Essential oils have become a huge part of my everyday life. It’s easy to replace so many things with an essential oil and I feel good doing it. The Young Living essential oils have changed the way I think of chemicals, medication, and more, so it’s natural to want to talk about it with everyone. We’ve been traveling a lot lately. With a lot of weekend getaways, I have a standard list of things to pack. This past weekend I realized I couldn’t possibly leave on a trip without some of the best essential oils for travel. Because traveling can throw us into so many different environments, but packing space can be limited, I narrowed it down to my top 6 essential oils for travel.
If you’re not familiar with Young Living, then the very best thing for you to do is get started with a Premium Starter Kit. It comes with 11 essential oils, a diffuser, Thieves cleaner sample, Ningxia samples, and everything you need to dive into the essential oil world. It can be intimidating at first, but I’m happy to help in every way possible!
TOP ESSENTIAL OILS FOR TRAVEL
STRESS AWAY
I don’t necessarily like to “rank” my essential oils, but Stress Away is absolutely one of the must-have essential oils for travel. We all know traveling can be extremely stressful. Whether it’s delayed flights, poor traveling conditions, or just the fear of getting from point A to point B, it can be stressful. The Stress Away roll-on is perfect for every type of travel out there, whether it’s car, train, boat, plane, whatever.
There was a recent week that I felt like I was wearing it as an everyday perfume because one, I was that stressed and two, it actually works really well for me. I roll the Stress Away on behind my ears, on the back of my neck, and onto my wrists. The peppermint in the essential oil blend is also helpful with head tension or just giving that good-feel energy boost.
I usually put it on about 30 minutes before traveling and then I keep it in my purse throughout the trip. I love rolling it on my wrists when I just need a quick breather in the middle of the day. Coming from a girl who’s nerves (gotta stay FDA compliant with my words) have continued to increase every year of my adult life, this is definitely one of the best essential oils for travel.
THIEVES
Everyone. Needs. Thieves. When I travel, I bring the small spray bottle, my hand sanitizer, and the Thieves Vitality essential oil. The plant-based ingredients are naturally derived and help keep me healthy in so many different ways. The Thieves spray is my favorite on the plane. I spray the armchairs, tables, and seatbelt. Call me crazy, but I even bring it with me to the bathroom. Before eating, I always use the waterless Thieves hand purifier.
The Thieves Vitality oil supports my immune system, keeping me healthy throughout my travels. With all the different environments and germs, it’s easy to catch something (just ask my friend that got off a week-long cruise with a horrible cold). It can be added to any morning juice, coffee, or tea. The sweet and spicy flavor is the perfect essential oil for a regular wellness regimen. I know you’ll fall in love with the entire Thieves cleaning line with Young Living.
DIGIZE VITALITY
Speaking of health, I’m the first to admit my diet is a lot different on vacay than it is when I’m at home. I drink too much, eat all the carbs, and probably request the dessert menu more than once. I have a pretty sensitive stomach sometimes, but DiGize has helped me so much!
DiGize Vitality blends Tarragon, Ginger, Peppermint, Juniper, Fennel, Lemongrass, Anise, and Patchouli. When we were recently in Lucerne, Switzerland, my stomach was feeling so upset. I know it was from over-indulgence, not enough water, and foods that my body isn’t familiar with on a daily basis. I added two drops of DiGize to hot water after our meal and it was a lifesaver. It can also be added in a capsule and taken orally on a daily basis as part of a regular wellness regimen. Having it with me is just a stress-reliever knowing that it’ll calm my stomach if needed.
LAVENDER
Lavender is one of my all-time favorite oils. It’s the oil that convinced me to start trying more essential oils. The versatility of lavender essential oil makes it such a great travel companion. The fresh, floral, and calming scent comes with me so I can continue my evening routine while on vacation. I rub the lavender on the bottom of my feet to set the stage for a restful atmosphere, leaving me refreshed the next morning.
Again, if you’re new to the essential oil world, start off with lavender. You’ll find yourself using it in so many different ways.
DEEP RELIEF
If your travels are extra busy or you’re squeezing in workouts in between pina coladas, Deep Relief roll-on will be your best friend. I keep it in my bag at all times when I need a refreshing pick-me-up. The mix of Peppermint and Wintergreen provide the cooling sensation that makes me feel ready to take on the day, anywhere in the world.
It can be rolled onto the back of your neck or behind the ears. A quick roll onto your temples or chest will also give you the recharge you’re looking for in the middle of all the fun you have on vacation!
