The great holiday aroma swap....
We are all doing our best to make our home smell like the holidays now. This typically means new soap, new home scents, holiday scented cleaners, holiday scented room sprays, holiday scented carpet powders, and holiday dish soap!
You can absolutely do all of this and have product to spare post holidays with the items below!
What you will need (and may already have!) is the Thieves Household Cleaner, Thieves Foaming Hand Soap Refill, Peppermint oil, Christmas Spirit oil, and Orange oil.
Holiday Foaming Hand Soap
4 ounces of Thieves Foaming Hand Soap Refill
10 drops Christmas Spirit
5 drops Orange
3 drops Peppermint
4 ounces distilled water
Mix in a foaming hand soap container and enjoy!
( You can make SEVERAL bottles of soap from this recipe)
Holiday Fresh Carpet and Upholstery Powder
2 cups Baking Soda
2 capfuls Thieves Household Cleaner
10 drops Peppermint
10 drops Orange
5-7 drops Christmas Spirit
Combine in a 16 ounce mason jar and sprinkle onto carpet or upholstery.
Allow to sit on carpet or furniture for 10 minutes and then vacuum.
Holiday Faux-breeze
10 drops Christmas Spirit
5 drops Orange
5 drops Peppermint
1 teaspoon vodka
4-6 ounces of distilled water
Add to continuous misting bottle ( Amazon) and enjoy in the rooms that do not have diffusers.
Holiday Cheer All- Purpose Cleaner
1-2 capfuls Thieves Household Cleaner
7 drops Christmas Spirit
5 drops drops Orange
3 drops Peppermint
Top with 16 ounces of water and get to cleaning!
Holiday Fresh Dish Soap
Take your bottle of Thieves Dish Soap and add...
10 drops Orange ( will actually help with caked on food)
5 -7 drops Peppermint
Sweet Scented Holiday Cards
Place your holiday cards in a Ziplock or airtight container.
Drop your choice of essential oil onto several cotton balls and place in container or bag allow with your
cards. Let sit for at least 24 hours!
Your recipients will enjoy the festive aroma that comes along with their mail this year.
Vacuum Hack
Drop 3-5 drops of your oils onto your filter before vacuuming a room.
Air Filter Hack
Drop several drops of essential oils onto your A/C filter before replacing
Grab your supplies for all of the above below. Whether you are making these fun recipes for yourself
or as gifts these recipes will not disappoint.
Wake Up!
I woke up this morning to a message from my sister-in-law. It was a news article, “Brink of a Fertility Crisis: Scientists says Plummeting Sperm Counts Caused by Everyday Products.” This was a forty year study done at Mount Sinai (article linked below). My first thought is, “We know this already.” We may not know the specifics that the study dives into, but we know this. Second thought, the people who care about this article are already aware of the harmful effects the products on our store shelves are having on our bodies. Why? Well, one, they have either encountered a health problem that required them to wake up, or two, the have been doing the digging on their own based on something someone told them. Third thought, “When are people going to care? When are they going to WAKE UP?”
Infertility issues were a wakeup call for me. First with food...the products came later. I have said it before. I could have accepted that Clomid or Metformin the day I was told about PCOS. However, I like to know why things are happening to me and asked why. If it were not for a nurse practitioner that enlightened me, I would have taken those pills on the spot and never known what I was doing to my body day in and day out.
Did I still need the pills? I did. I am incredibly grateful for them
. Medicine isn’t bad. Those pills brought helped me conceive two baby boys. Those pills weren’t taking care of my hormonal imbalances though. It went deeper than trying to conceive. There was a reason my hormones weren’t normal. Thanks to my nurse practitioner, my eyes were opened. When you start to notice changes in your body based on foods and products you are using, you keep doing better. You are enlightened to a deeper issue that pills aren’t going to fix. Feeling good and healthy is motivating. I also want better for my kids, so I am instilling what I know and learned in them.
