Premium Starter Kit - Canada

The Premium Starter Kit is the optimal way to begin your Young Living Essential Oil experience.  Let me tell you why!

First of all, this kit has over $300 value, but is priced at just $173.  At my first glance, I thought $173 was a bit steep but since I've done my research and started using every single included oil with my family, I no longer feel that way.  Here's why.  The premium starter kit contains all of this...

Here's a breakdown:

The Dewdrop Diffuser (a limited time availability with this Starter Kit, before it goes back to the Tulip Diffuser which has less features and is worth less $$$)

The Everyday Oils kit, which contains: Frankincense, Lavender, Peppermint, Peace and Calming, PanAway, Lemon, Joy, Thieves, Purification, and Valor.

A bonus Stress Away, with added roll on attachment for easy application

Samples of: Ningxia Red, two lavender sample packets, two peppermint sample packets, two peace and calming sample packets, and two thieves sample packets.

Welcome to Young Living bookelt, Essential Oils at a glance User's guide, Distributor Resource Guide, S.E.E.D Sharing for Success Booklet and a Product Guide.


So, there are 11 of the most commonly used Essential Oils in this Kit.  These are 5 ml bottles, which contain approximately 100 very concentrated drops of pure, unadulterated essential oil.  Given that one drop of Peppermint oil is the equivalent of 28 cups of peppermint tea, and it takes 1000 pounds of rose petals to distill 1 pound of rose oil.  This is pure goodness.  Every single drop.

Because of Young Living's Seed to Seal process and guarantee, if you purchase a bottle of peppermint oil - the only thing in that bottle is therapeutic grade peppermint oil.  However, if you purchase a bottle of peppermint oil from another brand at a local store, you are likely getting only 5% pure peppermint with the rest of the bottle being synthetics and fillers.  Honestly - a bottle labelling it's oil "pure" does not mean that it's 100% that oil.  Unless it's a Young Living oil - then it does.  It's guaranteed.

One other point that always reminds me of the value of this Premium Starter Kit, lies in how Essential Oils are produced.  Essential Oils are steam distilled by putting plant material into a large stainless steel cylinder with steam coming up from the bottom.  The steam picks up the oil sacs and moves them out through the top of the distiller.  This is then cooled and the oil floats to the top for removal.  These distilleries can be as large as 8 feet across and 20 feet tall.  If you can imagine filling cylinder that large with German Chamomile, how much oil do you think you would get from distilling this much plant material?

The answer will astound you - between 1/4 and 1/2 cup of German Chamomile Essential Oil.  

Therein lies the value of Young Living Essential Oil, and the Premium Starter Kit.  

Here is a basic chart that shows popular uses for the oils contained in the Premium Starter Kit :

I love it.  And you will too, if you take the leap to try it.  How do you get The Premium Starter Kit? You can purchase it here.  Please email me any questions at lisa.anstey@gmail.com and join my Facebook Group to stay updated. 

Happy Oiling!

Lisa
YL#2139910

Wool Dryer Balls and Young Living Essential Oils

Tonight I replaced my fabric softener sheets with Wool Dryer Balls.  There are many brands of these out there, and I'm not proclaiming one as the best.  The brand I chose was Woolzies, and they claim to soften naturally, REDUCE DRYING TIME BY 25%, help eliminate wrinkles, reduce static, save energy, noise free and 100% safe for people with wool allergies.  Sounds good to me.  Particularly the chemical free, and energy reduction part.  If you have a husband who has spent the time to calculate the approximate cost of each load of laundry you dry, then you understand my excitement here.  In case your wondering, it's approximately $2-3 per load with my dryer, and I think about that every time I twist the knob to the start position.

In my research, there are a few interesting facts and suggestions I have come across that I though I'd share with you all...

1. The store bought fabric softener that is Lavender scented contains NO real lavender - only chemicals blended to make your mind think it smells lavender.  
2. In one scientific study, it was found that commercial fabric softeners produce mixtures of chemicals that can cause reactions such as sensory irritation, pulmonary irritation and reduction of midexpiratory airflow velocity.  Seriously! See more here.
3. Because Young Living Essential Oils are 100% therapeutic grade, when you place lavender on your wool dryer balls - you are really experiencing lavender.  Not only that, you are smelling lavender that was steam distilled from the flowering plants grown at the Young Living farms in Simiane-la-Rotunde, France and Mona, Utah.  Lavender has a refreshing, relaxing scent with balancing properties that also calm the mind and body. I don't know about you, but I want that on my clothes and on my kid's clothes!
4. After adding Young Living Essential Oil to the Wool Dryer Balls, run them through the dryer alone or in a close pillow case for the first use to ensure no oil spots on your clothes.  One run through, and they will be safe to use.

I had an intense internal struggle when trying to decide which of my Young Living Essential Oils was going to go on these dryer balls first.  I narrowed it down to two...Lavender and Stress Away.

And then Stress Away won.  Ahhhhh....the wonderful experience of pure  Copaiba, Lime, Cedarwood, Vanilla, Lavender and Ocotea.  It is bliss.  

Here's how you do it.  Place 3-4 drops of Essential Oil on each dryer ball.  

That's it! :)

Happy Oiling! 

Lisa YL # 2139910

For more information, join my Facebook Group, leave a comment or send an email to youngliving.lisaanstey@gmail.com .  

April Giveaway!

April's giveaway is going to be a bottle of Peace and Calming. This oil is a favourite for those who need to calm, and be still for a few moments. It's absolutely fantastic in a bath soak or scrub, as those who came to our last Make N Take party would testify! How to win this bottle of Peace and Calming? 

