Traveling with YL

Traveling with YL
Joyful Oil Team meetings went awesome in Omaha, NE! I truly love my job. 
Love....
 that we get to teach about healthy lifestyle
 that we gain friendships across the US and beyond
 that we can travel anywhere and find opportunities
 that it can provide financial freedom 
AND my family can come with me❤️

Here are the bigs watching the littles while we do our thing! 


By the way if you are ever traveling through Omaha, NE, you MUST go to the Old Market! It's in the heart of downtown. Amazing cuisine and shops. Awesome feel and the most friendly store owners! 

The chocolates at Chocolat Abielle are out of this world! Almost too beautiful to eat, until you take your first bite...then it quickly disappears! 

They have an amazing art gallery, Mangelsen images of nature gallery. Tom Mangelsen is an award winning photographer. His images are truly stunning!


Need a massage? Check out the super cool, industrial style Victor Victoria Salon.  Kelsey Poulsen has the newest techniques available to her clients! 

Nouvelle Elle is one of many darling boutiques. 


Old Market Passageway. Felt like we were in little Italy! 

Can't wait to go back! 

He is so proud to do his hair!

He is so proud to do his hair!
I'm loving the fact that this guy can run to do his own hair and is so proud to do it!! He grabs his YL Genesis lotion and does a great job!!  No chemicals on this boy's head! Toxic-free lifestyle.  My hubs uses it too.  He used to use AXE until we discovered how well Genesis lotion works on their hair!  WIN WIN!!  Just a side note...the other YL lotions don't seem to have the same hold, so Genesis is a must!

Be Savvy!

Be Savvy!
Savvy: the ability to make good judgement and use practical knowledge.


Lets talk a little about makeup.  BHA and BHT...you have heard of them, I'm sure, but what are they?  How do they affect our bodies?  Well, they are basically preservatives.  Preservatives that disrupt hormones by mimicking estrogen, synthetically.  Oh, great, just what we need another synthetic estrogen in a world when women are getting hormonal cancers at a rate as never seen before!  These chemical burdens literally cannot be processed by our bodies.  Our body has no idea what to do with them.  We know that anything that goes on our face is going into our brains.  Our skin is our largest organ, like a giant sponge that soaks up whatever we put on it and goes straight into our blood stream, our organs, and our brain.    BHA and BHT are used in resins, wood products, plastics, permanent press fabrics, toilet bowl cleaners....they do not belong on our face.  21 million tons a year are produced and used in products.  They are known carcinogens.

In the beauty industry, less than 20% of chemicals are tested and are heavy laden in our cosmetics.  Talc, bismuth, parabens, phthalates, petrochemicals, barium, chromium, selenium, lead....poison to our blood.  An example of bismuth for you?  Bismuth is a metal mineral added to cosmetics  for that "shine and glow".  It is a cheap filler that helps makeup last longer.  Have you ever tried a mineral makeup and had it irritate your skin?  Yep...that's the Bismuth.  In cosmetics, they are nano particles, much more dangerous to the body than other forms of bismuth.  Being smaller, they go into the pores and cells and can cause kidney damage.

Did you know the brighter the lipstick and the longer the wear means more toxins in the formula?  It is almost impossible to find that true red color without the use of lead in lipstick.  

Oh, but it says herbal, natural, and organic?  Cosmetic labels in the United States have NO legal definition.  What?!! That's right!  Know your ingredients.  Be educated and responsible for your own health.  

There is good news, I promise you! You, or your loved ones,  don't have to compromise beauty for health anymore!  Thanks to Young Living, Savvy Minerals makeup has an unwavering standard of purity and quality!  Lets talk some awesome ingredients that you actually WANT on your skin!  Kaolin Clay...more absorbent and exfoliating, yet gentle.  It is circulation boosting on our skin.  It has absorbent power for your skin, soaking up excess oil and at the same time detoxifying, leaving your skin feeling amazing and healthy.   At the end of the day, after washing and toning your face, many people put just a little bit of foundation on for the benefits of the kaolin clay. 

 Other ingredients include Jojoba oil, mica (used to color our products instead of harsh chemicals and dyes...all tested and mined in United States), aloe, our very own best and pure essential oils, arrowroot powder, sweet almond oil, sunflower oil, vitamin e, beeswax (in some products), and aspen bark extract.  Aspen Bark extract  has amazing skin softening properties and preserves naturally.  There is no animal testing done whatsoever with our products.  

 Savvy Minerals minimizes the appearance of pores.  Makes complexion glow. Has a very buildable formula for a day look or a full glam evening look. Wears all day. Amazing for sensitive skin.  And well...amazing.  The colors are stunning!!! It will not disappoint!  Make a good judgement and be savvy!


