Lemon Essential Oil has antiviral, antifungal, antiseptic and anti-bacterial properties. It offers numerous health benefits and is a top contender for cleaning supplies. It’s still used to prevent contagious illnesses and boost the immune system.

Some of the ways to use lemon in your daily life:

Reduce anxiety and uplift mood

Lemon helps ease stress, nervous tension, and anxiety, yet it can energize and refresh your mind. It’s a nice pick-me-up that’ll perk you up if you’re feeling tired and fatigued. It relieves mental exhaustion while improving focus, memory retention, and concentration.

• Add a few drops to your bathwater, in a diffuser, on jewelry diffusers, or mix with carrier oil and apply topically.

Skin care

Its astringent properties reduce cellulite, remove dead skin cells, brighten and clear up your complexion. Lemon tightens sagging skin, helping to prevent wrinkles. It’s detoxifying and reduces excessive oil on your skin, so it’s often used on acne.

• Mix with carrier oil and apply topically.

Boosts immune system

Applied topically (mixed with carrier oil) to the bottoms of your feet, lemon helps bring down fevers and helps ward off diseases. It does this by stimulating white blood cells. Lemon is rich in vitamins and nutrition.

• To increase circulation, try mixing it with peppermint essential oil.
• Either diffuse (including diffuser jewelry) or apply topically. If you do come down with an infection or illness, it helps relieve muscular aches and pains.

Nail and hair care

• When your nails are looking a little drab or yellow, use cotton balls to rub lemon essential oil on them to get them looking white and shiny.
• For more vibrant hair, mix a few drops of lemon with a spray bottle of water and spray onto hair. It refreshes your mane, giving you shiny, healthy hair.

All-purpose cleaner

Get rid of the chemical in cleaning supplies. Lemon is a disinfectant and works in all kinds of ways around the house. Its antibacterial and anti-fungal properties make it a great choice for one all-natural household cleaner or make different DIY recipes for various cleaning jobs around the house.

• You can simply mix several drops of lemon essential oil in a spray bottle and mix with water and use it on countertops, ovens, toilets, sinks, you name it. Vinegar is great for cleaning, too.

Here’s a recipe combing the two with a few other ingredients:

All-Purpose Cleaner

Mix in a spray bottle:

• 2 cups of water
• 2 cups white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon natural dish soap (not Castile)
• 30 drops of lemon essential oil
• 20 drops of tea tree essential oil

Citrus Soft Scrub

One of my favorite DIY recipes for cleaning around the house is a soft scrub that’s easy to make.

• Combine 1 cup of baking soda,
• ¼ cup of liquid castile soap
• 10 drops each of lemon and orange essential oils.
• Mix together to form a paste.

Lemon has such a refreshing scent. It mixes great with other oils, too, such as peppermint, tea tree, and eucalyptus. Whether your skin, health, or the air in your home needs a boost, lemon alone or combined with other oils works wonders.

Stressed?

Vitality Extracts Stress Away Essential Oil Blend is a mixture of Bergamot, Sweet Orange, Ylang Ylang, Pink Grapefruit, and Patchouli. This combination of natural ingredients was created to help out with the everyday stresses in your life. Whether it’s driving on the freeway, trying to get the kids off to school and yourself to work, or just to give you a calming effect, this is the perfect blend.

Stress Ease induces relaxation, reduces nervous tension, uplifts, calms, and regenerates. Use it to balance stress and anxiety, as well as increase memory and mental agility.

Try a few drops on the Calming Lava Stone Diffuser Bracelet made with White Howlite stone, a calming gem. It helps relieve stress, increase self-awareness, calm your mind when it’s overactive, and can aid in sleeping.

Tired?

Not enough sleep last night? Feeling sluggish in the middle of the day? 

Energy Essential Oil Blend helps uplift your mood, stimulate your mind, and increase energy. It’s a combination of Rosemary, Juniper Berry, Juniper Needle, Silver Fir Needle, Lemongrass, Clove, Nutmeg, and Black Pepper. Energy Blend is good for clearing the mind and increasing blood flow. Rejuvenate body and mind with Energy Blend, as well as balance stress and anxiety.

