3 WAYS YOU CAN USE ESSENTIAL OILS?

Essential oils are super powerful, health-promoting tools that can be used in three distinct ways:

1. Diffuse them. When diffused, essential oils fill the air with beautiful scents that not only replace toxic air fresheners, that can cause hormonal imbalances, but have also been shown to decrease stress levels, increase natural energy, and even generate romance. *

2. Ingest them. Essential oils make it simple to make health enhancing kitchen swaps.  Ditch that soda habit for good and instead flavor your sparkling water or tea with just a couple drops of in.essence organic, food grade essential oil. Looking to save time? Out of oranges? Perhaps basil isn’t one of your grocery staples?  Don’t worry in.essence will let you add these flavors and many others to your meal without running to the store.  And essential oils not only deliver fantastic flavors, but you’ll also get their undeniable health benefits.*

3. Apply them. Avoid toxic body care products by making simple DIY swaps using essential oils.  Your homemade lotions and shampoos will smell fantastic and offer you amazing therapeutic benefits. And don’t forget about home goods! It is time to clean house! Use in.essence to create non-toxic cleaning supplies that will produce a clean, bacteria-free environment for you and your family. *

Q: WHY DID WE CREATE in.essence?

A: We were actually introduced to essential oils and the amazing benefits they can provide almost by accident. A woman wrote to us who was having a hard time flavoring her nutreince natural (our unflavored/unsweetened multivitamin beverage.) Since she was allergic to the stevia-based flavors we usually recommend, someone she knew suggested that she try a lemon essential oil instead.  When she did, she contacted us right away to tell us that she loved it.

We had diffused essential oils in the past, as a natural way to freshen the air in our home, but had never considered using essential oils to flavor nutreince. We needed to try this for ourselves so we purchased an organic, food grade, essential lemon oil right away and went home to try it. We added a couple of drops of the essential lemon oil to our nutreince natural multivitamin beverage and it was literally like drinking fresh lemon-aid!

We were hooked, but when we started looking around for other flavors of essential oils that we could use, we were shocked to find out that most of the essential oil on the market were not organic and were not therapeutic or food grade quality. In short, they weren’t safe. We couldn’t recommend the use of highly concentrated extracts of fruit rinds and plants that may have been exposed to high amounts of toxins such as herbicides and pesticides! So we needed to make sure that the essential oils we recommended would be safe to diffuse in the home, to apply to and be absorbed by the skin, and to cook with and flavor our nutreince multivitamin beverage with on a daily basis. We were also surprised at how expensive many of the essential oils were.

As you probably know, and as we quickly learnt, there are tons of companies selling essential oils out there… most of which operate by having multiple-levels of incentivized salespeople buy their products and then sell them to their friends and family. And it isn’t just a few people doing this, its hundreds of thousands of people. So, initially felt a little apprehensive about jumping into this incredibly crowded and competitive space. But, as with all of our products, after thoroughly researching the quality and pricing of the essential oils that were currently out on the market we really felt that there was a need for a safer, higher quality, and more affordable product in the marketplace, and that was the birth of our in.essence line of organic, essential oils.

Mira & Jayson Calton

DELIVERING YOU THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS 

Essential oils are highly concentrated organic compounds extracted from the leaf, bark, flower, fruit, seed or root of a plant or tree. For thousands of years cultures from around the globe have used essential oils in a variety of ways – as perfumes, for medicinal purposes and even in their spiritual rituals.

Essential oils contain the powerful protective and healing compounds of the plant or tree they were derived from and are often used in holistic treatments like aromatherapy and Ayurvedic medicine. Essential oils differ from fatty oils such as vegetable or seed oils, which are made up of large molecules that cannot penetrate your cells. Instead essential oils are composed of very small molecules weighing less than 1000m, (m = weight of the molecule) a weight which scientific research has shown is small enough to pass into the blood stream and penetrate your cells to deliver their therapeutic benefits. Some compounds in essential oils can even cross the blood-brain barrier.

And just like multivitamins, healthy cooking oils, protein powders and fish oil products… Not all essential oils are created equally. When formulating our in.essence organic essential oils we made sure we only sourced the highest quality ingredients possible. That means that each and every in.essence oil is 100% USDA certified organic, is extracted by using either steam distillation or cold pressing, and is therapeutic and food grade quality. This is not what you will find with most of the other essential oils on the market.

DILUTING IN.ESSENCE IN CARRIER OILS 

Essential oils are great to use topically, but some essential oils can cause sensitivities when applied directly to the skin. However, you can easily dilute the pure essential oils by mixing it with one of the carrier oils we list below, which actually can help to increase the surface area where your essential oils can absorb and reduce or eliminate any skin irritation. For most people we recommend a 5% – 10% dilution.

Some excellent carrier oils include:

• SKINNYFat Original
• SKINNYFat Olive
• Coconut oil
• Olive oil
• Almond oil
• Avocado oil
• Jojoba oil

Mix 1 Teaspoon of carrier oil with 1 drop of in.essence for a 1% dilution, 5 drops for a 5% dilution, and 10 drops for a 10% dilution.
Mix 1 Tablespoon of carrier oil with 3 drops of in.essence for a 1% dilution, 15 drops for a 5% dilution, and 30 drops for a 10% dilution.
Mix 1 fluid ounce of carrier oil with 6 drops of in.essence for a 1% dilution, 30 drops for a 5% dilution, and 60 drops for a 10% dilution.

ESSENTIAL OIL CONTRAINDICATIONS

Because essential oils can act as a powerful form of natural medicine, there are a few circumstances where they are not recommended for usage:

Pregnancy – In most cases, essential oils are completely safe, but due to the fact that these oils can affect hormones levels the following oils are not recommended during pregnancy: Basil*, cinnamon, clary sage, clove, cypress, fennel, jasmine, juniper, lemongrass*, marjoram, myrrh, rose, rosemary, sage and thyme

Heart medications (blood thinners) The following oils are not recommended for anyone on this type of medication: Clary sage, cypress, eucalyptus, ginger, rosemary, sage and thyme.

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* These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.