February 2011

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Everyday Oils This is just a small sampling of the hundreds of uses of Young Living Essential Oils. I’ve found once you begin incorporating essential oils into daily life it becomes a natural lifestyle. I’ve been using essential oils for nearly everything for the past 26 years, I wouldn’t trade them for anything!

The savings is terrific too! Notice in this small sampling of uses that the same essential oil can be used in different ways. This saves money as well as space in my cabinets. I love it! More money is saved by becoming a wholesale customer too.

75 Ways to Use Young Living Essential oils

1. Scented candles.

Light an unscented candle, blow out after a few minutes. Add your chosen YL essential oil to the melted wax in the center. Do not add essential oil while candle is lit as the essential oils are volatile.

2. Freshen stinky sneakers and shoes. Read the rest of this entry »

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How To Make Your Own Natural (Essential Oil) Lip Balm

February 28, 2011 in Aromatherapy, Beauty, Best Essential Oils, Buy / Purchase, Lavender, Make My Own, Natural, Quality / Pure, Recipes, Using Essential Oils, Young Living Distributor by Evelyn Vincent | No comments

Lavender, Grapefruit and Cinnamint Lip Balm One of the things I love most about my Young Living Essential Oils is that I can make so many different useful products with them. Though Young Living does sell three wonderful different lip balms (Cinnamint #5150, Lavender #5203, and Grapefruit #5178) sometimes it’s just fun to make your own.

The delights of making your own lip balm is that you can regulate the recipe below to obtain the shininess and flavor ‘you’ desire… not to mention, that you are getting the skin healing benefits of therapeutic-grade essential oils!

This recipe also makes nice gifts!

Natural Essential Oil Flavored Lip Balm Recipe

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Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure Testimonial

February 25, 2011 in Alternative Therapies, Antioxidant, Family Health, Gary Young, Heart Health, Longevity, Love, NingXia Red Juice, ORAC / S-ORAC, Testimonials, Wolfberry / Goji Berry by Jonell Elder | No comments

Cholesterol and high blood pressure are a problem in so many peoples lives or the lives of their loved ones. Many people are prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. Drugs that are widely advertised on television and costly. The drugs are meant to help manage the problem, and in most cases they do. Like most drugs, the drug use is not to cure the problem, rather it is to put a “band-aide” effect over the situation.

The way that has helped my mother with her cholesterol and high blood pressure and improvement towards better health is, natural, organic, antioxidant solution of NingXia Red. (Read more on NingXia Red).

NingXia Red combines the finest whole Ningxia wolfberry puree, blueberries, pomegranate, apricot, raspberries, red grapes, and lemon and orange essential oils. It’s the synergy of ingredients that help to make NingXia Red stand above all the others.

When a bottle of NingXia Red reaches your hands it is still bursting with excellent natural flavor and contains the specially handled wolfberry ‘puree’ – not an over-processed juice. Young Living uses a processing technique called “Nutritent Guard” which captures the natural goodness of the NingXia wolfberry, which includes the water-soluble plant pigments that give them their unique reddish-orange color: flavonoids, carotenoids, polyphenols, and anthocyanidins. Rich in antioxidants, the therapeutic benefits of these compounds are carefully preserved in this proprietary procedure and are guaranteed in every bottle of NingXia Red.

Mom has been on medication for both cholesterol and high blood pressure for many years, and in the last 8 months her medications have been greatly reduced. I feel VERY strongly that NingXia Red may have played a huge part in this reduction. She drinks 2 ounces a day.

Eight months ago both drugs were reduced to half of the original prescribed amount, along with her water pill being eliminated. A few weeks ago her blood pressure medication was cut in half again. She may be off of all medications in the future. What a tremendous gift of giving her longevity to her life!!

Thanks be to Gary Young and Young Living Essential oil for providing the world with such outstanding wellness products. My household will never be without them.

Short but sweet…May all who desire to, rid their cupboards of medications by discovering healthier and truly natural alternatives to better their health, and the health of people they know and love.

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Article by Jonell Elder, Young Living Essential Oil Distributor

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Lemon essential oil is very versatile and has many uses. Research by Jean Valnet, MD showed that vaporized lemon oil can kill meningococcus bacteria in 15 minutes, typhoid bacilli in one hour, Staphylococcus aureus in two hours, and Pneumococcus bacteria within three hours. Even a 0.2% solution of lemon oil can kill diphtheria bacteria in 20 minutes and inactivate tuberculosis bacteria. Lemon oil has been widely used in skin care to cleanse skin and reduce wrinkles and combat acne. Lemon has shown to have antidepressant effects in research done by Komori, et al., 1995. Of course we’re talking about ‘therapeutic-grade Lemon oil here, there’s a lot of adulterated lemon oil on the market and those should not be confused or used in the same ways as we use therapeutic-grade.

Lemon fresh clean scent promotes clarity of thought and purpose with a fragrance that is invigorating, enhancing, and warming. University researchers in Japan found that diffusing certain aromas in an office environment dramatically improved mental accuracy and concentration. Diffused lemon resulted in 54 percent fewer errors, jasmine 33 percent fewer errors, and lavender 20 percent fewer errors. When aromas were diffused during test taking, scores increased by as much as 50 percent. A 1995 Mie University study found that citrus fragrances boosted immunity, induced relaxation, and reduced depression.

