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Many common aliments can be cured with herbs and oils and here are a few that you can use the next time you suffer from these symptoms and issues.

1. For indigestion: Use ginger and salt: Grate some fresh ginger and mix a tsp. of ginger with a tsp. of sea salt to make a paste. Place this paste in your mouth and chew for about 5 minutes then swallow and follow it with an 8 oz. glass of warm, temped water. Eat your meal or a small bite within 15 minutes of taken so that it won’t experience the burning that can follow with some people and ginger.

2. For PMS Bloating: Use sage: Boil about a tsp. of dried or even fresh sage on the stove on medium high heat with a cup of water and boil for about 5 minutes. Strain and drink a cup or so about three times a day during the times that you feel the bloating.

3. For sprains or muscle strains: Use lettuce: Chop up a rough bunch of lettuce and make sure they are crisp and cold. Apply to the sprained muscle and warp with an elastic band in a loose fashion or a ribbon loosely tied around the sprained areas and the lettuce leaves. When the lettuce leaves become warmed by the skin, replace them with another bunch of cooler leaves and repeat till sprains swelling has been reduced. This is a great way to help relieve swelling from many other ailments as well.

4. For urinary tract infections: Use cranberry: This is nothing new. Drink about a cup of 100 percent cranberry juices at the first sign of the infections and repeat about three times a day. Drink water with this as well to help flush your system as well.

5. For a toothache: Use clove: Make a paste with a few drops of water and a tsp. of clove. Place the paste on the sore gums for about 10 minutes then spit and rinse. Dilute even more to use on babies and toddlers.

Orange oil has been used for years in cleaning products from floor cleaner to all-purpose cleaners for the kitchen and bathroom, but did you know that orange oil can be used to benefit the skin as well. It can help to firm the skin and also be used to improve circulation disorders. It can help reduce cellulite and used as a mouthwash to help with periodontal disease and inflamed gums too. Here are some simple solutions to help incorporate orange oil into your beauty routine and help you take advantage of the wonderful benefits behind the oil as well.

• To help firm the skin: Mixing orange oil and bergamot essential oil and applying to the skin can help smooth small lines and wrinkles on the face and help to keep the skin looking youthful. Add 5 drops if orange essential oil to 3 drops bergamot essential oil and mix with 2 ounces of water and use in a spritzer throughout the day.

• For a massage: Add 8 drops orange essential oil and 4 drops geranium essential oil with 1 ounce of your favorite unscented lotion and apply to the skin for a soothing salve. It can help give the skin more elasticity and also help protect against dry skin during the humid times of the year and throughout the winter season.

• To help with cellulite issues: Masse the cellulite effected area with a blend of 15 drops if orange essential oil with 4 drops of geranium essential oil, 4 drops of cinnamon essential oil, and 3 tbs. of sunflower essential oil. Using a soft bristle brush then applying the oil blend to the brushed skin can help reduce the look of cellulite when used continuously. Add the essential oils of orange and rose with your regular shower gel to help with circulation to the areas as well.

Almost any candle, or any potpourri mix can have any scent you want it to. The only thing you need to do is experiment with different scents. Here is a list of a few you can try when you do your next craft project. Try these scents with a mixture of beeswax when you make your next candle. The scent is amazing.

1. Awaken Scent: Eucalyptus essential oil mixed with lemon essential oil, corn mint essential oil and pure lemon extract.

2. Relaxing Scent: Lavender essential oil and chamomile essential oil mixed with sandalwood essential oil and neroli essential oil.

3. Clarity Scent: Cedar wood essential oil mixed with ylang ylang essential oil and cinnamon essential oil, cinnamon leaf, canaga essentail oil, oil of pepper, patchouli essential oil, pure lemon extract and guaiacwood essential oil.

4. Harmony Scent: Lavender essential oil mixed with pure vanilla extract.

5. Invigorating Scent: Juniper essential oil mixed with lime essential oil and fir needle essential oil, camphor, geranium essential oil and petit grain essential oil.

6. Refreshing Scent: Spearmint essential oil mixed with rosemary essential oil, eucalyptus essential oil and a touch of peppermint essential oil.

7. Romanic Scent: Rose essential oil mixed with violet essential oil, jasmine essential oil, mimosa essential oil and petit grain essential oil.

