A Tale of Thieves (Essential Oil)

Welcome back The Well Oiled Family! It's been a few days since I've posted to the blog, so I figured it was time. Tonight, I decided to share a story about Thieves. No, not a like thieves who break into your house and steal your stuff.....well kind of! 

I know we've all heard about the bubonic plague that pretty much wiped out the population of Asia of Europe. Not only was this plague, sometimes known as the Black Plague, taking the lives of everyone who caught it, but it hung around for some 1,000 years. That's a long time for an illness to be spreading around, killing off the population. During this time, there were people who robbed the dying and dead. They were finally caught and during the trial, they were offered leniency if they tell their secret that allowed them to be up close and personal with this plague, but keep from getting it. The thieves told of a special concoction of herbs - garlic, cloves, rosemary - among a few things. It is said that the story of the surviving thieves and their ability to fight of such a plague was study and Thieves Essential Oil Blend was born!

This little gem of a bottle does SO many things. I've shared that we have sensitivity to smells that come from chemicals in this house. It's so bad that I can't even enjoy clean sheets on the bed because of the smell of detergent and dryer sheets. It's so bad that if Sid uses the wet jet thingy to spot mop after the girls have eaten, I have to lock myself in the closed bedroom. It's so bad that my floor at school doesn't get mopped and I know when the bathroom across the hall gets cleaned so I can leave my door shut tight until the smell dies down. It's so bad that I if I sit by someone at a public event with strong perfume one, I have to move or end up with a bad headache. It's just BAD! 

So when I first started using Young Living Essential Oils, I was excited to get my hands on Thieves for the healing properties it supposedly had. Little did I know that those same properties that kill and fight off bad things in our bodies could also be used to replace harmful, smelly chemicals in products that have adverse affects with us. 

Today, my house was cleaned from top to bottom with nothing but Thieves cleaners. I had been using Thieves spray to spot clean here and there, but today started a new journey for us in our efforts to just have a healthier household. There is not doubt that this bottle of oil has saved a trip to the pediatrician for two of my sweethearts today, but I know that I know that I know that this.....

is right for our family. 

It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to get a bottle of Young Living Thieves Essential Oil and use it for a million things. Of course this is the part where I have to tell you I may be in school for the 3rd time, but I'm not a doctor. I can't diagnosis, treat, prescribe, or cure, but I can share what has been happening at The Well Oiled Family. 

Just a few ways that we use Thieves:

1. I don't buy the Thieves toothpaste, but I do put a drop on my toothbrush every morning. 

2. Tooth aches - the clove has a numbing property. This is great for teething or for someone who needs dental work done and is too chicken to have it done.

3. We carry the bottle of Thieves Spray and Thieves Hand Purifier with us at all times. They aren't very big bottles and a little goes a long way. The spray can be used to spray buggies, tables, toilets, as a quick air freshener, for sore throat spray, seats, door knobs, at the doctor's office - anywhere and any way you can think of. I'm not a big hand purifier person, don't keep it in my classroom or carry it with me usually, but I just happened upon using this one time and loved it. It's infused with not only Thieves to kill those germs, but peppermint too. It's light, non-alcohol, chemical free, and smells great!

4. Thieves wipes - using a roll of paper towels, alcohol, purified water, and a baggy or empty baby wipes container, you can make your own Thieves wipes. 

5. Of course immunity building and we ramp up the use when someone is getting sick. We apply it every day to help build immunity and multiple times a day and in the diffuser when someone is sick. 

6. Cleaner - You can either use the actual essential oils to make your own cleaner or you can buy the pre-made cleaner and and dilute it for what you want to use it for. 

7. Sore Throat - It's got a kick to it, but a drop of two in your mouth followed by a glass of water OR a drop of two in a glass of water to drink helps to soothe a sore throat. 

And if those weren't enough reasons, take a look at this!

Maybe just the cleaning uses interest you.

And so much more! So so so much more!!!! If this is not enough to convince you, this PDF has some great ideas. There is even a 16-page reference guide you can download and read. 

This little bottle of Young Living Thieves Essential Oil is just AH-MA-ZINGGGG!!! And if you aren't using it, you are missing out. But don't take my word for it! Try it out for yourself.  

In the above picture, it's a not so little bottle because that is the large household cleaner. Obviously there is a difference in the two, but the one thing that remains the same is this....

If this blend of essential oils is what kept the thieves from catching the bubonic plague, then certainly it is good enough to help your family on the way to building healthy and chemical free. 

Happy Oiling from The Well Oiled Family!!!

An Essential Oil You Don't Want To Be Without

I got a new from Young Living Essential Oils last month. I really don't know what possessed me to get it. I must have read something about it somewhere. For a few days I went without opening it because I didn't really know what to do with it. I finally did a little research on it and began using it.

Let me introduce to you.....

