Alcohol Free Homemade Hand Sanitizer

Alcohol-Free Homemade Hand Sanitizer

• Recycled hand sanitizer bottle or liquid soap bottle
• Fill bottle 2/3 of the way with water
• Add 1 Tablespoon of aloe vera gel
• 10 drops each of the following oils: lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus and clove bud.
• Top off the bottle with water and shake it up. Spray onto hands (3-5 sprays) and massage the spray into hands for 5-10 seconds.

Homemade Chest Rub

Create a homemade chest rub

1/4 cup Coconut Oil
10-15 drops Peppermint essential oil
10-15 drops Eucalyptus essential oil
5-10 drops Lemon essential oil


Place coconut oil in a glass bowl or jar and microwave for 5 to 10 seconds.

Add the peppermint, eucalyptus, and lemon oils (add more if you want) and shake well.
Place in the refridgerator to solidify.

Rub on chest.

The peppermint will create a cool tingling feeling and the lemon and eucalyptus will help open the airways!

Homemade Shower Disks to relieve colds

A homemade essential oils shower disk placed on your shower floor can support clear breathing!

Ingredients
1 cup baking soda
1/3 cup water (enough to make paste)

Essential oils (eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a mini-muffin tin with foil liners. Mix the baking soda and water together to form a thick paste. Pour into cupcake tin. Bake at 325 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. Top with one drop each of Eucalyptus, Lavender, and Peppermint.

Healing Powers of Garlic

Ever since I was  a little girl I can remember my mom, dad, grandparents and aunts taking garlic capsules.  If we would start to get sick, out came the garlic capsules.  My little cousin would take the little oil filled capsules even as a todder.  She would just pop them in her mouth and chew them up! She thought it was really fun to blow her garlic breath on you when she was done!

Garlic capsules are still a mainstay in my vitamin cabinet.  I have recently been seeing more and more on garlic so thought I would share some of the things I have been reading!

There are many properties that make fresh garlic a powerful healer.   Allicin and sulfur compounds of garlic are the ingredients primarily responsible for garlic's potency. Allicin is a strong antibiotic agent produced when the alliin and alliinase are merged together. The merging happens when a fresh garlic clove is crushed or chewed.

My family has always used garlic as an a immunity stimulant and to combat sicknesses such as colds and flu.  Garlic can be used as a prevention for some types of cancer, anitbitotic, anti-viral, treating high blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, and a fungicide.

Eve at The Spring Of Life discusses the powers and uses for garlic.  She also gives lots of different ways to prepare your own garlic.  I have always used the oil filled garlic capsules that my family grew up using, but after reading Eve's page I might make a few of her concoctions!  She even lists some things such as eating apples afterwards that will help you avoid garlic breath!

Tammy Motteshard has written a very informative article on garlic and its many uses which is posted at Herbal Legacy.  In her article she discusses garlic as a treatment of heavy metal poisoning and Candida (yeast) among many other things.   This article is packed with great information and lots of researched ailments that garlic has helped.

I can't remember where I read it, but I recall reading that France is the country that uses the most garlic and also the country with very low incidence of cancer.  Tammy Motteshards article mentioned above lists some of the things that even the American Cancer Society have said about the use of garlic with cancer and cancer prevention.

Once you have read these articles you will see why I keep garlic in my daily routine!  Garlic is beneficial for more than just cooking!

Homemade Garlic Salve

Garlic Salve is a natural antibiotic, antifungal and antimicrobial ointment.  This salve can be used safely on infants, children and adults.

Ingredients
3 cloves of finely chopped garlic

3 Tablespoons coconut oil

3 Tablespoons olive oil

Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender until smooth. Store in air-tight container and use as needed for up to two weeks.

• Apply this salve to the soles of your feet when you start to feel a cold coming on.

• Apply to the soles of feet every two hours to fight infections.

• Rub on chest for chest colds.

•  Rub into nostrils for sinus infections.

• Dab on a cotton swab and place in the ear for infections.