The Essential Oils You Need To Know About
As anyone who works a full-time, 8-6 job would know, the grind sux. It’s relentless. You find yourself in a regular ground hog day special where it’s wake, work, home, wheel of cheese, Netflix, bed. Eventually you get to the point where no amount of double shot macchiato’s can give you the energy you need to deal.
So we’re always looking for something to take the edge off. For some people it’s massage, for others it’s a merlot (or two…) and there’s those who swear that a warm epsom salt bath does the trick.
We’ve even tried the odd essential oil in the past, (hell we’ll try anything) either lavender or chamomile, with less than impressive results.
But we’ve just discovered there’s probably a very good reason for that. When you buy an essential oil at the health food store, you’d think that it contains 100% of the essential oil, right? Right? Wrong.
What you’re actually getting is only 10% of the essential oil and 90% “multi-purpose liquid”. At around 30 or 40 bucks a pop, we kind of expected more.
So for the most part, you’re pretty much buying filler, so they might smell nice, but that’s pretty much it. Now we know why all those Lavender baths did sweet FA.
Back in the day, the ancients knew what they were on about. Essential oils were used to treat every everything from insomnia to infections and even infertility. In their purest state, 100% essential oils have been known to have the power to profoundly heal and we reckon they would give most commercial products a big run for their money.
So we did some digging around, and it seems that only a couple of brands actually make 100% pure therapeutic grade essential oil, and the pick of the bunch is Utah based, Young Living. No additives, no shortcuts and from what we’ve been seeing, they’re the real deal.
We’ve been applying & diffusing these essential oils for the past few months and we’re giving you our round-up of the ones you need to buy.
Oh and also Young Living have hooked us up with 25% off all purchases. Email [email protected] for more deets.
The real deal guys. Did you know that when you apply pure 100% therapeutic grade Lavendar essential oil directly to a burn it will start to heal? Don’t confuse this with the regular lavender oil you would buy from the health food store – apply that to a burn and you’ll be in a world of pain.
100% pure Lavender oil is a relaxant, inflammatory (great on cuts and scrapes when added to coconut oil), anti-tumoral and antiseptic.
The best all rounder to have in your kit.
Having trouble sleeping? A bit of this oil rubbed on the back of the neck, and the bottom of your feet will have you snoozing in no time.
100% therapeutic grade Cedarwood oil stimulates the pineal gland which releases melatonin. Diffuse this with Lavender oil an hour before bed and you’ll have the best night sleep of your life.
So the other thing about pure essential oils is, you should be able to ingest them. We’ve been adding a few drops of Lemon oil to our water for the past few months and it does great things for the skin and overall detoxification.
Lemon oil has been widely used in skincare to cleanse skin, reduce wrinkles and combat acne. It’s also used as an antiseptic, diuretic, to help boost immunity, and improves memory and relaxation.
It’s also rich in limonene, which has been extensively studied in over 50 worldwide clinical studies to combat tumor growth.
Put this in your diffuser and you’ll feel like you’re somewhere you want to be.
Lemongrass is used for purification and digestion. Historically it was used for hypertension, inflammation, as a sedative and for treatment of fevers and digestion. It’s anti-inflammatory, regenerates connective tissues and ligaments, improves circulation, promotes lymph flow and is anticancerous.
Great also if you have a bladder infection (beat that UTI), sinus infection, parasites or have just hopped off a 20 hour flight from NY and the old fluid retention has hit.
This is the mack daddy of the oils. Containing clove, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus radiata and Rosemary, Thieves is a blend of the most amazing highly anti-viral, antiseptic, antibacterial and anti-infectious essential oils.
We found a study done by the guys at Weber State University (1997) showed the killing power of these oils against airborne microorganisms. The analysis showed that after 20 minutes of Thieves diffusion in the air, there was an 96% reduction in airborne germs.
This oil was created from research based on legends about a group of 15th Century thieves who rubbed oils on themselves to avoid contracting the plague while they robbed the bodies of the dead and dying. When apprehended the thieves were forced to tell what their secret was and disclosed the formula of the spices, herbs and oils they used to protect themselves from harsh punishment.
So we’ve been diffusing it & rubbing it on the soles of our feet during winter (yep) to ward off cold and flu. It worked.
