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doTERRA December News & Specials
DIY Gift-making LIVE Webinar: 7.45pm online next Wednesday 11 December. I'm excited to present our Essential Oil Holiday DIY gift-making webinar for anyone who couldn't get to one of our Gift-making workshops in person. I'll be presenting a live webinar along with Violet from Finding Health, and Samantha from Oil Tribe and friends. We'll be making 6 different gift ideas, and will send out all the recipes via email afterwards so you can go and make whatever you [...]
Diffuser Blends
⛄️🎄⛄️Gingerbread Cookies⛄️🎄⛄️ Currently diffusing. Have you tried a Christmas blend. Have you got Holiday Joy?! We love that and been diffusing it everyday this month. 2 drops Cinnamon Bark 2 drops Ginger 1 drop Clove 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Sleep & Nightmares #diy #firstaid
Dom had nightmares tonight. So he got out of bed and wanted to make up a rollerball blend. We looked up our book and made this. He’s asleep 5 minutes later! In a 10 ml rollerball: 3 Vetiver 3 Ylang Ylang 3 Balance Grounding Blend 3 Juniper Berry 3 Console Comforting Blend (we used this instead of Patchouli) Topped up with Fractionated Coconut oil Apply soles of feet, spine and pulse points.
Stain Removal with Essential Oils #diy #cleaning
Have you tried using your essential oils in the laundry?! Amazing results I’ll share more but today some Stain removing... Essential oils help break up any kind of stains because they are so potent. They also help freshen the stinky area by masking the smell with their own nice scents. The best essential oil for cleaning is lemon oil but other citrus essential oils, such as grapefruit, lime, mandarin, bergamot, etc can also be used. Other essential oils [...]
Essential Oil Gummies!! #recipes #gummies
So delicious and fun to make too. We made the chocolate ones with Cinnamon Bark and Wild Orange. The other ones with Lemon & Grapefruit. 😋😋😋 Recipes Super Easy Homemade Chocolate Gummies Love Heart Jellies
Back to School Wellness Protocol for Kids #diy #firstaid
Essentials oils aren’t going to stop you and your children getting sick ever again! But we have found that since using the oils we're not getting as sick as often and when we have got sick we're tending to get over it much faster than previously. We were using roller ball bottles but this was too ticklish for Dom so now we're using spritzer bottles. You can get these from various places - see comments. PREVENTION: With going [...]
Lower Tox Your Life: Foodie Edition #recipes #essential oils #blissballs
I had another go at these today so here is another recipe for bliss balls tweaked from yesterday’s. 😋😋 WILD ORANGE & CHOC BLISS BALLS A variation on the usual chocolate bliss balls that really creates an amazing taste sensation. (Also amazing with Peppermint essential oil). What you need: 2 cups of nuts (cashew + pecan or macadamia + walnuts are good combos but any nuts will work) 1 cup of dates, soaked hot water then drained (=approx [...]
Window Cleaner #diy #cleaning
What’s your favourite recipe for cleaning using the oils? Window Cleaner 10 Drops doTerra Lemon 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup white vingar
🌟Air Freshener #diy #cleaning
🌿1 cup baking soda in jar with lids holes punched (or cloth with rubber band good). 🌿10-20 drops essential oil - Lemongrass great otherwise Lemon or Lavender or another citrus. Then can use same mix to clean toilet with later with say tea tree and water + vinegar (see earlier post).
🐜🐛🐞Bug Off Spray 🐛 🐜 🐞 #diy #travel
Use 60mL spray bottle: 4 drops Cedarwood 4 drops Lavender 4 drops Lemongrass 4 drops Thyme 4 drops Peppermint Top with fractionated coconut oil. (Or you can use water but I prefer with the coconut oil to moisturise same time.) Spray on body to ward off bugs.
Purify Essential Oil #A-Z oils
When you spill left over brunch all through your bag. And it’s mince... Purify to the rescue. Just rinsed out and few drops into bag and good as new. You can use doTERRAs cleansing blend on dryer balls or in your washing. Just a few uses amongst many.
On Guard Sanitizing Mist #diy #firstaid
I got to try the new doTERRA sanitising mist last week and I really liked it so will get some when it comes out (available now from the States at the moment). Has anyone got this already? Some info about the doTERRA On Guard Sanitising Mist! It is infused with a natural apple extract, which naturally moisturizes your hands rather than leaving them dry like other sanitizers. Your hands will feel soft and smooth after each use. It [...]
Oils for the travelling! #diy #travel
What I bought with us on holiday. For those that have oils what are your must haves for travelling? For a trip I would take a diffuser if you can and also the following oils in mini drams as the neat oils so you can add to diffuser and then also take coconut oil so you can blend for topical application. But of course you can also make up roller balls - 10mL use 10-30 drops of oil [...]
Roast veggies for dinner tonight YUM!!
