Nine Essential Oils for the Home

(Young Living’s “Everyday Oils” kit)

Frankincense

  • Bruises, cuts, scrapes, bug bites, itching
  • Bleeding cut: stops bleeding as well as disinfects wound
  • Initiates healing
  • Stimulates and elevates the mind
  • Muscle relaxer
  • Anti-carcinogenic properties (see Dr. H.K. Lin’s work with Young Living’s Sacred Frankincense)
  • Sleep aid
  • Anti-depressant (helps to release the natural dopamine in the brain)
  • Churches and spiritual purposes
  • Promotes a sense of peace and calmness
  • Excellent for skin (used in Egypt)
  • Rub on bottoms of feet and back of neck to soothe children

Lavender

  • Adaptagen: assists body when adapting to stress or imbalances
  • Stress reducing
  • Refreshing and energizing
  • Relieves itching
  • Sleep enhancer
  • Promotes a sense of peace and calmness
  • Burns
  • Cuts, scrapes
  • Bruises
  • Anxiety
  • Asthma
  • Allergies
  • Headaches
  • Insomnia
  • Overactive pets
  • ADD, ADHD and Ritalin patients

On feet before school, cotton ball in a baggie for school (for inhaling)

  • Acne
  • E.D. (can apply neat (directly onto skin) on the scrotum)
  • Nausea
  • Repels ticks and chiggers

Lemon

  • Wonderful fragrance
  • Dishwashers: spot-free dishes (1 drop)
  • Anti-septic
  • Boosts immune system
  • Gets stickers/goop off glass bottles, etc.
  • Excellent alkalizing/cleansing addition
  • Eliminates warts
  • Varicose veins
  • Lowers high blood pressure
  • Skin issues: acne, wrinkles
  • Lemon juice/seasoning substitute
  • Drinking water – especially when traveling (chlorination)
  • Studied for it’s anti-tumoral benefits in a number of cancer studies
  • Rich in d-limonene
  • Has been shown to stimulate white cell production
  • Improves concentration and memory in offices and classrooms (accountants made fewer mistakes in one office studied)

PanAway

  • Pain relief
  • Analgesic and antiseptic properties
  • Increases circulation
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Speeds healing
  • Muscle spasms and cramps
  • Headaches, migraines
  • Arthritis
  • Any little hurt, bump or bruise
  • Helichrysum is in PanAway (For serious pain, many of us take 8 drops of Helichrysum in a vege capsule, 8 drops of Valerian, 8 drops of Vetiver and 1 drop of Peppermint). This is our “pain cocktail”/protocol

Valor

  • Energy alignment & balancing
  • Joints and Bones (oil molecules gravitate towards)
  • Spine (helps to adjust and balance)
  • Promotes sense of strength and good self-image
  • Heightens sense of courage, confidence and self-esteem
  • Fears, anxiety, stage-fright
  • Emotional levels: enters limbic part of brain & elevates mind from that point
  • Supports structural and emotional balance
  • Hot tubs
  • Seizures
  • Inhale, put on wrists, chest & shoulders, temples, back of neck, soles of feet, spine

Peace & Calming

  • Rich in sesqueterpenes

Properties for deleting incorrect info at a DNA level

Helps to get your body balanced

  • Reduces tension
  • Uplifts spirits
  • Promotes a deep sense of peace and relaxation, emotional well-being
  • Hyper and frightened animals
  • Hot tubs
  • Insomnia (kids and adults)(bottom of feet, also mist sheets & pillows)
  • Soothes fussy babies (rub 1-2 drops on bottom of feet)
  • ADD, ADHD and Ritalin patients

On feet before school, cotton ball in a baggie for school (for inhaling)

Peppermint

  • Cool and refreshing
  • Boost energy levels by applying to back of neck and shoulders
  • Inhale before & during a workout to boost mood & reduce fatigue
  • Breath deodorizer
  • Indigestion
  • Digestive tract stimulator (tea)
  • Acid reflux disease (5-6 drops orally)
  • Heartburn
  • Pain
  • Hormonal regulating oil
  • Respitory decongestant (drop a couple of drops on a Kleenex to inhale at night and or throughout the day)
  • Headaches (temples and back of neck)
  • Instant itching relief
  • Sinus problems
  • Repels mice, fleas and ants
  • Penetrating oil (loosens bolts and tightens screws)
  • Drinking water (extra refreshing)(a great way to cheat in hot yoga) ‘-)
  • Tired feet: (feet in AM before work, will be comfy and dry all day)
  • Improves concentration and retention of learning material (STUDENTS!!)

Inhale while studying, take to class for tests & inhale again

Goes directly to brain & helps you recall material you studied earlier

Studies have found diffusing peppermint in classrooms during tests improves student scores by 27%

Purification

  • Anti-bacterial
  • Anti-fungal
  • Prevents, cleanses & soothes insect bites, cuts, scrapes & burns
  • Also spider bites… neutralizes the venom(Dr. Stewart/brown recluse/next day)
  • Hotel rooms (spray bedding, pillows, few drops in air vents)
  • Sanitizes air (smoke, mildew, odors)
  • Few drops on hands to get rid of bacteria
  • Candida
  • Ear infections (a couple of drops on a cotton ball, not dropped directly into ear, place cotton ball in the ear)
  • Dandruff

Thieves

  • Anti-microbial
  • Anti-bacterial AND Anti-viral (put a couple of drops on the bottom of each family member’s feet every morning for protection from bacterial and viral infections)
  • Many of us take 10-12 drops of Thieves, 6-8 drops of Oregano and two drops of Frankincense every couple of hours when we can tell a bug is coming on or once we have become sick, until symptoms subside. Catching it quick is ideal of course. This is what we call our anti-biotic protocol. Of course YL’s supplement, Inner Defense, is ideal as it is Thieves encapsulated!
  • Anti-fungal
  • Kills mold spores
  • Detoxifies insect and bug bites
  • Arthritis
  • Anti-aging/high in antioxidants (can be taken internally)
  • Analgesic (has certain numbing properties)
  • Sore throats
  • Prevention of tooth decay
  • Soothes inflamed areas of the body (fight fire with fire)
  • Supports damaged teeth
  • Multiple cleaning products/hand wipes/lozenges/hand sanitizer

This information was compiled from:

Young Living’s9 Everyday Oils brochure

Young Living’s Essential 7brochure

Sound Concept’s 9 Essential Oils for Every Homebrochure

Connie & Alan Higley’s Reference Guide for Essential Oils, Abundant Health

Essential Oils Desk Reference, Fourth Edition, Essential Science Publishing

And numerous distributor’s first-hand testimonials

Important Disclaimer:

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