According to the Essential Oils Pocket Reference, EndoFlex is a blend that amplifies metabolism and vitality, and creates hormonal balance. Ahh....maybe those are good reasons why I bought it. It's a blend of sesame seed oil (for carrier), spearmint, sage, geranium, myrtle, German chamomile, and nutmeg. Sage is used to dispel negative emotions (as well as purifying and healing). Geranium is a relaxant and antispasmodic, as well as anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti fungal, and stimulates the liver and pancreas. Myrtle helps to restore hormonal imbalances of the thyroid and ovaries. German chamomile acts as an anti-inflammatory and protects the liver. Nutmeg supports the adrenal glands for increased energy.

 (The testimony contained in this graphic is not my own. But the uses listed here are spot on and THAT IS WHY I ORDERED THIS OIL!!!)

This graphic just sums up what I mentioned above. 

WOWZA!!!! That's a lot of power packed in this 15 ml bottle of oil. But still, even after I read all that I wasn't really sure what to do with it. Some people say rub it topically over the kidney area, some people say rub it across the top of your ankles, some people say rub it on the inside (arch) of each foot, and some even say put a drop under your tongue.

Sooo, does it work??? Well, about two weeks ago I started applying a drop on the inside of each foot, a drop over each ankle, and one drop under the tongue.

Let me back up here and give you some background information about me. This is where my mom will email me and tell me I'm spilling too much information. So if you don't want to hear about female issues you can stop reading. After the twins were born, I had my tubes tied. And that started what has been 3 years of hormonal, monthly hell. To make a long story short, the doctor recommended a hysterectomy about 2 years ago, but who has time for that with many small children and full time job. So I've suffered through lots of pain and migraines. For the sake of sharing too much information with people who really probably don't want to read about it (you can message me for specific details you want information) I will just say that I finally recently had the chance to put this oil to the test.

And ya'll it did just what it was suppose to do. It WORKED! I was shocked that a few drops of this oil applied topically to my feet once a day could support my bodily systems in this way. For the first time in a long time, I was able to function instead of be in hormonal hell. So I think I'll keep putting this little oil on my feet.....it can only get better and better right????

For more oily goodness follow us at The Well Oiled Family. And if you missed last night's post about a blend for anxiety and calming nerves, check it out. As always if you are reading to start your oily journey, you can CLICK HERE and follow the instructions. Also remember I'm happy to order single oils for you if you read about one I post about. Just send me a message!

(Disclaimer - I am not a doctor. This post is not designed to diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. These experiences are mine and I am simply sharing that with you. I am not being compensated to make these claims. Believe it not, this is a true story!)

Happy oiling from The Well Oiled Family!!!!!

The Calm In The Storm

Hello fellow oilers! I'm bringing you a story today they may very well be life changing for you, you know, unless you are a skeptic and all. If you are still skeptical, well......that's still ok, too!

But, before I can get to my story I need to remind you, in case any of you have forgotten, that I am not a doctor. As much as I would like to be a doctor, or better yet-a pharmacist- I am not able to diagnosis, treat, cure, or recommend such for anything thing at any time. The experience that I am about to tell you about is my personal testimony. I am not being paid to say them. (Doesn't this disclaimer make us all feel better. NO? Well at least it makes the FDA feel better.)

Anyway, on with the story. I'm going to introduce you to 5 different Young Living Essential Oils.

Now I know we've already talked about Lavender on The Well Oiled Family Facebook page. If  you missed it, check it out. Lavender is considered the Swiss Army Knife of essential oils because it does just about everything. One of those things is it's calming. Lavender is used in bed time lotions and other products that are used for relaxation. 

 This graphic on Patchouli is hard to read but one of the things it says this sweet little bottle of essential oil can do is reduce stress. 

Valor! What more do  you need to know about Valor. Valor was one that I added to my very first order and it's on this months order again. This oil is great by itself to diffuse. As a matter of a fact, it's diffusing right now! You know you want some!

Vetiver - again there are so many good things that Vetiver does, everyone needs it in their essential oils collection. This essential oil is an odd one too. It is very very think and sllloooowww to drip out of it's dropper top. It's smell is woodsy, deep, almost like peanuts to me. Take a look at it's claim to fame! Again, there is no reason why you shouldn't have this oil. 

 Stress Away - This essential oil comes in your Everyday Oils Kit when you sign up with the starter kit. It smells like vanilla and lime - SO good!

But you want to know what is even better than these 5 Young Living Essential Oils? Ok, I'll tell you! What's even better is when you take those 5 things and mix a few drops of each together, then top it off with a carrier oil and put it in a roller bottle!

Liquidy calmy goodness everywhere you go! Roll this a few times on each wrist (or on your neck or feet) and I promise the sweetest calm you have ever felt will ensue!

