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Mountain Rose Herbs Essential Oils Review

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April 21, 2021 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our family has been into essential oils for about ten years or so.

We’ve tried many different companies and of course we love some products more than others.

I am a certified aromatherapist from Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy. Many think this is a scam, but I am also educating myself for over a decade from many different resources. I don’t want my family to get hurt or sick from misusing essential oils, herbs, or supplements.

I have long loved Mountain Rose Herbs for…herbs.

And now they offer essential oils too!

Mountain Rose Herbs Essential Oils are some of the best!

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I LOVE the packaging. No excess. Recyclable. Yay!

From their site:

Our product packaging is designed to protect the high-quality botanicals inside. We use a variety of materials including glass, plastic, multi-layer bags, recyclable tin, and boxes to keep the botanical goodness inside fresh. In addition, we pride ourselves on making sure we use green materials to package and pad our boxes to ensure your order arrives safe and sound.

Quality

Essential oils are distilled from plant materials – flowers, fruits, leaves, bark, wood, roots. The timing or ripeness of the plant parts is necessary to achieve the best quality of distilled oils.

These essential oils smell fresh and clean to me, with no underlying chemical scents. I am very pleased.

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The Eucalyptus globulus is good for respiratory function and as an insect repellent. It is antimicrobial and antiseptic. There are 900 species and subspecies of eucalyptus – with the most common oils using globulus, radiata, or bicostata/blue globulus. Globulus is the most potent. Be cautious using around children and never use around pets, especially cats. I limit diffuser use and heavily dilute for use.

Lavender is the entryway oil. It is generally the safest around kids and pets. I use it liberally, still diluted on our family and cats for many different reasons – cuts and scrapes and respiratory function. It smells great diffused alone or with a blend. It is lovely in personal care products and tea and recipes.

Peppermint is generally safe topically while heavily diluted. I don’t diffuse this since it can be rather irritating to sensitive mucous membranes. I have used a drop of this diluted oil to reduce heat-related illness in hot outdoor summer temperatures and to lessen the sting of sunburn used with diluted lavender. The essential oil is way stronger than fresh or dried leaves but can still be used in recipes and salves if used very cautiously.

Sweet Orange or Citrus sinensis is absolutely delightful and cheerful. My son has always loved the scent of orange. It’s antimicrobial and uplifts our moods. This is just like the sweet oranges we love to eat. The peels are cold-pressed using pressure to release their oil and scent from the rinds. We love to diffuse this in a blend. It’s great in a household cleaner. Dilute well if applying topically since all citrus products can be photosensitive.

Tea tree or melaleuca alternifolia is a type of myrtle and is anti-fungal, antibacterial, antiseptic, and good for respiratory function. Some types of acne react well to diluted application. This oil should never be ingested or used around pets, especially cats. I generally do not diffuse this oil and heavily dilute.

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From the website:

We strive to sell organic products whenever possible. If a product is not organic, it is cultivated without chemicals, or wild harvested. Our 10 full-time lab staffers are constantly testing our ingredients to ensure they meet our strict specifications and are free from adulterants and contamination, including pesticides. You may always request a certificate of analysis, organic certificate, and kosher certificate. Please see our certifications page for more details on the additional documents we can provide for you.

The Classic Essential Oil Kit is a great starter kit for new oilers or veteran oilers. These oils are always in our family toolkit. There are several essential oil kits to choose from.

Do you want your very own essential oil kit?

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  3. Expiration: May 31, 2021, at 11:59 PM, PST.

At this time, Mountain Rose Herbs is only processing and shipping orders with billing and final destination shipping addresses located in the United States and Canada.

Maybe you’ve seen certain essential oil and natural products for sale on retail sites?

Statement on third-party sales from Mountain Rose Herbs:

In order to guarantee the quality of our products and keep our prices low, we never sell on internet marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, or eBay. If you see our products listed on those marketplaces, they are being sold by a third party, and we have no way of guaranteeing their quality. Please note that products bought from third parties must be returned through those channels and are not returnable to us.

Read the story of the company here.

I am very much enjoying the online group Sustainable Living with Mountain Rose Herbs.

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Holiday Essential Oil Blends

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November 22, 2018 By Jennifer Lambert 10 Comments

Get in the Holiday Spirit with these Essential Oil Blends for your Diffuser!

The holidays can be stressful for many.

I love diffusing essential oils to get rid of cooking smells, freshen and clear the air, perk up a low mood, or calm us for bedtime.