8. Sensual Scent: Sandalwood Essential oil mixed with ylang ylang essential oil and jasmine essential oil.

9. Serenity Scent: Geranium essential oils mixed with pure orange extract, clove leaf essential oil, cedar wood essential oils and canaga essential oil.

10. Almond Joy Scent: Pure almond extract mixed with vanilla essential oil, olive oil, and cedar wood essential oil.

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Wax and Bubbles has gone into some great detail lately with essential oils and how you can incorporate them in your everyday lifestyle to help with stress, or anger or even sore muscles and joints. But you can also use meditation with these certain oil blends to help combat other mood situations and help ease your nerves and your mind. Here’s how: With all of these oil blended you will need to sit in meditation form. In A calm, quiet setting, out of direct light.

1. Purification Blend: Float oils such as juniper berry, lemon, violet leaf, grapefruit, myrrh, cypress, mimosa, hyssop, basil, and frankincense essential oils.

2. Anger Control Blend: Float oils such as Roman chamomile, German chamomile, ylang ylang, benzoin, melissa, rose absolute, lavender, marjoram, sandalwood, and frankincense essential oils.

3. Patience Control Blend: Float oils such as cypress, lavender, Roman chamomile, marjoram, petit grain, angelica root, neroli, and frankincense essential oils.

4. Determinations Blend: Float oils such as cypress, cedar wood, jasmine, angelica root, patchouli, coriander, line mimosa, thyme, basil, bay, and pine essential oil.

5. Bereavement Blend: Float oils such as rose absolute, rose otto, benzoin, melissa, frankincense, hyssop, marjoram, angelica root, cypress, rosewood, myrrh, and bergamot essential oils.

6. Clarity Blend: Float oils such as rosemary, basil, juniper, lemon, pine, cypress, cedar wood, bergamot, cardamom, peppermint, thyme, frankincense, and geranium essential oils.

7. Separation Acceptance Blend: Float oils such as rose otto, rose absolute, geranium, bergamot, frankincense, hyssop, marjoram, lavender, patchouli, ylang ylang, angelica root, sandalwood, and clary sage essential oils.

8. Dealing with Fear Blend: Float oils such as clary sage, jasmine, Roman chamomile, neroli, ylang yalng, basil, melissa, rose absolute, juniper, lavender, marjoram, angelica root, and frankincense essential oils.

9. Joy Blend: Float oils such as rose otto, bergamot, Roman chamomile, mandarin, rosewood, linden blossom, palmarosa, neroli, basil, nutmeg, clary sage, melissa, jasmine, verbena, mimosa, narcissus and orange essential oils.

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1. Varicose Veins: Olive oil will help to stimulate the circulation that is needed to keep from forming varicose veins to begin with. You can also use chamomile and frankincense essential oils in your warm bath time regimen.

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1. Warts: Lemon juice and tea tree essential oils can help to dissolve the wart over time slowly. Garlic supplements have been proven to have antifungal properties. If you apply a drop of garlic oil directly onto the wart twice a day it can also have the same effect on the wart as well. Trying not to touch the wart can help cut down on infections as well.

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1. Yeast Infections: If you cut sugar out of your diet completely at the first sign of an infecting it can help. Grape seed extract has significant antifungal properties. Vitamin C can help to prevent flare-ups in the beginning. Alcohol and caffeine should be cut from your diet as well.

This list from A through Z should not replace a visit to your physician or primary doctor, it is meant to only be used as a guideline. Use common sense with essential oils, they are just as harmful as any drug and should be used according to the instruction on the bottle or with an essential oil handbook or guidebook such as The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy. If you feel your condition worsens or becomes infected with the use of the essential oils, discontinue using the essential oil and seek a professional opinion from a licensed physician, your primary care doctor or urgent care specialist.

If you have any questions further than what is on Wax and Bubbles, please don’t hesitate to email me at shelly.wilkerson [at] 451Press [dot] net

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1. Restless Legs: Taking an iron supplements can help relieve some of the symptoms and help possibly to ward off future attacks. Massaging your legs with an oil such as jojoba laced with lavender can help to calm the legs as well.