Apply to a Blue Agate Buddha Diffuser Bracelet, a stone that uplifts, elevates, and has a positive effect on emotions and attitude. Or try a few drops on the Matte Jasper Diffuser Bracelet, which promotes vitality and perseverance, and can boost energy.

Feeling Lost?

Vitality Extracts Inner Peace is a wonderful blend of Clove Leaf, Pink Grapefruit, Mandarin, Lavender, Bergamot, and Lemon. It helps increase mental agility and reduces stress and anxiety, leaving you in a more peaceful state.

Myrrh is another good essential oil to diffuse when you’re feeling lost. It’s very centering and provides a rich scent that sedates and calms.

The Faceted Hematite Diffuser Bracelet and the Sacred Arrow Diffuser Bracelet can add to your peaceful feeling. Both have hematite, which grounds and protects, strengthening your connection with the earth, providing feelings of safety and security.  It empowers you with courage, strength, endurance, and vitality. Hematite helps balance the chakras, as well as give balance between the body, mind, and spirit. It’s also aids in dissolving negativity and preventing the absorption of negativity from others.

Enjoy the Vitality Extracts blends to help you through feelings of stress, tiredness, or feeling lost. Add to the benefits of essential oils with diffuser jewelry made with stones to soothe and calm you. 

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First thing in the morning, I brush my teeth with my homemade toothpaste, as do my kids. It only takes a few minutes to make and lasts for a couple of weeks or longer. It’s so simple—mix 2/3 of cup of baking soda with 10 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil. Add a dash of sea salt, if you want. Mix and stir in purified water to the consistency you desire.

Time to get breakfast going, but first I get the diffuser going. I like peppermint, which is good for digestion and gets the blood flowing.  Energy Essential Oil Blend is definitely one of my morning favorites. It’s uplifting, helps clear and stimulate my mind, and increases energy. It’s a blend of Rosemary, Juniper Berry, Juniper Needle, Silver Fir Needle, Lemongrass, Clove, Nutmeg, and Black Pepper. In addition, it can help reduce inflammation, increase blood flow, rejuvenate mind & body, and balance stress & anxiety.

Orange is another nice morning fragrance. It makes me want to get moving and take on the day. Sometimes I mix it with Lemon or Grapefruit Essential Oils.

Topically, I apply a combo of a few drops of peppermint with a few drops of orange mixed in coconut oil to help the kids focused. I often apply it to their feet, where the pores are larger. Vetiver is another great essential oil you can use for focus.

Remember to experiment to see which essential oils work best for you and your kids – do a test patch to make sure there are no allergies.

As I get dressed, I use my homemade essential oils deodorant. Like my toothpaste, it’s quick and easy to make. A small container lasts me several weeks. I use ¼ cup of coconut oil, 1/8 cup each of baking soda and arrowroot powder, and five drops of Lavender Essential Oil.

Out the door and in the car we go—sounds stressful right? But practicing aromatherapy using a car diffuser makes it easy! I switch out the essential oils, depending on everyone’s moods. Or if someone has a stuffy nose, I use Eucalyptus or Breathe Easy Essential Oil Blend, which contains Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Australian Tea Tree, Lemon, Siberian Fir Needle, Cardamom, European Bay Laurel Leaf. It helps increase the lungs capacity to breathe, clear the sinuses, and relieve congestion. If one of the kids is nervous about a test or report—we use Lavender or Stress Away in the car diffuser.

To remain sane, all moms need a little grounding during the day,  so my secret is I put frankincense on my diffuser bracelet. When I’m at home, I like to keep the diffuser going most of the day and evening. It makes the house smell so good, plus it’s therapeutic.

Using essential oils, bedtime has never been easier. Before bedtime, Lavender goes in the diffuser while reading to the kids to help them.

For skin lotions, coconut oil with lavender is tops on my list. It helps keep me calm and I use it on everyone’s feet before bedtime to help with sleeping.

Off to bed they go. Quiet time for me. During meditation, Frankincense is my go-to essential oil.

For alone time with my husband, Ylang ylang Essential Oil’s aroma is sensual, exotic, and rich. It’s also known to reduce stress and induce calmness, which is nice if either of us has had a hectic day.

