Because slathering your chest in petroleum jelly and mystery chemicals is sooo last season. This homemade version is clean, simple, and soothing:
🌿 Eucalyptus oil clears those airways like magic.
🌬️ Peppermint oil brings the cool tingle and helps fight germs.
🥥 Coconut oil or shea butter keeps your skin soft and happy.
🐝 Beeswax keeps it firm—no goopy mess here!
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or shea butter
- 1 tbsp beeswax pellets
- 10 drops eucalyptus oil
- 5 drops peppermint oil
- Optional: 5 drops lavender or rosemary (for bonus relaxation)
Melt the coconut oil and beeswax together, remove from heat, stir in the oils, pour into a jar, and let it set. Boom—you just made your own vapor rub in under 15 minutes. 🙌
Rub a bit on your chest or under your nose (tiny bit, trust me!) and breathe in that minty goodness. It even doubles as a cooling muscle rub.
- 3 C Sugar
- 1 C Vegetable Oil
- 4 Eggs
- 3 1/3 C Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Nutmeg
- 2/3 C Water
- 1 15oz Can of Pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- Optional Alternative with Essential Oils instead of the spices:
- 6 drops of Nutmeg Vitality Essential Oil
- 2 drops of Cinnamon Bark Vitality Essential Oil
- 1-2 drops of Orange Vitality Essential Oil
- 1 drop of Clove Vitality Essential Oil (clove is optional)
- Beat sugar, oil, and eggs together.
- Beat in flour (1 cup at a time), baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Stir in water and pumpkin (don’t use a mixer for this part, it will splatter and mixture will look a little watery when finished.
- *if you are using vitality essential oils instead of spices, add your drops in after you stir the water and pumpkin together, then stir again to mix well
- Bake in 3 greased loaf pans, 350 degrees for 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let stand in pans for 10-15 minutes then remove and transfer to wire racks to cool.
- Let them cool completely before you wrap them up or store.
- They do freeze well.
Vitality oils, chicken, and lemon make a perfect combination! This roast chicken is a total crowd pleaser and wonderful as leftovers for yummy, healthy lunches.
This delicious recipe includes this Oregano Vitality, Lemon Vitality and Thyme Vitality. Remember that when cooking with Vitality essential oils, because of their potency, we recommend using only 1-2 drops at first, or even the toothpick method: Stick a toothpick through the oil dropper to absorb the oil, then swirl the toothpick through wet ingredients. Give it a taste, and gradually add more flavor to your liking.
Ingredients:
- 1 whole chicken
- 1 lemon, sliced
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 drop Oregano Vitality
- 1 drop Lemon Vitality
- 1 drop Thyme Vitality
- Salt and pepper to taste
- ½ cup organic butter or ghee
Instructions:
1. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.
2. Rinse your chicken with cold water inside and out, and dry well with paper towels.
3. Place lemon and onion slices in the bottom of an oven-safe skillet or roasting pan and in the cavity of the chicken.
4. Mix the Oregano Vitality, Lemon Vitality, Thyme Vitality, and butter together with the salt and pepper in a small bowl.
5. Rub half of your oil mix under the skin of the breast side and back side. Rub the remaining mix on the outside of your chicken. Using some kitchen twine, tie up the chicken legs and wings. This makes for more uniform cooking.
6. Place your chicken breast-side-up in the pan. Place in your preheated oven, and immediately reduce the heat to 375 degrees.
7. Roast your chicken for approximately 20 minutes per pound, or until the temperature of the breast meat registers at 180 degrees.
8. Remove the chicken from the oven, and let rest for 10 minutes in the pan. After the chicken has cooled, remove to a cutting board and let rest for an additional 10 minutes before carving. Enjoy!
