Welcome here! Figured you might want to learn more about this DIY loving Mom of 3....
Our families journey into healthy living and essential oils started almost 5 years ago when I was very pregnant with my first son...
After being out of the house for an afternoon I returned to my house which my husband had lovingly cleaned, all I could smell was "lemon" scented cleaner. In my pregnant brain all I thought, "My baby is going to eat that... and die!" I know, a little bit of an over reaction. Although the more I thought about it, the more I really did not want my kids exposed to all those crazy chemicals! Forget that, as I did more and more research I did not want myself or my husband exposed to all those chemicals either....
I should probably stop here and give you some background... my husband and I were both education students, we had just moved into our first home and I was 8 months pregnant.... neither of us had real jobs or even a promise of a job as a teacher when we did graduate. So, the long and short of that is, we were broke. Very, very broke. I could not go out and buy better, safer products. It was NOT in the budget! So instead, I made a promise to myself that when we ran out of any household, personal or beauty product I would find an alternative, non-toxic product that I could hopefully make...
So, for the next 3 years I spent hours and hours (thanks pinterest) researching and trying different recipes. I had $20 a month to buy new ingredients, that way I did not spend too much... Sometimes the DIY's were successful and sometimes they were HUGE flops. Thankfully, my husband was always very gracious, even when I made him use homemade deodorant and toothpaste :) or when I made dish soap that resembled the "blob" and worked just about as well!
As I was trying and researching I kept reading about essential oils, and almost always the authors said that they were optional. So, it was a long time before my $20 a month had space to even think about buying essential oils. Once I could afford them I started looking into them, and I wanted to make sure I bought the best! I set out to my local health food store and talked to the girls there, they assured me that the oils that I bought there were "therapeutic grade" and "pure"..... well, lets just say... they were wrong! BIG TIME WRONG! I had spent all this time trying to get rid of chemicals from my house and then I just brought them back into my house!
I found Young Living Essential Oils when I went searching for a bug spray replacement for my eldest son. He is SOO allergic to mosquito bites we have ended up in the hospital on steroids for the swelling. I stumbled onto Jodi's website where she had a recipe for bug spray... just water, epson salt and purification oil! To make a long story short, I found Young living!
Fast forward 2 years and I could not imagine our life without Essential Oils! We use them everyday; in our food, our cleaning supplies, our medicine cabinet is totally replaced and our personal hygiene products have all been DIY'd.
So, will you join us? On your journey to a toxic free home? Feel free to browse the recipes and ideas that are here, but also... you'll need to start here and buy your own premium starter kit, join a FABULOUS oil family and see what essential oils can do for you and your family!
Our families journey into healthy living and essential oils started almost 5 years ago when I was very pregnant with my first son...
After being out of the house for an afternoon I returned to my house which my husband had lovingly cleaned, all I could smell was "lemon" scented cleaner. In my pregnant brain all I thought, "My baby is going to eat that... and die!" I know, a little bit of an over reaction. Although the more I thought about it, the more I really did not want my kids exposed to all those crazy chemicals! Forget that, as I did more and more research I did not want myself or my husband exposed to all those chemicals either....
I should probably stop here and give you some background... my husband and I were both education students, we had just moved into our first home and I was 8 months pregnant.... neither of us had real jobs or even a promise of a job as a teacher when we did graduate. So, the long and short of that is, we were broke. Very, very broke. I could not go out and buy better, safer products. It was NOT in the budget! So instead, I made a promise to myself that when we ran out of any household, personal or beauty product I would find an alternative, non-toxic product that I could hopefully make...
So, for the next 3 years I spent hours and hours (thanks pinterest) researching and trying different recipes. I had $20 a month to buy new ingredients, that way I did not spend too much... Sometimes the DIY's were successful and sometimes they were HUGE flops. Thankfully, my husband was always very gracious, even when I made him use homemade deodorant and toothpaste :) or when I made dish soap that resembled the "blob" and worked just about as well!
As I was trying and researching I kept reading about essential oils, and almost always the authors said that they were optional. So, it was a long time before my $20 a month had space to even think about buying essential oils. Once I could afford them I started looking into them, and I wanted to make sure I bought the best! I set out to my local health food store and talked to the girls there, they assured me that the oils that I bought there were "therapeutic grade" and "pure"..... well, lets just say... they were wrong! BIG TIME WRONG! I had spent all this time trying to get rid of chemicals from my house and then I just brought them back into my house!
I found Young Living Essential Oils when I went searching for a bug spray replacement for my eldest son. He is SOO allergic to mosquito bites we have ended up in the hospital on steroids for the swelling. I stumbled onto Jodi's website where she had a recipe for bug spray... just water, epson salt and purification oil! To make a long story short, I found Young living!
Fast forward 2 years and I could not imagine our life without Essential Oils! We use them everyday; in our food, our cleaning supplies, our medicine cabinet is totally replaced and our personal hygiene products have all been DIY'd.
So, will you join us? On your journey to a toxic free home? Feel free to browse the recipes and ideas that are here, but also... you'll need to start here and buy your own premium starter kit, join a FABULOUS oil family and see what essential oils can do for you and your family!