Category: Toxin-Free Living

Toxin-Free Living

What exactly is an essential oil??

Christine Reposa

You may have heard the word essential oil passed around more and more lately (likely between the more earthy crunchy mamas on the playground or some hippy holistic doctors), but what exactly is an ESSENTIAL OIL??

Well, essential oils are basically the “life blood” of the plants they come from!  The oils are cold-pressed or steam distilled from plant material (bushes, leaves, flowers, etc).  Lavender essential oil is pressed from Lavender flowers and Lemon essential oil is pressed from Lemon rinds. Simple right?  But why do we want these??

ANSWER:  Essential oils are volatile (meaning super small molecules that evaporate quickly) and can get into the body through even the tightest of membranes like the skin and the blood brain barrier quickly.  Essential oils are ORGANIC, like people are ORGANIC, as in NOT MAN MADE, so rather than altering our body’s rhythms like medicine, they conform to the body to regulate it.

Feeling sad or angry?  Open and bottle of Lemongrass Essential Oil and breath its scent in deeply for 2 minutes, then tell me how you feel.  It’s that easy.

Love feeling well?  Essential oils like Young Living’s Thieves Vitality Blend (clove, cinnamon, lemon, etc) will remain in your body (when ingested through tea or in a veggie capsule) LONGER if you need it.

Awesome right??  Now I’m not saying don’t take your medications, but I AM saying that using essential oils can be a good ADDITION to your routine and may even keep you above the wellness line!

Essential oils have been used for THOUSANDS of years.  It’s only recently that man has “forgotten” about them with the rise of chemical medications and man-made cleaners becoming more prevalent.  Heck, even the Bible mentions essential oils directly and indirectly over 1,000 times!  Essential oils (especially Myrrh and Frankinscense) were just for the wealthy back then but today anyone can get them if they want to!  Just be sure not to run to your local grocery store for them…who knows what kind of synthetics are in those (since essential oil labeling is not regulated) *yikes*.

Only buy from a company you can trust, a company that will show you their ENTIRE process from seed, to cultivation, to distillation, to sealing the oil in the bottle.  If you can’t see it, don’t use it.  In case you were wondering, I trust Young Living!  Anybody can visit their farms and in January of 2018, I got to go!!  From what I could see, Young Living’s standards for its plants are even HIGHER than those required to be certified organic.  What an awesome company!!  Why would they do that??  Some people just CARE about the health of others and Young Living always chooses health over wealth.  I’ll tell you a story about that another time.

Anyways, when you’re ready to be happy, healthy and feel great, click here!  Choose Member (for 24% off) and pick out an awesome Premium Starter Kit.  Want to just learn more about essential oils?  Keep on following my blog or visit my Facebook Page called UltraOily.  And as always, I love answering questions so ask away (but don’t forget that I am not a doctor)!

Time to go put a drop of Lavender Essential Oil in my kids’ diffusers so they can sleep through the night tonight!! Bon Soir!

Toxin-Free Living

Organic Plants = Happy Bodies

Christine Reposa

I know you’re probably thinking organic is just too expensive but with some fruit and vegetables, not buying organic could cost you some major health bills down the line after years of exposure to pesticides and herbicides. Some fruit like bananas have less toxicity but others with thin skin that are more difficult to grow, like strawberries, are highly contaminated and should always be purchased organic.

Organic farms rock! They spend extra money to hand weed, protect their crops from neighboring herbicide spraying farms and do all the paperwork to get that organic USDA certification. We should totally be supporting them by buying their food! And we are doing a great job because there is more and more organic produce in the grocery stores every other time I go in there so stores are realizing the demand for healthy, non chemically enhanced food! 👍🏻👍🏻

This all goes to same for our essential oils. Grocery store essential oils are likely pressed from nonorganic plants laced with chemicals…but in this case its even MORE important to buy organic because its not just one lemon in a bottle of Lemon EO, is 75! That’s 75 loads of herbicide or other chemical solvents!! YUCK! Why replace your household chemicals with chemical laced oils??. That defeats the purpose.

That’s where Young Living comes in. Totally organic, all hand weeded, never sprayed plants. All distilled or cold pressed at the exact moment that medicinal benefits are at a maximum. You can even visit their farms to see for yourself!  I buy all my essential oils from Young Living and you can too by visiting http://www.myyl.com/reposa and scrolling down to the bottom to click Enroll Today!  Wholesale memberships are FREE and come with 11 of the most popular essential oils and allow you to choose your diffuser, all at half the price it would cost to buy them individually!  All Young Living oils are from organic plants and are of the absolute highest quality possible. I use them in place of all my household cleaners and toiletries.  I even use them in cooking!  Win, win!
Anyways, that’s why I eat organic food 🌱 and use Young Living essential oils ❤️❤️❤️ but the choice is yours 😊

Toxin-Free Living

Toxin-Free Life

Christine Reposa

Well, there’s really no such thing as a completely toxin-free life…there will always be things we can’t avoid like car exhaust or public restrooms sprayed with Lysol.  But we can live as close to toxin-free as possible, at least in our own homes!

