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Friday, March 26, 2010

Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils

When you want to be able to treat illness and infection in your household, you need to have therapeutic grade essential oils within your home. Not only do essential oils help fight infection and illness, but they smell lovely and are great additions in the home.

Generally, essential oils have antifungal, antibacterial, and/or antimicrobial properties. Essential oils smell great, have few to zero side effects, and your body cannot build up a resistance to them unlike modern medicine, such as antibiotics.

What are some therapeutic grade essential oils you should have around in your house?

Clove-Clove is well known for being an awesome addition to any dish. It is also the highest rated essential oil to boost antioxidant levels. This essential oil works wonders for skin infections, arthritis, skin cancers, thyroid issues, bronchitis, dental infections, and more. Clove greatly helps the immune system, respiratory, cardiovascular, and digestive systems.

Lemon- Lemon is one of those citrus-y sweet scents that everyone loves to have in their home. Lemon works as a pesticide, cleaner, and medicine. This essential oil can be used to help anxiety, gallstones, blood pressure, nervous conditions, energy, and more. It works as a great natural antiseptic.

Oregano- Oregano is one the most powerful immune enhancing essential oils. This essential oil can help support healthy respiratory and digestive systems. It can also be used as a dietary supplement or for topical use. Try a few drops of this essential oil in liquids, such as hot chocolate or soy milk.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Real Grade of Essential Oils

More and more people are turning to the excellence fond in essential oils to fight everything from the dreaded MRSA and SARS to the common cold and a runny nose. Knowing what to look for when it comes to the real grade of the essential oils you use is vital.

No, not all essential oils are the same!

Technically, you will find two extreme grades complimenting each other on the spectrum of purity: perfume-grade and therapeutic-grade. The difference is like comparing a plastic doggy toy steak to a deliciously barbequed rib eye steak.

One of the reasons more people are turning to essential oils for therapeutic purposes is that they work…

One of the most dreaded infections of our times is MRSA. MRSA is so nasty because it is resistant to antibiotics. This means that our modern medicine has not found a cure, and that is why an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Needless to say, MRSA is one nasty dude.

Now enter into the equation a therapeutic-grade essential oil. These therapeutic-grade essential oils are capable of fighting such nasty infections with ease.

But why?

Therapeutic-grade essential oils are not all the same. Even if you purchase the exact same essential oil from the same manufacturer, that oil will be different due to rainfall, dirt, environmental conditions, and many other such ever-changing components.

This means that your body cannot build up a resistant to an ever-changing essential oil.

Knowing that therapeutic-grade essential oils can save your life is not always enough. You will have to find the right one(s) for your needs depending on your own body chemistry and sensitivities. Just remember that when it comes to finding the best grade in essential oils, the quality is more important that the price.

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