 
Welcome to...
the Wizardly World of Potions & Brews!! 
 
Let’s have a little fun this week and look at a few easy ways to ‘brew up’ some DIYs and recipes with your favorite oils so you can celebrate “spooky season” without all the toxins!
Each day there will be a new email with new ideas...
Each day there will be a new email with new ideas...
  
Every wizard knows that quality ingredients matter when it comes to potions and brews. There are many essential oil companies out there and what sets Young Living apart from all of them is their ‘Seed to Seal’ promise. 
Did you know that YL:
-owns its own farms, which no other major company does. Its partner farms all over the world have to abide by the same standards?
-won’t plant on soil that has been in contact with ANY chemicals within 50 years? (Organic standards are only three years!)
-hand weeds and uses its own oils on plants for weed and pest control to avoid harmful chemicals?
-harvests at peak times to ensure you get the highest quality oil?
-distills on site at the proper temperature, which allows the oils to maintain the highest amount of their naturally occurring constituents as possible, without the use of harsh chemicals?
-And tests every batch multiple times, and in multiple ways, throughout the process with state-of-the-art equipment and on-staff scientists?
  
A few helpful tips when using your oils...
-  Some oils are hot, so dilute with a carrier such as coconut oil or YL’s V-6 complex when using on children, sensitive skin, or anytime you experience discomfort. 
-Do not drip essential oils into your ear canal or directly into your eyes. If you do get oils in your eye, stay calm and apply a carrier oil, not water. 
-When in doubt, apply to the bottoms of your feet!
-Citrus oils can cause your skin to be more sensitive to UV rays. To be safe, apply citrus oils where the sun (or a tanning bed) won’t be shining. 😉
-Use glass, ceramic, or stainless steel when adding citrus oils to your water. Citrus oils can break down plastic and nobody wants to drink plastic!
Your oils can be used:
 
Topically: Put a couple of drops right on your skin and rub it in. No need to be precise. Just get them on your skin! Worried about sensitive skin or a hot oil? Dilute it with a carrier oil (grapeseed oil, coconut oil, Young Living’s V-6 oil, etc.) and apply to the bottoms of your feet.
Aromatically: Put them in your diffuser, apply them to diffuser jewelry or your hands and breathe deep, or inhale directly from the bottle! Easy peasy!
Internally: Young Living has a special line of oils that are safe to ingest called Vitality oils. Put a few drops into an empty vegetable capsule, a cup of tea, or a glass of water. You can even cook & bake with them! Even though these bottles have a different label, the oil contained inside is exactly the same as the oil in the colored label bottles... 😉
 
Let’s start the DIYs with Sprays...
Concocting your own sprays is a great way to eliminate the harmful chemicals found in commercial room and fabric sprays. Some of these chemicals, like BHT, Propylene Glycol, Linalool, and Benzaldehyde (sadly, just to name a few...) have been found to be neurotoxins, endocrine disruptors, and irritators of your eyes, skin, and lungs. Do a quick Google search on the dangers of these chemicals and commercial room sprays in general. You’ll be surprised...or disgusted...or angry...
 
Before we jump into the potions and brews recipes, take heed of this wizardly tip! Always keep Copaiba on hand - it has the power to enhance and magnify the effects of another oil.
 
For each spray you will need: 
- 4 oz glass spray bottle
- 2 Tbsp witch hazel
- Distilled water
- 2 Tbsp witch hazel
- Distilled water
- 15-30 drops of essential oils
 
Add witch hazel and essential oils to glass bottle. Top off with distilled water. Shake well before each use.
♥ Obliviate Spray 
 
Dispel odors from your home with this house-elf approved spray! Gather these two oils for your brew:
- 10-15 drops Purification
- 5 drops Lemon
Spritz this brew on curtains, carpets, and anything else that could use some freshening up or whenever you need a little magic around!
♥ Accio Fall Spray 
 
Summon this sweet aroma to get in the spirit of the fall season! 
 
