Diffuser blends for beginner

When I first got my diffuser, the very first eo that I added is lavender essential oil.

After a few nights, I decided to play around with the essential oils based on the recipe I found online. So far, I have yet to come across any combination that I love very much, and sometimes, I created some blends that my kids dislike, haha! 

And then I start to google, and found out that I make a few mistakes. 

#1 I did not test the aroma before I diffuse them.
#2 I did not synergize the essential oils together first when creating the blends. 

So, please remember, if you are using the diffuser blends u get from reliable source, first thing to do is, remove the cap of the essential oils, hold them near to your nose and waft them back and fourth. This is to test whether you like the aroma. 

After that, you may put the drops of essential oil into the 1ml sampling bottle (which comes together in your Premium Starter Kit). Shake well, and again, waft it under your nose, if the aroma is exactly what you like, you may drop it in your diffuser. Otherwise, you might want to test the aroma with other essential oil or just simply add 1 or 2 drops of the essential oil to meet your preference.

I referred to Young Living Blog post about five perfect pairs diffuser blends. I think this is a good start.

Thieves ➕ Lemon

💧💧 Peppermint ➕ 💧💧 Lavender

Cinnamon Bark ➕ Orange

Frankincense ➕ Cedarwood

Eucalyptus Radiata ➕ Rosemary

If you have purchased the Young Living Premium Starter Kits (PSK), you can try to play around with the first 2 pairings:
Thieves + Lemon 
Peppermint + Lavender

Try it out and find out the exact drops of each essential oils that you love in your diffuser blend. 

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! 😉

DIY serum for my face

I blog about adding essential oil to my skin regime and it really improved my skin after one month.

Face serum from Premium Stater Kit

After I got my Young Living Premium Starter Kit, I decided to upgrade my skin regime. My skin deserve a better serum 😇.

I mix 3 types of essential oil (3 drops each) in an 8ml roller bottle which is filled up with fractionated coconut oil. I used roller bottle instead of dropper bottle this time. I found it more handy. So, the ingredient of my face serum: 

1. Lavender essential oil - still adding it because it manage to calm my skin, less pimples breakout, less inflammation, heal faster;
2. Frankincense essential oil -reduces the appearance of uneven skin tones, hoping that it can help with the scars; and
3. Copaiba essential oil - Reduces the appearance of blemishes 

With this new serum, I believe it can help me to reduces the appearance of blemishes and also lighten the scars. 

Stay tuned, I shall update on my pimple fighting series here. 

Fun session: Melt and Pour Soap Making

It has always been on my wish list to go for soap making class since 1 or 2 years back. But I never enroll myself to any due to the reason that I have no time. 

And then I do not know why with essential oils, I went on to google how to make soap, then I start to look around and ask around to see where to buy the ingredients. There, I discover there is this melt and pour soap which is as easy as making jelly. 

Called up my sister-in-law and asked her if she is interested, she likes the idea. So, we went on to source for the ingredients. All we need to buy is melt and pour soap base because we already have the essential oil to replace the scented oil. 

I bought a pot for this purpose as I foresee that I will have a few session to play with it. 

The steps:

1. Cut the soap base and melt it at the stove (melt easily)
2. Remove from stove. 
3. Add 5-10 drops essential oils of your liking (about 100ml soap base)
4. Mix well and pour into the mold
5. Let mixture cool down (about an hour)
6. Take it out from mold. 

Happy mom with happy daughter!

Thank you, gugu for joining us and helping us to take nice photos.

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. 

Dilution recommendation for KIDS and BABIES

I last posted about diluting lavender and peppermint essential oils for my kids. I thought it will be good to share with you the dilution recommendation I read up from Young Living Blog on Guide to diluting essential oils for kids and babies

Based on the dilution recommendation, the ratios are:
Age 0 - 1: 8 drops carrier oil to 1 drop essential oil; 
Age 2 - 6: 3 drops carrier oil to 1 drop essential oil;
Age 7 - 11: 1 drop carrier oil to 1 drop essential oil; and
Age 12+: Full labeled concentration

To further read-up, you may visit Essential Oils in the Nursery

My dilution for my kids is heavier compare to the ratio above because I always keep in mind that less is more especially when my family and I have just started to use the essential oils, so all of them are new to us, it is better to be on the safe side to begin with less. 

I also take the advice to test the diluted essential oil on inner wrist before using it. This is to see if the individual is allergic to it.