Lemon Oil

Uses for Lemon Essential Oil

In the home:

• Combine 2–3 drops of lemon essential oil with water in a spray bottle to help cleanse and sanitize surfaces.
• Add 10–15 drops of lemon essential oil to a gallon of natural carpet cleaning solution to help pull out stains, brighten carpet and rugs, and leave a fresh smell in the room.
• Use as a stain remover for laundry.
• Use 1–2 drops to remove gum, oil, grease spots, glue or adhesive, and crayon from most surfaces. Best natural Goo-Gone!
• Place a few drops of lemon essential oil on a cotton ball and put in the refrigerator, or garbage can to help eliminate odors.
• Add lemon essential oil to baking soda and water and use as an all natural soft scrub.
• To clean and increase the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables, fill a bowl with cool water and 2-3 drops of lemon essential oil. Place produce in water, stir around so all surfaces come in contact with the lemon.
• Soak dish clothes in a bowl of water with 1-2 drops of lemon essential oil overnight to kill germs.
• Add to water or a smoothie for a refreshing pick-me-up. (SO tasty and uplifting!)
• For a natural furniture polish, add several drops to a half cup of olive oil or beeswax.

For the body:

• Place a drop of lemon essential oil on oily skin or blemishes to help balance oil glands and minimize oil production.
• Soothe corns, calluses, or bunions by rubbing lemon essential oil on the affected area morning and evening.
• Massage lemon essential oil into cellulite to help improve circulation and eliminate waste from cells.
• Add lemon essential oil to a cup of water in the morning for a detoxifying and pH balancing drink.
• Add several drops of lemon essential oil to a chicken marinade for a delicious dinner.
• For a natural hand sanitizer, rub a drop on your hands. Lemon is incredibly effective against germs!
• Combine lemon with a small amount of coconut oil and use as a wrinkle reducing moisturizer.
• Apply a drop of lemon oil to the tongue to freshen breath.
• Reduce the discomfort of heartburn by massaging lemon oil across the arches and pads of the feet and down the throat, sternum and stomach.

For the mind:

• Increase brain function and stimulate neurons by diffusing lemon essential oil for study or testing.
• Inhale lemon essential oil or place a few drops on a cotton ball to replenish your mind, body, and spirit.
• Place a drop in your hands to inhale, rub a drop into long or short hair, or diffuse through the room during times to uplift the spirits.

Cautions When Using Lemon Essential Oil

Lemon is photosensitive. This means that lemon oil can cause the skin to burn if exposed to sunlight after applying the oil. Avoid applying to skin that will be exposed to sunlight or UV light within 24 hours.

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Lavender oil

Lavender Oil Uses

1. Relaxation Lavender is a great tool to help you relax and unwind. Put 6-10 drops in a bath with epsom salts or diffuse 5-8 drops before bedtime. You can also apply Young Living lavender topically on the wrists or behind the ears.
2. Bug Repellent Lavender along with purification essential oils can help keep bugs away.
3. Occasional Sleep Aid Lavender is wonderful for relaxation and easing a busy mind. I like to diffuse lavender next to my bed before sleeping or add a couple drops to my pillow.
4. Beautiful Skin 2 drops of Lavender along with avocado or jojoba oil as a carrier oil especially can do wonders for your skin. 
5. Sunburns You can apply a few drops of lavender directly to a sunburn for relief. You can also mix a few drops of lavender with aloe vera and rub it on the sunburn.
6. Dry Lips Lavender lip balm. 
7. Calming Lavender can be very helpful for calming children. Diffuse a few drops or put 2-4 drops on the wrists or behind the ears.
8. Jet Lag Use a roll on fitment (you received one in your premium starter kit. It makes applying lavender easy while traveling.
9. Moth repellent Add a couple drops of lavender to cotton balls and place in closets to keep away moths.

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Having troubles sleeping?

How to use essential oils for sleep:

• The easiest way to receive the benefits of essential oils is through diffusing them. I have a cute little home diffuser that came with my starter kit from Young Living Essential Oils. It disperses the essential oils molecules into the air and allows you to inhale them. The molecules of the essential oils are so small that they easily enter the olfactory nerves inside of your nose and into the limbic system, which is the seat of emotions in the body. Diffuse oils 30-60 minutes before bedtime.

