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Holiday Essential Oil Blends

Essential oils  provide a lot of benefits, from helping to deodorize rooms in your home in a more natural way, to helping ease anxiety and depression, and providing various physical health benefits. While you can use them year-round, there are some scents that are exceptional during the holiday season. You can either make your own blends from these various scents, or get blends already mixed for you.

With the blends, you know what you are getting and can save time and money by not experimenting with all your expensive oils. One excellent set of blends for the holidays is this Holiday Essential Oil Blends set by Prairie Essential.

About the Prairie Essential Holiday Oil Blends

This set of essential oil blends comes with 3 different blends all providing different holiday-inspired essential oil blends. The essential oils used in these blends are pure essential oils, not just fragrance oils like some scents have. Each of the three bottles is glass, so it will keep your blended oils fresh. They contain 5ml of scents in each bottle. The holiday scents are good for both fall and winter.

The blends you get with the Prairie Essential Holiday Oil Blends include Pumpkin Spice, Happy Holidays, and Fall Leaves. Each of the oils have been steam-pressed to provide the healthiest oils possible. No additives or fillers have been used with these blends.

The pumpkin spice blend is made with nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, orange, and ginger.

Your fall leaves essential oil blend has a mix of ginger, patchouli, and sweet orange scents.

Finally, the happy holidays blend uses cinnamon bark, cassia, nutmeg, wild orange, and pine needle essential oils.

Ways to Use These Essential Oils

If you are not familiar with using blends, you should know that they can be used in the same ways as pure essential oils. Just like your individual oils, you need to use a carrier oil with these blends if you are going to apply them directly to the skin. Experiment with different carrier oils until you find one that works great for you.

There are many ways to use the blends, from putting them into a diffuser so that you can smell the pumpkin, leaves, or holiday spices in your home, or add them to your bath for a luxurious seasonal relaxation session.

What We Liked About Them

Many oil blends actually use fragrance oils instead of pure essential oils, and they do not contain the same benefits. We loved that these use therapeutic-grade essential oils, so the smell was fragrant and just as strong as you are expecting.

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Sweet Orange Essential Oil

Essential oils provide a natural way to make your home smell great, relax your stress and anxiety, help with physical ailments, and provide scent and health benefits in various DIY products. There are many different scents to choose from, from classic scents like lavender and chamomile, to outdoorsy scents like eucalyptus and fir.

In the fall season, you might want to use individual scents or blends that provide all those seasonal feelings, like spices and woodsy scents. One thing you will notice in many of the fall blends is that you need a little citrus and sweetness to balance out the scents, both of which you will get from sweet orange.

We like to recommend the Sweet Orange essential oil by Artizen.

About the Sweet Orange Essential Oil

This is a high-quality, pure essential oil in the scent of sweet orange. IT is very potent, so keep that in mind when adding it to your diffuser or bath directly, or when you intend to use it for blends. If you do want to make an essential oil blend with the sweet orange, add just one drop at a time to see how the combination of scents is working out for you.

The Sweet Orange essential oil is 100% pure, which means it can’t come into contact with your skin without first diluting it. Even if you put it in your bath, you should have it diluted first with a carrier oil, like grapeseed or olive oil. This comes in a 4-ounce amber glass bottle, the perfect size when purchasing individual essential oils.

Ways to Use This Oil

The Sweet Orange essential oil can be used just like any other oil. You have the option of making DIY products for your bath or skin, as long as you use the right carrier oil. You can blend it with other fall or seasonal scents, like nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, or fir, and make a variety of scents. It can also be used on its own in a diffuser if you prefer going the aromatherapy route.

This is an excellent oil scent to add to your collection. Sweet orange is a good combination of sweet and citrus, and works particularly well with woodsy and spiced scents. We felt it was a great size, the oil was as potent as expected, and that it had very good quality. As far as individual oils go, this is one we would recommend.

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The Stress-Proof Brain Book

Everyone deals with stress, that should come as no surprise. But unfortunately, many people deal with it on a much higher level than others. If you feel like your stress is so severe that it is affecting your mental or physical health, it is time to do something about it. One great way to get help for your stress is with books like The Stress-Proof Brain Book.

About the Stress-Proof Brain Book

The Stress-Proof Brain Book is not just your ordinary self-help book. It is going to provide a lot of science-backed information, tools, skills, and knowledge that will help you reduce your stress levels for good, which can also help with anxiety and depression. This book goes over what happens in your brain when you experience stress, so it isn’t just a self-help book, but is actually going to show you the science and psychology behind the tools you will learn.

