As someone who really trusts the natural way of living, you would think that I would be an expert on essential oils by now. You would be wrong. Somehow, I’d never really tried essential oils before. People all around me raved about how wonderful they were but I just never got motivated enough to give them a shot. The “me now” is certainly scolding the “me then”! doTERRA is life.
Last year, I began getting frequent headaches but since I’m still nursing, I would attempt a mild over-the-counter pain reliever and a caffeinated beverage. Those are two things that aren’t exactly healthy options and certainly shouldn’t be used on a regular basis because your organs aren’t big fans of either one. I received my doTERRA Essential Oils but even then, I wasn’t sure about what they really were for. I was really taking this precious (as in Gollum “my precious!”) for granted.
One day I complained about the headaches to my best friend, an avid DoTerra user, and she asked if I had peppermint oil. I said, “I think I just got that!” and grabbed my 3-pack of essential oils. She told me to draw lines with it on my neck. Skeptically, I tried it. The first thing I noticed is that it smelled fantastic. Within minutes, my headache was gone and I was actually astonished. She kept on telling me, “I told you so!”
I immediately became such an advocate for doTERRA Essential Oils that you would think I sell the stuff (I don’t!). My other best friend was complaining about her migraines and I insisted that she at least give the peppermint oil a try. She was just as surprised to discover that it massively decreased her migraines when even her prescription medicines weren’t doing the trick! It’s like MAGIC!!
I received the doTERRA Introductory Kit which contains the peppermint oil, lavender, and lemon. Aside from the headache magic, the peppermint can be ingested to help calm an upset stomach, added to shampoo and conditioner, or used to make your own toothpaste and mouthwash. (Find the toothpaste and mouthwash recipes on Pinterest, my husband’s uncle makes his own and loves it!)
You can add the lemon to your water, use it with honey to soothe a sore throat, or to clean the kitchen! Mix it with other oils to make your own natural bug repellent. Dilute the lemon oil in water and utilize it when cutting apples to keep the edges from your apples from turning brown! It can be used for allergies, weight loss, hair, skin, and nail care, and so many other things!
(It may not be a good idea to use citric oils in plastic, although I had no issues!)
When I had severe sunburn, I tried applying the lavender oil on it. Not only did it decrease the pain but I noticed that the redness lessened as well. It can be used after you wax your eyebrows to calm down the skin irritation. Actually, it’s really beneficial for calming nearly anything! It can relax your mind, your skin, your chapped lips, irritated scalp, basically anything you can think of!
All of these oils can be diffused in an oil diffuser and combining them with other oils can change up their purpose. I feel like the uses are endless. I went over to my best friends and got a peek at her doTERRA Essential Oils collection and she explained to me a bunch of what each oil could be used for. There were tons of answers for each oil alone, plus whatever that oil could be combined with to do other things.
She rubbed some of the oils on my daughter’s stomach when she was dealing with severe constipation and my daughter said it really helped with the stomach ache. I’ve already told my husband that this stuff was so beneficial that it’s going to be added to our monthly budget until I have everything they offer and he agreed after seeing how happy they were making me! These oils can help me with pain and boo-boos, illness, relaxation, focus…I feel like the only thing they aren’t going to help me with is laundry. Oh no wait, you can use them as laundry detergent too. I’m so excited about doTERRA!
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THE GIVEAWAY:
One (1) winner will receive a doTERRA gift pack!
This gift pack contains:
an essential oil bag
roller bottles for easy application
5ml wild orange essential oil
OnGuard toothpaste
Deep Blue Rub for sore muscles
essential oil beginners guide
Open to US only. Ends 3/31
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love to give the lavender a try thankyou, ken
I use lavender the most there are lots I haven’t tried, that I would like to try.
I’m fairly new to the world of essential oils but of the three I’d love the lemon oil.
I love lavender and peppermint oil! 🙂
The citrus ones are incredible – lemon, lime, wild orange
Awesome!!
Lemon
I have tried eucalyptus, and i really want to try peppermint.
I could really use that Peppermint to try for headaches. I had no idea that it could be used for that.
I love lavender. I use it in my diffuser it’s heaven.
I love tea tree and peppermint oil.
Lemongrass, Lavender and Peppermint! Thanks for the chance to win!
Peppermint is great for fatigue.
I’d like to try the Sweet Orange because I was told it is beneficial for giving you energy (which I need extra).
I would like to try the peppermint!
lavender and peppermint oil are the oil I would love to try.
my favorite is Lavender, I call it the swiss army knife of essential oils it is great for everything. I just started using oils, there is so much to learn!
Love lavender!
I love lavender, thank you so much! Your blog is the best.
