Natural Home Remedies

Home Cleaning Solution with Essential Oils

Use essential oils to keep your home, car, office or studio clean and disinfected. Re-use an old squirt bottle, rinse it clean with water, and add the following blend of essential oils.
Tea tree, eucalyptus and lavendar oils. Use equal amounts of eucalyptus and lavendar, and twice as much tea tree. The amount depends slightly on the size of the bottle, however start with 10 drops of eucalyptus, 10 drops of lavender, and 20 drops of tea tree and decide if you prefer a stronger or more mild solution. Fill bottle with water, shake it up and clean away!

Avoid the Wind and Avoid the Common Cold

Wearing scarves around your neck is not just a fashion statement!  During the fall and winter seasons especially, the wind is blowing as the seasons change and the temperatures fluctuate.  Keep yourself healthy by avoiding what we refer to in Chinese medicine as a "wind invasion."  Wind invasions often lead to the common cold, aches and pains, coughs, fever and chills, and much more.  By wearing a scarf around your neck and keeping that area protected, warm, and out of the wind, you are helping your immune system do its job.  Keep your neck covered, stay healthy, stay stylish!

Diffuse Eucalyptus During the Common Cold

Especially helpful for children, diffusing a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil in the room helps the body clear the head or chest cold.  Simply put a couple of drops of eucalyptus oil in a bowl of hot hot water and place it in a safe place on the floor of the room where the child sleeps.  The hot water will essentially send a eucalyptus steam into the air while the child sleeps, aiding the lungs, clearing the head, and benefiting the chest.  For adults you may try a drop of eucalyptus in the water if you are doing a head steam : big pot of simmering water, towel over your head, carefully steaming the head to help clear congestion and mucous.  Always be careful with the hot hot water!!  And remember a single drop of any essential oil is very potent and powerful, it doesn't take much!