After a peaceful night’s sleep, I wake up refreshed and energetic and ready to tackle on another busy day!

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If Monday morning finds you feeling blue, use essential oils to uplift your mood and spirit. You can even start on Sunday evening.

Research shows the benefits of using essential oils to enhance your state of mind. Fragrances are carried to our brain, triggering certain emotions.

The Day Before

Sunday evening is a wonderful time to relax in the bathtub with a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil, with its calming, soothing effects. Its relaxing scent helps with insomnia and relieving stress, anxiety, and depression.

After your bath, mix a few drops of lavender with coconut oil (or other carrier oil) and rub it behind your ears or on the bottoms of your feet. Wake up feeling refreshed on Monday morning.

All Day Monday

Get your home diffuser going on Monday morning and add a few drops of Vitality Extracts Energy Essential Oil Blend. This combination of Rosemary, Juniper Berry, Juniper Needle, Silver Fir Needle, Lemongrass, Clove, Nutmeg, and Black Pepper helps uplift your mood, stimulate your mind and increase energy. It’s beneficial in clearing the mind, rejuvenating mind and body, and balancing stress and anxiety.

Vitality Extracts Stress Away Essential Oil Blend is also a good choice for your Monday morning blues. This blend contains bergamot, which is great for anytime you’re feeling down. It’s very stimulating and improves circulation of the blood, resulting in a more energetic feeling. It’s often used to balance your emotions. Ylang ylang is another ingredient of the Stress Away Blend (which you can buy separately as well), an essential oil that helps lift your spirits.

Taking a whiff of Vitality Extracts Ylang Ylang Essential Oil Blend  can enhance your mood and is also beneficial in getting rid of some negative emotions. Rounding out this combination are sweet orange, pink grapefruit, and patchouli, an uplifting mixture that regenerates you, increasing mental agility and memory.

Vitality Extracts Refresh Essential Oil Blend is designed to uplift and renew, making it another good choice for Monday morning. This bright and energetic blend can help you regenerate and surmount mental fatigue. It combines Sweet Orange Oil, Camphor Oil, Cananga Oil, and Lavandin Grosso Oil.

Lemon Essential Oil is wonderful in so many ways. The zesty aroma is refreshing and clean—it’s bound to perk you up and bring a smile to your face. Lemon’s helpful for memory retention and focus, and in reducing anxiety and uplifting mood.

The essential oils or blends that bring you joy and happiness on Monday mornings can be taken with you all day. Diffuse them at home, in your car, and with diffuser jewelry. Vitality Extracts has several bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings available. You can also mix with carrier oil and massage into your skin.

Try some of these ideas for the Monday morning blues and see which ones work best for you.

Diffuser bracelets are made with lava beads and that’s where you dab a drop or two of the essential oil of your choice. The scents usually last a day or more.

Are you looking for calming, serenity, or protection? What you want out of your bracelet will help you choose which one is best for your needs, along with the essential oil.

Here are some of our more popular bracelets:

BLUE REGALITE LAVA STONE DIFFUSER BRACELET

The Regalite stone helps you find inner peace, clarity, love and compassion, and has emotional healing properties.

Samantha C: “Amazing!! This bracelet is so pretty. It is made with good quality and my employees loved them. A very cool gift to give to employees to help them manage stress in the workplace.’

Darla F: “Great for everyday wear, I use it with a relaxing essential oil blend, as I have anxiety.”

CALMING LAVA STONE DIFFUSER BRACELET

Made with the White Howlite stone, which is a popular calming stone, this bracelet aids in sleeping, calms an overactive mind, relieves stress, helps with dream retention, and dispels anger.

Barb K: “Love it so much my daughter took it from me. She’s 17 and in her senior year so anxiety is high. This seems to help.”

Jessica S: “Love it!!! As someone who works multiple jobs, I ordered this bracelet to help bring some grounding and good energy to my day. I really love the bracelet; I’ve been pairing it with Lavender essential oil and find it so relaxing!!! The adjustable fit is perfect and it’s easy to get on and off. I’ll definitely be ordering more for my family and friends.”