My a-ha moment with this Liquid Gold....I mean Liquid Calm was just today as a matter of fact. When I first started using Young Living Essential Oils, I knew this was a blend I wanted to make. I gathered all the oils that didn't come in my kit and made a blend (with no carrier oil) in an empty bottle I had. I noticed that the next few times I used it, I was very relaxed almost to the point of falling asleep. So I put this to the side and really didn't think much more about it until yesterday when my roller bottles came in. I had to make a few of these for the winners of The Well Oiled Family giveaway so I said what the hey, I'll make a bottle for me with the carrier oil (since that not already in it). Threw it in my bag and forgot about it.

Until I was driving home this afternoon. I had that classic stressed out feeling - a million things on my mind, a million things to do, hurry home, the twins had dance, Bailey has homework, and it goes on and on and on........UNTIL I remember this little bottle I had thrown in my purse. I rolled a few drops on my wrist and the rest is history ya'll. I was amazed. I had it

 too strong with no carrier oil, but these roller bottles were JUST RIGHT!!!!!

If you are looking for a safe, all-natural way to control stress in your life, think about this. CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED WITH YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS or message me about how you can try these products. If you want in on this months order I will need to know soon. You can order one or all of those at my cost if  you will contact me and let me know!! If you already use Young Living Essential Oils and want to know how to order more oils, message me!!! I'll give you your own roller bottle to make your blend!

And if  you are still a skeptic, well.......that's ok too! Happy oiling from The Well Oiled Family!!!!

Young Living Essential Oils February Lots of Love Special

Join The Well Oiled Family Team today!!!!  In the month of February, if you sign up using the following link and comment "I in the Well Oiled Family" on the the post that sent you here from The Well Oiled Family on face book, you will receive

1.  A complete set of Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils Everyday Oils (includes ten 5 ml bottles of lemon, lavender, peppermint, thieves, frankincense, stress away, pan away, joy, purification, melaluca A, and a bonus bottle of citrus fresh)

2. A diffuser (at this time, Young Living is shipping either the Home Diffuser or the Tear Drop Diffuser in their premium starter kits due to production issues. You will not get to choose, but be assured you will be getting a top notch Young Living diffuser with either that you receive.)

3. Samples of 5 of the most use Everyday Oils, samples of Ningxa Red, a roller ball and cap to turn any bottle of Young Living Essential Oil into a roller bottle, and a user's guide.

All for $150 plus shipping and handling. This is a great deal to start you on your way to use Young Living Essential Oils.  You are getting 11 of the most used oils, which basically is a way for you to throw out the old ways of doing things in an unhealthy manner, and bring in multiple ways to getting you and your family healthy. 

BUT.....I thought I'd add in a little love from The Well Oiled Family since it is the month of love after all. 

In addition to your Premium Starter Kit, you will also receive:

1. An essential oils pocket guide for essential oils

2. A Vita Flex card with instructions of where to topically apply your therapeutic grade Young Living Essential Oils.

3 A recipe book to make your own products using your therapeutic grade Young Living Essential Oils.

4. Additional guides on how to use your oils

5. An empty roller ball bottle

6. 5 empty vegetable capsules

7. Enrollment into a closed and private support group on face book, lead by leadership within Young Living.

8. Personal guidance on how to use your therapeutic grade Young Living Essential Oils from The Well Oiled Family.

I know, I KNOW! I was skeptic before, too. Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils has changed the way my family does things, and I believe in these oils so much, I want to generously pass this opportunity on to you and your family.

Do you have to purchase anything else? The only requirement to stay a wholesale member with Young Living is to spend $50 in one year. There is an option to earn points for free stuff which requires you to sign up for Essential Rewards and spend $50 per month. Essential Rewards is totally optional and we can talk about that if you need to. If you know that you are going to use more than the 11 Everyday Oils from your kit, then Essential Rewards is right for you. Contact me so that I can help you with that. Again, it's totally optional. 

HOW TO GET STARTED: Click here! and follow these directions.

1. Choose your country.

2. Choose your language.

3. Click wholesale member.

4. Enter the code 2327544 in both the enroller and sponsor boxes.

5. Enter all of your personal information in step 1 on the page. (Young Living will only give me access to your name, phone number, email, and address so I can get you your free things.)

6. Agree to the terms and conditions.

7. Enter your email address.

8. Choose a user name, password, and PIN. (Be sure to write these down. You will need them again.)

9. Under step 2 of the page, choose the Premium Starter Kit for $150. (Unless you are in another country, this is the first option under step 2.)

10. Step 3 on the page is TOTALLY OPTIONAL. I would recommend skipping this step for now. I'll send over an email for more information later.

11. Go through the checkout process, choosing your shipping method and entering your payment information. (NOTE: I do not get this information. It is secure.)

ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE CHECKOUT PROCESS: Send an email to wareaglegirl30@gmail.com, letting me know you have signed up. If you do not wish to send an email, leave a comment on The Well Oiled Family Facebook page OR leave a comment here on the blog. If you do not leave me a comment or email, you will not receive your free items. 

IMPORTANT: This deal is only available when you sign up with the #2327544. Offer good for the United States only. There is an option for you to earn the February freebies of the month from Young Living Essential Oils. You will need to have a point value order of 190. Your premium starter kit can count for 100 of those points, Basically, you will need to add $90 of oils or supplements to your order for 190 PV and you will receive a 5 ml bottle of Thyme and a 5 ml bottle of Taste of Italy. I can help you out with this if you are interested. 

OTHER HELPFUL INFORMATION

Does signing up make me a “distributor”?

Nope! You are not required to sell anything at all to anyone. When you become a wholesale member, you get a special link that you can share with friends and get credit from their purchases, but there are no minimum sales amounts at all. In fact, 90% of the wholesale members in Young Living don’t do the business side at all. They are buying from Young Living because of the quality alone.

Am I required to make a minimum purchase each month?

There are absolutely NO minimum monthly purchase requirements. To remain a wholesale member, you have to make $50 worth of purchases per year to keep your membership. But if there’s a year that you don’t make a $50 purchase, you can reinstate your wholesale membership discount by just placing a $50 order.

If you do find yourself making regular purchases each month, then Young Living has a rewards program (called Essential Rewards) where you can make a nice percentage back in product credit each month on all of your purchases. So that’s a neat program to join if you find that you *want* to purchase regularly (but it’s not a requirement for being a wholesale member).

Why should I buy from Young Living instead of other essential oils companies?

It does seem like a new essential oils company pops up every day, doesn’t it?

I can’t speak to the quality of other companies, but I can say that Young Living was the only company in my research of essential oil companies that could answer all of my questions about purity in a way that was satisfactory to me.

Young Living was the only company that has their own farms (in the regions where the plants should be grown), could absolutely guarantee that no pesticides or herbicides were used in the growing of any of their oils (they use essential oils for pest control and they do all of the weeding by hand), has their own testing equipment (they do both in-house and 3rd party testing, and use many different testing methods not just GC/MS which only tests for certain chemicals, not whether those chemicals are synthetic or not), and only uses the first distillation of oils instead of adding chemicals to get more out of the plant.

Young Living also was the only company that was directly in charge of essential oil farming operations. Every other company I researched goes through some kind of an “oil broker” to buy their oils. They have to trust that the oil broker is telling the truth, who has to trust that the essential oil distilleries are telling the truth, who have to trust that the farmers are telling the truth about what they say they are doing.

With Young Living, you just have to trust one company instead of several.

I feel like it’s a trust step either way (anyone could be lying) but I felt the most comfortable trusting Young Living since they are a full-disclosure company. ANYONE can visit the farms, participate in the harvesting and distillation, view the Young Living labs, and see the entire process. That’s not an option with any other company.

How will I know which oils to use for what?

One of the benefits of joining The Well Oiled Family is that you get access to support from us and from another secret/closed group on Facebook run by Leadership in Young Living and a reference guide book. 

The reference guide that I’m giving away as part of this promotion is also a HUGE resource. You can look up almost anything in it and see which essential oils and supplements can be helpful.

Does Young Living only sell essential oils?

The answer to this one was suprising to me when I first got my starter kit! Young Living actually has an entire line of personal care products, supplements, meal replacements, energy drinks, and more! Almost every product incorporates essential oils (for example, frankincense is absolutely wonderful in facial products), but there’s a wide variety of products available.

Please let The Well Oiled Family know how we can help you!!!

There's A New Kid In Town

Don't tell Sid, but there is a brand new relationship on the horizon. A relationship that is bound to change the course of my "tired, achy, worn out, I can't put another foot forward or do one more thing today or my feet will fall off (or my back will break or my knees are going to give out)" self.  The new kid in town makes me feel like a brand new woman. Relaxes me and sometimes I just can't get over how good it really is.

Ya'll if there ever was an essential oil that you were going Deep Relief is it!  This essential oil blend from Young Living Essential Oils is the AH-MA-ZING!!!! It is a blend of several things that help combat fatigued muscles and relaxes stressed body parts, it comes in a 10 ML bottle already mixed with coconut oil as a carrier oil, and a roller top so  you can just roll it right on. I didn't know relief for a mom of a 6 year old, 3 year old twins, who works full time, and is in several upper level graduate classes, could be pour into a roll on bottle of goodness, but here it is. I can't decide if it feels like I am using an ice pack or a heating pad, but it's simply glorious.

Speaking of placing an order, this came to me last night as I was having a conversation with someone.

Whenever I place an order with Young Living Essential Oils, I wear the "track your package" button slam out. I just cannot wait for my order to get  here. Boy, when it does, the whole family goes nuts. It's like we expect to find Santa Clause in there or something.