. Medicine isn’t bad. Those pills brought helped me conceive two baby boys. Those pills weren’t taking care of my hormonal imbalances though. It went deeper than trying to conceive. There was a reason my hormones weren’t normal. Thanks to my nurse practitioner, my eyes were opened. When you start to notice changes in your body based on foods and products you are using, you keep doing better. You are enlightened to a deeper issue that pills aren’t going to fix. Feeling good and healthy is motivating. I also want better for my kids, so I am instilling what I know and learned in them.What we are putting in and on our bodies is having a HUGE impact on us and our children. Hormonal imbalance is just one area of impact. Why do people develop odd reactions, allergies, disorders, chronic conditions later in life? Well, we have pretty much our gut and liver through the ringer for our entire life. That is a lot of damage to undo! It requires patience and consistency which is something a lot of us do not have.
I just cracked open a book called Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Robert H. Lustig. This pediatric endocrinologist of 40 years emphasizes the importance of gut and liver health. I highly recommend it if you are looking to do better for your health.
What impacts our gut and liver? Everything we put in and on our bodies. Food is the hardest part of it all. The food we eat is a decision we are faced with multiple times a day. Here are some rules of thumb that we like to stick to when we are shopping and cooking in our home:
- If there is sugar, there must be fiber. That was a big takeaway I got from a documentary called “FedUP”. Fiber is a big factor in how our body processes sugar.
- Avoid “added sugars”.
- Keep things balanced. If we indulge in pizza or burgers, we balance it with some fruit or veggies.
- Wash your fruits & veggies! The unknown toxins and chemicals in soil and crops nowadays can linger on our produce. Let’s wash away what we can!
- Prep ahead. On days you feel motivated, going ahead a prep! You aren’t going to feel like doing it at the end of the day. Do all the chopping, egg boiling, and lunch packing ahead of time.
Products we use on our bodies and in our home are easy to swap, once you find clean products you love and trust. Is it overwhelming? It sure can be!
Here are some simple steps you can take to start transforming your home.
- Pick a room in your house to start with. Is it the kitchen? Bedroom? Laundry room?
- Make a list of products that you have in that room.
- Set a budget. How much do you have to spend on new product for that room?
- Ask for hacks or DIYS. The beauty of a clean product is the versatility!
- Rewards programs. Commitment is scary BUT when it comes to the products you use daily in your home, it is well worth the commitment. Rewards make switching budget friendly.
Let’s chat, what room would you start with? What is the item that you are having trouble letting go of?
Something I hear over and over again, from friends and family trying to make healthier choices, is how difficult and overwhelming it is! I cannot disagree. When I started examining the foods we were eating and the products we were bringing into our home, I was constantly reading label and after label and spending WAY more time in the store than I wanted to.
In my opinion, food is harder to switch out and be consistent with. What we eat, is a decision I am making multiple times a day and with all the tempting options out there, of course we are indulging from time to time. Probably more than I would like to admit!
Switching out the products we are bringing into our home, has proven to be less difficult. When we started with Young Living, it was all about the oils. I soon realized these were plant-based products that I can trust ( I can actually read all of the ingredients on the bottle) and no label reading was required every time I went to add something to my cart. While some were slightly more expensive, I have noticed my products last longer because they don't have all of the extra junk and fillers so many of the products on our store shelves have. I have also learned some frugal mama hacks along the way!
There was one product that stood out to me when we started this process. One bottle took care of SO MANY products I had been purchasing. The Thieves Household Cleaner has been the star of the show in our house for over 5 years now. This concentrated formula, allows me to create my household cleaning items by simply using 1-2 capfuls of cleaner and simple ingredients/cleaning tools around the house. I can dust with it, clean my floors, clean my carpets, clean every room in the house, use it as glass cleaner, oven cleaner, stain remover....I can go on and on. All of my cleaning products were replaced with the SIMPLE SWITCH to Thieves Household Cleaner. One bottle can do it all!
If you are one of those people who is trying to create a clean living environment for your family and finding it difficult, this single bottle of Thieves Household Cleaner can turn those overwhelming feels around when it comes to cleaning your home! A bottle of Thieves Household Cleaner retails at $29.61 and is available to wholesale members at $22.50. Keep in mind, it is a concentrated formula, From this one bottle, you can make approximately 29 bottles of medium degreasing strength, all-purpose cleaner. One bottle folks! It replaced at least 5 different cleaners in our home.
Here is a link to Young LIving's website to show you what is possible with this cleaner! Keep in mind, the essentials oils recommended, can be switched out for what you have on hand.
