Whether you are spring cleaning or just doing a deep clean on your home, using natural cleaners is the best way to have a clean, happy and healthy home! Here are my best essential oils cleaning recipes, all in one place! Before you grab your bottles of cleaners that you bought at the grocery store, …
Looking for help to battle pimples and acne? Here are the different essential oils that my teenage daughter and I use to help clear up acne, pimples and oily skin without drying out our face in the process! Tips and ideas to achieve clear skin with these DIY roller ball and toner recipes to help …
Ladies, it’s time to talk about hot flashes. If you have them, you know it. If you don’t you know they’re inevitable. Here are some tips and ideas including natural hot flash remedies to get relief and products to help deal with the discomfort. Hot flashes are those obnoxious, embarrassing times when it feels like …
If you are looking for natural living ideas, choosing essential oils for your garden is a great idea! Tips and ideas for how to combat weeds, pests, fungus and bugs. Recipes for spray bottles, cotton balls and tea. Spring is finally here! Time to get your gardens in order. If you like to plant fruits …
Traveling can be stressful. We all know this. Whether you fly, ride a train, cruise or drive, traveling is stressful. We also know that you can relieve stress with essential oils, but did you know that traveling with essential oils is a great idea? Since you can’t take your entire supply of oils with you (if you’re anything …
As a Mom with severe allergies, I want to keep my house clean and safe, but using Windex and Bleach is definitely NOT part of my natural living worldview! Years ago I used to douse my kitchen counters with Windex all day long and use bleach on any surface that wasn’t nailed down. Ack! You …
Essential oils are great to use on your lip at the first tingle from a cold sore! This treatment for herpes or can help reduce the time it takes for cold sores to run their course. A healthy remedy for fever blisters. please note :: I often recommend resources, some I receive an affiliate commission …
Whether you are suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), shoulder pain, knee pain or other joint ailments, using essential oils as a supplement to your doctor prescribed medications is a great idea! Here are my top tips for using essential oils for pain. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase anything, I earn a small commission …
You know how bad dryer sheets and stinky detergent are, but luckily there is a solution… dryer balls! I like to put essential oils on mine to make them smell better. Here are my best tips and ideas for using dryer balls as part of your natural living routine. I am seriously allergic to everything, …
Essential oils aren’t just for diffusing or using for medical/home uses. They are also a fantastic way to add your favorite smells to your moisturizing needs. Body butters are a favorite for most of us because they are a bit thicker than lotions and make drier parts of our bodies, like legs, feel great for …
Here are three of my best pillow spray recipes to help you get to sleep! Tips and ideas for essential oils to use that can be calming and help you sleep. It happens to everyone from time to time. You can’t sleep. Too much on your mind, too tired to actually sleep, anxiety or a …
Can essential oils help your ADHD kids? Should you ignore the doctors and go full on holistic medicine rather than putting your kid on medication? Let’s start off with my story! We adopted my son from foster care with his sisters a few years ago and everything we read about him from caseworks, foster parents, …
As someone who suffers from inflammation, I KNOW how insidious the pain is and how it can travel around your body, causing aches and pain everywhere. I hate having to take pill after pill to fight the aches and pain and was thrilled to find out that essential oils for inflammation could help with my …
If you’re new to essential oils, you may be wondering about some of the terminology. One of the big ones you will see are carrier oils. When I was a beginner this one really messed me up! Knowledgable people who talked about using essential oils were throwing around terms that seemed really mysterious to me, …
You are starting to dabble in essential oils, which is great for you, but may not be so great for your cat. For the most part cats and essential oils don’t really mix. When I discovered essential oils I was all gung ho to use them all the time in many ways. I use them …
Let’ just get this out there, mosquito repellent is a must have for me! I am a mosquito magnet living in Florida… a recipe for itchy disaster! When I get bug bites I get a huge welt that can be itchy for days. I will probably be growing a third eye sometime soon from all …
Everyone has a complaint about their hair. It’s too straight. It’s too curly. It’s too short. It’s too long. It’s too oily/dry. It’s thinning… so many things and so many shampoos, conditioners and serums pushed by the hair care industry all with limited results.. Note: Some links in this post are affiliate links, which means …