You also learn a lot about mindfulness and its positive impact on your stress levels, from how to change your responses to stressful situations, to changing your mindset, stopping negative thinking, and avoiding things like avoidance and tunnel vision when you get stressed or deal with anxiety. This allows you to improve your thought processes overall and start living a stress-free life.

While nobody can have a completely stress-free life, it will help you cope with stressful situations. No longer will they consume you and you can have more natural and healthy responses.

Reasons to Get This Book

Anyone with high levels of stress or any other mental health disorder should get the Stress-Proof Brain Book. It is not only going to give you the tools you need to handle stress, but it really delves deep into the science involving mindful thinking, and can help you with other mental health issues. The techniques you learn from this book can help whether you have emotional stress, anxiety and panic attacks, or even depression. Suddenly all those negative thoughts and worries that were consuming you don’t seem so bad, and you can handle them a lot better.

What We Thought About it

We really recommend this Stress-Proof Brain Book to anyone with stress or anxiety. It can help give you the skills you need to deal with all those curveballs life likes to throw at you. You can’t avoid them entirely, but you can develop healthier ways to cope with them.

 

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The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

Anxiety is a very common mental health disorder that millions of people suffer from around the world. While it can be frustrating dealing with a lot of anxious thoughts and side effects like panic attacks, there is hope for you. Among the different ways to deal with your anxiety on a daily basis, you can use books, journals, and planners to get your life in order and figure out what triggers your anxieties and phobias.

One great way to do that is with the Anxiety and Phobia Workbook. Here are some things to know about this workbook so you can decide if it is a good option for you.

About the Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

First things first, let’s look at what you get with the Anxiety and Phobia Workbook. This workbook provides everything you need to get started on dealing with anxiety disorders, panic attacks, and the resulting phobias. There is actual clinical research involved in the making of this book, so you know it is going to be helpful if you are someone struggling with a lot of anxiety and irrational phobias. You can get help with your fears and worries just by using the workbook consistently.

There are many areas of the workbook that you can use to your advantage. For example, there is a section of deep breathing techniques, showing you how to do them and giving you the option to exercise them. Through the workbook, you also learn about stopping your negative thoughts, using imagery to stop panic attacks, and making healthy lifestyle changes like exercising and eating better. All of this together is put into a workbook that helps you handle your anxiety.

Ways to Use This Workbook

This book is of course recommended for anyone with anxiety, but especially those who have severe panic attacks, extreme worry, or who have phobias associated with their anxiety. By using the workbook, it is meant to help you get around these phobias and start to live your life without anxiety keeping you from doing the things you want.

If you have phobias like hypochondria or agoraphobia, it often keeps you inside your house, afraid to leave for work or spend time with friends. This can really put a damper on your work, personal, and social life. Use this book to get help with your anxiety and phobias, along with other mental health issues like stress and depression.

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Organic Green Tea Leaves

Green tea is revered as being one of the healthiest things you can consume. It helps with relieving headaches, giving you energy, balancing out your hormone levels, improving digestion and so much more. You have two main options when it comes to using green tea, whether using it for DIY products or to actually make the tea to drink. These options include tea bags or loose tea leaves.

It is a great idea to make your green tea from the tea leaves themselves, as no extra processing is done to put them into the tea bags. These leaves can be crushed and used for natural beauty products, or you can steep tea with them. A good option to choose are the organic green tea leaves by Vahdam Teas.

About the Green Tea Leaves

The green tea leaves from Vahdam teas are completely natural and organic. They come from green tea plants located in the Himalayas. These tea leaves are great for using as a detox tea, weight loss, or using for your different summer natural beauty products. They are 100 percent natural and fresh, and come in a 3.53 ounce package. This allows you to brew about 50 cups of green tea with the leaves.

These tea leaves have a mild, delicious flavor if you decide to drink the tea. They also have a lingering scent, so they are perfect for all those DIY products using green tea as well. These were hand-plucked from the Himalayas to provide you only the best leaves available.

Ways to Use the Leaves

We love green tea in general because of how many different health benefits it has, plus all the different ways you can use it. With these organic tea leaves, there is enough to make natural beauty products for summer, and have plenty left to drink the tea.

Green tea is great when you use it as a rinse for your hair, once you let it cool. You can also use ground green tea leaves in things like handmade soap, lotion bars, or bath bombs. There really are an endless amount of options available.

Why We Loved Them

We really enjoyed the freshness and organic quality of these green tea leaves. When you open up the container, they have a faint aroma, and of course make a delicious cup of tea. Give them a try and you won’t be worry.

 

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