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Essential Tips for Taking Care of YOURSELF While You’re Taking Care of Others
We all have times when we feel overwhelmed. Are you feeling the effects of spreading yourself too thin? Maybe you’re having trouble getting enough sleep or you’re not eating well. Maybe you’re struggling to manage stress. Maybe you’re taking care of a sick or elderly family member, and you feel you just don’t have enough time to take care of yourself. I can help you fix that by showing you how to get back on track with taking care of YOU.
Moisturizing Body Butter
As the weather gets warmer, you’ll be pulling out your spring and summer wardrobes. Be sure to get your arms, legs, and feet summer-ready with this delicious-smelling body butter.
Nail Care Kit with Essential Oils
This Mother’s Day, give the special women in your life a nail care kit made with essential oils!
Top 5 On-the-Go Self-Care Rituals
As stress threatens our health on a daily basis, we all owe it to ourselves to practice some self-care rituals for mind, body, and soul. But if you are like me, your on-the-go lifestyle often doesn’t allow you to take the time that you need to really center and find a pause in your life. When I was struggling with my health, I realized how necessary it was to …
Men’s Essential Oil Body Wash
This sudsy body wash smells great and leaves men’s skin feeling healthy and moisturized! This makes a great DIY Father’s Day gift!
Moisturizing Citrus Hand and Body Wash
See Modern Essentials: Essential Oils for Animal Care
One to two drops of essential oil are all that is necessary for animals, as animals respond much more quickly to essential oils than do humans. Vegetable oil or fractionated coconut oil can be added to extend essential oils over larger areas and to heavily dilute the essential oil for use on smaller animals, especially cats. or cats.
See Modern Essentials: How Essential Oils Interact with the Body
Have you ever wondered how essential oils interact with your body? The latest edition of the Modern Essentials book includes a section explaining how essential oils produce their therapeutic effects. The most recent research on essential oils is included in this section to help you understand how to better use essential oils based on their interactions with your proteins, organs, and body systems.
Happy Earth Day!
Today, April 22, is Earth Day. Did you know that people have been celebrating Earth Day since 1970? In 1990, the holiday got international recognition; and now over 192 countries do something on April 22nd (or throughout the week) to …
Essential Oils for Men
Some men don’t always take the best care of themselves. However, even a busy man can find easy ways to slip healthy habits into his daily routine.
Connect with AromaTools™ on Social Media
If you are reading this, you may already be familiar with our awesome blog and all the great essential ideas we share with you weekly. We have essential oil spotlights, cooking recipes, craft ideas, body care recipes, ideas for cleaning …
Just Add Oils to Your Summer Fun
Make essential oils a part of your summer fun with these tips, ideas, and recipes! Summer Cooking We love cooking with essential oils—especially in the summertime when fresh fruits and vegetables are available and it’s warm enough to grill meats …
Fashion and Essential Oils
New Modern Essentials™ App Update (Version 7.0.1)
The Modern Essentials™ App has recently been updated to include lots of new features! This app is available for iOS and Android devices. You can purchase the app in the Apple iTunes Store or in the Google Play Store. The update …
Essential Oil Spotlight: Lavender
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) essential oil has a wonderful, sweet, floral aroma with herbaceous, balsamic, and woody undertones. The aroma of lavender has been used for many years in sachets, pillows, and potpourri to help promote feelings of serenity and peace.
“Essentially You” Shampoo & Conditioner
The 8th Edition of Modern Essentials™
Modern Essentials™: A Contemporary Guide to the Therapeutic Use of Essential Oils is perfect for anyone wanting to learn about essential oils and their everyday uses. It is the definitive guide, whether you are a new or an experienced essential …
See Modern Essentials™: Youthful Skin
Vibrant, healthy skin isn’t just for the young. With proper care, skin can continue to regenerate itself and have a healthy glow even as you age. Pamper yourself by making a skin serum with essential oils that have been shown …
See Modern Essentials: Essential Oils for Pain Management
Everyone experiences pain. It shouldn’t be a big surprise that pain is the most common reason for doctor visits in the United States. Pain is the body’s natural alert system, warning the person about actual or potential damage to the …
DIY Using the Essential Booklets
If you’re looking for quick and easy ways to incorporate essential oils into daily life, “The Essential Family” and “The Essential Woman” booklets are a practical and economical resource! Most of the recipes in these booklets take 5 minutes or …
Introducing Modern Essentials™ Living
We are so excited about the newest addition to the Modern Essentials™ family: Modern Essentials™ Living! This new book contains cooking recipes, craft ideas, cleaning recipes, body care product recipes, class ideas, diffuser blends, and a chart listing common uses …
Essential Oil Spotlight: Cinnamon
Learn all about cinnamon essential oil (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) including common uses, essential oil properties, safety data, how to apply, and 5 practical and specific ideas for using cinnamon essential oil in everyday living.
