Essential Oils for Self-Care

Currently not using essential oils for self-care? Stop what you're doing and listen — you're missing out. Majorly.

First things first, regularly and practically approaching self-care is a great way to create habit-forming behaviors that can impact and change your overall mental and physical health. In a world full of stress, chaos, twists and turns, and lots of surprises — having a self-care routine to fall back into and rely on is so critically important.

While self-care can look different for everyone, one practical self-care tool that I recommend is aromatherapy. By using essential oils, you can help your emotional well-being, help your body detoxify, and improve your mental focus while offering other healing facets for your life. No matter what you're dealing with in life — there is an essential oil that you can use.

Essential Oil Benefits:

If you're new to essential oils, especially using essential oils for self-care, there are three basic ways to reap the benefits:

• Aromatically: If you're using essential oils for self-care aromatically, I recommend using a diffuser or combing essential oils with water or witch hazel in a bottle to spray around your home. Additionally, you can add essential oils to wall balls that you can toss into the laundry.
• Internally: I use essential oils when cooking, which is excellent, but you could use a vegetable capsule to consume essential oils or even dilute it in water.  
• Topically: If you're looking to apply essential oils to your skin, I always recommend using a carrier oil like coconut oil to help dilute it.
  
  Personally, I can only recommend doTERRA when it comes to those three forms of essential oils — doTERRA is my favorite.

Now you know about my love for essential oils for self-care purposes, so check out these eight essential oils to have in your home:

1. DoTERRA Lavender

Firstly, one of the most widely grown essential oil crops in the world, lavender is a must-have essential oil for self-care. Made by distilling lavender's dried flowers, lavender aromatherapy oil is bountiful in its beneficial properties.

According to the National Institute of Health, lavender essential oils have anxiolytic, anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, antioxidant, and antimicrobial effects. Furthermore, the National Institute of Health has said that "Herbal products like lavender essential oils may offer a solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance, invasive treatments, side effects, or even drug addiction."

Here are some of the benefits of using lavender essential oils for self-care:

• Antioxdant protection 
• Helps treat diabetes 
• Improves mood and reduces stress 
• Supports brain function 
• Treats burns and cuts 
• Promotes healthy skin and hair 
• Relieves headaches
• Improves sleep and insomnia 
• Relieves pain 
• Works as a complementary therapy for cancer 

Ready to never look at essential oils for self-care the same way again? Check out DoTERRA's lavender essential oil here.

2. DoTERRA Peppermint

Who says you can only use peppermint oils during the holidays? Not I. In fact, I recommend peppermint essential oils for self-care all the time. Why? Check out the variety of ways to use peppermint oil. For example, peppermint oil is used to:

• Promote healthy respiratory function and clear breathing (when used internally)
• Promote digestive health
• Repel bugs naturally

Additionally, when you're using peppermint essential oils for self-care, don't underestimate peppermint oil and its capabilities to help with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), nausea, common colds, and headaches.

Ways to use peppermint oil for self-care:

• Applied topically (on the skin)
• Diffused in the form of essential oil
• Ingested orally in tablet or capsule form
• Applied intranasally (putting droplets inside the nose)

With all that said though, It’s important to be careful that you are not ingesting peppermint essential oil. You should always check with a doctor before consuming peppermint oil in any form or applying it topically.

Check out DoTERRA's peppermint essential oil here.

3. DoTERRA OnGuard

Want to protect and boost your immune system? You need to try the OnGuard essential oil for self-care. This oil is one that is perfect to use during the winter months. And to get the most benefit from OnGuard, plan to utilize this oil aromatically, internally, or topically.

According to DoTERRA, these are some of the primary benefits of OnGuard essential oils:

• Supports healthy immune function when used internally.
• Supports the body’s natural antioxidant defenses when ingested.
• Serves as a powerful surface cleaner.
• Provides an energizing and uplifting aroma
  
  Where you're scrubbing your kitchen counter surface with On Guard or you're smelling a zesty, energizing aroma in your home, On Guard has multiple purposes that will make your essential oil self-care routine even more relaxing and enjoyable.