The National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health studied 2,983 ingredients in our products at home and found 884 toxic ingredients. 314 of them caused biological mutations. 218 caused reproductive problems. 778 were toxic to the human body. 146 they knew caused cancer tumors — but were allowed in the United States, even though they were banned in other countries around the world. Many of these chemicals are allowed in common cleaning supplies in the United States — things under your cabinets right now.
You may think its inevitable; that you have to clean your house and wash your hands and moisturize, so you have to absorb and breath in chemicals, but you don’t. I’m going to show you your other options.

Visit the cabinets in your home and look up one of your store bought cleaning products on the EWG and check it’s score (A=safe to F= Really really really bad for you)  http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners

Anything below a B should not be in your home because it could be hurting you and your family.  There are better alternatives to every evil C-F rated product!  Vinegar, baking soda, Castile soap, coconut oil and essentials oils (high quality only) are all amazing chemical replacements!  I use vinegar, water and Lemon essential oil to clean my floors.  Baking soda, arrowroot powder, coconut oil, Lavender essential oil and Tea Tree essential oil as deodorant.  Coconut oil as makeup remover.  Castile soap with Lavender and Frankincense essential oils as body wash.  Peppermint essential oil, Raw sugar and almond oil as exfoliating shower scrub before shaving.  Castile soap, water and Thieves essential oil in my foaming hand soap dispenser…  And the list goes on!  DIYing with essential oils is super easy and inexpensive!  AND I KNOW there are no toxic manufactured chemicals in my home!!  You can do it too!  I know you can!  I’ve showed lots of people how and I can show you too!

One of the  most popular alternatives is Young Living’s Thieves cleaner because it is 100% plant based.  How cool is that!?  That’s an A+ rating!  No SLS or fragrance that has been linked to asthma and other respiratory illness, JUST PLANTS!  I use Thieves cleaner to clean my bathrooms, kitchen counters, oven, furniture, laundry stains, floors, etc and I can rest easy when my kids decide to spray everything in their little attempts to “help” me clean house because Thieves cleaner actually BOOSTS your immune system instead of hurting it!

It just doesn’t get any better than that.

Add Thieves cleaner to your order when you sign up for your Wholesale premium starter kit at http://www.myyl.com/reposa (scroll to the bottom and hit Enroll Today).  My family and I thank you for supporting small business 🙂

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DIY Toothpaste For Healthy Teeth!

Christine Reposa

Let’s talk about Toothpaste!

All you really need is some baking soda and coconut oil to clean your teeth so why do companies add all these extra chemicals?

SLS, Fluoride, Aspartame, etc have all been linked to health issues when consumed in high doses so why would I even want a low dose of that in my body??  Fluoride accumulates in the body over time and you might be thinking “well I never swallow it” BUT no matter how little you think you swallow, everything in your toothpaste is still being absorbed through your gums…
I have been making my own toothpaste with coconut oil, baking soda, bentonite clay, xylitol and either Peppermint, Orange or Spearmint Essential Oils and my teeth have never been cleaner. There’s no need to brush your teeth with garbage, make some super inexpensive toothpaste and mouthwash right in your own home!  You can even customize it by adding trace minerals or magnesium spray for added benefits that you aren’t likely to find in something store bought!

I hate measuring so I tend to make my toothpaste different everytime…but here is roughly what I use:

1/4 Coconut Oil

2 Tbsp baking soda

1 Tbsp betonite clay

2 Tbsp xylitol (more if you like it sweeter)

30 Drops trace mineral drops (I bought mine on Amazon)

20 Drops peppermint, spearmint or orange essential oils (only use high quality ones, especially since you are partially ingesting these) Get your essential oils HERE. (Scroll down and click Enroll Now and become a member by getting a starter kit with 11 of the most used essential oils, including Peppermint!).

Mix it all together and scoop it into a silicone squeeze tube or a glass jar!  Use twice a day to brush as normal.

NOTE: You can add more or less essential oils to taste.  I like to let my kids taste it to check that they like it before spooning it all into the squeeze tubes.  If you’re kids are under the age of 5, I recommend using only a few drops of peppermint EO, or just skipping it altogether and using Orange EO instead.  Some young children are sensitive to peppermint essential oils.

FOR FUN:  Try different flavors!  Young Living has a whole line of vitality essential oils that are FDA approved for internal use!  That means, you can eat them!  Try out Thieves Vitality EO for an extra immunity boost while brushing your teeth!!

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DIY Toothpaste!