I recently completed my aromatherapy certification course. I’m excited to share more with you about the benefits of plants and aromatherapy.

Orange oil is a favorite and frugal essential oil and I often use it as a base note for diffusing blends.

Most love the scent of citrus and there are few contraindications with diffusing. Citrus is uplifting.

I am very careful about diffusing mints, especially around young children or those with sensitivities.

Spice oils should be used sparingly and carefully as well so they don’t irritate mucous membranes.

Evergreen oils are balancing – like cypress, fir, spruce, juniper, rosemary, cedar, pine. They’re refreshing.

Florals are cozy and feminine but add a bright touch to blends as a topnote.

Diffusers only hold so much water and 5-6 drops of oils are plenty for diffusing up to 3 hours in most diffusers.

Holiday Essential Oil Blends

StressAway essential oil blend is perfect for diffusing all the time. The warm scents of vanilla and lime are perfect for the holidays.

My absolute favorite diffuser blend:

3 drops Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
2 drops Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
2 drops Lemon (Citrus limon)

Holiday Diffuser Blends

Three Trees

1 drop Palo Santo (Bursera graveolens)
1 drop Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha)
2 drops Cedarwood (Juniperus virginiana)

Magi

1 drop Frankincense (Boswellia carterii)
1 drop Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha)
2 drops Cedarwood (Juniperus virginiana)
optional: 2 drops Orange (Citrus sinensis)

Spiced Cider

3 drops Orange (Citrus sinensis)
1 drop Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)
1 drop Ginger (Zingiber officinale)

Pumpkin Spice

1 drops Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)
1 drops Clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
2 drops Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans)
1 drop Ginger (Zingiber officinale)

Gingerbread

2 drops Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
1 drops Clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
1 drops Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans)
1 drops Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)
1 drop Orange (Citrus sinensis)

Pick Me Up

2 drops Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi)
2 drops Lemon (Citrus limon)
1 drop Spearmint (Mentha spicata)

Tropical Getaway

1 drops Eucalyptus (Globulus)
2 drops Lime (Citrus aurantifolia)
1 drop Ylang Ylang (Cananga odorata)

Christmas Tree

2 drops Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
2 drops Spruce or Fir (Picea mariana or Abies alba)
2 drops Juniper (Juniperus communis)

Try combining your favorite scents. Less is more and goes a long way. I love florals with evergreen and citrus.

What’s your favorite essential oil?

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Homemade Bath Bombs

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May 3, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

A super fun and frugal craft for kids and teens to make!

DIY bath bombs with oatmeal, rose, and lavender.

Also perfect gifts for Mother’s Day!

Bath Bombs and Cards

These bath bombs smell great. Lavender and rose are my favorites.

My kids made me adorable cards with teacups, coffee cups, and pretty fans for Mother’s Day.

My kids love the fizzy bath bombs too.

DIY Bath Bombs with Oatmeal, Rose, and Lavender

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup Citric Acid
  • 1 cup Baking Soda
  • 1/4 cup Quick Oats
  • 10-15 drops Lavender Essential Oil
  • 5-10 drops Geranium Essential Oil
  • Lavender Petals 
  • Rose Petals
  • Witch Hazel (in a spray bottle)
  • Bath Bomb Molds

Directions:

1. Sift citric acid and baking soda into a large bowl. Sifting removes any clumps ensures a smooth consistency in the bath bombs.

2. Pour oats into the bowl and stir. Next, add essential oils and mix well. I find that using my hand is far better than a spoon since I can break any clumps with my fingers.

3. Spray the mixture with witch hazel until it reaches a slightly damp consistency. What you’re looking for is the mixture to hold form when you squish it into a ball in your hand.

4. Add flower petals to one half of the bath bomb mold. Fill with bath bomb mix.

5. Add more flowers and more mix to the other half.

6. Squeeze halves together firmly.

7. Carefully, open the mold and tap ball onto a drying area like plastic wrap over a towel. Let dry completely for a few hours.

8. Wrap in a pretty bag with ribbon for gift giving!

These can also be made in muffin tins or ice trays instead of bath bomb molds.

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Homemade Soap

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February 23, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 14 Comments

We had a fun activity accompanying our science curriculum: soap making!

The kids all know that we use parts of plants in skin care, but this was a fun project.

We first measured out the soap base.

Weighing Soap

Tori melted the soap down in a glass bowl over a pot of water.

Double Boiler

We added oatmeal and vitamin E to the melted soap base.

Oatmeal and Vitamin E

Last, we added lavender essential oil to the soap.

