Here are a few recipes created by Mardi Drewski, the first when we were unable to order the Thieves Hand Soap. The second recipe for my Dad, who likes Eucalyptus and it made a great Christmas Gift for him. Besides, when you look at the properties of Eucalyptus and Rosemary, there’s a whole deeper level of appreciation for this gift besides the scent.

HOMEMADE Anti-Microbial Foaming Soap

10 dr.               Lemon

30 dr.               Thieves

10 dr.               Orange

HOMEMADE Eucalyptus Rosemary Foaming Soap

20 dr.               Eucalyptus

5 dr.               Rosemary

Abundance would be a wonderful blend to make foaming soap

Gratitude, Believe, Joy, Evergreen Essence…

Also,

Lavender / Peppermint

Lavender / Geranium

Melaleuca / Geranium

Lemon / Sandalwood

Lemon / Lavender

Lemon / Peppermint

Lemon / Rosemary

Lemon / Spruce

Juniper / Peppermint

Lavender / Ylang Ylang

Check out the Desk Reference, follow your heart’s intuition and your nose… have fun! Develop your own signature scent to use at your place of business, spa… etc.

* Therapeutic grade essential oils from Young Living are suitable and appropriate for the above applications. They may be used topically, diffused or inhaled and are approved by the FDA as “GRAS” and for use as a dietary supplement. These oils contain beneficial chemistry against bacteria and undesirable strains.

EO’s from bath shops and natural foods stores are often perfume grade, thus may not yield therapeutic results and should never be taken internally. Perfume grade oils have been rendered toxic by the distillation method, fillers, chemical extractants, etc. and may cause adverse reactions.

• Lavender
• Helichrysum
• Frankincense
• Thyme
• Idaho Balsam Fir
• Purification
• Thieves

By learning about these oils, you will understand why they are the ones to have on hand.

Lavender:

In the book Essential Oils Desk Reference we learn of Lavender’s ability to regenerate tissue in the healing of burns, and other wounds; helps relieve sunburn, including the lips; is calming, relaxing, and balancing–both physically and emotionally.

It is antiseptic, antifungal, analgesic and anti-inflammatory. Lavender is considered a universal oil. If in doubt, use Lavender. It can be applied to the Vita Flex Points and directly on the Area of concern.

Helichrysum:

When asked if he could only have three oils with him on a desert island, what would they be?

Dr. Gary Young said, “Lavender, Helichrysum & Frankincense.

Some medical properties for the use of Helichrysum include it being an anticoagulant; anesthetic; anti-spasmodic; antiviral; a liver protectant; for skin conditions; a detoxifier; and aids in the regeneration of nerves.

It stops pain. It is uplifting to the subconscious, and can calm anger. It can be applied to the Vita Flex Points, and directly to areas of concern, and can be used with a diffuser.

Frankincense:

There are at least 52 references to Frankincense in the Bible. Biblical physicians considered it valuable for “every conceivable illness” known to man. Its value was greater than gold.

Medical properties:
antitumoral; immuno-stimulant; antidepressant; muscle relaxing. It is used for depression, cancer, respiratory infections, & inflammation. It increases spiritual awareness; improves attitude and uplifts spirits.

It can be applied to the chakras/Vita Flex points, can be directly inhaled, diffused, or taken as a dietary supplement.

Thyme:

Historically, Thyme has been used medically for over 1700 years. It was used by ancient Egyptians in the treatment of infectious diseases. As an essential oil, it is considered anti-aging; highly anti-microbial; antifungal; antiviral; and antiparasitic.

It is used for infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, hepatitis, and may be beneficial in helping overcome fatigue and exhaustion after illness. It is especially useful for strep type sore throats. Thyme is a very potent, and often used with an appropriate carrier oil.

It should be avoided during pregnancy, and used with caution with High Blood Pressure.

Because of the concentration and purity of Young Living Essential Oils (one drop of peppermint oil is equal to 29 cups of Peppermint Tea), we encourage you to learn as much as possible about the oils.

Remember, when working with essential oils, more is not necessarily better.

Whether you are using them for yourself and your family, or whether you are interested in sharing them with your friends and relatives, avail yourself of the opportunities that come your way and the information available to you, to heighten your knowledge and understanding of essential oils.

Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot.

It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey. However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call crystallizing”. When this happens I loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water, turn off the heat and let it liquefy.

It is then as good as it ever was.

Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey.

Bet the drug companies won’t like this one getting around.

Facts on Honey and Cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of   the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a ‘Ram Ban’ (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases.

Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today’s science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.

Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada , in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:

Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.

Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat.

In America and Canada , various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:

Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder.

If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured.

In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:

Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

CHOLESTEROL:

Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours.

