When I got introduced to Essential Oils (EO) for the first time over 2 years ago, it was from a customer in my café I used to have, as he became a good friend and learned that my sleeping was very bad due to stress and overwork. He gave me to try a sleeping blend from a pharmacy brand, I just needed to buy a diffuser and get a few drops of oil in the diffuser with some water and I was set. I could not believe how powerful scent would be. And the constant water noise coming from the diffuser was very relaxing too.
Then I got really unhealthy and unfit to a point I felt pain daily, feet, hands, lower back, shoulders, neck again due to the overload of work hours and not being mindful with my body, always pushing harder, I needed help. I took more staff to help with the work and the money started to be none existent. I got pregnant and the decision was made… We sold.
Introduction to the oils
During my pregnancy I turned into wellness. My objective was to become fit and healthy for my baby boy. And my journey started there. I came across beautiful women in the health and wellness industry helping me and guiding me on my journey. It was only natural to come closer to essential oils.
Highly concentrated pure potent oils coming from mother nature’s best you can find from seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers from around the world. We can find ways to feel better with plants, it’s right here available for us, it’s natural and efficient. They are used for emotional and physical wellness, topically with a carrier oil, internally or aromatically.
Oils are also used in many DIY’s cleaning products and beauty products. So far I have made bug repellent, sunscreen, after sun spray, cooling spray, all 100% natural. Just being able to do this all myself makes it great fun and I know I do the right thing to me and my family.
Health and wellness routine
My daily routine:
Life Long Vitality pack: Supplements for optimal health, energy and longevity. 2 tablets each morning and sometimes 2 in the evening as well during periods of stress.
Women blend: blend of essential oils made for women, helps bring the best out of you.
Citrus oils like lemon, lime or wild orange in water: not just for the great taste, but gets the water alkaline and helps cleanse your internal body from free radicals.
Shampoo, conditioner and body wash, they all have less chemicals and more of the good natural oils.
Yoga collection for workout, great scent and again… helps bring the best out of your workout.
Aromatouch oil for massaging any area of the body, I use it particularly on the back.
OnGuard line, they all help protect and support our body.
On baby William I use Balance blend for during the day to keep him grounded, Lavender peace blend in the evening to calm him down before bed time.
Ice Blue line for reducing pain, muscle aches after workout.
For the whole family, I use EasyAir blend in the diffuser or with coconut oil on chest and back for clearing the nose and DigestZen for tummy pain, massaging the tummy for William with coconut oil and taken internally for adults.
Dosage: Less is more
The one drop has a very high potency, it does not require lots to make it work.
Massaging an adult, the oils is about 1/3 of oil for 2/3 of carrier oil for an infant or toddler its 1 drop for 10 drops of carrier oils.
The best is to try it and if a small reaction happens, lower the dosage even further.
Taken internally, it can be added to drinks or to your cooking and baking. Depending on what you are doing it will require more or less. A drink, the one drop would be sufficient, the baking of a cake it can varie from 5 to 10 drops depending on the size of the cake.
In the diffuser, it’s about 10 to 15 drops of oils of your choice for a 100ml to 150ml of water.
How to get your hands on them
If you know a wellness advocate from doTERRA, he or she is the person to go to. If you don’t, you can go through me, follow this link to access my store:
You have the option to purchase retail price through my link, but if you are eager to change your life and incorporate the oils on a daily basis like I do, it’s preferable to become a member and get wholesale price (you also get infos on that by following my link).
Becoming a member, you have 2 different options available:
1- pay $35 upfront and order any oils of your choice at wholesale price for a year;
2- enrol with a kit (better value) it will wave the $35 and you get started with a kit at wholesale price.
When your membership has started, you have the option of going to a loyalty rewards program (LRP). That is the best way to earn points (PV) and get free oils each month.
I use the oils daily, I love them and share them with people around me. I love being able to offer something that can make a difference in someone’s life. The oils can help in so many ways and be a great way to gift to others something really special like a DIY made by you. I will go deeper in DIYs in a future post.
Have you tried doTERRA oils? Now is the time… We have the privilege to be in a time where nature’s beauty and power is in our reach, it is the best time to find natural remedies to our problems and step into more conscious living.
We are a French couple living the Australian dream. Arrived in 2007, we have worked our way up in the hotel industry, Fred as a Head Chef and me as a Duty Manager.
After 5 years running our own restaurant, we have decided to sell our business to make space to our little Bub coming around June 2018.
It was sad to say goodbye to our customers and seeing the restaurant being changed to something different but our heart has taken a different approach in life and is sending us on a journey into sailing with our child. Follow us for more details ;)
Thank you for joining us.
A bientôt!
Melanie & Frederic
(& now little William ;)
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