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It’s officially fall here in Finland! Try to keep your spirits up! I have been loving my new Ylang Ylang essential oil, that decreases stress and lifts my mood. It’s wonderful to diffuse in the evenings. I use it sometimes also as a perfume on my wrists. I wrote a short article about the benefits of Ylang Ylang.

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doTerra’s Ylang Ylang

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I have started my fall with my another favourite oil Ylang Ylang. The scent reminds me of jasmine. Ylang Ylang essential oil is derived from Hawaiian star-shaped flower. Ylang ylang is used often to reduce stress and uplift mood. It is my new favourite to defuse at night-time. Ylang ylang is amazing for the skin and hair also. Because it smells so wonderful, it is nice to put on as a perfume. doTerra’s ylang ylang can be used internally, 1 drop to a big water-glass. It gives antioxidants.

Popular ways to use it:

  • foot bath
  • skin (1-2 drops to a table-spoon of carrier oil) and to hair oil treatments.
  • 3-4 drops to a diffuser

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Essential oils for hair

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Happy spring time! I give out in this vlog my three favourite essential oils for hair (and tell you of course, why they are the best ones 🙂 ) :

  • Lavender
  • Rosemary
  • Chamomile

Here is my recipe for tangled hair spray without any chemicals.

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Reduce anxiety with essential oils

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Anxiety is the body’s way of reacting to physical or emotional threat. We also may get anxiety for things that might appear. It is normal to have anxiety at times, but for some people is stays for longer periods of times and it’s difficult to get rid of. If anxiety stays for longer periods of time, it’s good to see medical professionals about that. A lot of people get benefits from healthy way of living, exercise, meditation and yoga. Aromatherapy can also help anxiety at home.

Aromatherapy

Anxiety often makes muscles tense. You can make your own massage oil with mixing:

  • 3 tea spoons of cold pressed vegetable oil
  • 2 drops of geranium oil
  • 2 drops of lavender oil
  • 1 drop of basil oil

You can also put couple of drops geranium and lavender oil to diffuser.

Sleeplessness

Anxiety may cause sleeplessness. You can help sleeplessness and also relax your muscles with adding camomile or lavender oil to your tea. You can also rub two drops of them to your temples and put two drops to your steamer when going to bed.

 

Geranium

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Geranium was completely unfamiliar to me. It is amazing with treating skin and hair. It has been used for making hair and skin beautiful since the Egyptian times. Geranium oil is diffused from the whole geranium plant. The scent of geranium is beautiful and you can make your own 100% pure perfume. The aroma of geranium releases tension and stress. Think how wonderful, relaxing, pure parfume! You can mix geranium to your shampoo or conditioner and your night cream or make your own. Geranium is also told to repel insects.

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Essial oils to help with your hair and scalp

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My story with a difficult scalp
Oh boy, do I know problems with scalp! I had long seasons when I had a lot of dandruff and itching spots in my scalp. During winters it got worse, but also sometimes during summer time. Sometimes I would upset my scalp by dyeing my hair and sometimes it did nothing. At times dry shampoo was a problem, but sometimes not. I use to die my hair for 15 years every 1-2 months without a stop. Than I just stopped. I decided that my hair color was fine. Full stop!
I started to get annoyed with the smell of coloring more and more during the years and I started to believe that the dying and dry shampoo didn’t do anything good for my scalp. My scalp started to do better. After six months when I stopped coloring my hair, my scalp was fine. When I quit dry shampoo it helped even more. I have a very fine and thin hair. I get it from both side of the family and there is nothing I can do about it. My hair dresser thinks I also have a tight scalp, that prevents nutrients from getting into my hair follicles. I should massage it more often.
The situation now
I still have little dandruff every now and then, mostly during winter or if I have gotten sun into my scalp, but the worse is absolutely behind me. I have also reduced chemicals in my scalp. I don’t use commercial hairspray, except on a very rare occasion.
I have started to make my own hairspray, that you will get a recipe for later! I have started to use dry shampoo again sometimes (not often at all). I use Lush’s No Drought dry shampoo. It is not as handy as the spray ones, but it will do its job. I find it little bit messy when putting it on. Don’t put it on with your party shirt on!
Reasons for problems with scalp and hair
The problems with the scalp can be caused by stress, poor nutrition, illness or wrong kind of products. Some medication and hormones can cause hair to get thin. Hair can get greasy because of genes and hormone imbalance. The skin gets flaky because of over production of cells or yeast infection. Fungal infection may cause big amounts of hair to fall off.
My own hair used to got greasy very quickly before. I used to wash it very often and I used chemical shampoos. Than I started to cut down the amount of washing and I left the chemical shampoos all together.  It has balanced out my scalp a lot!  Because I don’t use chemical hair products, except on a rare occasion, I don’t even have a need for a heavier wash.
When you are used to chemical shampoos, your hair gets different when you leave them out. So you need to be patient with the “rehab process”! 🙂 It gets worse, before it gets better! This also happened to me for few weeks. My hair was down a lot! 🙂 Usually now I rinse my hair and scalp with warm water. You can get good natural shampoos and conditioners (some are soap bars, where there is less packaging needed) from Lush, if you don’t feel like making your own!
DIY conditioner for dry, flaky or red scalp:
 
                                 2 drops of geranium/lavender oil
                                 1 drop sandal wood oil
                                 2,5 tea-spoon of olive oil
                              Massage and rinse well!!
                   
DIY Shampoo for greasy scalp:
                                  3 drops of cypress oil
                                  2 drops of rosemary oil
                                  2 drops of lemon oil
                                  5 tea-spoon of castile soap (f.e Dr Bronner’s baby or DoTerra’s cleaning concentrate)
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