But the truth is, Santa Clause is not in the box, nor is anything magical like Ole Cringle. And that is where I believe many people go astray in using their Young Living Essential Oils. They purchase a starter kit, diffuse a few things out of it, and then for whatever reason it goes on a shelf or in a cabinet where it spends the rest of its days.

Young Living Essential Oils are good - very good, in fact, but they are not magic. Nothing is going to jump out of the box and solve all of your problems. You know how you go to the doctor and he/she determines what is wrong and then gives you some medicine for it? Well, even though I'm not a doctor and Young Living Essential Oils are not meant to replace your medical care or treatment, they are much the same way. One oil can sometimes be used for as many as ten things. You have to find what works for you and because our bodies metabolize the essential oil, they have to be reapplied often (if you are applying them topically). If you don't think you know how to use your kit, ask someone. I'm always happy to talk about oils. Start off easy with a few drops of lavender at night to relax and help you sleep. Try a drop of Joy with a drop of Citrus Fresh in the morning. Lemon, Lavender, Peppermint is a great combo for a stuffy head. Whatever you do, don't be disappointed if you open a bottle, apply a drop of oil or diffuse a drop of oil and you feel like nothing happened. Young Living didn't send you 11 bottles of essential oils with 80-100 drops each for nothing.  They sent you botttles of oily goodness so you could actually continue to use the oils in an effort to be a healthier you!!  Have fun with it!!

And while you are having fun, don't forget to come have some oily fun with The Well Oiled Family on February 21st @ 2:00. Also, stayed tuned this weekend to The Well Oiled Family facebook page for the winners of the giveaway.

Get Your Oils

It's February! It's the month we are suppose to indulged in all things we love! Wouldn't you love to treat yourself to good health??

By now you know why I choose to use Young Living Essential Oils and why I love them, and you know it's my mission to share this oily goodness with you.

So exactly how do get some oily goodness.??

Well there are several ways. Perhaps you just want to try an oil or two that you've heard about, but you aren't ready for the whole oily experience yet. That's ok. I wanted to "try" them for two years. I never did, but that's a different story! If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, there is a contact form  you can fill out. Fill that out and let me know what you would be interested in trying. I will get back to you with a price and order date.

Maybe you don't want to try the oils just yet, but you are interested in seeing them, smelling them, talking more about them, or seeing a diffuser in action.  That's good too, because I have a class scheduled just for you. Mark your calendar for February 21, 2014 @ 2:00. Invite your friends and come have a good time. Ya'll, this is just so I can share. I just want you to know what I know and experience the love this is an essential oil. I can assure you that hosting some kind of "party" at my house is WAY out of the box for me. But I'm excited about this and excited about who might attend. I think of all the people that I know that could benefit from the power of essential oils: my co-workers at school, the twins' preschool teachers, Bailey's teachers, family (of course some of my family has jumped in the oil vat with me), doctor's offices or any office with high traffic (instead of smelling all that nasty spray that chokes you and they spray so much you can taste it - ick!!) could diffuse and clean with essential oils, nursing home or assisted living residents (there is actually a study or two I read that talked about the benefits of diffusing essential oils that uplift the spirit, along with other benefits), vet offices, pet owners, horse owners, church friends, the pediatrician. The list could go on and on. So invite your friends  and family and come let's get oily!!! Oh, and I will try my best to have it stream live for those of  you that are in lands far, far away!

So, maybe you are ready to attend the class, or use an oil or two. But what if you are ready to walk down the aisle with hand in hand with your box of Young Living Essential Oils and start a life long love affair. How do the two of you match up??

If I was high tech this would be the part where you clicked a cool little you tube linked and watched me talk to you. Instead, this is what you get! The above picture is the grand daddy of all Young Living Essential Oils kit. It's really called the Premium Starter Kit or PSK. Pretty cool huh? I used to dream about the days I would have some little oil bottles and call myself an oil dropper or a lemon dropper. Don't you think The Well Oiled Family sounds better??? 

You've seen thousands of pictures but WHAT IS IT ALREADY????

1. Home diffuser that you put water into and oil drops of all. when you place the lit, the ultrasonic plate works to diffuse out tiny particles of the essential oil so that you can reap the benefit of smelling them, or inhaling them. You don't have to sit right up on the diffuser, it's not like a nebulizer even though it puts out mist like a nebulizer does. No, you just plug it in and let it fill the room with goodness for your mental and physical well being. According to the Essential Oils Desk Reference, known as the EODR in the oil world, diffusing oils alter the structure of molecules that create odors, rather than just masking them. Many essential oils ( well will talk about this list later) are extremely effective for eliminating and destroying airborne germs and bacteria. Now you see why I think doctor's offices or other offices should be diffusing, as well as schools and day cares? It's safe, easy, and effective. Unlike aroma lamps or candles, a diffuser disperses an essential oil without heating or burning, which can render the oil less therapeutic. Heating and burning is also how candles release toxins into the air. There is a list of 8 or 9 researched based things that makes diffusing effective. We will talk about those later, but the next time you spray some air freshener, light a candle, or spray disinfectant spray, I'd like for you think think about how diffusing can change what you are doing! This is why I always say samples are good for people to try, but without the diffuser you aren't getting the whole package.

