R.C.

R.C. should be the first Young Living essential oil blend that I used. I was having a cough for weeks, and I got this R.C. mixed with carrier oil from my aunt. I rub it on the back of my ears the night before I sleep. And I just get better the next morning. Honestly, I think I only used it for three times to say goodbye to the cough.

Whenever my daughter had a nose blocked, I will rub some diluted R.C. on her chest and back, it helps. She can sleep her night through. I have also been using it on my son who is having asthma problem. For his case, I apply diluted R.C. on the Vita Flex points on his feet at night. Sometimes, I do diffuse R.C. in his bedroom.

The ingredients include: 3 types of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus Globulus, Eucalyptus Radiata and Eucalyptus Citriodora), Cypress, Peppermint, Black Spruce, Lavender, Myrtle, Marjoram and Pine. It is a good essential oil blends to keep at home. It is useful for cough, sinus and cold.

I love to diffuse it on a cold day too, it is refreshing and make one feel cozy squeezing oneself in the sofa or bed.

My favourite way of diffusing essential oils at home

I believe everyone have their way to diffuse their favourite EO. I want to share with you my favourite way of diffusing EO at my home. Different EO and mist option I choose depends on the occasions or purposes as well as room size.

What are my favourite essential oil to diffuse? 

For refreshing purpose: 

Lemon Essential Oil (Singles)

Citrus Fresh Essential Oil (Singles)

Peppermint Essential Oil (Singles)

For sleep purpose: 

Lavender Essential Oil(Singles)

RC Essential Oil (Blends)

For breathing purpose:

Eucalyptus Radiata Essential Oil (Singles)

RC Essential Oil (Blends)

Which Diffuser I use?

I am using Young Living Dewdrop Diffuser. 

How many drop of essential oil I put?

6 drops of the essential oil (water level: max)

Which mode of Mist option I choose?

It depends on the room size. I choose5-hour mode (high) in the living room, 8-hour mode (medium) in master bedroom, and 10-hour mode (intermittent 1 min on/1 min off) in smaller bedroom. 

How to use Essential Oils?

My first impression on essential oils is that the aroma when it is diffused, it does not attract me much, because I am sensitive to smell. Normally I will walk away from stalls or shop selling this.

So, essential oils can be used aromatically through a diffuser. 

I am using dewdrop diffuser which function as a humidifier, atomizer, and aroma diffuser. It is easy to use, just add 5-8 drops of essential oil in the water, and press the power button to turn it on.

Alternately, if you do not have a diffuser, just take a drop of the essential oil and rub it in your palms, then cup your hands around your nose and mouth and inhale slowly.

I also put it on cotton wool ball and keep inside wardrobe and drawers.

But after I get to know more about essential oils, only I realize that essential oils can be used topically too.

Yes, I dilute the essential oils in dropper bottles / roller bottles and apply it on my face. Just like applying face serum, you may refer to my DIY face serum post.

Besides, I also get my kids to rub eo on the bottoms of their little feet.

In fact, essential oil can be used internally too.

Young Living’s Vitality™  are safe for ingestion. However, I have yet to try it so not much to share here.


If you are a beginner like me, do remember LESS IS MORE! 😉

Endoflex for the women...Cheers!

Yes, a great essential oil that I got as a reward from Young Living in May 2019 promo with purchase of 190 PV. If you are wonder am I promoting Young Living, my answer is in the previous post.

Of course, the gift does cheer me up!

Endoflex essential oil is a proprietary blend of Spearmint, Geranium, German Chamomile, Sage, Myrtle, Nutmeg that supports hormones including thyroid and endocrine system and overall body.

I filled up my 8ml roller bottle with carrier oil and add 4 drops of endoflex essential oil. I rolled it on my lower back, and give it a rub, I can feel a bit warm and almost immediately the soreness on my back gone. I know right, I always make the essential oil sounds like magical and unreal, but it really happened to me. Now it is my favourite oil. I rub it on my back using the roller bottle every night. It is that convenient.