4. DoTERRA DigestZen

Suffering from indigestion or bloating? DigestZen is an incredible essential oil for self-care because it is perfect for combating stomach issues.

What other benefits stem from DigestZen? Here are a few examples:

• DigestZen supports healthy digestion when used internally.
• It soothes occasional upset stomach when used internally.
• DigestZen helps reduce gas and occasional indigestion.
• DigestZen provides a comforting abdominal massage with a spicy, sweet, and minty aroma.

Comprised of peppermint, coriander, ginger, caraway, cardamon, anise, and fennel — DigestZen is a must-have essential oil for self-care in your medicine cabinet at home.

5. doTERRA Breathe

It's time to throw out that nasty vapor rub you picked up from your local drugstore. Opt for something much better — doTERRA Breathe.

A phenomenal essential oil for self-care, Breathe helps clear your breathing when you apply it to your chest or diffuse it in the air. Here are some additional benefits of DoTERRA's popular Breathe oil:

• Maintains feelings of clear airways and easy breathing
• Creates a restful environment.
• Helps minimize the effects of seasonal threats

To get the most out of this essential oil for self-care, use DoTERRA in the following ways:

• Diffuse, inhale directly from the palms, or rub on the chest or feet.
• Use when outdoors to minimize the effects of seasonal threats.
• Diffuse at bedtime for a restful environment.

If you're looking to breathe easy, absolutely include doTERRA Breathe in your essential oils self-care routine.

6. doTERRA Adaptiv

Looking for a calming blend to add to your essential oils for self-care repertoire? Look no further than doTERRA's Adaptiv.

A magical essential oil blend that will help settle the anxieties of the day, this essential oil will help you improve your attention while simultaneously easing the body and mind. This essential oil is perfect to take before a big board meeting or a high-stress situation. If you want to stay cool as a cucumber, doTERRA's Adaptiv has your back.

Ingredients in this essential oil include wild orange, lavender, copaiba, spearmint, magnolia, rosemary, neroli, and sweetgum. This results in an amazing Adaptiv blend that will benefit you by:

• Increasing feelings of tranquility
• Soothing and uplifting moods
• Providing a calming and relaxing aroma

According to doTERRA, the Adaptiv Calming Blend is "part of the toolbox to help the body and mind to stay balanced — even when you're feeling fatigued, restless, indecision, or irritable."

7. doTERRA Frankincense

Familiar with Frankincense? It's the "king of all oils," after all. Why does this essential oil for self-care get such a position reputation? It can help with so many things including skin imperfections, supporting healthy cellular function, and encouraging healthy immune, nervous, and digestive systems.

Known for having a warm, spicy aroma that easily creates a relaxing atmosphere, Frankincense is the holy grail of essential oils for just about anything. In fact, according to the National Library of Medicine, this essential oil is believed to have the following effects:

• Anti-inflammatory
• Antiseptic
• Anxiolytics
• Anti-neurotic
• Expectorant

8. doTERRA Lemon

Although lemon essential oils are some of the most popular essential oils on the market, I can't help but praise these essential oils for self-care enough.

Firstly, the smell of fresh lemon is just so zesty and fresh — it makes me happy. Secondly, I love the different ways I can use lemon essential oils in my day-to-day life. For example, I use lemon oils to do everything from cleaning my kitchen to adding drops to my water bottle. And last but not least, I love being able to use lemon essential oils for self-care in the kitchen — lemon-inspired recipes are endless, after all.

Curious about the benefits of lemon essential oils for self-care? Check out what doTERRA lemon does:

• Cleanses and purifies the air and household surfaces.
• Naturally cleanses the body and aids in digestion when taken internally.
• Provides an uplifting, positive aroma.

Make essential oils essential to your everyday life

There is SO much to learn about essential oils — especially when you're trying to identify the best essential oils for self-care. Whether you're looking for pure relaxation or something to give you a boost while melting away stress, I promise you that an essential oil exists for you and your needs.

If you're new to essential oils or you're looking to dive deeper into using these life-changing oils, Moodporium is here to help. Reach out to me and let's find you an essential oils remedy worth celebrating!

*Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.