DIY soft scrub!!!

How many of you enjoy making your own cleaning products? I just recently started researching more on this. I think my big problem is cleaning the bathroom. It's just a small room and then you add cleaners to that mix and you can't breath well because of the strong scent of the cleaners! So how about a DIY soft scrub mix!

DIY Soft Scrub
Ingredients:
3/4 rounded cup baking soda
1/4 cup liquid castile soap
1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon vinegar
5-10 drops Spark Naturals Lemon essential oil
(Note: Liquid castile soap is a vegetable-based soap commonly found in health food stores. Dr. Bronner’s is a popular one. Look for unscented.)

Directions:
In a bowl, combine the baking soda and castile soap.
Add the water and stir.
Add the vinegar and essential oil. The consistency should be a soft paste.
Store in an airtight container.

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Refreshing diffuser blend!

Snowy Mountain Diffuser Blend:

3 drops White Fir essential oil
2 drops Cypress essential oil
1 drop Cedarwood essential oil
1 drop Eucalyptus essential oil

Fill the diffuser with water and enjoy the blend!

Oil of the month club

So I've had people ask me how I started my essential oil collection. Well, Spark Naturals has an Oil of the Month club. Free shipping and it's a 15 ml bottle! Same price every month - $15.99. Here's the list:

January - Peppermint 
February - Marjoram 
March - Lavender 
April - LLP 
May - Geranium 
June - Respire 
July - Oregano 
August - Melaleuca 
September - Bergamot 
October - Coriander 
November - Basil 
December - White Fir

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New Spark Naturals deal!

Spark Naturals has a new special this week! It's Amend + ! Great deal on this product! Here's more info:

+ - Soothing Blend

Amend+ is a high-strength, clear-colored warming blend with Birch and other essential oils to support muscle and joint pain relief.

Amend+ is a proprietary blend of essential oils chosen and blended that may assist in pain relief including Birch, Rosemary, Marjoram, Frankincense, Black Pepper, and other pure essential oils. With no added carrier oil, Amend+ is incredibly potent, allowing you to dilute it for your skin needs and preference. This blend is perfect for use by athletes or for acute muscle or joint pain relief. It is designed for topical use and is not recommended for children, pregnant women, or anyone who is allergic to aspirin products.

Amend Blended Oil Application:

Can be used topically (Dilute for young or sensitive skin)

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Respire....by Spark Naturals

Today's essential oil in my household is Respire. My son's fever has gone down but now he has this cough which is dry and sounds horrible. So Respire is my go to oil for this type of thing. I put 3 drops of grapeseed oil and 3 drops of Respire in my hand, rub it together and then rub it on his chest every few hours.

I am also diffusing it right beside where he is sitting. 3 drops in the diffuser and fill the rest of it with water.

Tonight I will do the same but rub 3 drops of Eucalyptus and 3 drops of grapeseed oil together on his feet. Eucalyptus helps with the cough while he sleeps.

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Sale on a great Essential Oils kit!

Spark Naturals is having a great sale on a great set!

The Cold & Flu Bomb kit is on sale for $22.50! And you can get 10% off of that by using my code:  EOSROCK

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Fall is in the air and so are germs. Spark Naturals is happy to release the Cold and Flu Bomb Kit.
Prevention is your first line of defense but if something happens and your defenses are down, take action right away with Spark Naturals Cold & Flu Bomb Kit! We have put together the ultimate collection of oils to help prevent and fight off cold and flu symptoms.
Oregano - Nature's strongest Antibiotic
Melaleuca - Proven to fight, bacteria, virus and fungi
Shield - Spark Naturals proprietary blend created to support healthy immune function. Kills bacteria, mold and and virus.

A popular remedy for the onset of cold or flu is 3 drops of each oil in a gel capsule, a shot glass of water or, applied to the bottoms of both feet.

Acute symptoms; take or apply every 3 hours.

For preventative measures, 3x daily.
For kids under the age of 8, dilute by half with a carrier oil.

Germs, Germs, Germs, go away...do not come back another day!

