Hi Friends! This is the very first guest post on Lane & Pearl. I’m so excited for you to hear from my friend, Lindsay! We met in high school and now we share a common interest in living a healthy and clean lifestyle. We want to keep our homes and families as free from toxic ingredients as we possibly can! She has taught me so much about how to use essential oils in my everyday life, and I know you will love it too!
Getting started with essential oils is one of the best life decisions I have ever made. They now have a place in every aspect of our lives and in our home. I am a devoted wife and mother who is currently, and forever, obsessed with living a more natural and healthy life. One of my first steps to changing our lifestyle was made two and a half years ago when I purchased a starter kit through Young Living. At this point, I had been interested in essential oils for a while, but I didn’t know how to get started or what to buy. I did some research on essential oils and came up with a few companies that I felt comfortable with. These companies were not the ones found in drug stores, or even at Whole Foods. They were not simply fragrances labeled as essential oils. At the end of the day, I chose Young Living because I loved the quality of oil they promised to supply. They have a “seed to seal” promise, which guarantees they handle every step of the process. They own the farms, plant the seeds, harvest the plants, and then distill the oils themselves. This was the most important thing to me when choosing an essential oil company. I asked: Were they pure? Were they organic? Were they free of fillers and additives? Young Living checked all the boxes for me. I bought my kit and never looked back!
I am now surrounded by a team of amazing, Godly, passionate women who, like me, are striving for a healthier lifestyle and using essential oils. I have a list of resources and people to go to with any questions I have about the oils. Most importantly, I have a product that I can use in several ways to help my family live a better, more toxin-free life.
The starter kit was the best and most affordable way for me to get a good selection of oils, a diffuser, and the membership, plus some extra goodies to try! The eleven oils that come in the starter kit are the most-used and most popular oils.
Here is the quick break down of the oils and a few ways we use each of them in our family.
Easy DIY Recipes with Oils:
Over the years I have used my oils to make many different DIY’s that are healthy, safe, and extremely affordable. One of my favorite things to make is soap. I make all of our hand soap, face wash, and body wash. This is one of the easiest things to make and literally takes a few minutes to whip them up. All you need is: liquid castile soap (a natural soap derived from plants, such as Dr. Bronners), oil of choice (I used vitamin E oil, fractionated coconut oil, or grapeseed oil), Young Living Essential Oils, water, and an 8 oz. foaming pump bottle.
The base of the soap is the same for the recipes below:
Two tablespoons liquid castile soap
One teaspoon oil
Water
20-30 drops essential oil of choice
- Hand soap: add 20 drops of Thieves (kills germs/boost immune system) and 10 drops of lemon.
- Face wash: add 15 drops frankincense and 15 drops lavender.
- Body wash: add 15 drops stress away and 15 drops lavender
Simply add all the ingredients to the bottle and fill the rest with water. This recipe is so versatile, free of toxic ingredients, safe, and so CHEAP! This costs me less than $1 to make. This has been a game changer for our family. At the store, I was paying upwards of $5 for hand soap and $8 for body wash and face wash.
All of this is included in the starter kit! Eleven oils, a beautiful diffuser, a sample of the AMAZING household cleaner, a membership to Young Living (which means you get 24% off all the oils and products), and a community of amazing women full of knowledge on healthy living and making your home more natural and free of toxins.
Get started with your own kit here!
Follow Lindsay on Instagram and Facebook! She posts quality information on the oils, sales, and amazing DIY’s. She shares so many ways to use these essential oils and I guarantee you will put every single thing in your kit to good use!