SACRED ARROW DIFFUSER BRACELET

Hematite grounds and protects, and strengthens our connection with the earth, bringing feelings of safety and security. It endows us with courage, strength, endurance and vitality, and stimulates concentration and focus. Hematite balances the chakras, dissolves negativity, and prevents absorbing the negativity of others. It helps to overcome compulsions and addiction.

Jeanie: “This bracelet is beautiful. I love the size of the beads; they are small and very pretty. The lava stones hold the smell of my essential oils very well.”

Brittany D: “Beautifully crafted, quality. Bought this one for my brother, actually, and he loves it. He has high anxiety and he says it has helped a good amount.”

7 CHAKRA LAVA STONE DIFFUSER BRACELET

The beads in a chakra bracelet can be made of many materials, but the colors are very important. Each of the chakras is represented by a color —violet/white, indigo, light blues, green/pinks, yellows/browns, orange, and reds.

Clara M: “I love and ordered more items and will always order from this business.”

Khristen P: “Absolutely love my Chakra bracelet. I feel so grounded when I wear it and my mood is enhanced. I can tell a real difference with my crankiness when I am not wearing it.”

Popular Essential Oils for Your Bracelet:

INNER PEACE

Ingredients: Clove Leaf, Pink Grapefruit, Mandarin, Lavender, Bergamot, Lemon.

Inner Peace Essential Oil Blend can help with pain relief, fight free radicals, boost your immune system, increase mental agility, reduce stress and anxiety, tighten sagging skin, and reduce cellulite,

ENERGY

Ingredients: Rosemary, Juniper Berry, Juniper Needle, Silver Fir Needle, Lemongrass, Clove, Nutmeg, Black Pepper.

Energy Essential Oil Blend helps uplift your mood, stimulate your mind, increase energy, clear the mind, increase blood flow, reduce inflammation, rejuvenate mind and body, and balance stress & anxiety.

STRESS AWAY

Ingredients: Bergamot, Sweet Orange, Ylang ylang, Pink grapefruit, Patchouli

Stress Relief Essential Oil Blend helps combat normal everyday stresses, reduce nervous tension and induce relaxation, uplift, relax, calm, regenerate, reduce inflammation, balance stress and anxiety, and increase mental agility and memory.

DEEP MUSCLE

Ingredients: Peppermint, Wintergreen, Eucalyptus, Camphor, German Chamomile Oil

Deep Muscle Essential Oil Blend is one of the most invigorating and enjoyable natural ways to manage everyday aches and pains, headaches and migraines, reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and clear sinuses.

LAVENDER

Ingredients: Lavender

Lavender oil is the go-to essential oil and one of the most popular essential oils in the world. It can help reduce anxiety and emotional stress, heal burns and wounds, improves sleep, restore skin complexion and reduce acne, slow aging with powerful antioxidants, improve eczema and psoriasis, and alleviate headaches

These are just some of our more popular bracelets and fragrances at Vitality Extracts.
We have many others to choose from. Pick both the bracelet and essential oil that will best benefit you and fit your needs.

IDEAS FOR YOUR DIY STRESS RELIEF KIT

DIFFUSER BRACELETS

Vitality Extracts has many diffuser bracelets with stones that are meant to calm you.

Here are some of them:

• Calming Lava Stone Diffuser Bracelet—the White Howlite stone is extremely popular as a calming stone to help calm an overactive mind and relieve stress.
• Sacred Arrow Diffuser Bracelet—Hematite grounds and protects us, bringing feelings of safety and security. It focuses energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind, and spirit.
• Protect Diffuser Bracelet— Pyrite promotes good physical health and emotional well-being. Meditation with Pyrite can encourage greater frequency in moments of inspiration. It can be used to bring a feeling of increased vitality during times of hard-work or stress. (shown in picture above)
• Serenity Diffuser Bracelet—also made with White Howlite stone (see Calming bracelet)
• White Howlite Lava Stone Diffuser Bracelet—Howlite helps relieve anxiety and stress of all kinds.