2. Rosacea: Fifteen minutes before your next meal take gentian root to help prevent the reactions to some foods.

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1. Shingles: Using cayenne pepper or cayenne pepper oil can help with the pain from shingles. Take olive leaf extract can helps as well. Drink at tea with St. John’s Wort leaf and lemon balm herb can help and it has and antiviral property to the mixture.

2. Sinusitis: Barley grass can help to drain the sinus pressure you get. Grape seed oil can help simulate sinus drainage and eucalyptus essential oil will help to open blocked passages and help promote drainage as well.

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1. Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ): Making a warm wet compress with marjoram essential oil will help relax the muscles within the jaw. Taking kava three times a day can also help reduce tension in the jaw as well.

2. Toothaches: Clove is a natural painkiller for the teeth and if you chew two cloves and rest them inside the cheeks against the aching tooth it can help significantly with the pain.

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1. Ulcers: Never take aspirin with ulcers. It can aggravate the ulcer drastically. Taking glutamine supplements can help with the pain as well. A tea made with licorice root and marshmallow root can help ease inflammation as well.

2. Urinary Tract Infections: Soak in a warm bath with eucalyptus and sandalwood essential oils will help relax the muscles. Bergamot essential oils can slow down the rate of the infection as well. Thyme essential oil is also helpful in fighting the infection, drop a few drops within a hot bath and soak for about 15-20 minutes.

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1. Memory Problems: Inhaling rosemary and geranium essential oils can help the part of the brain that helps with learning retention and memory. Taking ginkgo can help the circulation in the brain. Taking flaxseed oil will help promote the essential fatty acids in the brains as well.

2. Menopause: Night sweats can be controlled or at least eased by making a tea of dried sage. Taking ginseng helps to support adrenal function and helps to calm and soothe the nervous system.

3. Migraines: Taking feverfew supplements can help build the body’s resistance to the migraine triggers. Making a tea of feverfew, periwinkle, ginger and skullcap can help with the pain associated with migraines as well.

4. Motion Sickness: Ginger supplements taken before leaving from land about an hour before can have significant help. B vitamins also help ward off nausea and vomiting.

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1. Obesity: Taking chromium twice a day can help your body to burn more calories and also can help keep cravings at bay. You can also take flaxseed oil along with gamma-linolenic acid and it will help to turn the fat burning up within the body.

2. Osteoporosis: Calcium, magnesium, zinc and copper along with vitamins C, D, and B6, as well as silicon, boron and manganese can all help promote health and strong bones.

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1. PMS (premenstrual Syndrome): Taking a warm bath with chamomile and lavender can help the pelvic and stomach muscles when they become tight and irritated with PMS. Drinking a tea laced with dandelion root, burdock root, lavender flowers and ash bark will help aid in digestion and help significantly to improve the functions of the liver and the reproductive system.

2. Prostate: Zinc is by far the most powerful mineral to help reduce the size of the prostate. Drinking green tea can also help promote prostate health.

3. Psoriasis: Soaking the effected area on warm water with German chamomile added can help soother the effected area. Adding German chamomile to your favorite unscented lotion can also help as well. Sarsaparilla will help significantly in eliminating bacterial toxins.

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1. Hernia: Taking licorice root tablets before your meals can soothe and heal the stomach pains. Taking slippery elm root also helps to reduce inflammation in the esophagus as well. Drinking chamomile tea at bedtime can help relax the stomach muscles and the therefore relieving some pain associated with the hernia.

2. High Cholesterol: Pectin, which can be found in grapefruits and apples, has been shown to make it easier for fat and cholesterol to move through and out of the body before your body has a chance to absorb them. It’s best to exercise daily as well.

3. Hypertension (High Blood Pressure): Celery is the natural treatment for this condition. Eat about four to five stalks of it daily and watch the changes in your blood pressure.

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1. Impotence: Take a warm bath with sandalwood and jasmine essential oil and they will act as an aphrodisiac.

2. Infertility: Taken a zinc supplement daily can help increase the sperm count within the male body. Women with ovulation issues can try taking chaste berry each morning to help stimulate the ovulation process and get it more regular.

3. Insomnia: Taking a warm bath with lavender, marjoram and orange essential oils will help induce a calm and relaxing feeling before bedtime. Also a sachet of lavender-soaked cotton or even a sachet of lavender buds under your pillow can help relax you as well. Take passionflower to help relax your nervous system.

4. Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Drink a glass of water laced with some peppermint essential oil can help prevent bowel spasms. Also try sprinkling cayenne pepper on a wet compress and place it on your abdominal muscles to help relax them further.

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1. Kidney Stones: Magnesium has been found to prevent the formation of stones, so be sure it is part of your supplement taking daily. To help reduce kidney inflammation, take bromelain each day as well.

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1. Laryngitis: A tablespoon of lemon juice and honey will help to coat the throat and may help bring back your voice. Making a hot compress of warm oil and lavender essential oil and apply it to the outside of the throat can help soothe a sore throat and take plenty of zinc during this time as well.

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1. Fever: Elderflower tea can force you to work yourself up into a sweat that can help reduce your fever. Also drinking feverfew tea does the same things as well. A sponge bath with a few drops of lavender essential oil added to the sponge or to the water helps to soothe the aches from a fever.

2. Flu: You can build up a resistance by inhaling revensara essential oil and niaouli essential oils. They have antibiotic and virus-killing effects on the body. If you do a inhaling over a sink with these oils they work in the same way as well. A sea salt and baking soda compress will help relieve the chills. Gargling with tea tree oil and warm water will kill any germs in the mouth.

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1. Gallstones: A high-fiber diet is the best way to keep the stones from forming in the first place. Drinking plenty of water daily is also a great way to avoid the stones. Taking chlorophyll can help cleanse your system out. Take wild yam root supplements for pain and spasms as well.

2. Glaucoma: An herb tea made of punarnava can help relieve pressure in the eyes. Also try drinking hemp tea and talk to your doctor about a medical marijuana need if the pain is too great or get too great to tolerate.

3. Gout: If you already have gout, mix olive oil and juniper essential oil together and massage into the inflamed joint or joints. Or soak the joints in a foot bath with the same essential oils. If you take chlorella a few times a day it will help relieve the intensity of an attack.

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1. Hair Loss: Making your own hair loss oil and working it into the scalp or even where the hair is thinning can help drastically. How to make it: Mix bay, balsam and lavender essential oils together with olive oil and warmed in the microwave. Leave on the hair or scalp for 20 minutes then shampoo your hair as normal. An acidophilus supplement can help reverse the issue with hair loss as well. Taking copper and zinc on a daily basis can help replenish the important nutrients that the hair needs. Also adding vitamin B complex to that regimen as well can have added benefits.

2. Headaches: Inhaling peppermint oil at the first sign of a headache will help relieve the tension and pain. Drinking tea that has willow bark brewed with it can help relieve a stress headache as well.

3. Hearing Loss: Upping your zinc intake can help with some hearing loss. But zinc and magnesium are two very powerful minerals when it comes to hearing. They can help keep the parts of the ear strong and healthy all through your years. Take vitamin E daily as well it has powerful antioxidant properties and can help improve circulation within and around the ear.

4. Heel Spurs: Lavender essential oil mixed with tea tree essential oil and rubbed into the foot nightly with some extra virgin olive oil will help relieve some of the pain associated with the spurs. Also investing in shoes with arch support can help greatly and never walk around barefoot.

5. Hemorrhoids: A hot bath with Roman chamomile and juniper essential oils can soothe the pain and help shrink the hemorrhoid. Adding some lavender and geranium essential oil with olive, almond or even sesame oils can act as a homemade ointment to soothe them as well. Soak a cotton ball or tissue with witch hazel to help reduce the swelling as well.

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1. Cataracts: Taking bilberry supplements two to three times a day can help guard against radical damage to the eyes. Also wearing sunglass with UV protection and a hat during the times you are outside in the sun can help dramatically.

2. Chronic Fatigue: Inhaling tea tree oil helps to build up the immune system and inhaling geranium and bergamot oils help to combat the depression symptoms associated with chronic fatigue as well. Raising the body temperature a couple of degrees for a few minutes every day helps to multiply your white blood cell count.

3. Colds: Defeat the cold virus quicker with acupressure by pressing down on the hollow points on either side of the collarbone. Raven Sara oil is an antiviral scent and adding lemon and eucalyptus or pine oils to it give the mixture a medicinal benefit. Lavender oil added to a warm bath helps to boost the immune system. Working up a sweat can also help; it helps to rid the body of toxins as well.