YOUR FAVORITE ESSENTIAL OIL
At the end of the day, essential oils are a personal part of your life. You might find yourself drawn to a certain oil throughout different seasons of life and that means something! I’ve also heard if you don’t like the smell of an essential oil, you probably need it in your life more than you know. So when you’re packing up for your travels, don’t forget the one oil that you’re drawn to right now.
Lately, Valor has been giving me a daily positive boost. I love the way it smells and the good energy that follows. It’s a unique blend of Black Spruce, Blue Tansy, Camphor Wood, Geranium, and Frankincense and I’m obsessed with diffusing it or using my roller first thing in the morning.
VACATION SPECIFIC ESSENTIAL OILS
Whether you’re headed to the beach, renting a cabin in the mountains, or heading out on a walking tour in Europe, there are different essential oils for travel all over the world. Here are a few quick suggestions:
Beach Vacation: Bring along Frankincense as part of your skincare routine
Walking Tours/City Vacations: Soothe your sore muscles with PanAway.
Road Trip: Purification and/or Citrus Fresh to keep the car smelling fresh.
Woodsy Vacay: Bring TeaTree oil to help you enjoy the outdoors annoyance-free!
Don't forget to bring these 6 Young Living essential oils with you on your next trip! I woke up to 4 NEW items announced from Young Living!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Now I can get myself a Christmas present! 💎❤
They will be available starting THURSDAY 12-6-18 at 8:00 A.M. Mountain Time!!!
The CHARCOAL GRAY LANTERN DIFFUSER looks so elegant and it comes with a 15 ml RC and a 15 ml Purification?
I love my white one!!!
I love my white one!!!
Is it time to give YOURSELF a gift with a fabulous FOOT SCRUB without the time of a DIY? You deserve it!
Plus try Einkorn crackers for your holiday parties: If you haven't tried this ancient, healthy grain, these are delicious.
AND YL will have special kitty treats. My cats love the other ones so I'm excited to try these!
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Here are the details. Quick order only and they won't last long so order quick. 
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:)CHARCOAL GRAY LANTERN DIFFUSER--------------------------
Our popular Lantern Diffuser is now available in gray! Our Charcoal Gray Lantern Diffuser, with its beautiful metal and glass details, adds a warm and welcoming touch to any room. It also boasts longer run times, multiple diffusing settings, and 11 light features, including an alluring candle-flicker mode. Did we mention this diffuser also functions as a humidifier and atomizer and comes with one 15-ml bottle of R.C.® and one 15-ml bottle of Purification®? Aromatherapy never looked so good!
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Our popular Lantern Diffuser is now available in gray! Our Charcoal Gray Lantern Diffuser, with its beautiful metal and glass details, adds a warm and welcoming touch to any room. It also boasts longer run times, multiple diffusing settings, and 11 light features, including an alluring candle-flicker mode. Did we mention this diffuser also functions as a humidifier and atomizer and comes with one 15-ml bottle of R.C.® and one 15-ml bottle of Purification®? Aromatherapy never looked so good!
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LAVAMINT SOFTENING FOOT SCRUB--------------------------------
Treat your feet with our new LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub!
A night of pampering can be the best way to recharge your batteries! Take your DIY spa day from decent to decadent with our new LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub!
LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub contains a unique triple-texture, water-activated formula that uses your body’s heat to transform the cool gel into a milky lotion. Featuring four natural exfoliants — black volcanic sand from Iceland, volcanic rock pumice from Italy, diatomaceous earth from the seas of Denmark, and coconut shell powder from France. This luxurious scrub reveals soft, silky, healthy-looking skin.
This foot scrub is rich in emollient and moisturizing properties, with glycerin and squalene to hydrate and condition the skin. The soothing Lavender scent combined with Peppermint’s cooling sensation refreshes and revives tired feet. LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub also pairs well with other spa-worthy Young Living personal care products, including Stress Away™, Relaxing Bath Bombs, and Easy Breeze™ Awakening Shower Steamers so you can spoil yourself from head to toe!
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Treat your feet with our new LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub!
A night of pampering can be the best way to recharge your batteries! Take your DIY spa day from decent to decadent with our new LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub!
LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub contains a unique triple-texture, water-activated formula that uses your body’s heat to transform the cool gel into a milky lotion. Featuring four natural exfoliants — black volcanic sand from Iceland, volcanic rock pumice from Italy, diatomaceous earth from the seas of Denmark, and coconut shell powder from France. This luxurious scrub reveals soft, silky, healthy-looking skin.
This foot scrub is rich in emollient and moisturizing properties, with glycerin and squalene to hydrate and condition the skin. The soothing Lavender scent combined with Peppermint’s cooling sensation refreshes and revives tired feet. LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub also pairs well with other spa-worthy Young Living personal care products, including Stress Away™, Relaxing Bath Bombs, and Easy Breeze™ Awakening Shower Steamers so you can spoil yourself from head to toe!
