doTerra Peppermint Essential Oil: My Lifesaver. Literally.

What is this amazing photograph? On the left, a picture of mint leaves. On the right, a magnification of the actual oil sacs (white) on the leaf.  A Certified Pure Therapeutic-Grade (CPTG) essential oil of peppermint is a mighty thing!

With over 50 chemical constituents in its arsenal of properties it is used for a whole host of maladies and discomforts including: headache, digestion, circulation, pain relief, fever, allergies, and congestion. And it is absolutely essential for calming hives and edema—severe inflammation of the tissues—as I recently found out when I was covered in them. It is a life saver when the hives and inflammation are covering your neck, threatening to cut off your ability to breathe, as was a recent experience of mine.

One drop in the palm of my hands, soothed onto my neck and windpipe, already covered in a soft carrier oil (coconut, avocado, or emu oil; the best for inflammation) provided relief within 20 minutes.

Factoid: 1 drop of doTerra’s peppermint essential oil is equivalent to 28 cups of peppermint tea. No lie. doTerra’s is sourced from Washington State (just think how cool and soothing it is there) and is the purest I’ve ever used. The oil is steam-distilled from the leaves, stems and flower buds. You can use it topically, take 1-3 drops in a gel capsule, diffuse into the air, or put one drop in a pitcher of water and drink.

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SPRING PROMOTION! (USA only)

Would you like to improve your general health and soar your senses? Between now and May 31st you can sign up as an Independent Product Consultant (IPC) with doTerra for just $50 and receive a $50 gift certificate to buy oils. This saves you $100, and is essentially a FREE sign up to be able to buy these oils at the wholesale price.

Signing up as an IPC will qualify you for the 25% discount off all of doTerra’s essential wellness products. (If you’re interested, you can also start earning $ when you commit to at least 100 PV per month).PV (personal volume) is generally equal to the dollar amount for most items, i.e. 100 PV = $100.

Don’t have any interest in sharing them and just want to use them for yourself? Take advantage of the Spring Promo anyway!

To sign up now click here, then click on “Continue”. You will be guided through the simple procedure: the $50 option is already selected.

3201: Introductory Packet 3201             US$50

After you Sign Up you can go to your own page on doTerra’s site, which will be here http://mydoterra.com/yourname

Go to the bottom grey bar and click on mydoterra.com. You will be taken to the *Account Sign In page. Here you can browse around the oils to see how you would like to spend your $50 gift certificate once you receive it.

To redeem your certificate (which will be sent in your intro packet), just call doTerra directly at Member Services: 1 800 411 8151

Any orders you want to place after you have redeemed your certificate can be placed through your *doTerra account. If you’d like to set up a monthly Auto Ship you can also do it here.

Questions?

E-mail me at: doterra@elsakendall.com I’m happy to walk you through the sign up on line, no matter where you are in the world!

(For more details, which also includes information about the standard sign up, please click here).

Allergies* be soothed!

Do you suffer from seasonal allergies? If so, this little kit could be a life saver. It contains one 5 ml bottle each of highest quality lavender, lemon, and peppermint. These are the top three oils you never want to be without for anything.

The lemon is from Italy, the lavender from Provence, France, and the peppermint from Washington State. I guarantee they are the purest essential oils you’ve ever experienced. What’s more, they are CPTG, which means Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade. Which means, yes, they may be ingested.

Take 3 drops of each (less if you are extremely sensitive) in a gel capsule with a full glass of filtered water, and within half an hour or less your itchy, watery eyes, congestion, or runny nose will be minimized, if not gone.

I tried this last year after suffering for two months and I was amazed at the results. I am never without these three oils, and I’m using them again this year to combat the invasive juniper pollen we have in northern New Mexico.

You can buy this Intro Kit (item #3218) for $26.67 + tax and shipping by clicking here. Read the directions below first before clicking!

Go to: •Shop for Products
•Choose your country and Begin Shopping
•Click on Product Packages, then scroll down until you see the box and Item #3218.

The peppermint is excellent for cooling, but be careful, one drop equals 28 cups of peppermint tea, and essential oils are 70x more potent than dried herbs. Really! The lavender is the most useful oil to have and combats stress to bee stings. Take the lemon with you and put in your water at restaurants, use to oil furniture, spot stains, ingest and use topically to increase your antioxidant levels (citrus oils are great for this). The inside of the box gives lots of usage tips for these three oils, and there is an introductory audio CD as well.

* Extensive studies have shown that allergies are directly related to the digestive system. Eliminating gluten, corn, sugar, alcohol, and dairy from your diet will very likely lessen the affects of season allergies. Replacing these foods with lots of leafy greens, fresh lemon juice, and excellent quality olive oil will greatly help you. Your liver will especially appreciate it!

See The Mighty Cabbage page for more information on this.

Welcome! And a tip for cold feet…

Welcome to the garden of doTerra’s exceptional essential oils. I’ve been using these for a year now and they have done nothing but enhance my life in every way. So much to share, and I will, in time. But for today, a few thoughts on cold feet and what to do.

Even though it is spring now in the northern hemisphere my feet have still been really cold! What to do? I looked up “circulation” in my trusty guide and found the following oils to be some of the ones helpful for poor circulation: white fir, lemon, and geranium. I happened to have all three so used one drop of each with some coconut oil on the soles of my feet, bundled said feet up in fleecy socks and slippers, and voila! Within half an hour my feet were toasty and stayed that way for hours.