4. Constipation: Massage some olive oil mixed with chamomile, rosemary and thyme onto your stomach clockwise to relax the intestinal muscles. Always eat fiber rich foods to help soften your bowel movements.

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1. Depression: Try inhaling rose, lavender, chamomile, ylang-ylang, clary sage and cypress. Cutting out sugary foods, caffeine and even alcohol from your diet as well. Taken St. John’s Wort supplements can also help.

2. Diarrhea: Sip on pomegranate juice instead of high calorie sports drinks or sugar laden fruit juices. Mixing together lemon oil, honey and salt helps as well.

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1. Earache: Hold your nose and eat a clove of garlic a day till the ear ache is gone. Pulling on your ear lobes about 10 times a day can help increase circulation as well.

2. Eczema: Calendula ointment will give instant relief. Add a few drops of lavender, chamomile and olive oil to your non scented body lotion can also help calm irritated skin as well. Add some baking soda and warm oatmeal to your bath to help with the itching. Detox your liver with dandelion root tea to get to the heart of the problem as well.

1. Backaches: Massage painful areas of the back with wintergreen essential oil, cinnamon essential oil and ginger essential oils that have been mixed in aloe vera gel.

2. Bad Breath: Chewing fennel seeds can help keep the intestinal tract clean. Peppermint teas serve the same purpose as well. Take a few drops of eucalyptus oil and mix it in a glass of water. Gargle and rinse for a natural mouthwash.

3. Bug Bites and Stings: Apply chamomile or lavender to the bug bite. Drinking fresh cilantro juice or applying a wet compress of cilantro to the affected area will reduce the inflammation.

4. Burns: A few drops of lavender oil on the burn speeds the healing time. Aloe vera is also a great slave for burns if it’s applied liberally to the burned area a few times a day.

5. Bursitis: Barley grass can soothe injured tendons and bursae, just add some to your salad everyday. Pineapple can also help relieve some of the inflammation.

6. Bronchitis: Inhaling eucalyptus oil in a pan of hot water three minutes every few hours during a day can help clear passages and loosen congestion in the bronchial tubes. Taking Vitamin C also helps in a great way throughout the entire year.

7. Boils: Dilute chamomile or the oil of bergamot and apply it directly on the boil twice a day to help dissolve the boil or bring it to a head.

If any of these illnesses become too great to cure with essential oils, consult your doctor immediately. This is only a guideline, this list is not meant to help treat or cure any illness. For more serious injuries, seek professional help immediately.

1. For Acne:
• Cedarwood can be use for its antiseptic and astringent properties.
• Try patchouli.
• Apple cider vinegar mixed with tea tree oil can be applied right on the breakout.
• Use fresh pineapple to prevent scarring as well.

2. For Allergies:• Warm baths with baking soda help release toxins in the pores.
• Inhaling lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus or even tea tree oil will help greatly.
• Lubricate the nostrils as well. This helps to trap pollen before it reaches your sinus passages.

3. For Anxiety:• Take magnesium right before bed.
• Lavender, Melissa, jasmine, or even ylang-ylang oils can be used in a warm bath water to help reduce the feeling of anxiety as well.

4. For Arthritis:• Juniper and lemon balm placed in a warm bath can help cleanse the inflamed joints and reduce the mineral deposits within the join as well.
• Drinking black cherry juice and water twice a day will help, cherry juice has anti-inflammatory properties.

5. For Asthma:
• Frankincense oil helps you to be able to take more air in your lungs.
• Lavender oil mixed with massage oil helps relieve tightness rather than just massaging the muscles alone.
• Echinacea helps dilute mucus and drinking a blend of onion carrot and parsley juice helps with spasms as well.

6. For Athlete’s Foot:
• Soak your feet in sea salt water every night and dab tea tree on the affected area to prevent skin from cracking.
• Oregano Oil has antifungal properties as well and taken with every meal can help increase your resistance.