- 6 drops Cinnamon Bark
- 5 drops Nutmeg 
- 10 drops Tangerine or Orange
Spritz around to attract the season of candy and cauldrons! 
Watch for for Roller and Diffuser ideas!
 
Just 3 seconds...
That's how long it takes essential oils reach your heart, liver and thyroid from the time you inhale them. They can be found in your bloodstream within 26 seconds after being applied…just like anything else you inhale or apply…Sit with that for a moment…
So, can you use any just any oil? Does quality really matter?
If you walk into a grocery store and look at a box of cereal, you’ll see nutrition facts on the side. However, there are no nutrition facts on the side of oils and no labeling requirements. So that means you have to know and trust the source – the company you are buying from.
If you see “100% USP grade” on the label of your favorite oil, that means US Pharmacopeia, which means it has been manipulated to fit a standard, so by definition, it is adulterated. Wrigley’s wants all its spearmint gum to taste exactly the same every single time you buy a package, unwrap a stick and pop it into your mouth. Therapeutic oils cannot be played with in any form. They contain a life force and even just a little bit of synthetic material can poison it or even destroy it all together.
So, let me ask you…why would you use an oil laden with chemicals if the entire purpose of using oils is to get away from chemicals??
Unfortunately, you cannot have quality without cost. Just think about that hamburger on the dollar menu compared to an organic, grass fed, Angus beef burger…they are both burgers, right? Or…are they?? I read a book called Chew On This to the kids – all about the fast food industry. We learned that the meat (and other parts) of thousands of animals can be found in just one burger…and some of the grain that is being fed to commercial beef actually contains…dead cows!!! Remember mad cow disease?? Yup…You get what you pay for!! We seem to understand that when it comes to burgers and other industries, but not with oils…
Authenticity is why you just can’t buy oils at the grocery store. Authentic means that they do not alter the essential oil in any way during or after the distillation process. Companies can claim they use proper distillation of the plant material and that they don’t alter that process because there is a little unknown secret in the aromatherapy world called fractional distillation and rectification.
Fractional distillation is when a company buys essential oils that have been distilled properly, but then, after the plant material is distilled, it goes through a process that fractions out certain molecules. In the case of peppermint, they will take out the earthy aromatic molecules leaving a much more “pleasant” and sweet smelling final essential oil, not the natural peppermint smell it should have.
Rectification is where a batch of oil is missing some amount of molecules that causes the smell to be too different from what a consumer may think is "normal". The company adds in molecules from other plants to fix or “rectify” the issue. In the case of a batch of Lavender that isn’t as floral smelling as the last batch, they may add in some molecules from Ylang ylang to help fix the smell.Consider when you buy an orange, you know that the orange you buy now will taste and smell different from the orange you buy even next week. That is nature. With oils, because they are bottled, your brain thinks something is wrong when it smells different from bottle to bottle. In the world of true unaltered authentic aromatherapy, it is normal to have aromatic differences from batch to batch.
How do you know you can trust Young Living? Simply put – Seed to Seal. It is what sets them apart from all other oil companies. No stripping constituents to make them smell better. No mixing species of the same oil. No weed killers, pesticides, herbicides or genetically modified seeds. No “f” word fragrances we talked about last week. They spend $12,000 per acre to hand weed instead of the industry standard of $60 per acre to spray with pesticides. No solvents are used in the distillation process. No mercury, arsenic, glyphosate, or any poison in the soil because the fields are untouched by toxic chemicals…and more. Want to see the difference for yourself? Check out seedtoseal.com here to learn more.
Curious?? How about support for every area of your life at your fingertips? Check out the Make A Shift Essential Solutions kit! Lavender, Peppermint, Thieves, Purification, Stress Away and Deep Relief, along with a diffuser that is only available in this bundle. And, if you are brand new to Young Living, be sure to use the coupon code SHAREYL at checkout to save 10%!
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Have an incredible week, my friend.