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AlkaLime supplement for pH Proactively taking Young Living products, such as AlkaLime® , can help build and support digestive health and you can feel great, too. AlkaLime® is a precisely-balanced alkaline mineral and essential oil powder formulated to safely balance the acidity of the digestive system.* This is important because a balanced pH allows the body to maintain vigor and health. This formula helps counteract over consumption of processed sugars and foods that may turn to sugar in the body, such as pasta, bread, and processed corn products.

Sodium: 573 mg per serving Calcium: 692 mg per serving Magnesium: 142 mg per serving Potassium: 190 mg per serving  38.5 servings per container.

AlkaLime® Between Meals

This precisely-balanced alkaline mineral and essential oil powder is formulated to safely reduce the acidity of the digestive system. It also helps preserve the body’s proper pH balance-the cornerstone of health. Take in water one hour before meals or at bedtime. Not for salt-restricted diets.

How To Use AlkaLime®

Stir 1 teaspoon in 8 ounces of distilled water and drink immediately. Mix only with water. Take one to three times daily, one hour before meals or retiring to bed as an aid in alkalizing.*

AlkaLime® Ingredients

Sodium (as sodium bicarbonate and sea salt), Calcium (as calcium carbonate), magnesium (as magnesium citrate), Potassium (as potassium bicarbonate), citric acid, lemon (Citrus limon)† rind, and lime (Citrus aurantifolia)† rind.

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Detoxify Your Body with Young Living’s 5-Day Cleanse

February 14, 2011 in Detox, Energy Drink, Longevity, NingXia Red Juice, Professional Wellness Products, Weight Loss by Jennifer McBride | No comments

Are you looking for a safe, effective cleanse to help rid your body of excess toxins?

If you’ve never tried Young Living’s 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse I highly recommend it. I just finished the cleanse last week and I feel great!

I have to say, cleansing was much easier than I expected. The protein shakes you get to drink for breakfast, lunch, and dinner are quite tasty and very filling! I combined the Balance Complete protein shake with the Ningxia Red energy drink at each meal for added flavor. I never felt like I was starving the entire 5 days. There was always a healthy snack to look forward to and it felt so good to be doing something great for my body.

Benefits I experienced with Young Living’s 5-Day Cleanse:

Clearer and Softer Skin
Elimination of Sweet Cravings
Loss of Body Fat
Increased Energy
Greater Self-Control

With your purchase of Young Living’s cleanse you’ll get a detailed menu of what to eat so it’s super easy to follow. You may also save money and time because you won’t need to prepare normal meals; or if you’re still cooking for your family, you’ll save money not having to cook as much.

Some of the snacks you’re able to eat in between your protein shakes include things like apples, blueberries, pears, almonds, sunflower seeds, etc.

Cleansing is great to do every season (or every 3 months) to detoxify your body. Toxic build-up in our bodies contributes to a wide variety of health problems, and ridding ourselves of it becomes an essential component of a long-term commitment to wellness.

Once you’ve completed the 5 days of detoxification it’s likely that you’ll want to eat healthier and, if you feel anything like I do, you’ll want to make better food choices after you’ve cleansed.

*For the month of February Young Living is offering their 5-day Cleanse for 10% off. I think you’ll be very pleased with the results!

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about Young Living’s 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse or any other Young Living products.

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Year of the Rabbit: what to expect and what we can do

February 14, 2011 in Common Questions, Education, Emergency Preparedness, Family Health, Inspirational, Mind / Body / Soul, Spirituality, Wellness by Evelyn Vincent | No comments

Year of the Rabbit is symbolized by two of the five elements, metal sitting on wood. In the Chinese system of elements, of birth and destruction cycles, determining the relationship between the five elements we find that 2011 is “yin” metal. For instance, 2010 Year of the Tiger, we also saw metal, however 2010 was “yang” metal and was much more out there in our faces. “Yin” metal will be more cunning and not in our face.

Yin metal on top is it is decorative, like jewelry, beautiful and charming on the outside and very hard at heart. Thus, yin metal on top can also symbolize a dagger. Yin metal will appear moderate and peaceful on the surface but be more drastic and harsh than the yang metal we saw during 2010. As such, 2011 will be more peaceful on the surface with tension, disharmony and surprise attacks below the surface. Read the rest of this entry »

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Peppermint essential oil Peppermint (Mentha piperita) is a plant in the botanical family Lamiaceae (mint), the essential oil is steam distilled from the leaves and stems of the plant. Key constituents of peppermint oil are:

Menthone (12-20%)
Menthofurane (4-9%)
1.8 Cineol (Eucalyptol) (2-5%)
Pulegone (2-5%)
Menthyl Acetate (4-10%)

Peppermint oil is a highly regarded digestive stimulant.

Effect of fibre, antispasmodics, and peppermint oil in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis

In a report financed by the American College of Gastroenterology and published in the journal BMJ in 2008, scientists conducted an analysis of previous studies comparing peppermint oil with placebo in about 400 patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). They found that only 26 percent of patients treated with peppermint oil, administered twice daily in capsule form, for a period of one to three months, continued to show symptoms of I.B.S. after treatment, compared with 65 percent of those who were given placebo. The scientists concluded that the evidence was compelling enough that more studies should be conducted, and that in the interim, “current national guidelines for the management of the condition should be updated to include these data.”

The IBS study also states… Read the rest of this entry »

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