First of all you need to be a member of my Facebook group - Lisa's Young Living Oils!

This month I'm giving you 2 ways to win - Sign up for a Young Living Wholesale account at www.youngliving.com/lanstey09 and make a minimum $50 purchase, OR if you already have a Young Living account under me then refer a friend or family member and when they create a Young Living Wholesale account and make a purchase over $50, both you and the person you referred will be entered!

It's a win-win!

Lisa YL # 2139910

DIY - Thieves Antibacterial Spray

Thieves Essential Oil was what originally made me love Young Living and it's products.  To set the scene, I was living at Ronald Mcdonald House Toronto with my husband and son while we waited to hear if he would receive a much needed gastronomy feeding tube, and then my son (who has a single ventricle heart defect) starting sneezing, coughing and having a runny nose.  Immediately we knew that this would delay any surgery, which would be incredibly frustrating because we live four provinces away and had left our daughter at home with her grandparents.  I expressed this frustration to another Mom with a Heart Warrior living at Ronald Mcdonald House, and she told me about Thieves.  I was skeptical - my daily cleaning repertoire was mr. clean, lysol and hand sanitizer.  But I took a leap and tried it...She lent me her diffuser and put the Thieves spray into it for me...and 24 hours later - Jake was no longer getting sick.  I ignored our tight budget and bought the Premium Starter Kit from Young Living, and began my own journey with Essential Oils.

Thieves has always been my favourite Essential Oil, as anyone who has talked to me about the oils can attest - I have such great enthusiasm for the product and what it can do for you and your family's health.  To tell you about Thieves, I have to backtrack to the 1300's and the Bubonic Plague that wiped out 30-60% of Europe's population.  Yes, you read that right - the 14th century AD.  As the legend goes, during the Bubonic Plague there were a band of thieves who were robbing the dead and sick.  When they were caught, they were offered leniency if they shared their secret for having contact with those afflicted by the plague without becoming sick themselves.  Their secret was a recipe for Four Thieves Vinegar.  Yes, it's a legend - but as a History major I can tell you that within most legends there is truth to be found.  

Young Living's Thieves Essential Oil contains clove, cinnamon bark, rosemary, lemon and eucalyptus (E. radiata). It is a powerful blend that has many household and personal uses.  The uses for this essential oil are so varied that it will take more than one post to cover them.  Thieves spray has proven to kill 99.96% of almost every microbe presented to it - including airbourne bacteria, virus, staph, strep and pneumonia. This post is to introduce you to the amazing, 3 ingredient DIY Thieves Antibacterial Cleaner.  I use this cleaner all over my house, and feel so comfortable using it around my kids that I even spray my 2 year old's high chair tray with it.  

Thieves has been investigated for it's power against toxic mold.  In 2005 a mold remediation expert, Dr. Edward Close used the power of Thieves in a household where the strongest existing mold remedies had failed to remove the mold.  He discovered through diffusing the Thieves and measuring the mold spores at each 24 hour interval, that after 72 hours of diffusing all mold spores had been eradicated.  Here were his results:

• From 10,667 mold spores on a test spot, to 13 after 48 hours of diffusing
• From 13 to 0 mold spores on the same test spot after 72 hours of diffusing

Dr. Close followed this success with many more successful experiments and concluded that Thieves oil was the perfect treatment for toxic mold because of three factors: it was powerful, it was safe, and the effects were long-lasting - the mold spores continued to decrease for weeks after use.  

Thieves Essential Oil is a pure, unadulterated oil with no synthetics or fillers.  There are no ingredients except those named above - clove, cinnamon bark, rosemary, lemon and eucalyptus.  For this reason it has been approved for internal consumption in the United States, and I regularly use it in my tea or on a sore throat with spectacular results.  Please note that only YOUNG LIVING oils are safe to use topically, through aromatherapy, or internally.  No other Essential Oil company can compare to the Seed to Seal Guarantee.  

You are probably thinking...geez, this lady can go on and on about this Thieves oil.  So I'll get back to the point of this post - the Thieves Spray.  It's powerful, safe to use around your littlest family members or pets, and proven effective.  Still skeptical? Check this out.

To make this cleaner you need 3 ingredients and a reusable spray bottle.  I got my spray bottle for $4.99 at Bed, Bath and Beyond.  

Ingredients:

Young Living Thieves Essential Oil

Castile Soap (unscented)

Water

That's it!

Here's how you put it together for a super powerful, all natural and amazing smelling cleaner that you can feel good about using in your home.

1. Put one drop per ounce of water into the spray bottle.  If you want an extra powerful batch use one drop per half an ounce of water.  For my recipe I had 25 drops of Thieves for 25 ounces of water.

2.  Add your selected amount of water.  For example, if you did 25 drops of Thieves oil, then you need 25 ounces of water (or roughly 13 ounces for a super powerful batch)

3.  Add your castile soap - approximately 3 tablespoons for each cup of water.  In this recipe, 25 ounces of water is roughly 3 cups, so I needed 9 tablespoons of castile soap.

4.  Shake well before each use.



Spray, wipe, sniff, feel great about the non-toxic way you are cleaning your home.  I also use this spray to disinfect my kid's toys, and spray down their car seats and remove smell from our shoes.  There are probably 101 ways to use this spray, and I am daily discovering new ones.

I love it.  And you will too, if you take the leap to try it.  How do you get Thieves oil? You can purchase it here.  Please email me any questions at lisa.anstey@gmail.com and join my Facebook Group to stay updated.



Lisa
YL # 2139910