Who has doTerra Rosemary or Thyme Essential oil? You need to try it on roast veggies! I have mine ready in a 30ml spritzer... I have olive oil and about 3 drops of Rosemary 2 Thyme and I just spritz over our veggies. You can use as much or as little as you like but it only takes couple spritzes and then in the oven to roast! You can get the spritzers from Arthur Holmes or AromaTools.
Peppermint Chocolate Bliss Balls
Have you tried using essential oils in your food yet?! They create an amazing taste sensation. This recipe is also great with Wild Orange pure essential oil. ⭐️What you need: 2 cups of nuts (cashew + pecan or macadamia + walnuts are good combos but any nuts will work) 1 cup of dates, soaked hot water then drained (=approx 8-10 large Medjoul dates with stones removed) 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds 1/2 cup of desiccated coconut 1/4 [...]
Sign the petition to ditch the Health Star Rating System
We've launched a petition!!! Please sign the petition to show your support for petitions to the NZ and Australian Houses of Representatives to ditch the Health Star Rating System in both countries in favour of a much simpler visual depiction of how many teaspoons of sugar are in the product and more education on why and how to eat real food. We need your help to make a real difference. We've got a serious situation in children's health [...]
Nut Free Bliss Ball
Supermarket bought bliss balls are generally full of preservatives and refined sugar. Or where not with refined sugar still over 50% sugar with the high level of dried fruits. You can make bliss balls that are higher in fat and lower in sugar which is my preference but these are generally not so great in the lunchbox as they tend to melt. They do best kept in the freezer and used for home treats. So the trick is working [...]
Nut Free Muesli Bar (Paleo)
I've been experimenting for a while for a nut free, grain free, dairy free "muesli" bar that will hold together for the school lunches. This is the current best attempt so far. The challenges are that what holds most bars together is the grains and loads of sugar plus they're usually full of additives and preservatives including industrial seed oils like canola oil. If you're making for eating at home you can add in coconut oil or butter [...]
Blogging, boundaries & “being real” online.
An overdue letter. Hey there! Happy New Year! Yes I know I know - I’m a bit late on it. Seriously can you believe we’re almost into February 2017? The last year went so fast. But then I think that for many of us finishing up 2016 couldn’t come soon enough. I've been thinking a lot about New Year's resolutions. I used to be really into them but I found myself less enthused this year. I think it’s [...]
Christmas Pudding Bliss Balls
Yes crazy I'm actually doing a blog post with a new recipe - Christmas Pudding Bliss Balls! We're over here in the UK visiting with my Mum for Christmas. Must say a lot more of our traditional Christmas dishes make a lot more sense over here in the colder weather and somehow it DOES feel more Christmas-y. So here's a twist on the usual bliss balls for a bit of fun. They're a bit finicky but do look [...]
The Paleo Family Toolkit – Amazing Real Food Resource For Busy Parents
Hey everyone - our lunchbox eBook ("Lunches for Kids") is being featured in The Paleo Family Toolkit - an amazing real food resource for busy parents with a huge bundle of books, videos and discount coupons. This toolkit is way better than any other bundle I've seen before and I'm so excited to be a part of it. There's amazing content, huge value AND you get FREE STUFF without even making a purchase! Like a three part video series from [...]
Turkey Meatballs & Kale In Lemony Garlic Broth – Guest Recipe
Guess what? I’m not Claire. I’m Irena from Eat Drink Paleo and I am super excited to be here at Dom’s Kitchen sharing one of my recipes with you. I’ve known Claire for a while through our paleo/real food blogger community and I’m so happy to be able to say hi to all of you lovely readers. […]
NATURALLY NOOD BARS: An Open letter to Sanitarium from Dom’s Kitchen.
In this week's Sunday Soapbox I'm ranting about greenwashing in respect of the new Naturally Nood Bars from Sanitarium. We've seen it with Pepsi Next and Coke Life and well be seeing it a whole lot more. Just look at all the products marked "gluten free" that are free of gluten but are full of all other manner of undesirable ingredients. Before getting into my little rant though I wanted to make the point that I absolutely get [...]
Love Heart Jellies
Dom and I made these Love Heart Gelatine Gummies today as we started off going to make a lemon and honey drink for my cough but then got idea to make these. So easy! Gelatine is According the information I’ve read the list of benefits associated with gelatine (or gelatin as it's also called) are far ranging and include supporting healthy skin, hair and nail growth, helping joint and joint recovery, improving digestion and so on. And aside from [...]
A healthy holistic lifestyle program that ticks all the boxes!
A genuinely holistic and sustainable 9 week healthy lifestyle program. There are so many programs out there promising rapid weight loss, radiant skin and ripped abs in weeks. I'm sure you've even tried one or more of them. But the usual thing is that we either give up before the end (because they're impossible to comply with) or, even if we finish them, the results are temporary because the focus was on short term gains and we quickly slide back into old [...]