2. A set of everyday oils, which is made up of ten of the best selling, must used oils that Young Living sells. There is also a bonus oil right now. So in the PSK are 11 oils. 

• Thieves - Aids healthy immune system, sore throat, teething/toothache, insect bites, kills airborne bacteria, warts, supports healthy gums and mouth, and used as a disinfectant/cleaner,
• Peppermint - headaches, stomach discomfort, nausea, heartburn, energy/alterness, improves concentration (as a teacher I've always heard to give out peppermint candy during tests), constipation, fevers, hot flashes, digestive support.
• Frankincense - Helps fight the blues, stress, despair, good for wrinkles and age spots, acne, blisters, may improve memory, supports healthy vision, aids healthy immune system, aids bladder health and function.
• Purification - Air purifier, bee stings, supports ear aches, neutralizes odors, insect repellent, insect bites, supports eye health, cleans minor cuts.
• Stress Away - Stress, mental fatigue, balance equilibrium, relaxing, anxiety, despair, PMS.
• Lavender - Lavender is known as the swiss army knives of oils. There's not much that lavender can't do. Minor cuts and bruises, relaxation, promotes restful sleep, blemishes, dandruff, supports healthy skin, sustains healthy blood pressure, minor burns. 
• Lemon - Aids healthy immune system, swollen glands drains lymphatics, may improve memory, support circulatory system, digestive support, weight management, sustains healthy blood pressure.
• Melaleuca (AKA Tea Tree Oil or Mel A) - minor acne, cleanses minor cuts and scrapes, fungus, supports healthy skin, supports healthy gums and mouth, insect bites, sore throat.
• PanAway - Supports healthy joint & cartilage function, minor aches and pains, muscle pain after exercise, cramps, supports circulatory health, physical discomfort, headaches.
• Joy  - Stress, love/self-love, confidence, emotional balance, uplift spirits, the blues.
• Citrus Fresh - headaches, support healthy sinuses, anxiety, stress, hyperactive children, relaxing, uplift spirits.

3. Roller Ball and cap to make your own roller bottle of something. If you scroll back up to the picture, next to the bottle of citrus fresh is a picture of the steel roller ball ad cap. Some of the oils can eat away at plastic, so it's important to use steel or metal roller balls. Young Living starts you out by providing one in the PSK. I didn't use mine for a few weeks because there is not empty bottle to attach it to. I waited until I had an empty bottle to make a roller mixture of oils/carrier oil that were good to roll on the chests for cough and congestion during all the sickness the twins have had. You could also attach it to a full bottle of an oil if that's what you wanted to do. The good thing is there is no right or wrong, but rather what fits YOUR NEEDS and, the roller ball easily comes off and can be used again and again on whatever you choose to use it on. Or you may choose to not use it at all. It's there if you need it. 

4. Samples - The PSK comes with two pouches NingXia Red - a ready to drink powerful antioxidant that contains whole NingXia wolfberry puree. The PSK also comes with sample packets of 5 of the everyday oils so you can either have a small packet for travel or give to a friend to try a sample. If you want to hear more about what this supplement can do, visit my friend Susan at Granny Went Green and watch her you tube video giving you all the good details.

5. Literature - The box is packed with things for you to read. You get a whole catalog with all the products offered, a newsletter, an everyday essentials oil book, and a few other quick instructions.

Once you have your PSK and are enrolled as a new member with Young Living, you are free to order any other products you are interested in and you get them at 24% off of retail. There are other programs you can join as a member that allow you to earn points for free products and, if you are interested, there is even a way for you to earn a referral fee by pointing your friends to Young Living Essential Oils. Ask me how! 

If you missed the list of gifts that The Well Oiled Family has for you when your join our team, see yesterday's post. 

Please don't forget the contact box at the bottom of the page if you have questions. Mark your calendars and round up a few people to bring on February 21st. Head over to The Well Oiled Family facebook page for some freebies. If you've liked the page, thank you. If you've shared, thank you again. I invite you to share the page and ask your friends to like it. 150 like = 5 oily prizes!! I'm excited about doing those giveaways because they are some GREAT products!! 

Why Do I Use Young Living?