I want to try Peppermint
I love lavender oil. I put it on my son’s pillow to help him sleep at night.
I love the peppermint, would like to try some of the calming blends.
Because I love they’re products. Thank you very much.m
I want to try lavender, I HEAR that’s good for anxiety–I HAVE ALOT OF THAT!
Lavender for stress and orange for revitalizing
Would love to try lavender
I would love to try orange, and lavendar.
I love tea tree oil. It’s great.
Tea Tree oil is great for cleaning
I would love to try the Breathe and DigestZen essential oils. My favorite essential oils are Peppermint and Tea Tree because of the many ways you can use them.
I love Tangerine essential oil, and I really want to try Neroli next.
I am new to essential oils but I’m learning that they are awesome 4 natural living and healing I recommend them to everybody that I know and I still don’t know all their uses. I would love to win this pack
I’ve used eucalyptus to help when congested but haven’t tried anything else. Would love to try!
I want to try rose oil
I love sage
I have never tried lavender oil. I think it may be relaxing.
I want the lemon to drop into my water!
I have a connective tissue disorder and one of the side effects is sever migranes. My friend with the same disoder as me swears by rubbing peppermint oil on the temples! I’d love to try it.
I love Tea Tree and Lavender essential oils.
I would love to try tea tree oil and lemon.
Love to try the lavender
I love the Peppermint. Not to put on myself, but now that the warmer weather will (hopefully) be here, I use it keep bugs out of the house. Especially spiders, (UGH!) they hate it. Better to use natural oils than poisonous sprays!
My sister recently turned me onto Thieves oil, which reminds me to go spritz my freshly laundered linens.
I love orange for cleaning and peppermint for headaches! I would love to try everything else 🙂
Lavendar and peppermint would be great!
I love lavender. Want to try the Deep Blue rub for my RA.
Thanks for the contest.
I use peppermint oil to open my sinus, I put a few drops in my hands rub together in palms a sniff. It works!
I have been wanting to try essential oils for a while but thought you needed a diffuser. I had no clue that you could shrink them or use them for so many different things. I guess I really need to find out the benefits of each one besides the things I know like lavender is for relaxing.
I would love to try the lavender oil and the tea tree DuTerra oils.
lavender is so restful
I love lavender.
My all-time favorite EO is lavender. I find it has so many uses for me.
I would love to try the Lemon. thanks for the chance!
I like using eucalyptus and peppermint on my temples when I have a headache.
I have never tried essential oils, but I would like to try the lemon and peppermint.
I love lemon! There is so much you can do with it and I feel like that is the one scent I am always purchasing!
lavender is my favorite
I would love to try the lavender as I have heard so many great things about this oil.
I love citrus and lavender.
I want to try lavender, lemon, and peppermint.
Peppermint for a pick me up!!
I would like to try out the peppermint and the lavender oil
Oregano Oil is my favorite “Powerhouse” oil!
I’d like to try them all and see what works. I haven’t used essential oils before
I use in my tub and in a diffuser
My favorites are Orange, Bergamot and Tea Tree.
I would really like to try the peppermint oil.
I’d like to try cedar, frankinsense and sweet orange
I would love to try peppermint.
I have not met an essential oil that I didn’t like. Lavender is a favorite as the scent is wonderful. I also love tea tree as it has so many great ways to use it.
i love lavender
I’d love to try peppermint oil
I love my tea tree essential oil and I use it a lot to make face masks, along with peppermint. 🙂 Thank you for the great review & giveaway!
Deep Blue is my favorite oil. I would like to try lavender
I love peppermint and lavender oil .
I love lavender oil!!
We use a lot of Breathe at home!
I want to try lavender to calm myself
Lavender is my favorite.
i want to try the lavender and the lemon
I deal with migraines daily and I heard peppermint would be extremely helpful. Then Lavender would be a game changer at helping me sleep! 🙂
I love Lavender and Peppermint Essential Oils.
I like anything lavender as it relaxes me.
I would love to try the peppermint. I have been suffering with a terrible headache for almost 2 weeks !!!! Tired of taking advil,tylenol and motrin!
I would like to try the lemon.
I would like to try lemon oil.
I would love to try the lemon oil.
I would like to try lemon.
Peppermint is my favorite. I use it for everything.
I would love to try both the peppermint and the lavender.
I love peppermint! Life saving since I have migraines
I love peppermint for migraines.
I love peppermint
I want to try orange.
My absolute favorite ( so far) is Lemon! so many uses and cleaning with it makes my place smell amazing!
I love lavender oil and also Melaleuca oil is very useful!
I want to try peppermint oil for headaches.