As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:

Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:

Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:

According to the studies done in India and Japan , it is revealed that if Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:

Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:

Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:

A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:

Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day.

It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increase and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:

Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:

Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:

Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water.

If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:

Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:

Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body.

Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

BAD BREATH:

People of South America , first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:

Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing. Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!

Oil of Rose

Possible Uses – Depression, eczema, frigidity, mature skin, menopause and stress.

Rose – Possesses a beautiful aroma.  The scent of Rose protects against melancholy, grief and anxiety.  It is particularly useful for those filled with grief after a loss.

Rose (Rosa damascena) possesses the highest frequency of the oils.  It creates a sense of balance, harmony and well-being and elevates the mind.  Rose creates a magnetic energy that attracts love and brings joy to the heart.

Rose promotes healthy skin, reduces scarring and may help with chronic bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis, sexual disabilities, frigidity, impotency, skin disease, ulcers, sprains, wrinkles, thrush and gingivitis.  It also promotes healthy skin.

Rose is an astonishingly beautiful flower which is why it is poetized and immortalized in legends.  Long ago, the first rose was raised from an ordinary dog-rose; some unknown gardener did it about four thousand years ago.

Ancient doctors used rose water to treat upset nerves, fumed patients suffering from lungs diseases with rose incense and gave extracts of rose petals to patients suffering from heart and kidney diseases.

Attar of roses is the basic medical component of roses; it stimulates and harmonizes people’s immune and nervous systems.  It also improves activity of endocrine glands, removes sclerous disorders in organs and revives cells.

Attar of roses is good for digestive tract as it heals mucous membranes, fights disbacteriosis and fermentative deficiency in stomach and intestine.

Rose petals contain Vitamin C, carotene, B group vitamins and Vitamin K that is essential for haemopoesis.  Almost all mineral substances of Mendeleyev’s periodic table can be found in rose petals.

They contain calcium that influences metabolism and assimilation of foodstuffs; also potassium which is important for normal heart activity, copper that participates in haemopoesis and improves activity of endocrine glands; iodine that is good for thyroid gland can be also found in rose petals.

The list of rose’s virtues is long enough which allows to call rise a universal natural medicine.

It is recommended to collect rose petals early in the morning when the air is clean and humid, better after rain or abundant dew.  Blossomed out but not fading roses will do for collection of petals.

When collected, rose petals should be immediately dried or used for treatment without washing to preserve their health-giving components.  Collected rose petals may be used for making extracts, decoctions, rose water or attar of roses.

Bacteria die within five minutes when contacted with fresh rose petals which makes rose a perfect medicine for fighting skin diseases.  Fresh rose petals will help cure festering wounds and burns; they may also alleviate allergic itching.

Powder of dried rose petals mixed with honey is an effective medicine against mouth inflammations, stomatitis and paradontose.  The mixture should be rubbed into inflamed gums.  Headaches, sickness and weakness can be cured with inhalation of roses and attar of roses.

Rose inhalations are also recommended to people with poor nervous system, liable to neurosis and depressions.  Put a bowl with hot water and rose petals in the room in case you suffer from nervous diseases, cold in the head, cough and flu.

Attar of roses perfectly tones up the cardiac muscle that is why doctors prescribe rose inhalations for stenocardia treatment.  Bath with rose petals is a perfect remedy against nervous diseases: it tones up, rejuvenates, relieves anxiety and purifies skin.

Pour boiling water over half a glass of rose petals and infuse in a closed bowl to preserve attar of roses.  Pour the infusion and the petals into the bath; the infusion’s healing power will be stronger if beetroot juice is added to this bath.

Never throw faded rose bunches away and make curative baths of them.

Spraying with rose water is recommended for treatment of many diseases.

Pour a glass of boiling water over 10g of rose petals and infuse in a covered bowl.  Every day spraying within two weeks is recommended to people suffering from nervous disorders.  In this case, spraying with warm rose water should be done on the upper third of the back.

Spraying with rose water is good for healthy people as well to strengthen the nervous system and immunity.  Apply rose water to skin and slightly rub.  Warm rose water bath for feet helps cure rheumatism; hot compress with rose water applied to sacrum is good against radiculitis.

Wrap a bad sheet wetted with rose water round the body to tone up the organism after a surgical operation, then muffle up with a dry bed sheet and a blanket.

Tea made of rose petals (a teaspoon of dried rose petals per a glass of boiling water) is good against cold, pharyngitis, bronchitis and various neuroses; it is a vitaminous drink as well.  Rose petal jam is a wonderful natural medicine especially in cold weather.

If rose therapy is not available you may use dog-rose as its characteristics are the same as of roses.  Hips are to be collected within the period of late August to October when they are still hard.  Green hips will not do for drying as they contain fewer vitamins.