Until a few years ago, I didn't even know essential oils existed, or I had seen them or heard of them I clearly paid no attention. Then all the sudden they popped up and then they kept popping up and well, if you read yesterday's post you know the rest is history. I know why we love essential oils at The Well Oiled Family, but why exactly do we love YOUNG LIVING brand of oils??? 

The vast majority of essential oils on the market today are only suitable for cosmetics and perfumes.  The reason Young Living’s oils are so different is that they produce a therapeutic, or medicinal, grade oil.  These oils are a result of Young Living’s strict, detailed method for producing the oils to obtain the purest, ‘un-messed-with’ plant essences.  Young Living calls this their Seed to Seal process, where every step from planting to bottling is detailed and controlled. (taken from Young Living website)

 Oils that you see on the spice aisle in the grocery store or even oils that you can find at most health food stores or herb shops are not therapeutic grade. How many of us have been by that store in the mall where all the different smells pour out into the walk way? You glance in and there are thousands of bottles of oils or even incense burning. That kind of oil is a fragrance grade oil, and while I'm sure it's good to smell, it's just not the quality of Young Living Essential Oils. If the purpose of your essential oil use to make your house smell good, then those kinds of oils are just fine. If the purpose of your essential oil use to actually rid your home of unhealthy by -products in things like cleaner, air freshener, candles, etc., then you've landed in the right place. 

Young Living also has the Seed to Seal Process. 

In a nut shell, Young Living Essential Oils are 100% pure, unadulterated, potent, safe, and effective. The problem with other essential oils is they are extracted using high heat, high pressure, and solvents. This breaks down what makes the oil essential and you end up with a product that is just not as good, and sometimes very unsafe. These harsh processing methods destroy the therapeutic qualities of the oil.

There are currently no standards for labeling a bottle of essential oil. This lends itself to all kinds of tricky problems because a company can put !00% essential oil when in fact it only has 5% essential oil. The bottle can be labeled all-natural when in fact it has additives. Because there are no standards for essential oils, you have no way of knowing the quality of the oil!  Is it perfume or cosmetic grade?  Food grade?  Therapeutic grade?!  An inexpensive essential oil has more than likely been mass produced, with very little attention to the way it was processed.  In a cheap bottle of oil, the therapeutic compounds have been destroyed by heat, pressure, and/or chemical solvents.  Because no standards exist for essential oils, you have to know where your oils are coming from and how they were produced! I don't know about you, but I want to be able to trust what I'm bringing into my home and for my children. I trust the process that Young Living has in place to ensure quality. And I want to make sure that you trust what you are getting, too. 

This is a chart that has been floating around in the support page for the oily group I'm in. I can't say where it came from or that I know the person who claims to have done the calling. But I found this interesting and just something to throw in since I'm talking about why this is the brand of essential oils that I prefer to use. 

Before I end this post, I want to add something that my friend Susan at Granny Went Green posted. 

She shared this about candles (from The Keeper of the Home website) and since I talked about this last post, I thought it was appropriate to throw in here. It's a blog post that addresses some of the dangers in burning candles and of course one of the safer, healthier alternatives is to diffuse essential oils. 

Ya'll there are so many things I want to share about these oily goodies and so little time to do it in. I want everybody to be jumping up and down like me, and standing on their head (uh, not like me) to get their Young Living Membership Kit today and be just as in love as I am. I hope I can share something every night that makes what you are already using better, or makes you decide to experience this for yourself. 

Becoming part of the Young Living Family and joining The Well Oiled Family team has so many incentives. If you sign up as a new member with us this week, The Well Oiled Family will gift  you the following:

1. Your very own pocket reference book with all you need to know about every essential oil and what it's used for.

2. Information on how to turn your kit oils into an all natural first aid kit/medicine cabinet for your family.

3. Information on the VITA flex points so  you know exactly where to topically apply your essential oils.

4. An empty roller bottle to make your own.

5. Five empty veggie capsules to make your own allergy/flu/weight loss/cold/etc. capsules.

6. A free bottle of oil. (You choose from 5 or 6 different oils).

7. 1 oz of carrier oil (organic grapeseed oil)

8. Access to and support from a closed, private facebook run by leaders in the Young Living company.

9. Personal guidance and support from me. I will able available to help you get started once your kit arrives and provide on-going support as you learn the world of essential oils.

If you just aren't ready yet, that's ok! I'm excited you are here and learning. 

The Well Oiled Family invites you to get oily with them on Saturday, February 21st at 2:00. Mark your calendar as more information will be coming soon! If you can't attend in person, this oily event will also be held via the internet, so those that are away can be connected too! We are looking forward to it and hope you will make plans to attend!!!

A New Journey-A Well Oiled Life

Hello! Thanks for stopping by this little love of mine. I assume since you are here that you want to know more about essential oils and how to get started using them, or you might already use them and just want to learn more about them. At The Well Oiled Life,  you will find a mixture of things. Mostly, you will find a family on a journey to make their home and their health better by using natural products such as Young Living Essential Oils and other natural products. 

