A few people have asked if they could buy some oil blends from me, but there’s always the option of getting a few oils yourself and learning to make your own recipes.
When I saw how much it cost to buy blends or just the oils from different sites, that’s when I decided to just jump in and buy my own oils and learn to make my own recipes. Another plus to buying several individual oils is you have them to use for diffusing, to make sprays, to put a drop or two in the vacuum, to add as a flavor to food, etc. I enjoy putting a drop of peppermint or lemon, or both, in my tea and it not only tastes good, but inhaling the steam is uplifting and therapeutic.
You can do a lot with just a few oils because they’re so powerful. Lavender and tea tree are two of the oils I’ve seen mentioned often in my research. I’ve noticed tea tree oil in clear glass bottles at the drug store. I’ve read that light isn’t good for the oils, so it is better to purchase your tea tree oil from a site or health food store that has their essential oils in dark, glass bottles.
In my “Healing Oils of the Bible” book it talks about the oils used in Bible times. At that time in history, frankincense and myrrh were highly prized and very expensive because of their healing powers. If I were to choose only a couple oils, I think I would get frankincense, myrrh and lavender.
You get to know the oils—for example, tea tree and lavender do about the same thing for skin problems, healing sores, as an anti-fungal, etc., but I like the smell of lavender better, so I would rather use lavender than tea tree. (Lavender is one of my favorite smells of the oils.)
There are quite a few different oils I would like to try, because I’ve read about them and what they do--but that will come with time as I can afford to add some to my collection. I just made an order to replace some of the oils I’ve gotten low on, plus I ordered a new essential oil to try—ginger. I want to try using it for flavoring in food or a drop in tea, as I really enjoy ginger and it is good for your stomach and digestion.
I just looked up some of the therapeutic properties of ginger oil and it sounds pretty good…
Can be used in the treatment of fractures, rheumatism, arthritis, bruising, carbuncles, nausea, hangovers, travel and sea sickness, colds and flu, catarrh, congestion, coughs, sinusitis, sores on the skin, sore throat, diarrhea, colic, cramps, chills and fever. Ginger oil is well suited to help ease colds and flu, nausea, motion sickness, morning sickness, muscle aches and pains, as well as poor circulation and arthritic pain. Its warming qualities are good to use for feelings of loneliness and winter depression, and its energizing properties make it a good aphrodisiac. Women in Senegal weave ginger root in the belts of their mates to increase sexual potency.
It was a bit challenging at first to figure out where to buy essential oils. There are companies that claim that their essential oils are the only “therapeutic grade” oils and that other companies distill their oils at high temperatures, which they say doesn’t produce as effective oils. I did notice, also, that some companies selling the oils for massage or perfumes have other ingredients in their oils—so they’re not 100% essential oil.
The company I ordered my oils from had such good prices I was worried that their oils might not be so good, like the comments I had read on different sites from different businesses. So I wrote them and asked about their essential oils and this is the reply I received:
Thanks for contacting us, Linda. We cannot claim our oils are therapeutic grade since this would require FDA involvement. I will cut and paste below information regarding this issue:
Grades of Essential Oils: Occasionally, customers ask what our grades of essential oils are since they cannot find this information anywhere on the website. Grades of essential oils are provided by companies that wish to hype their products and these grades are nothing more than a marketing ploy usually employed by multilevel marketing companies. There is no grade A, there is no aromatherapy grade, there is no therapeutic grade for essential oils. At this time, there's no organization in the U.S. that regulates essential oils or their uses and there's no government-recognized certification for aromatherapy in the U.S.
In conclusion, I do not know if the oils I’ve purchased are “the best”, but I’ve seen them work and they smell terrific and I’ve been having fun sharing them with others. I have not tried other, more expensive oils, so I cannot say if there is a difference in which 100% pure oils you buy. I read that even if you always buy your oils from the same company, they will vary from crop to crop, just like fine wines. The weather, rain, soil, when harvested, etc. make a difference from year to year.
