of carrier oil such as V-6 Oil or Sweet Almond Oil

• Valor - known for increasing feelings of strength, courage, and self-esteem.


• Sandlewood - has a rich, sweet, warm, and woody aroma that is sensual and romantic.


• Patchouli - has a musky, earthy, exotic aroma.


• Sage - has a spicy, herbaceous aroma.


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• Balsam Fir - has a refreshing and uplifting scent


• Believe - uplifting blend of Balsam Fir, Frankincense, and Rosewood essential oils that have a steadying, balancing effect on emotions


• Dreamcatcher - is an exotic formula


• Egyptian Gold - includes rose, cinnamon, balsam fir, and lavender


• Highest Potential - an exotic blend designed to increase your capacity to achieve your highest potential


• Sacred Mountain - for the woodsy mountaineer outdoor types


• Longevity - includes the masculine essential oils Thyme, Clove, and Frankincense with Orange.


• Magnify Your Purpose - is a specially crafted blend of essential oils that stimulates creativity, desire, focus, and motivation.

Maybe you are looking to replace your shaving cream. Here is a recipe from a distributor using a foam dispenser:

Essential Oil Shaving Cream

Take an empty foamy bottle (a used Thieves Foaming Hand Soap Dispenser works great), add Young Living Bath and Shower Gel Base to about ¼ of the bottle, stir in desired amount (10-20 drops should do) of masculine, skin loving, essential oils such as Sandalwood, Frankincense or Helichrysum. You can use a bamboo skewer to gently stir in the oils (it takes a few minutes to incorporate them)

Fill the rest of the bottle about ¾ full with distilled water. Replace the cap and shake hard several times until water and bath gel base incorporate. Allow to settle for an hour or so, then add the rest of the distilled water and stir gently. This lasts a long time and the scented foam is very gentle and soothing for the skin.

If you need any help ordering these oils or if you have any questions please let me know. Contact me and I'd be happy to help you!

Yours in Scentsible Wellness,
Elizabeth