Happy Oily Thursday!

So last week I showed y’all how I store my extra bottles of Young Living Essential Oils. I wanted to point out that storing them that way definitely easier to carry from place to place when you are on the go. Though I don’t have any classes scheduled at this time, I like to take them with me when I am going to a scrapbooking retreat in hope I will get a buyer or someone to sign up. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t. It just really depends on who’s there. Right now I’ve decided I’ve got to come up with a better pricing sheet for when I attend my retreats. Today, I want to share some of my favorite references for essential oils in general. These books are either strictly about Young Living Products or just ones I’ve picked up over the years.

Some of My Favorite References for Essential Oils

The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy is by Valerie Ann Worwood. Not only is it one of my favorites, it was also my first book I came across dealing with essential oils. I actually found it in my sisters stuff after she left for college in the late 1990’s when I was still in high school. Since she obviously wasn’t using it, I decided I would take care of it for her.?

This particular book has information on just about everything for someone who doesn’t know what from what. This includes things such as having a kit for your basic cares to what the basics recommended to take when traveling to how to use your essential oils on animals. It also includes things such as, what is recommended for those into playing sports, fitness and dancing; as well as, various recipes for using essential oils with cooking.

Though, the information was there, I never actually cooked with my oils until I started using Young Living Essential Oils just because I knew what I had, weren’t 100% oils. In other words, they had add-ins to what they were and most likely wouldn’t only taste right but would probably make me sick if I had ingested them. Now, since become an Independent Consultant for Young Living and using their oils, I cook with them all the time.

When it came to what I needed for dancing and working out as well as the simple bites, scraps, and bumps; I used the basic essential oils I had at the time. These included as I have mentioned before, Lavender, Lemon and Peppermint Essential Oils.

Over time I did start to rack up with getting ones such as Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, and Rosemary Essential Oils. Turns out, these are some of the most basic ones and for the most part are the recommended ones to start with when new to essential oils. At least some of these are the ones that are included in the starter kit when just getting started with Young Living.

Reference Guide for Essential Oils

Reference Guide for Essential Oils is by Connie and Alan Higley. I came across this particular book shortly after moving to Long Beach, MS for my degree in Marine Science. Not to far from the school’s campus there was a little herbal store that had all kinds of essential oils and their herbs. The lady also had this particular book in store and looking at it initially I didn’t know what it really was other than a book on essential oils.

Though, I still look forward to the day of having the “Raindrop Technique” done, this is one of the main things that really brought me to this book. Since finding this book, I’ve been trying to convince my mom to have the technique on her. I was hoping it would help her tremor she has in her left arm.

While flipping through the pages I noticed all these different names of the oils I have never heard of. I would visit various health food stores and other places I knew that sold essential oils but could never find them. Finally I just gave up but still used the book as a great reference. Though I could never find the blends, I still found the Non-Young Living versions of the single oils in various places. I eventually started playing around with them more and more while living in Mississippi. The biggest thing for me is how and where to use a particular oil.

In the first chapter of this book, it talks about “Pure, Therapeutic-Grade” essential oils explaining:

• what they are,
• why they are so hard to find,
• what the benefits are,
• how they affect the brain, and
• what enables them to provide such great benefits.

There is also a section explaining how many years they have been used. The first chapter also talks about the different ways of using essential oils. These ways include but not limited to tropical, compresses, and inhalation.

Tropical:

Here you have direct application, vita flex therapy, and raindrop technique just to name a few.

Compresses:

There are only two they name in the book which include, basin and massage. Every time I get a massage from my favorite massage therapist, she uses various essential oils on me. Though they aren’t Young Living, I know they are well diluted with the oil-based lotion she uses. She then uses her hot packs on the area she just worked on before moving on to the next area.

Inhalations:

This includes the most common way of using essential oils these days, which is by a diffuser. Here you just add water to the diffuser you are using, add the oils you want to enjoy the benefits form and enjoy.

My second favorite is by using a cotton ball or something like where you just add a few drops of an oil and inhale when needed. While I was still in school I would put a few drops of Peppermint Essential Oil on a cotton ball  while studying and then use it again when taking my tests.

There you go a couple of my favorite books to use as references for essential oils. Just enough information without giving away what is in the books. Stay tuned as I will post a few more in a few weeks. Hope you enjoyed!

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**As with any over the counter medicines and prescriptions; a specific essential oil may work great for me, but not so much for you. I am not a doctor, just someone who uses essential oils on a daily basis and loves them. These are recommendations, as it is a trial and error type process to find what works best for you. The FDA has not evaluated this statement. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.**