3 DIY Natural Winter Wellness Recipes You Gotta Try
Here are three DIY natural winter wellness recipes using essential oils you gotta try! These will help keep you healthy and moisturized during these cold, dry winter months. One is a body butter, one is an immunity roller bottle recipe, and one a vapor chest rub.
3 Winter Wellness Recipes
The first of the three winter wellness recipes is this Vapor Chest Rub. It is so super simple to make and use! Use anytime you feel like you're coming down with something and it can even be used during exercise to help open up your lungs and sinuses. Apply it to the chest and spine, but do be careful with coconut oil because it can leave oil stains on clothing. Make sure the coconut oil is rubbed in really well before putting your shirt down. This is also safe to use on children!
Vapor Chest Rub
A super simple recipe for a vapor chest rub, like Vick's!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Coconut Oil
- 6 drops Marjoram
- 6 drops Raven Essential Oil Blend
- 4 oz. glass jar
- Printable label for the jar
Instructions
Put all of the ingredients in the jar and stir until well combined. If the coconut oil is cold and hard, heat over the stove or in the microwave until softened.Â
Rub on your chest when you feel a cold coming on or need help breathing. It can even be used before and during exercise to help while your heart rate is up and you're breathing fast!
Notes
Other oils that would work: Eucalyptus Radiata, Eucalyptus Globulus, Frankincense, Cedarwood, Thieves, LavenderÂ
The second of the three winter wellness recipes is this luxurious body butter recipe! I've been making and using this recipe for years! It is so luxurious and creamy. It's perfect for dry skin and places like the heels, elbows, knees and other very dry spots.
PrintLuxurious Body Butter Recipe
A creamy, buttery, super moisturizing body butter recipe that looks so good you might want to eat it! Perfect for dry, cracked winter skin.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup shea butter
- 1/8 cup coconut oil
- 1/8 cup almond oil
- 10 drops of your favorite essential oil – I chose Harmony for this recipe to help balance your emotions for the winter blues
- 4 oz. glass jar
- Printable label for the jar
Instructions
Melt everything but the essential oils in a double boiler on the stove on low heat, stirring frequently. Once melted, remove from the stove and refrigerate for 45 minutes or until it hardens. Remove from the fridge and while with a hand or standing mixer for five minutes.
Notes
You can make a makeshift doubler boiler using one smaller pot inside of a larger one. Put a cup or two of water in the larger pot. You can also heat the ingredients in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between each one, until melted.
Other oils that would work well in any combination that you like – Lavender, Frankincense, Cedarwood, Joy, Bergamot, Ylang Ylang, Dragon Time and many others!
The third of the three winter wellness recipes we are making today is this Immunity Roller Bottle Recipe. Making your own essential oil roller bottles is SO easy and it makes it much simpler and easier to use your essential oils for your health. This recipe will help you stay well during the winter when it feels like everyone around you is dropping like flies!
PrintImmunity Roller Bottle Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 drops Thieves
- 6 drops Raven
- 6 drops Oregano
- 10 ml. roll on bottles
- 10 ml. or 1 tbsp. fractionated coconut oil
- Printable label for the jar
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in the roller bottle. Done! Roll on the spine, chest, bottoms of the feet and/or sinuses as often as needed. To stay well, roll on the bottoms of the feet and spine morning and night and run your diffuser with Thieves or Raven in it while you sleep.
Do you own an Essential Oils Business?
Then you've got to check out my printable make and take kit classes on Etsy! This particular kit uses these three winter wellness recipes in the class! My kits make it EASY for you to have classes to grow your business. They remove the headaches so you can focus on building your business instead of the details of the class. Check them out here!
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