Organizing Your Home Office
This can be one of the most exciting rooms to do in a house. It is an opportunity to really personalize and make this special space productive and functional. Whether your office occupies one bedroom or an entire floor the floor plan should allow for storage, work space and sometimes meeting space. Acoustical considerations are primary here. You…
Cinnamon Essential Oil
Cinnamon is derived from a tropical, evergreen tree that grows up to 45 feet high and has highly fragrant bark, leaves, and flowers. Extracted from bark, cinnamon oil contains strong cleansing and immune enhancing properties. Due to its high content of cinnamaldehyde, Cinnamon should be diluted with dōTERRA Fractionated Coconut Oil when applied to the…
Organize Your Living Room
How many of you spend very little time in the living room? This room is the one room in the house that we spend the most money on expensive beautiful furniture for entertaining and then we wind up never use it for fear we ruin our good furnishings. How silly is that? This room should be for…
Fractionated Coconut Oil
dōTERRA®’s Fractionated Coconut Oil is an all-natural carrier oil that readily absorbs into the skin making it an ideal oil for topical therapies. Its feather-light emollient effect provides a soothing barrier without clogging pores and is excellent for dry or troubled skin. It leaves skin feeling silky smooth, not greasy like other vegetable carrier oils.…
Organize Your Kitchen
The kitchen is my favorite room to declutter! This room accumulates things that don’t belong there more than any other room in the house! The kitchen and food preparation used to be in a separate room, hidden in the back of the home and food was transported to the dining area. Today the kitchen is often the…
Ginger Lime Brown Sugar Scrub
Turbinado sugar is a large grained sugar that helps with deep exfoliation. If you don’t have turbinado sugar, you can use all brown sugar. Ginger Lime Brown Sugar Scrub Recipe type: Essential Oils Cuisine: Non-Edible Print Ingredients ¼ cup brown sugar ¼ cup turbinado sugar ½ cup Fractionated Coconut Oil 10 drops…
Ginger Essential Oil
Taken from the rhizome (the subterranean stalk of a plant that shoots out the root system), Ginger has many traditional uses. A featured ingredient in many Asian dishes, Ginger has a hot, fragrant flavor when used as a kitchen spice. In Western tradition, Ginger is most often used in sweets—gingerbread and ginger snaps being two…
The Organized & Healthy Entry
As we continue on the healthy home series to organize your home, let’s start in the entryway. The entry is not a gathering place but it is important because this is a first impression of your home. Your entry should facilitate the flow of people and storage of all your items and belongings. Make a list of everything that…
Fresh Cut Grass Cologne
Try your hand at making your own cologne. It also makes a great gift. Using all natural products removes all of the toxic elements that you would be applying to your body with a manufactured cologne. Fresh Cut Grass Cologne Recipe type: Essential Oils Cuisine: Non-Edible Print Ingredients 12 drops Basil essential oil…
Basil Essential Oil
Basil has a warm, spicy, yet herbal aroma known to enhance memory function while reducing stress and tension. Basil provides restorative benefits to both the mind and body due to its high linalool content, making it an ideal application for sore muscles and joints and to reduce tension when applied to the temples and back…
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