ESSENTIAL OILS

Now for some calming essential oils to use on your bracelet(s). As for single oils, Lavender is a favorite for reducing anxiety and emotional stress. Vitality Extracts has several essential oil blends, too, to calm you down:

• Stress Relief Essential Oil Blend helps balance stress and anxiety, reduce nervous tension, and induce relaxation. It’s a mixture of Bergamot, Sweet Orange, Ylang ylang, Pink grapefruit, and Patchouli.
• Calm Blend relaxes the body and mind, calming the nerves and reducing stress and anxiety. It contains Mandarin Oil, Lavender Oil, Tangerine Oil, and German Chamomile Oil.
• Inner Peace Essential Oil combines Clove Leaf, Pink Grapefruit, Mandarin, Lavandin, Bergamot, and Lemon. It increases mental agility, as well as reducing stress and anxiety.

ESSENTIAL OIL STRESS BALLOONS

Make and add a stress balloon to your stress relief kit. It’s a fun way to calm down. In a bowl, combine 1/3 cup of Epsom salt and 4 drops of your choice (see suggestions above) of essential oils. Next, take a funnel and put it in the opening of a latex balloon. Pour the mixture into the balloon, getting all of the salt out of the neck of balloon before tying the top. Squeeze it whenever you’re feeling frazzled.

PHOTOS

Looking at pictures can bring a smile to your face and warmth to your heart. For your stress relief kit, add a photo of you on your favorite beach or you and your partner on a fun outing, your kids, your pet—whatever makes you feel good.

EXERCISE

If possible, do some type of physical exercise to let go of overwhelm. Even a short around-the-block walk can do worlds of good. These are a few ideas for your DIY stress relief kit. You’ll probably have some of your own—maybe an item you treasure or a favorite affirmation—whatever brings peace and serenity to you.

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Use a few drops in a diffuser, on diffuser jewelry, or mixed with carrier oil and rub onto your skin. Some of our all-natural oil blends are available in a roll-on, as well.

1. INNER PEACE ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND

Vitality Extract’s Inner Peace Essential Oil Blend is a lovely combination of Clove Leaf, Pink Grapefruit, Mandarin, Lavender, Bergamot, and Lemon.

The robust aroma of clove is complemented with a few various citrus fragrances and rounded out with lavender, producing a wonderful blend that increases mental agility. In addition, this blend offers pain relief, boosts the immune system, fights free radicals, reduces stress & anxiety, and also reduces cellulite and tightens sagging skin.

Lisa M. uses Inner Peace:

“Since wearing it, I feel lighter and am not carrying around a lot of weight on my shoulders. I was skeptical at first, but now I think it does have some effect on me.”

2. STRESS AWAY ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND

This is a natural solution to combat the normal stresses that creep into everyday life, which will help you keep your mind clearer. It’s a combination of Bergamot, Sweet Orange, Ylang ylang, Pink Grapefruit, and Patchouli. Use it to increase mental agility and memory, plus uplift, relax, calm, and regenerate. Other benefits include reducing nervous tension and inflammation, and balancing stress and anxiety.

MARIE-CLAUDE D. uses Stress Away:

“I’m in love with this oil!! I used it on my bracelet & car diffuser and I must say I could breathe well all day! I work in a stressful environment and this oil really helped with my focus and cleared my head.”

3. REFRESH ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND

Like the name says, this blend is designed to uplift and renew. It’s an energetic combination of Sweet Orange Oil, Camphor Oil, Cananga Oil, and Lavender. For mental clarity, it regenerates, helps surmount mental fatigue, and boosts the immune system. It’s clean, refreshing, and invigorating.

4. ROSEMARY ESSENTIAL OIL

A brain-boosting oil, rosemary is uplifting and stimulating, an excellent brain and nerve tonic. When brain fog hits, inhale rosemary to renew mental energy, and improve mental clarity and concentration. It’s energizing and helps improve brain function and memory—so it’s a good remedy for forgetfulness. Use it to clear the mind, get rid of mental fatigue and exhaustion, and promote clear thinking. When you need a mental pick-me-up, rosemary is good choice.

5. PEPPERMINT ESSENTIAL OIL

Peppermint’s clean, menthol fragrance is a popular oil to stimulate the mind, improve mental clarity, and increase energy levels. Like rosemary, it supports memory, focus, and concentration. Peppermint can help you stay focused and alert and helps with mental performance, increasing retention rates and alertness. It’s a mood booster, can perk you up, help you stay alert and reduce fatigue.

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