Essential Oils

Want to start using essential oils? Read this first!

Essential oils have truly changed my life – and believe me, I was a skeptic when I was first introduced to them. How on earth could a sniff of this or a rub of that help to improve my family’s health or well-being?

But before I explain why essential oils are so great, you might be wondering what they actually are!

What are essential oils?

Essential oils are the oil of the plant from which they were extracted. They’re basically concentrated herbs! They contain all the goodness that protects and maintains the plant, and we can use them to help support our own bodies’ health and wellness.

There are many different kinds of oils out there, and they all have different properties and uses. From well-known plants like Bergamot and Eucalyptus to unusual and exotic ones like Petitgrain and Spikenard, there’s an unfathomably huge range to choose from – and they each provide all sorts of different benefits and uses.

How can essential oils help promote the health and well-being of you and your family?

I’m no scientist (and you probably aren’t either), so I’ll explain how essential oils have helped my loved ones and me improve our lives...

• Emotional Balance: If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll know I'm an homebody type who loves her comfort food. When life gets hectic and I have a lot on my plate, I tend to reach for food and drink to cope. But now that I have essential oils to rely on, comfort food is less of a crutch. These days Frankincense, Lavender, Stress Away, and Joy are all my go-to oils for emotional balance: within minutes (if not seconds) they relax me, calm me down, brighten my mood, and takes the edge off my worries.

• Better Sleep: I’ve lived as a night owl for the past 16 years. It would take me hours to drift off to sleep every night, then I’d wake up feeling groggy. Not anymore! Now I apply oils before bed that promote relaxation like Peace & Calming and Cedarwood (or diffuse Lavender and Vetiver) every night and fall asleep at a decent time (10-11 p.m.) Precious wasted hours tossing and turning in bed are officially a thing of the past! P.S. To learn more about the essential oils I use for sleep, watch my video below!

• Digestive Support: Peppermint is my best friend! Anytime I have an upset stomach, I rub peppermint on my lower torso for digestive support and within minutes I feel better! It’s also my go-to oil for traveling since I experience motion sickness. I like to rub a bit under my nose, on my wrists, and on the back of my neck when I’m flying, riding on a bus, or in a car so I don’t have to deal with any nausea.

Those are just three examples of ways essential oils have changed my life. But that’s not all! Essential oils have also replaced many everyday products that I used to spend a fortune on. 

I now clean my home with oil-infused natural cleaners rather than toxic chemicals from the supermarket. I wash and moisturize my face and body with oil-infused natural products, too. And everyone in my home benefits from diffusing energizing essential oils in the morning and calming essential oils before bedtime!

Can you just use any essential oils?

In my opinion, no. I’ve done a lot of research into this and if you ask me, there’s one particular brand that stands head and shoulders above the rest: Young Living.

Introducing Young Living Essential Oils!

There are many reasons why this brand is so great, but here are my three favorites:

1: The source matters

One of the most important things I’ve learned in my journey to healthy living is that it’s not just what something is – it’s where it comes from, how it’s grown, and how it’s processed. Whether it’s blueberries fresh from the farm, meat or milk from cows grazed on green pasture, or a soft organic t-shirt, I know that the source matters.

I did many hours of research (with some trial and error) to find an essential oil company that I felt I could trust with my family’s health. Young Living is that company: they truly care about quality.

To ensure the purity of their oils, the team at Young Living set the highest, beyond organic standards for planting, harvesting, and distilling on the very farms they own and co-op all around the world. Farms that you and I can visit ourselves to participate in the whole process! (How about that for transparency?) If I’m going to be putting products on my family’s skin and around our home, I want to know they’re pure and unadulterated! Like I say time and time again here on the blog, you can't always trust the label anymore. You have to dig deeper and know the source!

2: You become part of a big, friendly community

As a Young Living customer, you automatically become a member of a big oily family that will give you all the support and advice you need! It’s a wonderful feeling to know you have the help and reassurance of a generous and caring community of moms, dads, experts, and lifelong users.

I’ve been using my oils for awhile now, but I still reach out almost daily to our close-knit community for their advice and expertise!

