Mint Chocolate Chip Milkshake... and a Winner!

First of all, since I am sure you’d all love to know, I would like to announce that the winner of the 15ml bottle of Young Living Peppermint essential oil is Lizabeth.

Congratulations Lizbeth, we will be contacting you shortly to get your contact info so we can send you your oil.

Since we are on the topic of peppermint oil anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to share one of our favorite milkshake recipes because it uses this amazing oil, which not only tastes yummy, but is also thought to be an appetite suppressant and to support healthy digestion. 

Blog Launch Giveaway #3

I had plans for a more in-depth blog post today, but they were interrupted by some cranky kids.  So I am just going to post quickly about our next giveaway so that I can get back to rubbing them down with Peace&Calming and hoping they will go to bed early.

This week we are giving away a copy of our of our favorite oily books - the Quick Reference Guide for Using Essential Oils by Connie and Alan Higley.

Thieves Cleaner Winners!

Congratulations to Melanie Bennett and Robyn Cabrera, the winners of our first giveaway.  Robyn and Melanie have each won a glass spray bottle of Thieves Household Cleaner.

Make sure you leave a comment on this post be entered to win a bottle of Peppermint Essential Oil.  We will be drawing the winner on Friday, Sept. 26.  

And, check back tomorrow because we will be announcing another great prize to be won.  


Thanks for stopping by, 

Blog Launch Giveaway #2

Peppermint Essential oil is one of our favorite and most often used oils.  It is a really versatile oil and is a great choice for anyone just starting out with essential oils.

Not only does Young Living peppermint oil boast a wide variety of therapeutic uses, it also tastes delicious.  (We can't speak to the taste or safety of ingesting any brand other than Young Living though!) We like to use it in peppermint chocolate chip milkshakes and peppermint ice cream.  It's also really yummy in coffee or hot chocolate.  It is highly concentrated though, so make sure you start with just one drop!

Essential Oil Deodorant Creme

Throughout the course of my childhood, my mom went on a few different “health” kicks that dramatically affected what was served for dinner and what kind of shampoo (or lack of) you could find in our bathroom.  I didn’t always appreciate her efforts though.  As a young teen I didn’t really care if they were full of hormone disrupting carcinogens, I just wanted pretty smelling lotion and shower gel.  And peanut butter with added sugar.

I particularly remember when my Mom read somewhere that antiperspirant was full of aluminum and possibly linked to breast cancer.   I now fully agree with her decision to switch to natural deodorant,

Joy® Essential Oil Blend

This article is the first in our "Living the Essential Life" series by Danielle McElroy.  Danielle is an oil enthusiast who enjoys living the natural life with her cat in a cozy cottage in the Boonies.  We are very fortunate to have Danielle as a part of our team applying her excellent research skills to the field of aromatherapy and essential oils.  

Who couldn't use a little more Joy in their life?  We love using the Young Living essential oil blend called Joy and since you can receive a free bottle of Joy as part of Young Living's September promotion for the Canadian market (see all the details here) we thought it would be the perfect time to talk about this amazing blend.   

Joy is a combination of a number of different essential oils, including: bergamot, rose, geranium, lemon, palmarosa, ylang ylang, jasmine, roman chamomile, coriander and tangerine.  Joy's fragrance is beautiful and uplifting, like walking through an exotic flower garden after a spring rain.  Not only does it smell terrific, Joy has a variety of practical health uses.  Here are a few tips on how to use Joy:

Welcome!

It turns out that starting a blog is a bit more involved than we expected and combined with the fact that *someone* is a perfectionist and couldn`t just use a premade template, this whole project has taken longer than expected. 

Things aren`t quite where we would like them and you might notice some minor changes over the next few weeks (months, years...) but we are really excited to officially launch Well-oiled Chaos as a place to share some of the things we have been learning and doing. 

You`ll notice that most of our (admittedly meager) content is at the moment focused on essential oils.  We love our oils and everyday we are finding out new ways that they benefit our health and well being.