Review by Janet @ Frugal & Focused, *NEW* Contributing Writer 

On the 10th day of Christmas, day2day joys gave to me…

A warm and woody essential oil blend from dōTERRA that promotes a sense of relaxation just in time for the busy holiday season.  This airy, fresh blend evokes feelings of tranquility and balance.

 dōTERRA  produces and sells therapeutic grade essential oils as well as oil blends and other healthy living products.   The company is revolutionizing the way families manage their health by harnessing nature’s most powerful elements. 
 dōTERRA essential oils are high quality CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade^®. They are sold through individual Wellness Advocates who introduce, educate, and sell the products in their local market. 

They provide educational opportunities for all people interested in learning how therapeutic-grade essential oils can be used as a self-care wellness alternative. More and more people are using essential oils to manage everyday health concerns naturally.

Features of dōTERRA Balance Grounding Blend

• a blend of five different essential oils
• promotes a whole body sense of relaxation
• may help anxious feelings
• evokes feelings of tranquility and balance
• smells great
• can be applied topically or used aromatically

Now for my review:

I was given a bottle of dōTERRA Balance essential oil blend by Holly, a Wellness Advocate. I have used other brands of essential oils but this was my first time to try dōTERRA. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the quality of their products and was excited to give it a try.

The timing was perfect to receive this oil as I had just returned home from a five day trip two days before Thanksgiving. I certainly needed a little balance in my life at that point. I began applying it topically.

My first application was to my wrists and neck in hopes it would help me relax a bit as I made the transition from the trip to preparing for Thanksgiving. After that, I began applying it twice a day on the bottom of my feet. I even diffused it on a particularly busy day.

Since I began using this oil, I feel noticeably calmer. Even after a poor night’s sleep, when I usually feel frazzled and unfocused, I found I was focused and able to stay on task. The Balance Grounding Blend is quickly moving to the top of my list of favorite oils!

What I Liked:

1. It smells great.
2. It’s a natural way to manage feelings of stress and anxiety.
3. It’s safe for my whole family to use.
4. It can be use topically or aromatically.
5. You notice results almost immediately.
6. It’s a high quality product.

What I didn’t Like:

1. Nothing!

You can Buy It!

Go to Holly’s dōTERRA site and learn more about the Balance Grounding Blend,see all the products available, and try them for yourself! You can also connect with Holly on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+.

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Disclaimer: I, Janet, was given the product to review with my fair and honest opinions. If you would like more info or to have a product reviewed, please contact Rachel.

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Written by Kari, Contributing Writer

Sometimes certain subjects aren’t exciting to talk about, but they affect our lives in more ways than we know. One of those is snoring. Yes, snoring and this is something that I have had to deal with in my 15 years of marriage. After 15 years of trying almost every way to eliminate this problem, it is FINALLY solved and we’ve had two months of snore-free nights. Now, I want to share with you how we got to this amazing place of peaceful and restful sleep – naturally!

First, lets look at some realistic statistics on this topic:

•  30% of people 30 or older snore
•  40% of people 40 or older snore
•  19% of adult females snore
•  59% of people who say their partner snores
•  5.6% of children snore habitually
•  28% of people who say they experience sleep apnea
•  38 decibels – the average decibel level of a snore
•  Approximately 9% of all men and 4% of all women between the ages of 30 and 60 are affected by sleep apnea.
•  Sleep apnea may occur in as much as 20 to 40 percent of the adult population that are snorers.
•  The partner of someone afflicted with sleep apnea loses approximately one hour of sleep per evening and may wake up as many as 21 times per hour, a side-effect of apnea known as “Spousal Arousal Syndrome”.
•  People that are suffering from obstructive sleep apnea are as much as six times more likely to be involved in a car crash then those without sleep disorders. This is due to the fact that they are drowsy from the condition.
•  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drowsy driving is responsible for at least 100,000 automobile crashes as well as 1,550 fatalities per year.

Now that we know this, isn’t it time we do something about it? On top of it, do something about it naturally.

Many of you already know the wonderful benefits of using therapeutic grade essential oils. Now, for me, I was always skeptical when it came to the properties of essential oils, although I’ve used them over the course of the past 22 years – mostly just for the scent, not the health benefits.

A few months ago, I came to a point I was pretty fed up with my husband’s snoring. Not fed up with my husband, but with the nearly sleepless nights I was getting because of this issue. Not only that – but sleep apnea had become a part of this issue, which is never fun. Laying awake at night, listening to the person you love stop breathing for short periods of time, waiting to hear them start breathing again. I also knew how this was affecting him. Read the statistics above if you need a reminder.