More about this blog

If you have a question why do I keep mentioning Young Living or maybe doTERRA in my posts? It is simply because that is what I am using and it does well on me. I am not sure other brand do the same or not, therefore, I only mention Young Living and doTERRA in my blog. If you are interested to know more about how I came across essential oil, go ahead and read my post here.

Also, I put my Young Living account number in the photos I uploaded as watermark purpose. Previously I put Redsponge image, but now I will just add simple text and save the hustle to open up  photoshop just for the sake of editing a photo. If you wish to use any of the photos I uploaded without the watermark, please email me at joonpei@gmail.com.

And if you noticed, I have this Join Me column on the right side of the blog, it is for those who wish to know more about Young Living products and to get the better price (24% discount from retail price) when you become a member. Of course if you click on the link there and become a member, you will be my downline, and I get to earn some commission from you when you make purchase. You can opt to not using my Young Living account as sponsor or enroller, it is all up to you. As an IT person, I saw the link provided in my account page, so I just copied over and park it on my blog. It is just so natural.

I am not a member for doTERRA, I bought their essential oils through my friend. You may email me if you need help.

I really love to share essential oils and aromatherapy with everyone and hope that you get benefit from it. If you think I am promoting essential oils and aromatherapy, Yes, I am.  If you think I am promoting Young Living, then I am, cos as you know, that is the only essential oil that I am using now. 

All in all, my purpose of this blog is to record down my essential oil journey and how I use them in my daily life. 

Rubbing essential oil on the bottoms of the feet for my kids

When I watched 《妻子的浪漫旅行2》，I noticed that one of the wives, who is also one of my favourite actress since young,  in the show is rubbing some kind of liquid on her soles every morning and before bed. I am curious to find out what is she doing or using.  

I asked around and even googled about it, finally I got the answer, it is essential oil that she is rubbing on her bottoms of feet every day.

Sometimes, things just happen at the right time. Soon after that, I was invited to attend the essential oil sharing session. Haha.

And, the fact that my favourite actress is using essential oil is definitely one of the reason why I grow fond of essential oils immediately.

I googled and found out that our feet soles has larger pore than any other part of the body, and the essential oil can penetrate through our skin into the body faster. 

I thought of improving my kids wellness through essential oils and this is the easiest way for me to use it on them.

I diluted lavender (3 drops) in carrier oil in an 8ml roller bottle to make this kid's friendly "sleep well magic potion", a name given just for fun. I get my kids to rub the oil on their feet soles every night before bedtime to calm them down and get good sleep at night. 

I also diluted peppermint (3 drops) in carrier oil in an 8ml roller bottle to create "wake up magic potion" for my kids. It is for refreshing and focus purpose.

The kids have been rubbing the oils every day and night since I make the 2 bottles for them. They will ask for it every night.

I changed my son's magic potion at night to eucalyptus radiata diluted in carrier oil, a gift from my auntie. I rub it on the lung and chest area shown on the foot reflexology chart, hoping to improve his asthma symptom. 

For my daughter, I rub the oil on the colon area, hoping that it will improve her digestion and put on some weight. 

Just a bit sharing of how I use the essential oil on my kids who are aged 8yo and 11yo this year. You may refer to dilution ratios for kids and babies for more inforamtion.

Which Essential Oils that I am using?

I did mention it in my post Getting to know about Essential Oil that I started off with doTERRA Introductory Kit which contain Lavender, Peppermint and Lemon Essential Oils.