• If you do not have a diffuser, you can place a drop or 2 of essential oil in the palm of your hand, rub your hands together, cup them around your nose and inhale deeply. Do this for several minutes. I have found this an effective way to use many of my sleep oils.

• You can also rub 1-2 drops of essential oils on the bottoms of your feet, shoulders, back of your neck or stomach. I often use a bit of carrier oil like coconut or jojoba to help it spread.

• Mix 3-6 drops of essential oil with epsom salt or baking soda and add to a hot bath water while tub is filling. Soak in bath for 20-30 minutes.

• Rub 1-2 drops on the temples and back of neck several times a day.

• Place a warm compress with 1-2 drops of chosen oil on the back.

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What are Carrier Oils used for?

Carrier oils ensure that essential oils applied topically are comfortable. Dilution with a carrier oil does not dilute the effect of the essential oil, and prevents waste duet to excessive application. Vegetable shortening, butter, margarine, or petroleum derivatives (petrolatum jelly) should NEVER bemused as carrier oils. Some say to avoid olive oil as a carrier oil because of its strong aroma and thick viscosity.

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What are carrier oils?

Carrier Oils are fatty oils and can be referred to as vegetable oils, fixed oils, or base oils.

NON-DRYING OILS (DRY SKIN):

1. Almond Oil
2. Castor Oil
3. Cocoa Butter
4. Olive Oil 
5. Palm Oil 
6. Peanut Oil 
7. Rape Oil (Canola Oil)

SEMI-DRYING OILS (NORMAL TO OILY SKIN):

1. Corn Oil
2. Cottonseed Oil
3. Croton Oil
4. Sesame Oil
5. Sunflower Oil

DRYING OILS (OILY SKIN):

1. Linseed Oil
2. Hempseed Oil
3. Soybean Oil
4. Tung Oil

OTHER EXAMPLES OF CARRIER OILS:

1. Apricot Kernel
2. Argan
3. Avocado
4. Borage
5. Camellia
6. Canola
7. Castor 
8. Coconut
9. Cranberry Seed
10. Evening Primrose
11. Flax
12. Grape seed 
13. Hazelnut
14. Hemp
15. Jojoba 
16. Kook
17. Macadamia nut
18. Marula (Sclerocarya Birrea) 
19. Olive 
20. Palm kernel
21. Peach kernel
22. Peanut
23. Pecan
24. Pistachio 
25. Pomegranate Raspberry seed
26. Safflower
27. Sesame
28. Soybean
29. Sunflower
30. Sweet Almond
31. Walnut
32. Wheat germ

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Benefits of Stress Away Oil

Does work or school ever stress you out to the point where you cannot even relax while at home? You can actually help to minimize your stress by using young livings stress away oil. Stress away helps with much more too. Stress away helps with occasional anxiety; stress & nervous tension in the body, it actually helps to calm the tension. It helps to calm nervousness due to common everyday over work & fatigue. Stress away can also help you go support a healthy blood pressure, improve mental focus, & enhance relaxation. It's a great oil to use while taking a bath. The stress away oil is tropical and a exotic aroma.http://www.youngliving.org/mkaymcleod

How to control hair loss due to stress?

It's so cool when you meet new people & when they ask about essential oils and young living, they realize that they actually already have the diffuser already they got as a gift two years ago for christmas from their mother and its just been sitting on their night stand & they use it nightly but didn't know exactly what it was. I was talking to a co-worker the other night on the way into work and come to find out she uses her diffuser and oils religiously. She started asking questions about the different oils and telling me about her "light green oil, away something" she kept calling it. I then thought for a second to realize she was talking about her stress away oil. She said as a child in school she would loose hair like crazy she had to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for injections into her scalp and it would hurt so bad. All to haver her hair grow back in, well she found out she was loosing her hair due to stress. Several years later she started going though a nasty break up and college and having to move and her life was changing and she was under a lot of stress again. Her mother then bought her the diffuser and stress away oil. Since she started using stress away her stress has been minimized a great deal and she no longer has the hair loss problems anymore.
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