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Detoxify Your Life With Essential Oils
Uses of Essential Oils

In addition to using Essential oils for many minor health issues they can also be used throughout the house and/or office to disinfect and deodorize surfaces, clean the air and calm or energize the inhabitants.

There are many oils that can do all of the above or you can choose different oils to do each. The citrus oils have antiseptic qualities. The essential oil of both lemon and orange are antibacterial, antifungal, and antiseptic. Orange also has anti-depressant properties. 

Want to quit smoking: 
1)Use Black Pepper - sniff oils 4 times - several times a day - whenever you get a craving for a cigarette.  

2)Mix 10 drops thyme, 10 drops Ylang-Ylang, 20 drops pine with massage oil and apply to body or enjoy the smell.

3)  For smoke-filled rooms - Add a few drops of Lemon, Tea Tree, Cypress or Lavender to water in a spray bottle and use as an air freshener.

Lemon Oil is a great grease cutter; add a few drops to your dishwater  - also a disinfectant.

To disinfect the air in your home especially during/after an illness add Eucalyptus, Lemon, Tea Tree, Rosemary mix with distilled water and spray throughout your house; add to water when washing floors. Diffuse Lemon oil to help kill bacteria such as menningococcus, typhus, pneumococcus, staphylococcus and streptococcus.

Use Lemon or Grapefruit essential oil, possibly with a touch of Tea Tree oil added, in the water you clean with. Wipe down kitchen counters and your bathroom with these cleansing, germicidal oils. Lemon Oil in water does a wonderful job cleaning the bathroom mirror, as well as all the fixtures.

Flies and moths dislike Lavender oil. Sprinkle it on the outside of your window frames.

One drop of Lemon essential oil on a soft cloth will polish copper with a gentle buffing

Put a few drops of your favourite essential oil on cotton ball and place it in your vacuum cleaner bag.  Lemon and Pine are nice.  Geranium helps with pet odours. 

Shoes can be freshened by either dropping a few drops of Geranium essential oil directly into the shoes or by placing a cotton ball dabbed with a few drops of Lemon oil into the shoes.

Athlete's Foot - Toe Nail Fungus - 2 drops of tea tree and 1 drop lavender.  Dip cotton ball in mixture and smear between toes and around nails.

Are mice a problem? Place several drops of Peppermint oil on a cotton ball and place at problem locations.

The bathroom is easily scented by placing oil-scented cotton balls in inconspicuous places, or sprinkle oils directly onto silk or dried flower arrangements or wreaths.

Bacterial Elimination:  Cinnamon, Clove, Lemon, Eucalyptus (this essential oil actually becomes more powerful with age), Lavender, Pine, Thyme, Grapefruit, Lime, Neways All-purpose cleaning spray:  Clean Spray Bottle, 1 oz Distilled Water, 20 drops of a single or any combination of the above oils. Shake the bottle often as you use throughout the house. Remember, Essential Oils and water do not mix.  Keep this by the kitchen sink, use instead of the bathroom "wipes", spray your doorknobs, telephones etc.

Please do not use Lysol Spray ... Read the ingredients and precautions on the label!

Warts - 1 drop of Tea Tree or Lemon essential oil applied directly to a wart is an effective means of elimination. Apply the essential oil daily until the wart is gone.

Memory - Rosemary promotes alertness and stimulates memory.  Inhale occasionally during long car trips and while reading or studying.  Do not use Rosemary if you have high blood pressure.

Six to eight drops of Eucalyptus oil in the bath cools the body in summer and protects in winter.

Office: 
The blend of Lavender and Grapefruit oil is good for the office. Lavender creates a calm tranquil atmosphere while Grapefruit stimulates the senses and clears up stale air.

To blend your own massage oil, add 3-5 drops of your favourite essential oil to 1 oz Mixing Oil, Sweet Almond or other skin- nourishing vegetable oil

Bronchitis: 
Add 12 drops eucalyptus oil, 5 drops peppermint oil and 5 drops of thyme oil to 1-ounce vegetable oil such as olive oil.  Gently massage onto your chest and throat several times a day.  You can also place the 2-3 drops of the above oils on a tissue and place inside the pillowcase during the night. Also, Neways Respire Blend is wonderful for colds, bronchitis, and flu.

Deodorant: 
Geranium mixed with lotion or mixing oil makes a great underarm deodorant.

Fever:
To make a fever wash:  add 5 drops lavender oil to every cup of cold water and use this to wash off or sponge down the hands and feet or the entire body.

Sore throat
Steam:  lavender, tea tree, or eucalyptus will help keep throat from being strained and fend off laryngitis.  To make a gargle:  Add 3 drops tea tree oil (or cardamom, clary sage, benzoin, rose, rosemary, sandalwood, or bergamot) to 1/4 cup cold water or apple cider vinegar and 1/4 tsp salt dissolved in it.  Gargle with this several times a day and then spit out.

Common cold: 
(a) Bath - 2 drops each thyme & tea tree, 1-drop eucalyptus, 3 drops lemon.  Add these oils to a bath gel then add to hot bath water.  Lie back and inhale deeply. 

(b) Massage: 1 drop lemon, 2 drops eucalyptus, 3 drops rosemary, 1 tsp carrier oil.  Mix well and apply around the chest, neck and sinus area (forehead, nose and cheekbones) 

(c) Steam inhalation method:  1 drop each of tea tree, lavender,
 thyme, and clove.  Mix oils with hot water.  Cover head with towel and lean over water about 10 inches from bowl and with eyes closed, breathe deep through your nose for about 1- 2 minutes.  

Coughs
Dry - Mix2 drops each of eucalyptus and lemon, 2 tbs. honey. Take 1 tsp. and dilute in a wine glass with warm water.  Sip slowly.  Massage over the back and chest:  3 drops eucalyptus, 2 drops thyme and 1 tsp carrier oil.  For steam inhalation use:  3 drops lavender              (c)2002 Judy Tovey

USES OF ESSENTIAL OILS