Adding Lavender Essential Oil

Dad ladled out the molten soap into the rose-shaped molds.

Pouring Soap into Molds

The soap set up pretty quickly on the counter. Our house is always cold!

Soap Drying

We popped the finished soaps out of the mold after a couple hours, just to make sure they were all set.

The soaps turned out so pretty with the oatmeal and rose shapes. They smell great!

Oatmeal Lavender Soap

These little soaps are perfect presents for all sorts of occasions.

Soap Recipe:

I chose to omit the use of lye since the children were completing this assignment. I’m sure the soap would be improved with its addition, but it is dangerous and I’m unfamiliar with it.

  • 10 oz soap base (goat’s milk, glycerin, shea butter)
  • 3 oz vitamin E
  • 1/2 cup oatmeal

Optional add-ins: 20 drops essential oils, 3-4 oz honey, 1/4 cup dried flowers

Directions:

Measure soap base with a kitchen scale.

Melt soap base in a double boiler. Remove from heat.

Stir in oatmeal, vitamin E, and any optional items.

Add essential oils, if using.

Pour or ladle into pretty soap molds.

Allow to cool for several hours or overnight.

Pop out of molds carefully.

Wrap with cellophane, ribbons, labels, and give as gifts!

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10 Gifts for Natural Living

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December 8, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Know someone who has a chemical-free home?

Here are my Top 10 Gifts for Natural Living!

10 Gifts for Natural Living

These are my favorite natural living products that we use in our home almost every day!

1. Wool Dryer Balls

Fabric softeners are irritating to skin and lungs.

Use wool dryer balls with vinegar and/or essential oils instead!

2. Essential Oil Diffuser Necklaces

Essential Oil Diffuser Necklace

Love something pretty that smells great and has other great benefits!

3. Microfiber Cleaning Cloths

I love using pretty colored cloths for all our house cleaning needs – with just water or natural products like vinegar and essential oils.

Blue for windows, tan for dusting, silver for stainless!

4. Refillable Spray Mop

We love making our own cleaners and a refillable spray mop with a reusable pad makes cleaning floors easy and healthier and more environmentally sound.

5. DIY gifts with Essential Oils

Here are 10 ideas of essential oils gifts to make for friends and family (or yourself!).

6. Gift certificate to Radiant Life

I love this company for glassware and supplements – especially cod liver oil!

7. Essential Oil Diffuser

We have diffusers in almost every room. I love the scent and benefits!

We use calming scents in the bedroom and attentive scents in the school room. Cleansing scents can get rid of cooking odors.

8. Himalayan Salt Lamp

We love the soft light and qualities of these lamps in our home office and bedrooms.

These lamps can reduce indoor air pollution and allergens, improves mood and sleep quality, and reduces stress.

9. Natural Makeup and Skincare Items

We especially love Lemongrass Spa (please use my code 5450) and Cowgirl Dirt for great chemical-free, pretty makeup. We love the way our skin feels and looks with the natural cleansers and moisturizers.

10. A Happy Lamp

We live where it’s damp, cold, and dim – sometimes year-round! This Go-Lite lamp has helped us the last couple years to improve mood and energy level during those darker days.

What are your favorite natural living items?

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Essential Oils for Home Use

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November 2, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Many essential oils can be combined for a variety of household and personal uses.

We love using essential oils for cleaning and self care!

Uses for Lavender Lemon and Peppermint Essential Oils

Joint Pain Remedy

Add to 10ml roller bottle:

  • 4 drops Lavender
  • 2 drops Lemon
  • 4 drops Peppermint

Directions: Fill to the shoulder with carrier oil. Snap in the roller ball. Roll over inflamed area, and massage into the skin. (5% dilution).

Headache Remedy

Diffuse:

  • 3 drops Lavender
  • 5 drops Peppermint

Or add to a personal inhaler:

  • 7 drops Lavender
  • 7 drops Peppermint

Directions: Inhale as needed. For more intense headaches, topical use may do the trick. To a 10ml roller bottle add 4 drops Lavender and 6 drops Peppermint. Fill to the shoulder with carrier oil. Snap in the roller ball. Roll over temples, or wherever the site of pain is. (5% Dilution)

Dryer Balls

3-5 drops Lavender, Lemon, or Peppermint essential oils

Directions: Pour onto to a wool dryer ball, or reusable dryer sheet, to add a hint of aroma to your clothes.

