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Advanced Allergy Therapeutics – Visits 2 – 4
I promised an update after a few Advanced Allergy Therapeutics visits and here it is! If you missed the first post where I introduce AAT and the journey we are embarking on, check it out here: Advanced Allergy Therapeutics – Day 1. Since my first post, Hubby has had 2 more visits. At visit #2, Dr. Hassam tested him to see if he was holding the histamine treatment she’d done the week before. She put the cuff around his arm, and stressed tested him for the histamines. He didn’t react this time!! So, they decided to address dust next. She sent the dust signal into…
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Advanced Allergy Therapeutics – Day 1
Allergies can be a BEAR. Who’s with me? My husband has struggled with them for years. We’ve definitely seen improvement in his symptoms over the last few years, but we haven’t had sustained breakthrough. He’s off the OTC allergy meds, except for a couple times a year. He’s been using essential oils like Young Living lavender, peppermint, and lemon, and that helps a LOT. He also did a colon cleanse, and did better while we were living in Kansas City. Moving south set him off again though. We’re considering moving farther south, near the national forest and my family, but that REALLY sets off his allergies.…
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Online Homeschool: Schoolhouse Teachers.com Review
I recently joined The Schoolhouse Review Crew and I’m super excited to have opportunities to review and share different options for you to use as you homeschool! We are blessed to have a wide range of curriculum options these days, and it can be overwhelming to try to pick one (or two or three!) that will be right for your family! Through the reviews I post, you will be able see some wonderful curriculum in action! My first review is of an online education site called SchoolhouseTeachers.com. I was generously given a yearly membership! It is an IMPRESSIVE collection of curriculum, ranging in ages from toddler through high…
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How are Essential Oils Made?
Attention do-it-yourself’ers! When you make things, are you hoping to save money and have a better product? (read: less chemicals) When I got into essential oils, it didn’t take me long to go down the “I wonder if I can do this at home” path. The short answer? “Yes, I could. But unless the zombie apocalypse has started, I won’t.” Want to know why? I can’t do it better than Young Living! While the overall process looks simple, it is actually SUPER complicated! At Young Living, their employees are trained on the distillation process for 6-7 YEARS before they are released to distill on their own!…
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Fermented Vegetables 101
Fermented Vegetables by Susan Count I thought I would have to hold my nose to eat “ugh” – fermented vegetables. Sauerkraut, I thought! Who would eat that? But somewhere I picked up that fermented vegetables could put good bacteria in my gut and help with my acid refux. WRONG! It didn’t just help – it changed EVERYTHING! And I think it helped me lose a little weight too and that never hurts. I substituted a big forkful of fermented vegetables at dinner instead of eating rice or potatoes or pasta. Cutting the Cost A quart of fermented vegetables at the store can run about $10. A cabbage, a couple carrots and…
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Essential Oils Cases: Ideas for Portability
This has probably happened to you too. I’ve been out and about and something happens. A bee sting, an ant bite, an upset tummy, or worse. And I need my oils right then! There are several different options for having your oils with you. While you’re still building up your stash, the 5/8 dram bottles can be helpful. You just add your oil of choice to each bottle. My challenge has been that they leak sometimes. This hasn’t been a widely-reported issue, so my guess is that it’s user-error. 🙂 Make sure and close your bottles well! I like this keychain case with the 5/8 dram bottles. Personally, I love…
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Essential Oil Display and Storage Ideas
My kitchen counter was overflowing…with essential oils. So I started keeping some in the bathroom cupboard. But then I was forever going back and forth between the two places, looking for the oil I needed and forgetting where it was. For Christmas, my hubby got me the perfect gift for an essential oil aficionado like me: a display rack! I LOVE this rack because it a) looks pretty and b) holds all my oils!!! I can find an oil when I need it without searching all over the house! I am excited to share this pretty photo of my oil rack with you! Isn’t it pretty?? It’s actually a…
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Young Living Convention Highlights 2014!
We escaped the summer heat to enjoy the amazing Utah weather for a week in June, and loved our time at the Young Living Essential Oils convention AND the lavender farm! In this photo, we are planting six month old baby lavender plants! (aka seedlings). The lavender plant will take two years to come to maturity. We acquired some serious appreciation for how much time and WORK it takes to produce the oil in one little bottle of lavender! Our farm visit included a visit to the distillery, where we got to experience first-hand the process of extracting the oil from the plant. I knew it was complicated…
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Breakthrough for Truth-in-labeling!
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court opened the door for peer-to-peer labeling accountability. As labeling laws struggle through congressional houses, good ole capitalism is taking the bull by the horns. Coca Cola has been marketing a drink called Minute Maid Pomegranate-Blueberry juice. With that name, you’d expect it to contain, well, lots of pomengrantes, right? Not a chance. The juice (can I call it juice?) is made of only .3% pomegranate juice. Yes, you read that correctly. .3%. The POM Wonderful folks, who sell actual pomegranante juice, can now take up their truth-in-labeling case with Coca Cola. To make matters worse, the drink blend has a scant .2%…
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Perfume Ingredients You Won’t Believe + A Better Way
I’m not a huge perfume girl, but I like to smell nice as much as the next person. I’ve found myself getting overwhelmed by perfume-y scents lately – in the grocery store, at church, even in meetings sometimes. So I decided to start looking into perfume ingredients, just out of curiosity. What I found absolutely repulsed me. Unbelievable perfume ingredient #1: Poop. That’s right, animal poop. Just what I always wanted to spray on myself. The World Society for the Protection of Animals reports that civet cat feces have been used by Chanel, Cartier, and Lancome in their products. Gag. Unbelievable perfume ingredient #2: Genital sac emissions from beavers, European…
