Do It Yourself Summer Remedies

Make your own Summer Remedy Kit and be ready for bites, burns, scrapes, poison ivy, and bugs. It is always nice to be prepared!

Sunburn Relief

45 drops Lavender
30 drops Myrrh
Fractionated coconut oil
1 oz. Roller Bottle

Add essential oils to roller bottle and top off bottle with your choice of carrier oil. I like liquid (fractionated) coconut oil for its long shelf life.

Apply topically as needed. Lavender heals burns - sunburn included and analgesic properties to help relieve the pain of sunburn. Myrrh is considered a "liquid band-aide" and is a superior healer of skin tissue. For severe burns seek medical attention and consider using this remedy in a spray bottle to avoid painful touch.

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Bug Repellent Stick

15 drops Lemongrass
10 drops Lavender
4 drops Tea Tree Oil (Melaleuca)
Fractionated coconut oil
10 ml Roller Bottle

Add essential oils to roller bottle and top the bottle off with fractionated coconut oil.

Apply to exposed areas before venturing outside. Roll a bandana with the blend and keep it around your neck, the under side of a hat, etc.

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Sore Muscle & Headache Stick

15 drops Peppermint
15 drops Lavender
Fractionated coconut oil
10 ml Roller Bottle

Add essential oils to roller bottle and top off with fractionated coconut oil.

Apply to area of concern after a strenuous hike or workout. For headache, apply topically just behind temples, forehead and back of neck and shoulders as needed.

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Stomach Ache Stick

30 drops Digestion Blend
10 drops Peppermint
Fractionated coconut oil
10 ml Roller Bottle

Add essential oils to roller bottle and top with fractionated coconut oil.

Summer stomach issues can come from food, splash parks, the ocean or even a drinking fountain. This blend is a year round winner! Apply topically to abdomen as needed.

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"Owie" Stick

10 drops Frankincense
10 drops Lavender
10 drops Tea Tree Oil (Melaleuca)
Fractionated coconut oil
10 ml Roller Bottle

Add essential oils to roller bottle and top off with fractionated coconut oil.

Apply topically to area of concern as needed.  Great for camping or any outdoor activity, an all-purpose healing remedy for burns, bites, scrapes, breakouts, rashes and a makeshift deodorant too!

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Achy Muscles and Inflamed Tissue Rub

3 drops Peppermint
3 drops Rosemary
2 drops Eucalyptus
2 drops Juniper Berry
Fractionated coconut oil
10 ml Roller Bottle

Add essential oils to roller bottle and top off with fractionated coconut oil.

Massage into sore and tender muscles. This essential oil blend accelerates healing times and soothes aching muscles, sprains, and areas that are inflamed or swollen.

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Summer Skin Spray

20 drops Frankincense
20 drops Cypress
20 drops Lavender
Distilled Water
4 oz. glass spray bottle

Add essential oils to an empty glass bottle, top with Distilled water.

Topical application to body, face, on scrapes or blemishes as needed. Summer Skin Spray takes the scorch out of summer. Hydrate and heal after a day in the sun in one easy step with a quick spray of anti-aging essential oils. Your sun-drenched skin will benefit from the anti-inflammatory, regenerative, firming and soothing properties of the essential oils.

      Order online at Herbs First, or phone in your order 801-228-1901.

Have a great month!
Kathryn

Do It Yourself, Insect Repellant Spray and Sunburn Spray

    I woke up in the middle of the night with an itch and realized it is bug bite season! In the morning I was able to rub my trusty roller bottle of Pest Away on it and that took care of the itch. I have put it on a throughout the day and the bump is going down. Pest Away is a nice little oil blend to have around. 

    To make a great insect repellant spray fill a bottle ½ with distilled water, the other ½ with vodka. Add 10 drops of Pest Away per ounce – the 1 oz. spray bottle will take 10 drops of Pest Away, the 4 oz. spray bottle will need 40 drops. This makes a great all-natural insect spray repellant. Spray liberally as needed.

    Make a roller bottle filled with fractionated coconut oil and 10 drops of Pest Away. Use it on the bites to help the itch and bump go away. Buy the spray bottles and roller bottles at this link.

    I use coconut oil on my body and it is has natural sun screen properties. If I end up getting slightly burned I rub more oil on my skin it tends to take the burn turn to a tan overnight. I don’t rely solely on this if I am going out swimming, but it works fine for just puttering around the yard and going on walks.

For a great sun burn spray mostly fill the 4 oz. spray bottle with Aloe Vera Gel, then add 15 drops Lavender Oil, 5 drops Peppermint oil, and open a vitamin E gel cap and drop in the oil.  Shake it up and leave it in the refrigerator. The coldness will help cool the burn, as will the Peppermint, and the Lavender is very healing. Use liberally!

FREE Roller Bottle, with $50.00 order. 
Put in "RollerBottle" as the coupon code.

Order online, or phone in your order. 801-228-1901.

Have a great month!
Kathryn

Do it yourself - Bug Repellant Spray and Sunburn Relief Spray

    Many times we have been at outdoor events and gotten the over spray from people using bug repellant.  I find that so inconsiderate!  You would think they would do it before they came, but no, time after time people are spraying their obnoxious sprays all over everyone.  Commercial sprays smell nasty and are not healthy to inhale, much less have soaking into your skin.

    It is easy to make your own Deet free - chemical free bug repellant. There are two things you need to make a great bug repellant. 
   

Bug Repellant

    4 oz. Vodka
    1 teaspoon Garden Essence Essential Oils Pest-Away with Catnip (5 ml.)

Put Vodka and Pest Away with Catnip in 4 oz. spray bottle and shake.  Spray on exposed skin and in hair several times a day to keep the bugs away. 

Sunburn Relief Spray

    2 oz. Aloe Vera Gel
    2 oz. Distilled Water
    15 drops Garden Essence Lavender Essential Oil
    15 drops Garden Essence Tea Tree Essential Oil
    10 drops Garden Essence Peppermint Essential Oil
   
Mix all ingredients in a 4 oz. glass spray bottle.  Spray liberally as often as desired on sunburned skin.  Keep the left over solution in the refrigerator.

    Herbs First now has 1 oz and 4 oz glass spray bottles  to use with your own herbal and essential oil formulations.

    As a natural sunscreen I like to use Coconut Oil, I put it on several times throughout the day.  Sometimes I slightly burn, so I just put more coconut oil on and by morning it has turned into a tan.  Complete Tissue and Bone Ointment is a great sunburn oil, if you don't mind being oily! I would use it if I had a really bad burn.  Order it here.

    Enjoy your summer!