Posts Tagged ‘lavender essential oil’


Get Pumped to Shovel Snow: Peppermint Essential Oil

It was a sunny day. I walked to the Bank and a friends house, about a mile in all. I get home and grab a quick bite to eat and the doorbell rings. It is the Code Enforcement Officer with a “Complaint” about the snow on my sidewalk. Thirty plus years I’ve lived here and [...]

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Traveling with Essential Oils

I find it essential to carry many Young Living Essential Oils when I travel. They almost fill up my quart bag allowed on planes, and still I always wish I had more when I arrive at my destination. This trip to Oregon started with a delayed flight that caused me to miss my other flight. [...]

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Essential Oils to Uplift Your Spirit

I am using my Essential Oil arsenal to the max today. Diffusing Rosewood Essential Oil and wearing Young Livings Essential Oil blend called “Joy” to try and stay focused and not collapse into doing nothing because of the challenges the world has been handing me the last few days. You know the expression: “When Life [...]

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Lavender Essential Oil Relieves Dry Eyes

Manitou Springs Colorado is pretty dry most of the time. I grew up in the Midwest and although I have lived here many years, my skin and eyes often feel very dry. Yesterday, I was tired of putting eye drops in my eyes and reached for my Young Living Lavender Essential Oil to rub on [...]

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Essential Oils: Refresh Skunked House

A couple of nights ago, I was talking on the phone and almost passed out from the air I was breathing. I was the strongest skunk smell I have experienced in years. We do have skunk who often walks around the house, and it a slightly unpleasant scent that doesn’t last for long. But this [...]

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Essential Oils: Alert in Seconds with Peppermint

The third morning of Commonwheel’s Arts and Crafts Festival that I coordinate in Manitou Springs, I usually get to sleep in until 7:30 am. And I look forward to that extra few hours after a long week of set-up and artists challenges. Not this year. At 5:00 am my phone rang. It was the Security [...]

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Essential Oils: Find Harmony in Muddy Waters

I came home from a business trip and looked in my basement and found this. I definitely needed a bit of Young Livings Essential Oil Blend PeaceAndCalming to sleep that night. And have been using YL Blend Melrose and Lemon Essential Oil to mitigate any potential of mold forming, but I am in Colorado and [...]

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Essential Oils Tips: Reduce Swelling

Lately, I have found myself sitting at my computers for long periods of time. That isn’t good for my leg that has a problem with circulation. I always use many Young Living Essential Oils and Blends in the morning and at night to help keep my blood flowing. Geranium, Peppermint (for circulation and energy), and [...]

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Essential Oils: Joy to the Rescue

This chat is a bit different from some of my others, similar in that it is a true story and involves how I use Young Living Essential oils and blends. Today it was raining outside. Even so, I dashed across the street to get Twin Link Springs Mineral water. I bring a gallon jug and [...]

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Essential Oils: Skunked House Wall needed a Non-Toxic Air Freshener

Manitou Springs has an abundance of wildlife. Some more fun to see than others. We had a skunk visit the other night. He’s been around for a while, but last night a neighbor’s dog was outside and started barking and chased it to the end of his chain. Lucky for the dog, the skunk missed [...]

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