Fresh hips should be dried in the shade away from direct sunrays.  Better use a special dryer or an oven (at temperature of 80-100 degrees centigrade).

The content of ascorbic acid in hips is ten times more than in blackcurrant, 50 times more than in lemon and 100 times more than in apples.  At that, the supply of Vitamin C depends upon the area of dog-rose vegetation.

Hips collected in the north contain more Vitamin C than hips collected in the south.  Hips grown in the mountains or sunlit places contain more ascorbic acid than those grown in plains or shaded areas.

Dog-rose is called a natural concentrate of vitamins: besides Vitamin C it contains Vitamins B1, B2, P, K and carotene.  That is why hips extracts, decoctions and syrup are perfect medicine and prophylactic against beri-beri and hypovitaminosis.

To make hips extracts and infusions even more effective add some honey or lemon juice before drinking.  This is a unique medicine against cold, flu, chronic bronchitis, lungs diseases, stomach and duodenum ulcer and others.

If mixed with carrot juice, hips extract will contain almost all vitamins and minerals that people need.

To make a healing beverage against cold, flu and bronchitis mix two portions of dried hips with one portion of dried nettle leaves.  Drink half a glass of the beverage twice a day with honey.

Hips are perfect surrogate of coffee: they are as aromatic and tasty as coffee beans.  Grind a teaspoon of dried and fried hips and pour a glass of boiling water over the powder.  Let it brew for some time, then drink with some milk and sugar.

Rose is a good one to rub on your uterine area around the time you think you are ovulating.  I tried this and got pregnant right after.  Not sure if that did the trick or not.

Possesses a beautiful aroma.  The scent of Rose protects against melancholy, grief and anxiety.  It is particularly useful for those filled with grief after a loss.

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Corn Oil

Eliminate ear mites

All it takes is a few drops of Wesson Corn Oil in your cat’s or dog’s ear… massage it in, then clean with a cotton ball. Repeat daily for 3 days. The oil soothes the cat’s skin, smothers the mites, and accelerates healing.

Kills fleas instantly…

Dawn Dish washing Liquid does the trick. Add a few drops to your dog’s bath and shampoo the animal thoroughly. Rinse well to avoid skin irritations . Good-bye fleas..

Rainy day cure for dog odor:

Next time your dog comes in from the rain, simply wipe down the animal with Bounce or any dryer sheet, instantly making your dog smell springtime fresh.

Did you know that drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately-without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional pain relievers?

Did you know that Colgate Toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns?

Before you head to the drugstore for a high-priced inhaler filled with mysterious chemicals, try chewing on a couple of curiously strong Altoids peppermints. They’ll clear up your stuffed nose.

Achy muscles from a bout of the flu? Mix 1 tablespoon horseradish in 1 cup of olive oil. Let the mixture sit for 30 minutes, then apply it as a massage oil for instant relief for aching muscles .

Sore throat ? Just mix 1/4 cup of vinegar with 1/4 cup of honey and take 1 tablespoon six times a day. The vinegar kills the bacteria.

Cure urinary tract infections with Alka-Seltzer . Just dissolve two tablets in a glass of water and drink it at the onset of the symptoms. Alka-Seltzer begins eliminating urinary tract infections almost instantly even though the product was never been advertised for this use.

Honey remedy for skin blemishes … cover the blemish with a dab of honey and place a Band-Aid over it. Honey kills the bacteria, keeps the skin sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight.

Listerine therapy for toenail fungus : Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine Mouthwash. The powerful antiseptic leaves your toenails looking healthy again.

Easy eyeglass protection… to prevent the screws in eyeglasses from loosening, apply a small drop of Maybelline Crystal Clear Nail Polish to the threads of the screws before tightening them.

Cleaning liquid that doubles as bug killer… if menacing bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets get in your home and you can’t find the insecticide, try a spray of Formula 409 . Insects drop to the ground instantly.

Smart splinter remover: Just pour a drop of Elmer’s Glue-All over the splinter, let dry, and peel the dried glue off t he skin. The splinter sticks to the dried glue.

Hunt’s Tomato Paste boil cure…. cover the boil with Hunt’s Tomato Paste as a compress. The acids from the tomatoes soothe the pain and bring the boil to a head.

Balm for broken blisters… to disinfect a broken blister, dab on a few drops of Listerine , a powerful antiseptic.

Vinegar to heal bruises… soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply it to the bruise for 1 hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and speeds up the healing process.

Quaker Oats for fast pain relief .. it’s not for breakfast any more! Mix 2 cups of Quaker Oats and 1 cup of water in a bowl and warm in the microwave for 1 minute, cool slightly, and apply the mixture to your hands for soothing relief from arthritis pain.