Digestion Help

Diffuse:

  • 3 drops Lavender
  • 3 drops Peppermint*
  • 2 drops Lemon

Or add to personal inhaler:

  • 5 drops Lavender
  • 5 drops Peppermint
  • 5 drops Lemon

*For kids under age 6, replace with more Lavender. Alternately, add to your 10ml roller bottle: 3 drops Lavender and 3 drops Peppermint. Fill to the shoulder with carrier oil. Snap in the roller ball. Roll over belly. (3% dilution.)

Recipes courtesy of Lea Harris, Certified Clinical Aromatherapist.

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Homemade Hair Spray

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May 22, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

I seldom use products in my hair.

I have a teen daughter and she’s been begging me to find a way to make a natural hairspray for some of her parties and events.

Have you read the labels on hairspray?

We strive for a chemical-free home, and I have to provide great natural alternatives to the commercial beauty and personal care products out there.

And most commercial hair sprays are bad for the environment, especially the aerosol sprays.

My daughter complained of choking on all the hair spray applied on her at a salon for an updo and when she was getting done up backstage for a play. She has lots and lots of thick hair and going hairspray-free isn’t an option for her to hold some styles.

Here’s a simple hair spray that held my daughter’s hair so well and smelled great – with no chemicals!

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Hair Spray Recipe

Essentials:

  • 2 cups boiling water (I used my water cooker)
  • 2-3 T white sugar
  • 1-2 T vodka or isopropyl alcohol (I wonder: would witch hazel work?)
  • 10 drops essential oil (I love Citrus, Rosemary, or Bergamot or Ylang Ylang– something fun or floral)

Optional Additions:

  • 1-2 T juice of orange (for dark hair) or lemon (for light hair)
  • 1/4 c aloe vera juice

Dissolve the sugar in the water.

After cooling, mix in the vodka and essential oil.

Add juice if using.

Pour into a sprayer bottle and enjoy!

Wavy Hair

I misted my daughter’s hair before hot rollers, and then liberally spritzed the rollers to set. She had gorgeous waves!

Her hair definitely felt like it had hairspray in it, but smelled great and wasn’t sticky. I could run my fingers through it. It didn’t hold up the whole evening, but her hair doesn’t hold a curl super well. I think it would hold an updo just fine.

Homemade hair spray saves money, protects the environment, and makes your hair healthier!

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Homemade Bug Spray

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April 20, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

I am one of those people who must have a neon sign to bugs that screams, “Come and get it!” Bugs like to chew on me and I used to spend most of the warm months scratching and itching.

I like prevention.

I don’t like using those commercial bug sprays. They smell disgusting and aren’t good to put on your skin. Whatever you put on your skin eventually makes its way into your bloodstream. Many of those commercial repellants have DEET and other poisons that are harmful to kids and pets.

We like to natural methods that bugs don’t like.

Sick bugs. Healthy kids.

We have the added fun bonus of icky ticks running rampant. I don’t want ticks on us. I know people who have contracted Lyme disease!

Natural Bug Spray

Homemade Natural Bug Spray

One oil will surely do the trick. We like to create a fun blend that’s just right for our family.

We love the scent of Lemongrass. A great fresh blend is Rosemary, Lemon, and Lavender. We diffuse that all the time at home!

We always diffuse Lemongrass when we go camping. Our campsite is the only one with no flies or mosquitoes!

I created my family’s favorite bug spray with Rosemary, Lemongrass, Lavender, Lemon, and Citronella.

It smells divine – not at all like those commercial bug sprays that I can almost taste after spraying. Yuck!

We haven’t noticed any problems with our recipe and it smells amazing. So amazing that people compliment us on our perfume!

My kids love to get all sprayed before we head out. They’re happy scents. Be aware that citrus oils are photo-sensitive and can lead to skin burning in sunlight.

These also work great diffused or sprayed where bugs like to enter our home or gather. We get fruit flies in the summer and don’t have screens on our windows in Germany. Rolladens don’t keep all the flies out. We often spray diluted peppermint around our windows and sinks to get rid of ants and spiders. Cinnamon is another great inexpensive nontoxic way to get rid of ants and more.

A blend of peppermint, clove, lemongrass, and geranium oils with a few drops of dish soap can be used to spray tabletops and other outdoor surfaces to deter wasps and other pests.

Bugs also don’t like vinegar. I clean my counters with white vinegar often in summer to keep ants away. Also, some recipes I’ve seen call for EOs with ACV. I don’t know if my kids would go for that scent!

You really just need two ingredients to make a natural bug spray. It’s super simple.

