It's dry January - no alcohol for a whole month and with the focus being on 'health and diet' I got drawn into looking at EO's (essential oils). Not the greatest reason I admit, there was no great revelation or lightening bolt from above I just felt like giving it a go. I have been dabbling for a couple of weeks now but so far I have had fairly disappointing results with EO's even though I desperately wanted them to work so I have decided to document my 'trials and tribulations' (although alas there aren't many of the latter so far) in the hope that A) they might be of use to someone else and B) some diehard EO users may be able to tell me where I am going wrong.
I did buy a couple of essential oils two years ago, some lavender, grapefruit, rosemary, lemongrass and sweet orange, I didn't know or pay any attention to what I was buying at the time, I bought them based on their smell because I wanted to make a body scrub from coconut oil and sugar. The body scrub was a great success not only did it smell amazing but my skin was beautifully soft too. After this little experiment I promised myself I would make home made body scrubs for my friends and family for Christmas but I never got round to it so my oils stayed in their dark little box in the cupboard.
Last December my chocolate Labrador had some health problems and had to attend the vets for a serious of appointments and she completely freaked out, she was uncontrollable and petrified, an old family friend of mine on facebook had just started her own homoeopathic site for dogs and she recommended to me to try some very diluted lavender on the tips of Coco's ears before we visited the vets next time and I must say I think it helped, a little anyway. After that I purchased a bag of homeopathic goodies from my friend at 'Mr Slobberchops' in which I got some lavender essential oil, cloudy cider vinegar, slippery elm powder, coconut oil and other stuff and after researching some of these products and reading how much additives and bad stuff that are in our everyday products I got interested in making my own human 'potions' which is where 'My oil trip' begins.
Over the last few weeks I have been buying a steady stream of EO's and butters and pinning EO recipes madly on Pinterest and looking for recipes for skin problems, I haven't mentioned that yet have I? I have a couple of really irritating dermatitis/eczema patches, one under my right arm, one on my lower back and the other on the palm of my right hand They are not a huge big deal but they flare up when I'm stressed or hot and itch like buggery!. I have had various steroid creams in the past but nothing has worked so I thought I would make my own eczema cream.
I did buy a couple of essential oils two years ago, some lavender, grapefruit, rosemary, lemongrass and sweet orange, I didn't know or pay any attention to what I was buying at the time, I bought them based on their smell because I wanted to make a body scrub from coconut oil and sugar. The body scrub was a great success not only did it smell amazing but my skin was beautifully soft too. After this little experiment I promised myself I would make home made body scrubs for my friends and family for Christmas but I never got round to it so my oils stayed in their dark little box in the cupboard.
Last December my chocolate Labrador had some health problems and had to attend the vets for a serious of appointments and she completely freaked out, she was uncontrollable and petrified, an old family friend of mine on facebook had just started her own homoeopathic site for dogs and she recommended to me to try some very diluted lavender on the tips of Coco's ears before we visited the vets next time and I must say I think it helped, a little anyway. After that I purchased a bag of homeopathic goodies from my friend at 'Mr Slobberchops' in which I got some lavender essential oil, cloudy cider vinegar, slippery elm powder, coconut oil and other stuff and after researching some of these products and reading how much additives and bad stuff that are in our everyday products I got interested in making my own human 'potions' which is where 'My oil trip' begins.
Over the last few weeks I have been buying a steady stream of EO's and butters and pinning EO recipes madly on Pinterest and looking for recipes for skin problems, I haven't mentioned that yet have I? I have a couple of really irritating dermatitis/eczema patches, one under my right arm, one on my lower back and the other on the palm of my right hand They are not a huge big deal but they flare up when I'm stressed or hot and itch like buggery!. I have had various steroid creams in the past but nothing has worked so I thought I would make my own eczema cream.
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