You know what I’m talking about, when your face seems to be glowing and clear and free of any oddities. Then you have your other face, that’s puffy, a huge blemish on your cheek and not to mention, your color is completely shot. There are several ways you can help prevent this and keep it from ever happening to your when you least likely expect it. Here are three facial steps you can take today and use throughout your life to help your face stay focused as one face and not two.

Facial Toning Massage:

What is it? Facial massage relaxes tension, tones muscles, stimulates the blood flow and also helps to improve skin tone and lymphatic drainage. It has also been know to help remove toxins from the face as well.

What to do: Cleans and tone your face thoroughly, using a cold cream cleanser and a good skin toner. Gently hold the heat to establish facial connection then with a bit of oil on your fingertips and with a sweeping movement, lightly draw your finger from the bottom of the face to the top, avoiding the eyes. Repeat several times, gently increasing the pressure.

Place your fingertips horizontally in the middle of your forehead, using a little more oil if required. Draw them firmly out to the temples several times. You should be able to feel the bones of the forehead through the facial skin and the flesh.

Now place your fingertips on either side of the nose. Draw them up and out to the sides of the face several times, using a little less pressure than you used on the forehead. Using both index fingers, make small circles all over the nose. Be careful not to block off the air flow. Continue making small circles over the chin and around the mouth area, be sure and avoid hitting the lips.

Finish as you started with gently sweeping motions, then gradually getting lighter with the pressure. Lie there and relax for a few minutes afterward. It’s best to perform this on each other, rather than yourself.

Draining Facial Massage:

What is it? If you have a semi-puffy complexion, or even a cold, congestion or sinus stuffiness, a drainage massage is a great way to help relieve the symptoms. Production of excess mucus in nasal and respiratory passages is the body’s response to inflammation caused by i8nfection or even irritants we tend to breath in.

What to do: Start the massage just the same as you would the toning massage, after your do the firm strokes on the forehead, start the drainage techniques. Using both index fingers, place your fingertips on the boy ridge just under the eyebrows on each side right under the inner edge. Press firmly upward, hold for two seconds, then release the pressure and move slightly along the eyebrows, pressing upward with firm pressure. Repeat this procedure until you have reached the outmost edge of the brows. Start again at the inner edge and do this twice.

Now start with your index finger just about each brow and with firm pressure make large circles outward. Following the line above the brow, down past the side of each eye. Then across the top of the cheekbone and up the side of the nose, until you reach the point where you started. Make a total of six circles in this fashion. Start in the same place and do six more circles going in the opposite direction. Then finish the massage with light pressure and getting softer. It’s best to do this massage on each other rather than yourself.

Facial Steaming:

What is it? Facial steaming with essential oils offers an extra dimension to the cleaning process done to the face. The facial steam can increase perspiration which helps rid the skin of toxins and helps clean out the pores and encourages the eliminations of deep seated wastes as well. Facial steaming also helps soften the skin and loosens dead skin cells as well.

What to do: Make up a large bowl of boiling water or even use a facial steamer. Add 5 -10 drops of essential oils if desired. Either place your face in the sauna or hold your face 2-5 inches over the bowl and place a large towel over your head.

Keep you eyes closed especially when using essential oils. After steaming for five minutes, wipe your face and allow your face to cool at room temperature. Then spray with flower water, allowing it to dry naturally. This further helps to cool the face and closes the pores as well.

Functional Groups:

1. Phenol: Powerful antibacterial, stimulates blood and warms the skin; can be sensitizing and irritation, especially to the sensitive skin areas of the body.

Oils in this Group:

• Oregano (Origanum vulgare)
• Thyme (Thymus vulgaris)
• Basil (Ocimum basilicum)
• Cinnamon (Cinnamonmum zeylanicum)
• Bay (Laurus nobilis)

2. Alcohol: Excellent skin toner, antimicrobial and healing properties.

Oils in this Group:

• Peppermint (Mentha pipertia)
• Patchouli (Pogostemom cablin)
• Neroli (Citrus aurantium var. amara)
• Carrot seed (Daucus carota)
• Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens)
• Ginger (Zingibe officinale)
• Marjoram (Origanum majorana)
• Frankincense (Boswellia ssp.)

3. Acid: Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory properties and anti-edema properties as well, maybe irritating to some skin types though.

Oils in this Group:

• Frankincense (Boswellia ssp.)