As a last resort, I asked a friend who used essential oils if there were any known oils that would help with snoring issues. She went through her book and gave me the names of some oil blends that were said to help eliminate snoring. I went ahead and ordered them along with the handbook, still skeptical, but desperate for something to work. Something that wouldn’t involve pills, surgery or machines.

Before we began applying the oils, I read through the essential oils handbook twice to make sure I had knowledge before blindly slathering therapeutic grade oils over my husband. I learned the why and how of using oils, the application, the cautions and everything I needed to know to understand why these should work.

Finally, the experimenting again. That’s how I looked at it – an experiment and I only gave it a week. I didn’t even jump in with both feet – I guess I was just hoping for the best and going for it.

Well, long story short, I began applying these 3 oil blends alternately (very important when using blends) every night on my husband’s chest and back and I am happy to say that we have had two months of snore-free nights! At first I thought it was a fluke, so we decided to stop using the oils for a couple nights, but the snoring returned, so we went back to using the oil blends.

Since seeing the results personally of using therapeutic grade essential oils, I pulled out all the books and information I’ve collected over the past 22 years and have had my nose in those books drinking in everything I’ve overlooked all these years. I am now also taking classes through a highly respectable certification program and have become a distributor of certified therapeutic grade essential oils through a non-MLM company.

I chose this company because it was the brand I first used and saw results with and I liked the fact that I can offer them to my clients a lower price than those from other companies since all middle men are removed. They are a wonderful, small company that sells high quality, therapeutic grade essential oils that work wonderfully!

If you would like to try to get some much needed rest in your home, you can take the steps we took and purchase our “Quiet Nights ~ Stop The Snoring Kit”! The kit is already a savings of 25% and you can get an extra 15% off by using the coupon code STOPSNORINGNOW!

We hope you find much success in using these oils as we did!

What are your favorite essential oil blends for natural remedies?

statistics gathered from:
http://www.exploringsnoring.com/snoring-statistics/
http://www.statisticbrain.com/snoring-statistics/

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Guest Post by Sara of Your Thriving Family

We have dealt with a lot eczema with my oldest daughter. To keep it in check, and to help all the cuts and scrapes little kids get I turned to some more natural ways to do bath time. I have bought most every commercial eczema solution available. And after six years of this, I now use good old epsom salt, castille soap and a few essential oils.

I recently started buying our salts at the feed store, it is the cheapest I have found and it is safe to feed to animals, looks the same as the small bags at the store as well. I use the baby mild unscented Dr. Bronner’s soap. Just a small squirt in the tub will do ya!

To that I add 3 drops each of lavender oil and melaleuca oil. Occasionally I will add a few drops of jojoba, almond or rose hip oil as well – depending on how inflamed the children’s skin is. If it is really bad, I rub some coconut oil into the problem areas before getting them into the bathtub.

A note on the essential oils to use . . . since this is being used topically be sure to use a quality oil. The cheaper, often less pure, oils can burn skin which defeats putting them in the bath in the first place. Personally I have chosen to use this brand for anything I am putting on or in our bodies. The others I use for cleaning and for bug spray.

Then, I let them play and soak away! The longer they play, the better for their skin! And the more I get done

I have also eliminated any bath toys that retain water. Ones that cannot totally dry out can house many kinds of bacteria and irritate skin, or even make your little ones sick if they decide it is fun to squirt it in their mouths!

We use homemade soap now, as well and what I lovingly call Owie Balm after our bath, along with normal lotion. Our next step is to start making our own shampoo.

This routine doesn’t heal the eczema but it keeps it under control. There are always underlying reasons for irritations. It may be something as simple as the commercial products you are using, whether it be soap, lotion or laundry detergent. If you have eliminated all these it may be dietary.

For my daughter we found the solution to be our laundry detergent. We’ve been using a eco-friendly brand for more than 4 years and things have completely cleared up. Though she is still sensitive to lots of things, as is our youngest, it is best to get on top of those as soon as you see them!

What sorts of things do you add to your bath water?

Sara is a mama to three precious gifts and wife to a man who lovingly calls her “his nutter.” She started pushing her family into real food a few months after she started blogging. They will forever be on the road to real food and natural health.
Balancing art and logic in her daily life and work, God’s balance of creation and healing is quite clear to her. She loves creating, experimenting, and learning. Whether it be food, health or crafting. She is navigating her family through healthy frugality – trying to THRIVE, not merely survive this life. She shares this journey at Your Thriving Family. You can also connect with her on Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook.

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