Horse & Livestock Cooling Spray

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Horse & Livestock Cooling Spray

Use this spray daily to keep outdoor animals cool and comfortable. This Livestock Cooling Spray is the perfect companion for any outdoor pet.

The peppermint essential oil is cooling to the skin. Tea tree, citronella, and eucalyptus essential oils provide protection from external elements. Additionally, lavender oil provides soothing comfort. The lavender oil is also good for additional skin support.

On top all that, unlike most commercial sprays, this one doesn’t contain harmful chemicals or irritants!

Here’s the Recipe

Ingredients

5 drops peppermint essential oil

5 drops tea tree essential oil

8 drops citronella essential oil

5 drops eucalyptus essential oil

5 drops lavender essential oil

1 teaspoon baking soda

Distilled water

Directions

Add essential oils and baking soda to a 16-ounce spray bottle. Then, top off with water. Spray thoroughly, but be careful to avoid the face of the animal.

Do you use essential oils around your horses or livestock? If so, leave a comment on how you use essential oils around them. Be sure to  check out this post on how to keep animals safe around essential oils.

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Fizzing Toilet Powder: A Natural Toilet Cleaner

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This fizzing powder is a natural toilet cleaner that will leave your toilet sparkling without a lot of scrubbing. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is a mild abrasive. In addition, when baking soda and citric acid are combined with water they react and release carbon dioxide bubbles, which may enhance the scrubbing effect. Also, as a weak alkali, baking soda neutralizes acids in odor molecules to eliminate strong smells. Besides that, the peppermint and lemon essential oils add a clean, fresh fragrance.

Here’s The Fizzing Toilet Powder Recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups baking soda

1/3 cup citric acid

10 drops lemon essential oil

10 drops peppermint essential oil

Directions

Simply combine all ingredients and store in a glass mason jar. Add powder to the toilet, allow to fizz and soak. Finally, gently scrub with a toilet brush to remove stubborn stains and flush.

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Pregnancy Leg Balm

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This cooling pregnancy leg balm is perfect for pregnant women or anyone with tired legs.

What makes this the perfect pregnancy leg balm?

Peppermint essential oil causes vasodilation and increases circulation. Since circulation changes during pregnancy, it is perfect for this mix. Tea tree and eucalyptus essential oils are nourishing to the skin and provide a refreshing aroma. The mango butter in this recipe is high in vitamins C and A which are great for keeping skin plump and may help reduce the appearance of fine lines, while the coconut oil works as a fantastic moisturizer. Combine it all and you have the perfect pregnancy leg balm!

Ingredients

¼ cup virgin coconut oil

¼ cup mango butter

1 teaspoon vitamin E oil

15 drops tea tree essential oil

10 drops eucalyptus essential oil

15 drops peppermint essential oil

4-ounce storage containers

Directions

  1. Gently melt the virgin coconut oil and mango butter over low heat, using caution not to overheat. (For this recipe I place my metal mixing bowl in a saucepan of simmering water to make a fake double boiler.) Allow to cool slightly.
  2. Then add vitamin E and essential oils. Gently whisk together and pour into glass containers.
  3. Refrigerate until firm. This leg balm can be stored at room temperature for several months.

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I love how versatile essential oils are! They can be used for so much. How do you use them? Leave a comment below with your favorite essential oil.

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Natural Solutions for Anger

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Sometimes, for No Good Reason, We All Experience Anger

Even though I have been surrounded by love, praise, kindness, exceptional food, warm coats, and great conversation throughout my life, every couple of hours just a bit of anger, over something meaningless, would arise. It would feel like it inflamed my throat. I’d stop, remember to breathe in good, and breathe out resentment, anger, distrust, grief. But ultimately, all my brain kept coming back to was “blah, blah, blah, *@&!ing blah, just let me be angry!”

What is anger? Why does it arise? And what are some natural solutions for anger?

In Chinese Medicine, the Liver is the Seat of Anger

When the liver is inflamed, anger, frustration, and depression can all manifest as symptoms of a greater need. Knowing this actually gave me encouragement. While it may feel icky temporarily, releasing anger in small doses, and laughing at yourself before you blow up on someone else, may actually be a sign that the liver energy is moving and flowing more freely.

I’m now on Day 5 of a cleanse, and I remember the words of Charlotte Gerson “You can’t keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.” So, I can look at this anger, sink into it, and allow it to fester, or take it as a sign that my liver is actually loosening up and letting go of that which doesn’t serve it. Perhaps as my body is shifting, so too is my mind. And ain’t that just the best thing ever?

As a side tip, you can use these Castor Oil Packs to physically help calm the liver.

Here are a Couple Natural Solutions for Anger

Not on other people, but in breath, art, dancing, kickboxing, and writing. (God knows I have written some very angry letters and burned them with glee in my day.)

Grab some Joy™ essential oil and know that there is Hope™ (essential oil) for your body, mind and spirit to be whole and just as perfect as God intended.

As someone much more kind and patient and amazing than me once said: “If no one else tells you today, know that I love you”. I often say this to myself, and now I say it to you, you miraculous soul.

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