Nourishing the Healer Within
Do you wish you were healthier or in better shape? Would you like to be happier? Are you trying to be a kinder, better person? Do you want to improve your eating habits? Most of us at different points throughout …
Week of Wellness: Happy Colon, Happy Brain
Last week, AromaTools™ is hosted a full week of free health classes like this one by Sue Lawton, PhD—“Happy Colon, Happy Brain”—to celebrate the Grand Opening of our AromaTools™ retail store in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Click here to read other …
5 Perfect Summer Make & Take Class Ideas
Even though it is summertime, you can still hold essential oil classes. In fact, there are a lot of make-and-take class ideas that are perfect for summertime! Here are a few ideas: 1. Essential Oils for Car Travel: Use our …
Essential Oil Spotlight: Lemon
Lemon essential oil has many uses since it has the following properties: anticancer, antidepressant, antiseptic, antifungal, antioxidant, antiviral, astringent, invigorating, refreshing, and tonic.
Essential Oil Spotlight: Myrrh
Essential Oil Troubleshooting
While essential oils are safe and effective alternatives for natural health, there may be times when undesirable reactions occur. On the occasion that this happens, it’s important to be prepared so you know what to do. In the following situations, you will …
Get Organized with an Essential Oil Notebook!
Do you get a little overwhelmed with essential oils? Do you have oil bottles and information scattered around the house and aren’t really sure what to do with all of it? Maybe it’s time to get better organized! To help you, we have …
See Modern Essentials: Sports Injuries
Being active is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. The positive endorphins released during exercise will lift depression, boost energy, and strengthen cardiac function. Increasing muscle mass and strength also helps the body burn fat and build endurance. It’s …
Essential Oil Application: Internal
“Internal use is the process of consuming or otherwise internalizing an essential oil into the body. Only pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils should be used for internal consumption, as other essential oils on the market may be diluted or processed using harmful chemicals."
Essential Oil Spotlight: Jasmine
Jasmine essential oil (Jasminum officinale) is extracted from the flowers through absolute extraction. This oil is commonly known for its powerful, sweet, tenacious, and floral aroma with fruity-herbaceous undertones. Jasmine is known in India as the “queen of the night” …
See Modern Essentials: Soothing Insect Bites and Stings
It’s summertime, and the insects are out and likely to bite. Learn which essential oils to keep on hand to help soothe bites and stings. The following information comes from the book Modern Essentials …
Build Your Business with “Modern Essentials™ Living”
Have you heard about the Modern Essentials™ Living book? This amazing resource contains cooking recipes, craft ideas, cleaning recipes, body care recipes, class ideas, diffuser blends, and a chart listing common uses for many essential oils and blends. It introduces …
Essential Oils 101
Since we are in the “back-to-school” spirit, let’s do a little review on some of the basics of essential oils. Quick Definitions from Modern Essentials Essential Oils: Substances created inside aromatic plants that are both volatile (they evaporate) and oil …
Stay Healthy This Winter Season!
Are you worried about your family catching a cold or the flu this winter? If so, you are not alone.
How to Use Complementary Therapies within Your Addiction Treatment
Some people are able to overcome addiction on their own, while others need more support through professional treatment. Each person needs to take the recovery path that works for him or her. There’s no reason to feel weak if you …
A Traveler’s Guide to Essential Oils
With summer upon us, the traveling adventures are beginning. However, being away from home can make our regular essential oil use a little more difficult. But does travel really get in the way? Here at AromaTools, we are dedicated to …
Just Add Oils to Your Mommy Routine
Essential Oils for Dad
Dads often have a lot of work to do to keep the house and everything in it functioning properly. Sometimes the essential oils that can help the best are ones that are practical and help him get the job done.
Just Add Oils to a New You!—Part 2
As mentioned in the the first part of this article, “Just Add Oils to a New You!—Part 1,” we took a poll to see what your biggest health challenges are. We discussed ways to use essential oils for helping you …
Essential Oil Spotlight: Copaiba
Learn about copaiba essential oil! Discover where it comes from and how it's commonly used. We discuss oil application and safety data. We've also included a few fun ways to add copaiba in your diffuser and DIY recipes for calming, sore muscles, skin and facial care, headaches.
Essential Oil Spotlight: Clary Sage
Clary sage (Salvia sclarea) essential oil is steam-distilled from the flowering plant. Clary sage can be identified by its herbaceous, spicy, and hay-like aroma. This essential oil possesses anticonvulsant, antifungal, antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, nerve tonic, sedative, soothing, tonic, and warming ...
10 Ways NOT to Use Essential Oils
Essential Oils for Romance
Did you know that essential oils can enhance a romantic mood? Because people are strongly impacted physically and emotionally by scents, the aromas of some essential oils are great aphrodisiacs. But essential oils can help with more than providing a lovely scent.
All About Carrier Oils—FAQs and Information Charts
Because we have had many questions and figure others do too, we decided to dig deep and find the answers about the differences in carrier oils and how to choose one for your needs.
All-Natural Moisturizing Lotion with Essential Oils
Our skin is very porous and absorbs just about everything we put on it. Many body care products on the market today often contain ingredients we wouldn’t want inside our bodies. So, when our skin gets dry, why not rub in some homemade, all-natural, moisturizing lotion with essential oils instead of store-bought lotions?
Essential Oils for Children
While essential oils can benefit people of all ages, it is important to be cautious when using them on children. Because essential oils are very concentrated and children have such small bodies, it is important to know how to use …