Love, Life, and Young Living! PLUS a GIVE AWAY!

First I have to share that you can expect a few posts in the coming month about different oils I am using to make Christmas gifts.   One of the things I decided this year to make it different what that I am going to be making some gifts myself.   I have a couple of things in mind for the holidays which will include the use of Cinnamon Oil, Peppermint Oil,  Ginger Oil, Lemon Oil and Lavender Oil among others.   The list of things I intend to make are simple things and things I use in my own home often.   I tried to figure out if homemade gifts are cheesy or thoughtful and I decided I was going with thoughtful because you have to take extra time and energy into making something special for someone special.

Today I am sharing a few of my favorite oils to diffuse (among other things).   I want to say this is a short list today only because there is a lot to share on this subject and I really suggest you check out some of the amazing Christmas gift ideas if you are an oil fan or interested in becoming one.   

Lavender Oil:

I love lavender.  I diffuse it at bedtime.  It relaxes me.  I sleep better smelling good things, I guess because whenever I diffuse it my husband says I am impossible to wake up.

Stress Away:

I don't have a mother in law but I think during the Holidays my husband could use this, not that my mom is one of those Mother In Laws.   LOL!!!

Stress Away is literally my go to oil to diffuse.   I use it at work.  I feel like Michael Corleone from The Godfather when it comes to stress.  "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!".   Don't get me wrong, everyone has it but I just seem to be surrounded by a lot of drama at work it is a hazard of my job.  The drama at home?  Well, I have a 12 year old, if you know what I mean!   When I diffuse this at my work, people literally come into my office just to sniff.  It must help because I have had comments like:  "I love how your office smells like a spa!" and "I just stopped by to sniff.  It smells so good!"   To my favorite "Oh, she is diffusing today!  I can smell it at my desk and I missed it."   (I forgot to diffuse during Halloween.  I wasn't in my office much anyway because I was out decorating the team area.)

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Homemade Face Cream

Almost 45! OMG! I'm OLD!!!

There are a ton of things on my mind right now but I really DON'T feel like blogging about them so I thought I would share my Young Living Oil face cream experience since I am about 3-4 weeks into using it at this point.  Above is a actual photo taken this morning of my soon to be 45 year old face. That's me...all old and me.  

Just a side note, we made homemade ice cream for the kids 12th Birthday and it was amazing but it is also terribly fattening with something like 6 lbs of sugar (or it felt like that much) so I thought I would share something a little healthier with you for a Monday! 

Frankincense

Tea Tree Oil

And this was me making the cream.  Oooh! Ahhh!  I know, live action photos. Does it get any better than this in the blogging world?  I think NOT!

 Basically I use 1 cup of organic coconut oil with about 8-10 drops each Frankincense, Tea Tree, Lavender, and Elemi essential oils from Young Living.   I like coconut oil because it works well for my skin as a carrier oil and it is so hydrating.  My skin is really picky and everything tends to break it out.  I have avoided using commercially produced face creams my entire life because everything causes my skin to erupt but not this.  I think there is something to natural products that I wish I had figured out 20 years ago.  Maybe I would look younger today?

 I gently heated the coconut oil and let it cool.  Coconut oil has a really low melting point, in fact, it will melt with your body temperature so it quickly becomes a liquid on contact with skin.  What I am saying here is, it takes a few seconds to heat it but you don't need to heat it, you can cream this stuff together and the next time I make this, I will do it that way.  Next choose the oils for your skin.

Here is why I chose the oils I did:

Frankincense: May help smooth the appearance of healthy looking skin and who doesn't want smoother looking skin?  Have I mentioned like 75 times yet I am old?

Elemi: Helps reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles. Sign me up for anything that helps that because did I mention I am going to be 45 in August?

Lavender:  Honestly, I use this oil every single day.  I diffuse it at night to help me relax and calm down before bedtime and it smells wonderful.  It is great for skin too and it is very versatile. I also use it in my shampoo and my eye cream.  Actually, between Lavender and Peppermint it is a tie for which I use most.

Tea Tree Oil:  This oil helps beautify the appearance of skin and cleanses and refreshes.

Alright so I use this cream under my foundation and before I go to bed.  The other night my step-daughter came to hug me goodnight and she smelled my oils on my face and laughed and said "Your oils!"  She is learning.