I'm sure you have heard about these small bottles of goodness before. If you are like me,  you heard, you said "hmm", and you moved on. Then you heard again and this time you said "hmmmmm", but you still moved on. Well, that's what I did for two straight years. I "hmmmed" and I "ahhhhed" and I "man I wish I had some of that stuff" every now and then. But for the most part, I just couldn't buy in to something that seemed so costly when I had no idea if it would work or not. I asked for a few samples that I never got, and now I'm glad I didn't get them because I honestly believe a sample will make you think they don't work. The samples aren't very big and it's hard to get the full effect without a diffuser. So exactly how did I decide to take the plunge into the oil vat?

I was part of a facebook group for an oil team that shared all kinds of goodness and really made you feel like you were using the oils even when you weren't. One day, the girl posted something about an oil that treated a skin condition that my oldest daughter had been diagnosed with by her pediatrician. The skin condition was viral and we were told there were no treatments, it would have to run it's course - the course could take a year. The virus caused little raised bumps all along one side of her trunk and arm. It didn't bother her and she never complained, but she was becoming more self-conscience of them. I saw this post with research attached to it, came home, order the premium starter kit and the oil that I needed to treat my daughter's bumps, and sat back and waited. 

This one tiny 5ml bottle of Young Living Essential Oil called Lemon Myrtle was going to be our answer to a problem we had dealt with since at least last summer. It finally arrived. The first thing I did was open the bottle and dab a few drops on her arm and side where the bumps were. MISTAKE!!!! It burned her so bad, and I learned right then and there what was meant by hot oil. I knew enough to rub her down with carrier oil to cut the essential oil (more on this later). The next night, I decide to mix up a small cup already diluted with carrier oil so we could just apply as we thought about it. We had no rhyme or reason to our applications. Sometimes we did it as she as getting ready for school. Sometimes we did it as she was getting ready for bed. Sometimes both. Within days, not even a week, but just days, those bumps starting swelling up, popping, and going away. She has about three on her right now that we are treating but for the most part, she is clear. Is the virus still in her system? I really don't know. I assume other bumps could pop up, but we haven't had another outbreak. And that, my oily friends, was my first
ah-ha moment with these oils.  

The second biggest Young Living Essential Oils to find it's way into my heart is called Pan Away. Oh Pan Away, how do I love thee - let me count the ways!!! Long story, short I have a damaged nerve in my face from sinus surgery. It feels like someone is jabbing an ice pick through my nose out my ear. There is not much that can be done way of relief except medications that target the nerve. I am not able to adjust to these medication so I just tolerate it, but sometimes that's a hard thing to do. Pan Away is used to rub on sites that are hurting or aching. I'm not sure its even supposed to be applied like I did it, but I thought if it would work on ear pain, or back pain, or foot pain, why wouldn't it work on my ear/nerve pain. One little drop of this oil spread around the outside of my ear (never put oils inside your ear) has been a true miracle. I couldn't believe it, thought it was a fluke, but nope! The next time I had a flair up, sure enough, PanAway to the rescue. I won't be caught without it ever again. 

I could go on and on and OOOONNNN about what Young Living Essential Oils have done for our family from minor cuts and scrapes, to cleaning, to stress, to massaging a sore knee that has pins and plates in it, to sleep, to cough cough aids, to weight loss, to sinus pain and pressure, to migraines, to tummy aches, to you name it! The possibilities are endless. 

I used to think, all those years I was drooling over everyone else's essential oils, that the cost of these oils was not worth it. How would I know if it worked, what would I do with them, and the biggest of all-what if the smell bothered me. You see, along with this damaged nerve in my sinuses is a strong sense of smell. We can only use a certain home cleaner, no perfumes or colognes, no candles, no air freshener, none of those cute little wax packages that are so popular right now. Sometimes, even my freshly laundered linens were too strong. SO i just knew there would be no way I could tolerate something that was marketed directly to the sense of smell. The last of my ah-ha moments. Some of the oils flat out stink, and there are one or two I've come in contact with that I cannot tolerate, but ya'll, the difference in a natural smell vs. a synthetic smell (essential oil vs. candle or cleaner) is amazing. I now have a product that I can diffuse and make my house smell good that doesn't send me to bed for the rest of the day. I now have cleaner that can be used without having intense pain. 

I'll be sharing more about our oily journey, but I wanted to take the first post and share what got us hooked here at The Well Oiled Family. There are many more stories like these that we have. 

And many more successes we have had in using our Young Living Essential Oils. I invite you visit The Well Oiled Family often for hopefully some good information to help you on your way. You can also connect with us on Facebook at The Well Oiled Family. There is a giveaway going on there. 

Check back tomorrow for a post on what comes with your starter kit and how to get it.