3: The Young Living Premium Starter Kit is the best introduction to essential oils (and it’s such great value, too!)

No other essential oils company offers such a great value and comprehensive range of products to get you started.

The Young Living Premium Starter Kit contains your everyday staples – all the oils and equipment you’ll want to have on hand for a variety of situations. There’s an excellent user guide, too, which will help you understand how to use everything contained in the kit.

Here’s what else is great: once you buy the Premium Starter Kit, you automatically become a “wholesale member” of Young Living. This means you can continue to buy other Young Living products for a huge 24% discount off the retail price! You’re under zero obligation to buy any other products as a wholesale member, but if you do, you get 24% off!

Ready to buy your Young Living Premium Starter Kit?

Here’s what you get:

• Ten 5ml bottles of essential oils: Lavender, Peppermint, Lemon, Frankincense, PanAway, Thieves, Purification, R.C., DiGize and Copaiba. Plus a bonus bottle of the popular Stress Away blend. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see how I use these essential oils every day.
  

• Cold air diffuser (you get to pick your favorite design!)

• Aroma Glide roller fitment (to turn any oil into a roll-on)
  

• Two sample packets each of Lavender, Peppermint, Peace & Calming, Lemon, and Thieves (for you to share with your friends)
  

• Two NingXia Red 2oz samples (an antioxidant drink concentrate that’s a great supplement for supporting health and well-being)
• BONUS: As a thank you gift, I send all new members some amazing reference materials and DIY goodies to help you get started on your oily journey. (Note: I only mail these out to U.S. Residents; however, if you're in Canada or another country, I can send digital reference materials instead!)

Total value: $300

You pay: $150 – that’s 50% off!

And remember: once you’ve purchased the kit, you automatically become a wholesale member – which entitles you to 24% off all future purchases from Young Living! There are NO monthly minimums or fees.

Step-by-step: purchase your Premium Starter Kit

1. Click on the link below to sign up. 

Click here to sign up with a premium starter kit!

2. Select “Sign up as: Young Living Wholesale Member” – which will allow you to purchase the Premium Starter Kit.

Remember: you’re NOT obligated to make any further purchases after this. Wholesale membership simply allows you to buy the Premium Starter Kit at a huge discount.

3. Fill out your name, billing address, shipping address, and contact information. (You’ll be asked for your social security number in case you want to become a distributor of Young Living products in future. This information will never be shared with anyone.)

4. Create your password and PIN – which you’ll use to log in to your account and order any future oils.

5. Select your order: the “Premium”, “Basic “Plus” or “Basic” Starter Kit. I highly recommend the Premium: it's what I chose when I signed up, it comes with everything you need to get started, and it’s the best value of the three.

With the Premium Starter Kit, you also get to choose your diffuser, which is so awesome!

6. Optional: sign up for the frequent buyers’ club called Essential Rewards (ER). When you join, you’ll start accumulating rewards points for everything you buy, which can be used to get free products on future orders. There’s no need to join right away – you can purchase your Starter Pack first and join the ER club later if you prefer.

7. Agree to the Terms & Conditions.

8. CONFIRM YOUR ORDER! I’ve had many folks miss this step and end up not fully checking out – and I don’t want you missing out on your oils!

Some great ways to use the essential oils in your Premium Starter Kit

Each of the oils in your Premium Starter Pack has SO many fabulous uses, but here are some of the ways in which I like to use them:

Lavender

• Calming and balancing - we all know that ahhhhh feeling we get from lavender!
• Supports a healthy nervous system and healthy skin
• I love to mix a few drops of lavender & frankincense into coconut oil and rub it on my skin after a shower, or add it to a batch of DIY lip scrub!

Peppermint

• Supports a healthy and balanced digestive system
• Wake you up! Great to use before a workout (I rub it on the back of my neck) or in the afternoon when you need a pick-me-up.
• It's my favorite oil to use in my homemade lip balm

Lemon

• Works great as a natural 'goo' gone on those pesky sticky labels
• Stained clothes? Rub the oil all over the stain, then immediately put the item in the washing machine. Works like no other stain remover – even on dried-out stains!
• I like to rub a few drops in a carrier oil over my liver to support healthy liver function (plus it smells amazing!)