(Have you read the list of ingredients in a commercial bug spray?!)

Carrier oil:

  • Coconut oil for a cream or lotion – mix 8 oz. with 40-50 drops of essential oils. In hot weather, this will become liquid, so keep it in a cool place like the fridge or cooler for travel.
  • Witch hazel (or vodka) for a spray – mix 4 oz with 40-50 drops of essential oils. The witch hazel offers an added dimension to skin health and keeps the water from developing bacteria.

Add water to fill a spray bottle. You could make everyone his or her own personal blend in little bottles. Or make a larger family batch by multiplying the ingredients. With 6 of us, we go through a lot of spray. You can also add vitamin E if the spray dries your skin out.

Essential oils we love:

These essential oils can work as repellants to insects:

  • Rosemary
  • Citronella
  • Clove
  • Geranium
  • Lavender
  • Eucalyptus
  • Lemon
  • Cedarwood
  • Peppermint
  • Lemongrass (has been known to attract bees, so be aware of that)
  • Basil
  • Thyme

Be sure to use glass spray bottles and jars with essential oil products so you can reuse them again and again. Plastic will work for short-term use, but some of the oils might eventually corrode plastic. I just switch out the spray mechanism when it wears out.

If a sneaky bug does make it through that 1-millimeter-squared bit of space on your skin, Lemongrass works like a charm on the itch. Also Lavender with witch hazel is a great skin-soother, if you happen to step in an ant colony or some other tragedy. We also like these products for stings and bug bites: Bug Bite Thing, Sting-Kill, Tick Check Card.

Isn’t it wonderful that we can smell nice and be healthy while making it uncomfortable for creepy critters with our natural bug spray?

Also, check out our natural sunscreen recipe!

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Homemade Hair Wax

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March 17, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

My son has been bugging me for months to make him some hair gel. I scanned Pinterest and researched recipes. Simple is best. I think this solid hair wax is better than gel for what he wants: “I want my hair up, Mama!”

Alex is super happy with the result!

Homemade Hair Wax with essential oils

I put a glass jar in a pot of water, cuz who has time for a double boiler?

Add beeswax. You want this melted absolutely molten or it won’t be smooth. I messed up on my sunscreen recipe because I didn’t do that. So it’s a little bumpy.

Then add shea butter to the molten beeswax.

I took the jar out of the water and added jojoba.

I mixed it with a wooden stick and added essential oils. It hardened in my cold kitchen pretty quickly.

Hair Wax Recipe

  • 1 ounce beeswax
  • 1 1/2 ounces shea butter
  • 2 ounces jojoba oil
  • 10-20 drops of your favorite essential oils

Directions:

Melt beeswax in a glass jar in a pot of water or double boiler. Add shea butter and melt. Add jojoba. Add essential oil. When it cools, it will solidify.

Great essential oils for hair:

Rosemary, peppermint, chamomile, copaiba, cypress, and sandalwood are great for dry hair.

Basil, melaleuca, lemongrass, lavender, patchouli, eucalyptus, myrtle, and citrus (lime, lemon, orange) are great for oily hair. Citrus could lighten hair in direct sunlight so take care.

Rosemary, cedarwood, geranium, lavender, copaiba, and hinoki are good for hair loss. (I know some people mix these in a spray bottle with distilled water and spritz their heads daily!)

Melaleuca and eucalyptus are especially helpful with dandruff.

I scoop some wax and rub it with my fingers into his hair and style it. Just look at his little faux hawk. He is so stylish!

Alex only wanted orange oil in his hair wax. He loves the scent of orange!

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Humility in a Bottle

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March 12, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

My teen daughter probably would be labeled all sorts of letters if she attended school.

We prefer to manage any potential issues without medication. Many behavior issues can be fixed with proper nutrition.

She is often difficult when she wants to be.  Most days, we get along well — with only a few squinty stares as she weighs a decision whether to obey or fight.

What Does Stubborn Look Like?

I often struggle to successfully motivate and teach her while remaining unemotional and objective. I do know that she sometimes feels triumphant when I lose it over not being able to “control” her. She knows how to push all the buttons.

She is stubborn. Like, sit at the table for three hours, staring at one math page, refusing to pick up a pencil, stubborn.

Nothing we say or do seems to matter at these times.

Changing Behavior

My husband gets increasingly frustrated with not making any progress in prompting her to cooperate.

He finally turned to our oil table on a particularly difficult Saturday morning when we had hoped to have her quickly complete some school work before we all head outdoors for some fun. And she decided to be stubborn.