After a few weeks trying out, I decided to get the Young Living Premium Starter Kit with Dewdrop. Why Young Living and not doTERRA? Well, the most valid reason would be my sister-in-law, cousin and aunties are using Young Living essential oils, we can easily share information with each others. I did not do any serious studies to compare which essential oils are better except for the pricing. But, of course, their Seed To Seal® promise also telling me that the quality and purity of the essential oils that I get is of good standard. As a consumer, no doubt pricing is always a concern but if I can afford a slightly higher price and good quality and reputation, why not? We should always treat ourselves better. Anyway, this is just some sharing, you may not agree with me. Out there in the shopping malls, there are a lot more other brands of essential oil available with different price range which you can choose from. I wrote this post not to tell you which essential oils that I am using and in case you are wonder why the one you got if different from what I shared here, the reason could be even though they are the same lavender essential oils, but because they are from different source, the purity and quality could be different. 

My first online purchase from Young Living. Besides from the Premium Starter Kit, I bought two essential oils and ART Gentle Cleanser. An extra bottle of essential oil is a gift from Young Living. 

Good night!

Need a good rest tonight so that I can wake up early to prepare the titbits for the kids to bring to school. They are celebrating Teachers' Day.

Love the night light from dewdrop ultrasonic diffuser. ❤

Here is a video clip to show the features of dewdrop ultrasonic diffuser.

Removing sticker easily with Lemon Essential Oil

When the kids are young, they love to stick stickers everywhere, on the cupboard, wardrobe, drawers, bed frame, bottles, etc. After a while, the stickers are difficult to be removed. But by dripping 1 or 2 drops of lemon essential oil on a cotton pad and rub on the stickers, you will see magic, the stickers will be removed nicely without any stain. 

This is a very good trick. Not sure how many times I cracked my finger nails when removing the stickers on certain bottle or container which I want to keep. Now, this can be easily done. Yay!

Getting to know about Essential Oil

It was on a very fine day that my sister-in-law called me up to check with me whether I want to join her to attend a sharing session on Young Living Essential Oils organised by our relatives.

We were like saying this: if you want to go then I can go with you, and finally, I said let's just go together.

There, I was introduced to many different essential oils and their benefits.

To be honest, I am never a aromatherapy fan because I am 'sensitive' to aroma...to be precise synthetic aroma. Living for 30+ years and I have never finish a bottle of perfume or even cologne, or u named it eau de toilette. No air refresher in car, bedroom or toilet. I always choose the skincare with lightest scent if not possible to have fragrance free. All these so-called aroma make me dizzy. That is a little bit of me and aroma.

So, surprisingly during the sharing, I get to sniff many of the essential oils directly from the uncapped bottle. And the room is filled with diffused aroma of the essential oils. My body does not resist it. However, I still mentally prepared myself that there is big possibility I will get headache that night because of all the aroma I inhaled. No, I was wrong. I did not get any headache that night.

In fact, I spent the whole afternoon learning all about essential oils. How to the essential oils to our daily life activities to make life better and fun. Seriously, I am overwhelmed by the new knowledge I learn.

After the sharing, I continue to google about essential oils and talk to people who knows and using them to get more information.

After some comparison, I decided to get myself a few bottles to try out before buying the starter kit. Who knows, my body will resist it again, right? So fine. As a smart consumer, I compare the prices between doTERRA and Young Living, there is an obvious different. Despite the fact that deep down inside, I know I want the starter kit set from Young Living, but a Taurus is always a Taurus, I always spend money wisely. After so much consideration, I decided to get the introductory set from doTERRA to start off.

That is the beginning of my essential oil journey...

About this blog

Fall in love with Essential Oils and keep on doing online readings about them....which I could never have enough of it.

It is so interesting to know that:
... each of the essential oils has its own wonderful properties to be discovered
... each of the essential oils has its own aroma
... you can mix and match the essential oils to meet your body needs in the most natural way
... recipes for essential oils treatment available online and in books
... everyone can get benefits from essential oils

This blog will capture how essential oils make changes in my life and also the useful recipe that I came across for my own reference and who knows it might benefit others who share the same passion like I do! 💖💖💖

**However, all these are not clinically proven and it is just based on my personal experience and my family usage. If you are trying to apply any of these recipe, test it and be alert to the effects, you know it best whether to continue or stop using it.