My favorite personal scent

ok quit laughing. My favorite perfume/scent to wear is not actually perfume at all but two essential oils, 1 drop of each placed on my clothing. The oils are sandalwood and patchouli. This is something I probably wouldn't dare put on a nice dress or suit however, but for rugged down to earth denim/cotton in an unnoticeable out of the way place. When wearing jeans and using this scent I usually pick a spot down an outside leg seam to place the drops. If you wash all your laundry together and have a family they may not appreciate smelling like you and you might want to wash your scented clothes separately. The smell will fade out of the clothes, but it can take several washings, especially if you oops and get more than one drop of each oil on the clothes.

Lysine for Cold Sores / French white clay powders for Acne

I am one of those unfortunate people who get those nasty cold sores caused by the HSV-1 virus which infects 40 to 80 percent of the population of the United States. None of the products or prescriptions available for treating cold sores worked for me. I finally discovered that Lysine taken internally inhibits the virus. So now as soon as I feel that tingly feeling in my lip somewhere that lets me know I'm getting one I take L-Lysine 500mg twice a day.

In the picture above you can see my jar of french white clay powders. I buy this by the pound(i think lol) at Frontier(see side panel for link). It lasts forever and is the best thing I've ever used for acne problems. I keep a wooden scoop in my jar to make it easy to scoop a little out. Put a small amount in the palm of one hand and using the other hand dribble a little water into the powders to make a paste, put this on the affected area or you can do your entire face every so often and leave the paste on until it dries(takes no more than 10 minutes). Rinse off with cold water.

Unstopping my head

Sinus, Cold, Flu whatever the reason. When your head is all stopped up and you can't breath, here is what I do.




I set up a couple of essential oil diffusers around the house with
1 drop peppermint essential oil
3 drops lemon essential oil
3 drops rosemary essential oil
3 drops eucalyptus essential oil

to set up the diffuser, light the tea light in the bottom and fill the top with hot water, then add the oils. This recipe is an adaptation from a recipe in the book 'Aromatherapy, A lifetime guide to healing with essential oils' by Valerie Gennari Cooksley.




If your essential oils do not have a dropper insert in the neck of the bottle or an eyedropper type lid, you can use a clean straw to dispense drops out of the bottles, cutting off the end of the straw each time before moving on to the next oil, so as not to mix any from one bottle to another.

Chamomile for heartburn

When my heartburn acts up usually 2 chamomile capsules sets it right. For more serious heartburn try 2 capsules twice a day.

A good book to get medicinal dosage information on herbs from is:
Prescription For Nutritional Healing, Written by a medical doctor and a certified nutritional consultant (James F. Balch, M.D., and Phyllis A. Balch, C.N.C.)
here's a link to that book on GoodReads:
Prescription For Nutritional Healing