4. Alde Hyde: Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-edema; may be irritating to some skin types though.

Oils in this Group:

• May chang (Litsea cubeda)
• Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum blume)
• Lemon eucalyptus (Eucalyptus citriodora)
• Melissa (Melissa officinalis)

5. Ester oxide: Mentally stimulating and antiviral; helps to break up lung congestion and has a camphorous scent.

Oils in this Group:

• Tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia)
• Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globolus)
• Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis ver. decumbens)
• Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)

6. Keytone: Antimucous, healing, analgesic and antiviral.

Oils in this Group:

• Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis var. decumbens)
Camphor (Cinnamomum camphora)
Rosemary (Rosemarinus officinalis)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Fennel (Foeniculum vlgare)

7. Coumarin: Anticoagulant, sedative and uplifting; may cause photosensitivity.

Oils in this Group:

• Angelica (Angelica archangelica)
• Most citrus essential oils fall into this group as well.

8. Ester: Relaxing, antifungal, and soothes muscles.

Oils in this Group:

• Lavendar (Lavandula angustifolia)
• Bergamot (Citrus bergamia subsp. bergamia)
• Clary sage (Salvia sclarea)
• Roman chamomile (Anthemis nobilis)
• Ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata var. genuina)
• Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens)
• Jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)

9. Monoterpene and sesquiterpene: Antibacterial, healing and mentally stimulating.

Oils in this Group:

• German chamomile (Matyracaria recutita)
• Carrot seed (Daucus carota)
• Orange (Citrus sinensis)
• Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
• Sandalwood (Santalum album)
• Lemon (Citrus limonum)
• Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)

You can easily grow sage and use it’s benefits within your own home everyday. Some of the most common sage varieties are:

Purple Hybrid Sage (Salvia xsuperba): one of the best member of the genus thrives as a hardy perennial (up to Zone 4) and actually performs better in cooler climates. Has an abundant of colorful flowers, a compact growth habit and a reasonable adaptability to varying growing conditions.

Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans): Its leaves smell exactly like pineapple when gently rubbed with the fingers. In its native habitat of central Mexico, pineapple sage grows at altitudes of 6,000 to 9,000 feet, but you don’t need to line on a mountaintop to grow it easily in your own garden or flowerbed.

Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha): Is a standout in any garden. Every part of the plant seems designed for maximum beauty. The velvety, intensely purple flower spikes; the white, softly hairy stems; and the dark grayish-green leaves with white undersides.

Clary Sage (Salvia sclarea): A tall, impressive plant that grows its violet, blue and pinkish-white flowers on large, multi-branched stems. In early summer, when clary sage blooms, it is the dominant plant in any garden or flower bed.

Sages essential oil is more popular among body products is used in a lot of every day products we all commonly use everyday. Clary Sage is the most popular used and has antidepressant, anticonvulsive, antispasmodic, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, astringent, bactericidal, carminative, deodorant, digestive, emmenagogue, euphoric, hypotensive, nervine, sedative, stomachic, uterine and nerve cleansing properties.

Make these body products today and take advantage of sages great benefits.

• Clary Sage Sea Salt Body Scrub:

½ cup Sea Salt
4 Tbsp Grape seed Oil or Extra Virgin Olive Oil
¼ cup Baking Soda
5-6 drops of Clary Sage Essential Oil

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
Standing in bath tub, wet hands and apply mixture, (using small circular motion) starting with feet and work upwards towards the neck. Fill bath tub with warm water and add essential oils.
Relax for at least 15 minutes allowing skin to absorb ingredients.

• Clary Sage Body Salve:

4 tbs. carrier oil Jojoba, Apricot, or even Shea butter
3 to 4 tsp. of dried Clary Sage
1 tbsp Beeswax pellets
1 tsp Vitamin E oil
20 drops of Clary Sage Essential Oil

Gently heat oil on low heat until warm. Stirring constantly, do not allow to boil, Remove from heat and add herbs to oil, and stir with a wire whisk very quickly. Cover and allow to cool completely. Strain oil from herbs. Add the essential oil now and stir quickly again with the wire whisk.

Combine infused oils and beeswax together in a *double boiler until wax melts. Remove from heat when melted. Add remaining ingredients and stir. Pour into containers, allow to cool completely before use.