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Ways to Use Peppermint Essential Oil

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When you start looking up popular scents to use during the holiday season, one of the most common scents is going to be peppermint. This works great in most seasonal DIY products since it smells just like a candy cane, but can also have a variety of health benefits as well. Here are some different ways to use peppermint essential oil.

Make Seasonal Gifts

The first way you can use peppermint essential oil is with seasonal gifts. The holiday season and winter holidays like Christmas really use peppermint a lot. This is not only a fresh and clean scent, but it is often used in blends for candy canes and Christmas-tree scented blends. You can make seasonal gifts with peppermint like foot lotion, body scrubs, bath salts and bath bombs, and even car air fresheners. The options truly are endless.

Ease Your Cold and Allergy Symptoms

Peppermint is not only wonderful to smell and a great addition to any holiday DIY gift, but it also has quite a few health benefits. The first benefit is that it can help ease symptoms related to seasonal illnesses, including the cold, flu, and allergies. Peppermint can clear your sinuses, help relieve muscle aches and pains, reduce your headaches, and just give you a better feeling overall.

Get a Boost of Energy

Another health benefit of peppermint essential oil is the fact that it can boost your energy. If you have ever used hand or foot cream that smelled of peppermint, you already know the impact it has on your senses. This is a fresh, clean scent that really invigorates your senses. By using peppermint essential oil daily, especially in the morning, it gives you a natural boost of energy that can help get your day started and help you get through the day.

Relieve Muscle Pain

Lastly, peppermint essential oil is wonderful for muscle aches and pains. Not just those related to your head cold or allergies, but any aches and pains you have. You can put it in a diffuser for the aromatherapy benefits, or make your own bath salts with the oils to relax in an Epsom salt bath and get the benefits there. The more often you use the peppermint oil for muscle pain, the more effective it is going to be. Plus, when you add them to a bath, you have other health benefits at the same time.

 

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Essential Oil Scents for the Fall

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If you are a big fan of essential oils, fall is a great time to incorporate them more into your life. The following information not only provides individual oil scents that are perfect for this season, but some ideas for blending them together into unique scents that are perfect for this cozy time of year.

Individual Fall Scents

The first thing you should do if you want to start using fall scents is to figure out which essential oils are going to achieve this. You have two main options: go with individual scents or choose a blend. Manny of the popular essential oil companies mix blends for you, where they will smell like a forest, fall air, cinnamon, or pumpkin spice. However, if you don’t want to go this direction, you can instead use those individual scents. Here are some that are perfect for fall:

Cinnamon

Lemon

Sweet orange

Fir

Eucalyptus

Clove

Vanilla

Tea Tree

Rosemary

Peppermint

Pine

Frankincense

Bergamot

Fall Essential Oil Blends

Another thing you might want to do is use a blend. You can mix up your own blend depending on how you want the certain essential oil product to smell, or get a pre-made blend. This is a great time to start experimenting with different combinations until you figure out what works best. When making your own blends, the stronger scents like fir and eucalyptus should be used less, and the milder scents like orange and vanilla can be used more.

Here are some different scent combinations to achieve the essential oil blends you want:

Pumpkin Spice – For a pumpkin spice blend, try combing clove oil with nutmeg and cinnamon. This is a very basic blend of scents that tend to smell just like pumpkin spice.

Fall Air – For a blend that smells like those warm fall evening walks outdoors, try fir or eucalyptus with sweet orange and your choice of spices, like either nutmeg or clove.

Autumn Spice – Another spice combination is more heavily spiced with cinnamon, plus some sweetness added to the mix. This autumn spice can have cinnamon oil, along with clove, vanilla, and sweet orange or lemon.

Play around with the different essential oils until you come up with blends you love for the fall season. Use them with all your DIY products or just add the blend to a diffuser so that it smells just like fall in your home every day.

 

 

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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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ArtNaturals Aromatherapy Essential Oils

Essential oils are one of the most popular options for people who follow a natural and holistic lifestyle. However, everything in your life doesn’t need to be completely holistic just to use essential oils. They really provide so many benefits, from helping to improve your skin, to relieving ailments like cramps, headaches, and sunburns. In the summertime, there are some unique uses for oils, like making your own balms for your natural first aid kit.

You can buy the essential oils individually, but it also helps to start with a set of them, such as these from ArtNaturals. You get a set of 6 of the more popular oils for a great starter kit.

About the ArtNaturals Aromatherapy Essential Oils

This ArtNaturals aromatherapy essential oils set comes with 6 pure essential oil bottles. These are smaller bottles, so if you are packing up for a hike or camping trip, they will be really easy to bring with you. You are going to get 10ml bottles in the following scents:

Frankincense
Lavender
Tea Tree
Eucalyptus
Peppermint
Rosemary

These oils can be used in an essential oil diffuser, applied directly to the skin with a carrier oil, added to your bath, or even used to make herbal tea. They can be used for the scent as aromatherapy oils, or used on your skin for various wounds and ailments.

Ways to Use These Essential Oils

Here is a simple breakdown of what each of these 6 ArtNaturals essential oils can do for you:

Frankincense – This is a good essential oil for fatigue and skin problems when you are on your hike.
Lavender – You can use your lavender essential oils in the summertime when you need some stress relief or to help with burns and scrapes on the skin.
Tea Tree – Use tea tree oil for any skin issues you have, from acne to infections.
Eucalyptus – Eucalyptus essential oil is excellent for the cold or flu, as well as helping with dandruff.
Peppermint – If you get a sunburn or have indigestion or headaches during the summer heat, you can find relief with the peppermint essential oil.
Rosemary – With rosemary, you get a calming and refreshing experience, as well as an oil that helps with arthritic pain.

What We Thought About Them

We really enjoyed this set of ArtNaturals aromatherapy essential oils. It comes with pure oils in all the primary scents you want to use.