Frankincense

• Prized for rejuvenating and supporting healthy aging skin
• Beautifully spiritual scent to diffuse while praying or meditating (it's super relaxing)
• Supports the immune system! (I like to mix it with Thieves and Lemon + a carrier oil like olive oil or coconut oil)

Copaiba

• I add a drop to many of my homemade blend recipes to help magnify them!
• I like to combine this with PanAway, Peppermint and a carrier oil (like olive, grapeseed or jojoba) to apply on my muscles and back after strenuous exercise or when I've been sitting too long.
• Combine with egg whites for an amazing hair mask that's nourishing to the scalp.

PanAway (an oil blend containing wintergreen, helichrysum, clove and peppermint):

• Supports a healthy muscular-skeletal system
• All my lady friends love to rub this on their stomach and lower back during that time of the month to ease discomfort.

Thieves (an oil blend containing clove, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus, and rosemary):

• Amazing at supporting the immune system (I like to mix it with Oregano, Lemon & Frankincense + a carrier oil and roll it on my feet and spine)
• Excellent essential oils to use in homemade cleaning recipes
• Diffuse to deter germs (great to have for the fall & winter months)

DiGize (an oil blend containing Tarragon, Ginger, Peppermint, Juniper, Fennel, Anise, Patchouli, and Lemongrass)

• I love to combine it with Peppermint + a carrier oil to make a roll-on blend that I apply after meals to support healthy digestion!
• I always take this oil with me when I'm traveling so I have it on hand for digestive support while I'm out and about.

Purification (an oil blend containing citronella, lemongrass, lavandin, rosemary, tea tree and myrtle):

• Add a few drops to shoes to help neutralize odors.  
• Combine with lavender & a carrier oil to make a homemade salve for healthy summer skin
• Add a few drops to some baking soda as a carpet deodorizer (I love the smell!)  
• I also make my own DIY smelly odor knockout spray with this blend

R.C. (an oil blend containing Myrtle, Eucalyptus Globulus, Majoram, Pine, Eucalyptus Citriodora, Lavender, Cypress, Eucalyptus Radiata, Spruce, and Peppermint)

• Use this blend to make your own homemade chest rub (handy all year long!)
• Diffuse it at night to support your respiratory system and breathe easy

Bonus Oil: Stress Away (an oil blend containing copaiba, lime, cedarwood, vanilla, ocotea and lavender):

• This is the oil you take with you when you're going to the supermarket with three cranky kiddos (or child adults...LOL)
• Apply it generously to your wrists or the back of your neck, use it in a diffuser, or inhale it straight from the bottle anytime you need a “Calgon Take Me Away!” moment.

My Gift to YOU!

If you enroll through me AND order a Premium Starter Kit in the same month, I'll mail you some amazing reference materials as my gift along with some other homemade welcome goodies from my blog and other materials to help you get started!

Oily Facebook Community

Want to learn a bit more about Young Living and essential oils? Click here to join my private facebook group, The Rising Spoon Essential Oils, which is full of my blog readers and other oily enthusiasts who like to chat about natural living topics. Since it's a closed group, I will message you before accepting you into the group, so make sure your message settings are enabled! 

Achieving Abundance: Sharing Young Living with Others

Are you interested in building a business while helping others achieve wellness, purpose, and abundance? If at any point you decide that you would like to share Young Living with others full time OR just enough to get your oils paid for (if you sign up 3 folks with a premium starter kit your first month, you'll earn a "thank you check" from Young Living that'll cover the cost of your own premium starter kit), please let me know! 

Many folks share the oils with their friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors so they can get their oils paid for (and then some)! If you're interested, my Oily Angels team has loads of resources like online classes, audio recordings, private business builders Facebook groups, online boot camps, and more! We're a growing community of women and men who support each other, provide lots of encouragement, happily answer questions, help each other achieve our goals, and foster a positive go-getter attitude. I'd love to have you join my team!!! 

Once you sign up with your premium starter kit, I'll contact you via email with loads of resources and access to our members only facebook group. Let me know you want to work the business side and I'll happily get you started. :)