Allergies & Essential Oils

Managing Allergies Naturally with Essential Oils

Do you have allergies and nothing but a load of medications from the medicine cabinet that somewhat help the situation for about an hour then you are back to stuffiness, scratchy throat, puffy eyes? Yep my daughter knows these symptoms well!

Did you know that most allergies can be linked to stress? Lack of sleep? When you are not nourishing your body your immune system has issues being at its full potential during the day. So you need to first make sure you are sleeping and not stressed or your energy will be lacking because your immune system is overworked and tired.

Shower Steaming with Chamomille

Steam Inhalation can take place in the shower. So simple too. I am not sleeping and it more cause my brain is running wild this week of "to dos" but not enough time to do it in.

So I read a nice congestion remedy for the shower but I figured I would use my Roman Chamomile oil for relaxation.

What you do is you do your "thing" in the shower then get it where the shower is nice and steamy hot to where you can tolerate it comfortably and you just a couple of drops in front of your feet (away from the spraying water, I just move shower head away from where the oils will land) and just breath in and out the aroma.

The steam from the shower releases the oils into the air.

I stood there probably for about 10 minutes just breathing in and out and just trying to relax my body. This is nice cause so easy if you have the oils and you dont have to worry about dilution ratios just dont drop the oil on your feet.

-EO Nerd

Lavender Oil Linked to Estrogen in Boys?

Does Lavender Contain Estrogen?

It has been said that it contains estrogen. This is a great write up in regards to that in fact that no it doesn't have an affect on boys. This started out when there were three isolated cases of gynecomastia (enlarged breasts) occurred in three boys going through their puberty age and they had all used topical products that contained essential oils. A study was conducted on rats and oil was used but at a 5,000 to 1000,000 times greater ratio than the average/typical exposure that us humans would ever have even if we used it everyday all day and even then nothing occurred as far as signs of estrogen in a male rat. So basically was a coincidence with no evidence to support the conclusion of lavender causing their symptoms.

At least through all these studies of lavender oil they were able to conclude more safety information.

http://roberttisserand.com/2013/02/lavender-oil-is-not-estrogenic/

-EO Nerd

Ingesting Essential Oils

Just Say No To Ingesting Of Oils

This is what I personally advocate no matter what information is out there!

This topic is being thrown around too loosely these days like a vitamin you pop daily with a glass of water. HELLO PEOPLE do you know what ingesting essential oils can do to your body especially when you are not educated on them? So you are going to just take the direct sales persons word for how to treat and heal your body? NO WAY! I wouldn't even tell people on how to use an oil. I will suggest but definitely never suggest internally!

Top, Middle & Base Notes of Essential Oils

The "Notes" of Essential Oils

For essential oils there is what is called "notes" and there are three of them when you are creating a blend. It is good to be aware of what these are so you know how your blends will work together to create that perfect smell that your nose will love. These three notes are called the top, middle and bottom. Below is a list of which oils are considered in which "note" category. When creating a blend the rule of thumb is to select an oil from each note but use less of the top and middle note and more of the base note.

What the FDA Has To Say About "Organic"

What the FDA's Job is in Regards to Organic vs Certified Organic Companies

  This information is taken right from the FDA (yeah I know boring and long right?) I got sucked into reading and it became good information for me to post and probably something you wouldn't normally find and read on your own assuming. I have summarized at the bottom what the FDA is saying.

General Safety Information Provided by Aromahead Institute

Essential Oil Safety Guidelines 

Based On Essential Oil Safety Book (Robert Tisserand)