My 6 year old son woke up this morning with a headache, fever of 102.4 and only ate half his breakfast. Now when my child only eats half of his breakfast, well, we automatically know he's getting sick. Every single time he's only eaten part of his breakfast....it was an indication of sickness.

I immediately put my headache mixture on his head. I have a small roller bottle that I filled with lavender, peppermint, and grapeseed oil. Here is my breakdown:

Small roller bottle
Fill 1/2 of roller bottle with grapeseed oil
10-15 drops of lavender
10-15 drops peppermint

Roll in a line across the middle of forehead, rub in. Make sure they don't touch their heads! My husband tried this treatment for a headache, rubbed his head (forgot about the oils) then scratched his eye and well, peppermint kinda makes things cold. His eye was cold and funny feeling for a while! :-) I told him not to touch his head! lol!

So that is my protocol for headache. For me it works great! My son said that his head feels better...so I'll keep applying it every few hours.

Next for the fever protocol. I treat fevers with good old fashioned medicine....Advil. But I also know that medicine does not make the fever go away completely. So I drop a few drops of grapeseed oil in my hand along with a few drops of peppermint. I rub them together and rub on his spine and bottoms of his feet. This helps bring the fever down and it smells great! He smells like a candy cane...which he thinks is pretty cool!

I've also got shield (spark naturals) diffusing in the diffuser in the living room beside him. Let's hope that we can ward off the germs for the rest of us!

Whenever he is sick, or anyone in my house for that matter, I have a "sick bag" that stays beside the sick person all day long. I fill it with wipes, tissues, the oils that I'm using, Advil or Tylenol, and a thermometer. This is so much easier than running back and forth to the medicine cabinet!

Well, I'm off to take care of my lil' guy! Here's hoping for a germ free day for everyone else!

How to choose a diffuser?

I love to diffuse the house with wonderful smells! Here are a few diffusers that I recommend. I have each one of these!

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I have this one in my bedroom. It usually runs for about 4-5 hours at a time and has automatic shut-off. This was the first diffuser I ever bought! It's still going strong!

ZAQ Noor Diffuser in White. This is 3 options - Light, Color, or no light. I choose the no light so I can sleep better!

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Next I have this one in my lil' guy's room:

http://sparknaturals.com/index.php/diffusers/zaq-allay-diffuser-blue.html

ZAQ Allay Diffuser - Blue

This one will run for about 4 hours and has automatic shut-off. It also has the option of light or no lights.

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Next this is the one I have in my living room. It will stay on for up to 8 hours! I love this one. It runs almost every day!

ZAQ Mirage Diffuser - White

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It has the color, light, or no light options with automatic shut-off. I love, love, love this diffuser!!!! I love that it can stay on for so long!

Diffuser blends!

Hi everyone! I thought I'd get back to the original purpose of this blog! I would love to share the joy of essential oils with you! I am an affiliate for Spark Naturals but I am also a member of DoTerra. I love both of these companies...however Spark is cheaper. But DoTerra has a few different blends from Spark. So I shop both!

One blend that I diffuse at night that makes me feel peaceful is a concoction that I made up!

Fill diffuser up with water.

Add 3 drops of Peppermint

Add 3 drops of Shield (Spark Naturals)

Add 3 drops of Lavender

This blend does 3 things:

Peppermint...just smells good!

Shield...Gets rid of germs in the room!

Lavender....promotes good sleep!

Next post will be about diffusers and the ones I LOVE!

The unknown - update!

So I am finally feeling better! After 5 days with nonstop trips to the bathroom things are looking up! My GI doctor did a PCR DNA test. This test tests for EVERYTHING!!! If you have a parasite, bug, alien in your intestines this test will show it! lol! And guess what...everything was negative. So it is not known what was wrong with me! I guess that is a good thing and a bad thing. Bad because I want to know...but good because it's gone and all the tests were negative! So I'm eating normal again, bathroom things are still not 100% normal, but getting there. :-)

So I'm chalking it up to some type of food poisoning or stomach bug. :-)