Essential Oils

I have come to love and live by essential oils.

You can you use them to calm yourself, to energize yourself and to also help with healing.

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetherolea, or simply as the "oil of" the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is "essential" in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant. Essential oils do not form a distinctive category for any medical, pharmacological, or culinary purpose. They are not essential for health.

Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation, often by using steam. Other processes include expression or solvent extraction. They are used in perfumes, cosmetics, soaps and other products, for flavoring food and drink, and for adding scents to incense and household cleaning products.

Essential oils have been used medicinally in history. Medical applications proposed by those who sell medicinal oils range from skin treatments to remedies for cancer and often are based solely on historical accounts of use of essential oils for these purposes. Claims for the efficacy of medical treatments, and treatment of cancers in particular, are now subject to regulation in most countries.

I believe in the properties of essential oils and have used it in my own healing with success.

Story: A few years ago my dog was attached to one of those heavy duty plastic with metal inside leashes that are used for outside this one was about 25 feet long. As he was attached to the leash so he wouldn’t run away I decided to throw his ball and after realizing the leash was around my ankle… you guessed it he went charging after the ball and I didn’t move quick enough and the leash caught my ankle and put a gash in it about half an inch thick.

Blood everywhere so I went on to clean it up and once healed knowing there will be a scar I used lavender oil diluted with grapeseed oil and rubbed it on to reduce scaring. Within a month the scar was completely gone.

There are always warnings with essential oils. You should not use them while pregnant and some people who have allergies need to be careful since this is such a concentrated dose of oil that you need to be aware. Most oils need to be diluted with a different type of oil such as almond oil, grapeseed oil or even olive oil. Make sure you know the warnings and use oils appropriately.

I will provide a list of essential oils and what they can do for you!