When combined with the fact that I have added more water to my diet and removed gluten I can really tell that my skin is clear, soft, dewy and completely healthy.   The best part is that this is so cost effective relative to the cost of actual face creams which can run hundreds of dollars.  A jar of coconut oil is about $10.00 and you are only using a few drops of each Young Living essential oil in the cream so you can make this for months and months and months and still have oil, if you don't use the oil for other things but like I said, I use Lavender specifically everyday.

As for why I picked Young Living oils, aside from the fact that I love them and carry them with me wherever I go now?  Have I mentioned that I was a skeptic just 2 months ago?  It's true.  Young Living has literally won me over with amazing products.  Not only that but even my husband loves them, or maybe he just loves that he gets a foot massage when I pull them out? It probably isn't that.

Okay so here is why I went with Young Living:

It is a high quality oil with organic farms that they own and operate themselves.Young Living has a high standards of quality control through every step of the oil production ensuring the purity of their oils know as seed to seal.  This is a huge commitment as they have farms around the globe!

You can find out more about Young Living HERE.

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Wholesale Pricing: Save 24 percent off retail pricing on Young Living products, and save even more money with exclusive specials and promotions every month.

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So you can sign up For Young Living Here and when you do enter me as your sponsor and enroller pretty please!  My member number is 2931544.   Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about becoming a member and I will try to answer you quickly.

One last thing....water.  It is essential for your skin to get plenty of water so please, please, please put down the diet soda and pick up the glass of water.  Did I mention that there are some lovely and refreshing citrus oils you can add to your water for flavor that just rock the world?  My favorite is Citrus Fresh and it just tastes great.  It is a combination of Lemon, Mandarin, Grapefruit, Orange, Tangerine, and Spearmint and a drop in your water bottle adds an instant flavor boost.  I love it.  It makes lovely dressing for salads too!  YUM! 

What I'm Loving and Have a Pinteresting Wednesday #11

Sorry I am late with this post today.  Yesterday was a weird day at work and somehow my allergies are going crazy which means I feel terrible and fell asleep about 7pm and again at 9pm.  

So here is what I am loving this week: 

Pool is done

We put a pool up this weekend. I am so excited to be able to just float in this baby soon.   We got this for kiddo for her b-day and she is in heaven! 

It isn't Ben and Jerry's but it will satisfy

I was having a really bad social media day Monday.  (So bad that I deleted my Facebook and it is staying deleted.  Drama...too much drama).  Anyway I went to the grocery to grab some gluten free snacks and I found this.  It's a little like a Frosty but it has only 150 calories a pint!   Now I know a pint isn't a serving but guess what?  Nobody eats a scoop.   Anyway it isn't genius but it is good enough that I will live with it happily since it won't kill my diet and it is gluten, lactose and sugar free...among other things. 

Hubby's gentle reminder to take my allergy pills! 

My husband knew my allergies were going crazy so he left me a gentle reminder to take my pills.  

Young Living Essential Oils can be found here

My Young Living essential oil collection.  I love it!   I use it every day.  (Actually there are some missing because I carry them with me.). I am a little late to the essential oil use but I find it amazing!
My favorite thing is the eye cream I made with lavender oil and organic coconut oil.  I swear I use to spend $100 for my eye cream.  I ran out a couple weeks ago so I decided to try making my own.  A quarter cup of coconut oil and a few drops of lavender and I am hooked. The greatest part?  I MAY have spent $3.00 for this cream in supplies...maybe.   I will take that savings.  I also started making a face cream with essential oils. I will get back to you on the results in a few weeks after I have been using it. :)

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Okay so what have I been pinning?  A lot of gluten free recipes.  I decided a couple weeks ago after dealing with multiple tummy issues, to remove gluten from my diet and see if it helps.   I am surprised at how easy the transition has been.  

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I haven't made these cookies or brownies yet but darn they look good!

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I did make a version of this last weekend and my hubby loved it.  I think it would be a little better with maybe some salsa on it but nobody else wanted salsa.  You can add it either at the bottom or on top if you agree with me! 

Just an aside here on this subject.   We tried some gluten free pasta and none of us could tell the difference, we are going to start buying it when we are out of regular pasta.  I also love, love, love spaghetti squash.  

Okay, happy Wednesday people.