We had just ordered a Potential blend in our monthly essential oil shipment. We had purchased a Humble blend after testing it and liking it – and and we had used it before with great success.

He took both those bottles and dripped some of each into his palm and anointed her head.

Humble Blend + Potential Blend + Progesterone =Humility in a Bottle

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While we don’t prescribe to blind obedience in our parenting methods, we do sometimes have to take more drastic measures to communicate to our children our desires, or override their potential poor choices. We have to coach and teach and model self-control. When stubbornness and stand-offs occur, we often take a step back to evaluate our attitudes. Sometimes, we look to natural methods like diffusing essential oils or massage to help ease the situation.

“Obedience is doing what you’re told, no matter what’s right. Morality is doing what’s right, no matter what you’re told.” L.R.Knost

The Effects

Within a few minutes, she had gotten dressed, become amazingly more agreeable, and was working diligently on her math assignment.

We stood back in awe.

She completed her math more cheerfully than ever before. The rest of the day, she was compliant and good-natured.

It was really weird, y’all.

Natural Progesterone

For several months, we have encouraged her to use a natural, plant-based Progesterone before bed. Our daughter does not use this regularly. We understand that hormone therapy is very sensitive stuff. She uses only a drop or two a few evenings each month.

The Progesterone has helped to maintain balance with her fluctuating hormones. We saw improvement in her mood steadily with essential oil use. Super helpful during this tumultuous time of being a fourteen-year-old girl!

I also like to use the Progesterone in the evenings. 

We also got labs completed to rule out any physical issues. Her vitamin D and iron levels were extremely low. Her cortisol levels were also very low, but the doctors assure us she will grow out of that. We upped the supplements and changed her diet to more natural with lots of vitamin B rich foods. We also got a happy funshine lamp. Within a few months, her mood is much more even and she doesn’t feel so tired anymore. The endocrinologist visits were very helpful to rule out any issues, problems, and set our minds at ease. We all eat whole foods, so diet is not really an issue.

We do not recommend treating hormones without professional guidance.

My husband and I are quite amazed by how quickly the oils help us with all sorts of situations. While we use the oils frequently and for various reasons, we are constantly surprised by new methods and successes.

Why did these particular essential oils help with compliance?

We Need to Learn Humility

What is in the Humble essential oil blend?

  • Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora)
  • Ylang Ylang (Cananga odorata)
  • Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens)
  • Melissa (Melissa officinalis)
  • Frankincense (Boswellia carteri)
  • Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi)
  • Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha)
  • Rose (Rosa damascena)
  • Neroli (Citrus aurantium)

If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 AMP

We Need to Reach Our Potential

What will you find in the Potential essential oil blend?

  • Cypress (Callitrus intratropica)
  • Ylang ylang (Cananga odorata)
  • Cedarwood (Cedrus atlantica)
  • Tansy (Tanacetum annuum)
  • Fir (Abies concolor)
  • Galbanum (Ferula gummosa)
  • Frankincense (Boswellia carteri)
  • Sandalwood (Santalum album)
  • Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
  • Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)
  • Rose (Rosa damascena)
  • Spruce (Picea mariana)
  • Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens)
  • Jasmine (jasminum officinale)

Essential Oils as Effective Parenting Tools

These essential oils (among many others!) are great parenting tools.

We hesitate to use the word obedience, but sometimes, we do want to firmly guide kids in a certain direction while keeping communication open and modeling self-control. I have more life experience than a child, tween, teen, young adult. I’ve been there and realize the consequences that could follow their actions. Sometimes, it’s good for them to experience the consequences. I don’t want to save them from learning experiences, but I do want a teachable spirit.

We encourage our children to work through their flesh natures and to practice better behaviors, to develop self-control. We pray and discuss the behaviors that honor God and others. The behaviors that we desire them to exhibit as they grow up into adulthood. We don’t use rewards or punishments. We expect intrinsic motivation. We teach empathy.

Essential oils are great tools to help us encourage the desired character we want exhibited in our children. I love that we can use oils, combined with nutrition, supplements, and prayer, to help us achieve our family goals.

We focus on respectful parenting. We don’t use punishments and rewards. We don’t bully, coerce, or physically restrain our kids. We use our words calmly and reason with our children about expectations, needs, and desires. We listen. We explain. We teach and coach. There are occasional battles of wills and it’s not about winning. It’s about communication and relationship. Love is more important than getting one’s way. We have to shift our focus and figure out what’s really important. Some issues are non-negotiable.

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