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GARY'S TRUE GRIT® EINKORN CRACKERS------------------------These wholesome crackers are a hearty, delicious snack available in two unbeatable flavors: Tomato & Herb and Sea Salt. These crackers bring the subtly sw
eet taste of one of the world’s most ancient grains to your holiday table. Available for a limited time only, grab a box or two before they’re gone!
eet taste of one of the world’s most ancient grains to your holiday table. Available for a limited time only, grab a box or two before they’re gone!Tomato & Herb Item No.: 25115
Sea Salt Item No: 25113
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Sea Salt Item No: 25113
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FESTIVE FELINE SET------------------------------------------------------Our Festive Feline Set is available! The set includes our tasty, crunchy, convenient Animal Scents® Cat Treats in gorgeous, new royal blue packaging and three delightful plush mouse toys. How can your feline resist? These gifts are great for your own furry friends as well as other animal lovers who love pampering their pets.Item No.: 22914Wholesale Price: $8.75
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As a reminder, if you use YL Choice shipping, be sure to complete your order before the holiday shipping order cutoff for YL Choice shipping at 11:59 p.m., MT, tomorrow.
I had two questions before I hit the purchase button on my oils kit:
Why are they so expensive?
Are these going to work for me?
I found these answers after I purchased. And here’s what I found…
Young Living costs what they cost because they are THE BEST essential oils on the planet. Gary Young chose network marketing as the business model for Young Living so that someone would have to SHOW you what Lavender can do for you before they bought it (that’s why we like our oily classes).
He couldn’t bring himself to put his $23 bottle of Lavender EO next to the $6 bottle on the shelf and not having us know WHY. Young Living doesn’t craft its oils for profit but for purpose. And only the people that actually use them can testify.
They aren’t filled with synthetics or cut to make more for profit. You are getting the actually life blood of the lavender plant in a Young Living Lavender essential oil. They have a Seed to Seal quality control plan that I’ve seen with my own eyes at their distillery. They spray other pure oils on their crops so as to not use pesticides. It’s amazing. And, like many others, if you tried store bought oils, and saw no results it will lead you to my next question,
will Young Living oils work for me?
I kept thinking, how are these oils any different. How and why would Young Living essential oils work for me when the other kind didn’t? Again, this couldn’t have been answered before I got them. I know now through my research that our bodies react so perfectly and are supported so wonderfully by what is natural. That’s why it’s called natural. It comes easy. No hard work. But the first question kind of answers the second. Young Living’s work so beautifully because they are pure, so you’re basically getting the plant. And we know from science that plants carry medicinal properties.
Why did I end up purchasing? Because I was a desperate mama. My family needed something good for their bodies, which I instinctively knew was out there. I couldn’t get to the answer of my migraines or allergies and a host of other little, seemingly unimportant problems. So I dove. I thought, what do I have to lose? $160? That was nothing compared to the confusion and frustration I had been going through. I have tried everything else and my family's health depended on it.
What’s funny is that months before, I had been given samples of Young Living from a distant friend. I “tried” them for my allergies and I didn’t see any changes. And by tried I mean I put some Lemon EO in my water and rubbed Peppermint on my chest. Loved how they smelled and tasted but didn’t clear up the allergies. Some people have seasonal issues and some have deep seated problems and the outcome are allergies. My eyes have been opened up to a world of knowledge about my body through Young Living and I’m forever grateful. I now use several methods including oils and Young Living’s oil infused supplements to support my sinuses. So let that be encouragement to others who have “tried oils” and they didn’t seem to work. You can’t eat some broccoli and expect to have a healthy outcome. You have to make it a lifestyle.
Essential oils support EVERY system of your body! They support areas in which you deal with mental clarity, emotional balance, focus and hyperactivity, muscles, bones and joints, skin, gut health, sleep, pregnancy, aging, cell regeneration, eye health, everything! They have no side effects, and boost your mood. I’m going to say that’s a win win. We have tons of resources backed by ACTUAL SCIENCE, not just what the news puts out there, that support of all this. And we provide constant education from our other members. It truly is the best starting place for a better life in every area. I hope one day you’ll take that leap of faith, because I know with the right tools, you won’t be disappointed.
Inconsistency
Essential oils are not medicine. They have been given the name “natural medicine” but as far as our modern definition of medicine goes, they are not. One thing that was hard from me and for so many other people at first is breaking the habit of treating essential oils like modern medicine.
We get sick, we go to the doctor, we are prescribed “medicine” we take it for a specific amount of time and then we stop.
