“Where Do I Start with Essential Oils?!”
Have you seen all of the essential oil buzz here at B-Inspired Mama over the past couple weeks? In celebration of my Essential Oil adventure, some awesome guest mamas and I have been sharing ways to use essential oils with kids – including incorporating therapeutic oils into sensory play.
But being an essential oil newbie myself, I know how overwhelming getting started with essential oils can be. (It took me over a year of hearing about the benefits of essential oils before finally taking the plunge!)
So I thought you busy mamas could use a step-by-step guide to getting started with essential oils. And I even consulted some of my veteran oil-using mama friends. Let’s see what advice they have…
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The Busy Mom’s Guide to Getting Started with Essential Oils
- Purchase the Starter Kit – This Young Living Premium Starter Kit is the most affordable way to get a collection of popular oils and everything you need to get started with them. It includes an Essential Oils Collection consisting of 5ml bottles of Young Living’s most popular essential oils and blends. Plus a home diffuser (that diffuses essential oils into the air of your home), lots of samples of other essential oils and products, and all of the books and educational materials you will need to get started!
- Read About Safety – Take some time while you’re waiting for your kit to arrive to familiarize yourself with the safety of essential oils. There are some resources in this post that might help.
- Join a Facebook Group – With the purchase of the above-mentioned starter kit, you will also be automatically added to EXCLUSIVE Facebook Groups is full of other mamas who are already using essential oils and leaders in the Young Living industry. They are FULL of information and ideas for getting started and are super helpful with any questions you might have.
- Keep Oil Info Handy – All of the different oils and their different uses and safety concerns can seem VERY overwhelming. Organize the information in a convenient way for you. Make a special folder for bookmarking helpful internet resources (like this one – *wink*). Create an Essential Oils Pinterest Board. Download the Reference Guide for Essential Oils app on your phone.
- Start Slow – My friend and fellow blogger, Dayna of Lemon Lime Adventures, shares how she started with essential oils: “Due to my son’s sensory needs we had to start really slow. We diffused 1 oil only 20 minutes at a time each day for 2 weeks. Then slowly increased that to more. We then tried the oil on his big toe before applying anywhere else.”
- Use Your Diffuser – The first thing I got out of my Starter Kit when it arrived was my diffuser. With no worries about topical oil application and dilution, it’s super easy to use right away. Plus it makes the house smell great!
- Prepare Oil Blends Ahead of Time – Essential oil “veteran” and blogger at Surviving the Stores, Rachel Holland, shares her favorite tip: “I love pre-mixing kid-friendly essential oils in rollerballs so that I have the oils that they need on-the-go without having to worry about having a bottle of carrier oil in my purse too.”
- Focus on One or Two Issues at a Time – Use your cheat sheet and choose one or two oils to focus on and “get to know” at a time. Or choose your most prominent “issues” (mood, immune support, skin care, etc.) to focus on at a time. Find what works with and for them before moving on to another oil or issue.
- Incorporate Oils Into Sensory Play – Adding a drop of mood-boosting oil (lavender is a popular one) to your child’s playdough or sensory play is an easy way to dip your toes into using essential oils with your kids.
- Add a Couple New Oils Every Month – Keep an eye out in the Facebook Group and online for other oils you’d like to try. (Cedarwood, Valor, and Vetiver are on my list for next month!) Consider signing up for the Young Living Essential Rewards program to get affordable oils each month and points toward free oils, too! Contact me for more information about Essential Rewards.
The Most Affordable Way to Get Started with Essential Oils:
Like I mentioned above, I hemmed and hawed for over a year about the cost and benefits of essential oils. It wasn’t until I came across this amazing Young Living Premium Starter Kit deal that I just couldn’t resist essential oils anymore.
With all of the educational extras and support of the awesome Oil Explorers Team, I knew that this was the perfect way for me to get started with essential oils. And I was right since I’ve used and loved every oil in the kit so far!
So what are you waiting for, Mama? Join the essential oil fun with me today!
Are you skeptical? Feel too busy, too overwhelmed, too anxious, (too broke!) to try Essential Oils? The Oil Explorers Team have your back; check out our Skeptics Guide to Essential Oils with 10+ articles that tell it to ya straight – from mamas who were skeptics themselves!
Do you have any more questions about how to get started with essential oils? If I don’t know the answers, I certainly know where to find them. Just leave a comment below!
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Cheri says
Is this offer still available? I noticed the date was 2015.
Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says
Yep! You can go to this post to see the current offer: https://b-inspiredmama.com/young-living-essential-oils/