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Warm Drinks To Make With Essential Oils When It’s Cold Outside

November 23, 2015 by jennifer mcgahan Leave a Comment

Warm Drinks To Make With Essential Oils When It’s Cold Outside

warm drinks to make With Essential Oils

The best thing about cold weather is finding ways to warm up in it!

I admit it, I’m a warm weather girl and I live in Texas, so I’m a bit wimpy about the cold. To me, the best thing about winter weather is wearing boots and sweaters, sitting in front of a fire, and drinking hot tea. It’s the contrast between the cold outside and seeing how warm you can get inside… that’s what makes me happy.

There’s nothing better than wrapping your hands around a hot mug of a steamy cuppa something and letting the vapors rise just in front of your lips and nose. And on top of the delight to your senses, there are all those healthy benefits when you’re using 100% pure, therapeutic essential oils, too! Close your eyes and breathe it in… now there’s the best part of winter for you!

My favorite recipe for a warm drink using essential oils is actually pretty simple:

Thieves tea for winter wellness
Thieves Tea for Winter Wellness

Thieves Tea:

A cup of hot water + two drops of Lemon Essential Oil + one drop of Thieves™ Essential Oil… that’s it! 

Besides keeping me and my family healthy during the winter months, it’s comforting and tasty, too. We’ve all grown to love this simple tea recipe from some of the most basic essential oils, but recently I went in search of some more festive flavors of hot drinks using the beneficial oils we love. I found a few fun holiday ideas and recipes on aromatools.com and wanted to share them with you today… Enjoy!

Spiced Apple Cider with Essential Oil

Ingredients:

  • 5 red apples
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 Tbsp. ground allspice
  • 2 drops cinnamon essential oil

Instructions:

  1. Wash apples thoroughly, remove the cores, and cut them into quarters.
  2. Place apples in a large stock pot, and add sugar and allspice.
  3. Add enough water to the pot to cover the apples by 3–4 inches.
  4. Boil the apples, uncovered, for one hour, stirring occasionally; then reduce heat, and simmer for two hours.
  5. Strain out the cider by pouring the mixture through a fine mesh sieve.
  6. Stir in cinnamon essential oil.
  7. Serve cider warm, or refrigerate and serve chilled.

Peppermint Hot Chocolate

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp. sugar or other sweetener
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3/4 cup canned coconut milk (shake before opening)
  • 1 1/2 cups milk (almond or rice milk work too)
  • 1–2 drops peppermint essential oil

Instructions:

  1. In a saucepan, mix together the cocoa powder, salt, and sugar.
  2. Add coconut milk, and heat until combined.
  3. Slowly add milk while continuing to stir. Keep stirring until little bubbles start to form on the surface.
  4. Remove from heat. Allow to cool slightly. Stir in a drop or two of peppermint essential oil.
  5. Pour into mugs, and serve. Warning: it will be hot, so allow the hot chocolate to cool to a reasonable temperature before drinking.
  6. Top with whipped cream, marshmallows, chocolate chips, or ground peppermint candy.

By the way, Peppermint is one of those hot/cold oils! Check out how we stay cool in the hot summer months in Texas!

If you’d like more recipes using the oils you get in the basic starter kit of Everyday Oils, here are some recipes for green cleaning, too!

Want to know more about Young Living Essential Oils — the purest essential oils on the planet? Click the image below.

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Peppermint Essential Oil Cools Hot Austin Woman

July 27, 2015 by jennifer mcgahan Leave a Comment

Peppermint Essential Oil Cools Hot Austin Woman

keeping cool with peppermint essential oil

Peppermint is cool. And when you live in Texas, and late July rolls around, you look for anything cool you can get your hands on.

This morning I need to wash lettuce so I turned the tap to the cold setting to put a few inches of water into the sink for swishing. When I tested it, the water was not even close to cold; in fact, it was warm enough for a bath!

[Aside: if you’ve ever been to Austin, you’ve surely seen Barton Springs or some other natural spring water bubbling up around here. That water is cold; 68 – 71 degrees year round! But the well here on our property west of town reaches 650 ft. and that groundwater is warm, y’all! The earth’s rocks and the deep aquifers’ waters are tepid at best!]

Even swimming pools are warm these days. So how do you ever get cool besides jumping into a spring? You swig some iced peppermint water, for starts.

Peppermint Essential Oil In Your Water Bottle*

I love that first bracing cold swig. It literally feels cold in your mouth, and immediately wakes you up. The phytochemical make-up of peppermint essential oil causes the skin to feel cool then warm, just like when a health practitioner alternates using cold packs then heat packs to sooth discomfort of muscles.

That physical sensation of coolness is for real when you’re using plant oil that comes from a living peppermint plant. There’s no mistaking it.

Now, I don’t know exactly why Peppermint feels so good when you have a tension headache or are feeling cloudy, funky or stressed. But it’s true; when you rub some peppermint oil on your forehead or the back of your neck, that tingly feeling feels amazing. Not only is the ever-present sensation comforting, it even distracts you from any discomfort you felt before.

Pliny liked peppermint oil

 

Peppermint Essential Oil Exhilarates Your Body, Mind and Spirit

And grogginess? It’s gone! Pliny liked peppermint oil. (Say that five times fast.)

[Tweet “Peppermint oil’s mental benefits have been proven and praised for centuries.”]

The purifying and stimulating fragrance opens the airways and enhances circulation to the brain. If your attention is lagging, your focus is off, and your motor skills aren’t at their peak; you can rub some peppermint oil onto your temples and behind the ears to enhance alertness. My late afternoon running-around is perkier with peppermint oil in the car.

I mentioned the physical sensation of peppermint oils in your drinking water and applied topically, but here’s a fact I never knew before: Peppermint oil boosts your workouts, too! According to this study…

The results were actually pretty surprising. You might expect a boost, but the extent that peppermint consumption improved performance was considerable. The oil improved exercise performance, respiratory function, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory gas exchange. It also reduced resting blood pressure and heart rate. The amount of total work performed by the test subjects was increased by a whopping 51%, including an increase in the time to exhaustion of about 25%. So not only did the subjects go for a quarter longer than they did without the peppermint oil, their work rate per unit time was higher too. In other words, they went faster for longer.

Those are the main ways I use peppermint oil in our household, but do your research. There are dozens of other applications and benefits:

  • Relieves sore muscles
  • Aids healthy digestion
  • Suppresses your appetite, giving you the sensation of fullness
  • Helps memory and concentration
  • Lowers acidity in the body
  • Maintains healthy respiratory function

Hot summer months are a great time to sample some uber-cooling and awakening peppermint oil by Young Living.

*By the way, I’m only talking about water made from Young Living Peppermint Oil. The Seed To Seal™ Guarantee assures 100% purity, so I feel good about ingesting it. I wouldn’t swig water with any other brand’s oil. I just wouldn’t take the chance. And be sure to drink out of a glass container. Plastic’s no good with ingested oils.

*The FDA has not analyzed this statement for accuracy. This statement is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or heal any known or suspected disease. Consult your doctor.

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