Essential oils are a lifestyle. They are the equivalent to fruits and vegetables. Heck, some are! We have Carrot essential oil, Lemon EO, Basil, etc. Essential oils are a way of supplying our bodies with what it needs to function properly. Modern medicine is a way of treating or trying to fix a symptom of an underlying cause.
SYMPTOM - UNDERLYING CAUSE
Coughing - body trying to rid itself of foreign organism/bacteria
Fever - body trying to kill off unwanted or dangerous microorganisms with high temperature
Runny nose - body using mucus to drain the nasal passages of bad or unwanted bacteria
The list goes on…
Essential oils provide our body with weapons, tools, + more power, to rid the body or protect it from the bad stuff; yeast, parasites, bad bacteria overgrowth in the gut or other areas of the body, viruses, etc.
And with the use of essential oils, the time spent coughing, and having a fever, or the body doing its job in other ways, is lowered tremendously.
Essential oils are to be used consistently. Daily. And if there is a big issue that you are dealing with, several times a day. I see so many people use essential oils like a one time band-aid and wonder why they aren’t working.
Our bodies are rapidly changing, in an exponential degree, and essential oils are metabolized every 1-3 hours. So, consistent use over time is your way to go. A lot of our body’s cell don’t regenerate for weeks, months, or years. So using essential oils + oil infused products for shorter periods will not bring about desired results.
Consistency + persistence is key!
You are treating the symptom and forgetting to help the underlying cause
Itchy, rough, dry skin… well let’s make some Lavender + Frankincense cream and put that on there! That’s a great idea actually!
BUT don’t forget to research why you have that itchy, dry skin in the first place (low iron is a cause of dry skin, but not the only cause). It’s one thing if you’ve traveled up north and your body isn’t used to the dryer climate, but it’s another if your skin is trying to tell you something is off balance internally. That’s what symptoms are. They are warning signs and signals to let us know that something isn’t quite right. Headache? Maybe it’s dehydration, or maybe your thyroid isn’t working and your hormones are off balance, causing hormonal migraines (this was me!).
THIS is why it’s SO beneficial to have a great resource guide, or to be plugged into a good community that helps answer questions and provide education. It’s our responsibility to take care of our bodies. BUT I know that we aren’t all experts in anatomy and physiology. And to balance that out, companies like Life Science Publishing and Abundant Health 4 U have created the perfect guides for us as busy moms + wives + entrepreneurs + students with all the right information at our finger tips.
If you are serious about giving this amazing, natural lifestyle a chance, you need to dig a little deeper and reveal the true cause to your symptoms.
You are looking at someone else’s situation and treating it the same as your own
Another reason why modern medicine, “let’s give everyone the same band-aid (antibiotics, a z-pack, etc.)” approach doesn’t work.
You are different than anyone else, even your sibling, even your twin! Your body and your mind are not the same as the next person, and we know from research that even our thoughts + emotions have significant effects on our physical body, dating back from conception. Thoughts are stored, physically in our body’s cells, DNA, tissue, everything! And we don’t think the same as another. So, it’s safe to say, that even though one particular method, or oil, or supplement, may work the same for you as it did another, that doesn’t mean they all will.
This is why the reference guide lists SEVERAL options to each and every issue it has information on. Maybe you’ve tried a specific oil or supplement for your concerns but haven’t moved on to another. Maybe that one didn’t work for you and you’re afraid to try something else.
FRIEND, keep trying! There is an oil for that! We just have to figure out which one works perfectly for you. This has been shown all throughout the Young Living community. People say that Lavender or Tranquil really calms them down, but others say they have more energy when using these oils.
Modern medicine doesn’t deny this either. Take Benadryl. It puts me to sleep, but it gives my son the crazies!!
Recap… keep trying friend. Just because that one oil didn’t work, doesn’t mean you’re doomed. Keep exploring!
I know I know. Everyone says they have the best pumpkin bread recipe. But seriously, this recipe really is the BEST. Don’t stray, you’ll always come back for it
Just trust me. Make it.
Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe (With a Twist!)
Cook time:
Total time:
- 3 C Sugar
- 1 C Vegetable Oil
- 4 Eggs
- 3 1/3 C Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2 drops of Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil
- 6 drops of Nutmeg Essential Oil
- 1-2 drops of Orange Essential Oil
- 1 drop of Clove Essential Oil (clove is optional)
- 2/3 C Water
- 1 15oz Can of Pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 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 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.
It’s so so good y’all. Trust me. You’ll love it!
And you can always add more or less of the oils if you prefer. Just taste test the batter beforehand and add what you like. The batter is quite delicious too. :)