Click the link below to view the digital catalog.  It has almost all of the Savvy products except the newly released.  Photos below are the new released products!  The most beautiful eyeshadow palette!  

My Reality!

My Reality!

Feeling accomplished this Saturday afternoon after making my tub sparkling clean, I decided, why not stage a picture with my toxic-free  Thieves Household Cleaner that I love so much? Feeling impressed that an opportunity actually arose for such a time as this, I put everything in its place. In my heart I struggled a bit because it did give an appearance of me having it all together. You know those posts that make you feel like they have it all together? Well, I contemplated, took the picture and was ready to type away on my social media. I was abruptly interrupted by a squealing coming through the bathroom door....
sigh! This is so much of a more accurate picture of my life! Being humbled even in the small things!!! 
Lol!! 

Healthy Haven

Healthy Haven
oh hello! 

Healthy Haven, a chemical-free lifestyle, was designed and made so that we can really look into what is in our products in our homes as well as what their affects are on our health.  

The number two cause of death in the United States is cancer.  Cancer expenditures in 2011 were 88 billion dollars.  1,620 people a day die of cancer.  There are ten thousand new cases a year among children.  1 in 3 cases in the U.S. are directly linked to poor diet, physical inactivity, weight, or chemical exposure.  The American Cancer Society says only five to ten percent of all cancer cases are from gene defects.  That means ninety to ninety five percent of cancer cases are under our control.  It's what we allow into our homes!

Did you know that 26 seconds after exposure, chemicals are found in measurable amounts in the human body?  The average woman applies 300 chemicals to her body a day, eighty before breakfast!  The top ten most dangerous chemicals in our home are air fresheners, like plug-ins or candles. Yes, I know!  Candles????? We LOVE candles!  Especially in the fall and winter.  Here in Illinois our nights start early as the sun goes down, late afternoon.  I love to burn candles in our home during this time.  We have resorted to all natural beeswax candles while diffusing beneficial oils of all different amazing aromas!  We make our fall scents and our winter Christmas scents!  However, we are not perfect and we love to every now and then indulge in some things (that's just how we roll) and we buy a candle that just is so delicious and enjoy it!  Second on that top ten list is the chemical cleaning supplies for your counters, floors, toilets, drain and oven cleaners, furniture polish, dish soap, dishwasher detergent, etc.!  Years ago, before Young Living, we did a lot of white vinegar, baking soda, and lemon.  But NOW, we use Thieves Household Cleaner for nearly EVERYTHING!!! It smells amazing and gets the job done!Look through the Thieves line.  It is amazing.  

The number one harsh chemical...fabric softener!  What is in our fabric softeners is carcinogenic. I LOVED our Downy growing up. When my blanket came out of the dryer, it was the best in the world to snuggle up to it!  It brought such comfort and to this day, although my eyes get irritated from the smell, my amygdala remembers this scent as comfort and love!  We use white vinegar in our wash cycle to soften our clothes (it leaves no smell) and we dry our clothes with wool dryer balls sprinkled with essential oils!

So what happens when your body is chemically overloaded?  You may see it in something as catastrophic as cancer, but most of us feel it in other ways: lethargic, inability to focus, sleep trouble, chronic inflammation, unexplained pain, fibromyalgia, skin issues, hormones, hot flashes, stress, anxiety, and fears.  If you face any of these issues, it's time to kick chemicals to the curb.  Be your gatekeeper of your home!  Think of the legacy you will leave for generations to come.  And, it's so very easy!  You control what comes in your home!  Our Young Living products are free from harmful chemicals and there is something for everything in your home!  It is a lifestyle!

What are essential oils?  They are the most powerful part of the plant- the lifeblood of the plant, if you will.  They repair and restore the plant when it is attacked or injured.  In the human body, they have access to the limbic lobe of the brain, that part of the brain that controls heart rate, breathing, memory, hormones, stress levels, and blood pressure.  Oils are tiny...smaller than viruses!  They cross over your blood brain barrier in three seconds when inhaled, twenty-six seconds when applied topically they have entered your bloodstream, and within twenty-two minutes they have reached every cell in your body!  WOW!!  Please say that with me...WOW!!!!

Why would you want essential oils in your home?  Being steam distilled plant, there are millions of uses...to support systems in the human body like your cardiovascular system or your endocrine system, which effects hormones.  Maybe to support your joints or your brain or liver, your overall health.  They are used to replace chemical cleaning supplies, your beauty products, oil infused supplements.  

The uses and the benefits are many!  Come embark on this oily journey.   Be a gatekeeper of your home and create a healthy haven!  It's up to you for generations to come!!!


 
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