Natural Wellness for Cold and Flu Symptoms

• Diffuse Essential Oils: Use an essential oil diffuser to disperse oils like peppermint, lemon eucalyptus, and lavender throughout your home. These oils can help clear nasal passages, reduce inflammation, and promote relaxation. Learn more about diffusing

• Steam Inhalation: Add a few drops of immunity-boosting essential oils to a bowl of steaming water and inhale deeply. (my favourites are eucalyptus or tea tree). This method can provide immediate relief from congestion and sinus pressure. 

• Topical Application: Dilute essential oils in a carrier oil in a  rollerball (tea tree, lavender, lemon, eucalyptus all or a few drops of your favourites 15 to 10ml carrier oil) and apply the mixture to your chest, temples, and sinus areas. This can help alleviate symptoms and promote respiratory health. 

• Herbal Teas: Enjoy soothing herbal teas like chamomile, nettle, and ginger, lemon, rock salt, apple cider vinegar and manuka honey to sooth throats. These teas can help reduce inflammation, support immune function, and provide relief from symptoms.

• Aromatherapy Inhalers: I swear by aromatherapy inhalers to use when on the go to soothe symptoms. They work so well to providing relief from sneezing and congestion. Check out our new Bamboo reusable inhaler  Add 4 drops of each to our bamboo inhaler for some deep inhalation relief to help the respiratory system,  peppermint, lemon and eucalyptus (live calm set) or eucalyptus, lavender and tea tree are a great immunity boosting combination.

Undiluted 100% organic vegan essential oil health benefits:

• Lavender essential oil has pain relief and calming properties that are safe and effective when dealing with a headache. It reduces irritation and relaxes breathing. Did you know Vitamin A is lavenders super power? Which helps boost collagen.
• Frankincense essential oil is helpful for focus and aiding in relaxation and calmness.
• Peppermint essential oil improves circulation, relax muscles, and soothe the gut. It also helps to cool the body.
• Orange essential oil’s best used for a vitamin c boost, to calm anxiety and help regulate emotions with its uplifting effects.
• Geranium essential oil helps our patience and serenity and brings balance with our hormones.
• Lemon essential oil’s earthy, citrus aroma has soothing, antibacterial and cleansing properties.
• Eucalyptus essential oil reduces inflammation and helps breathing.
• Tea Tree essential oil is a natural choice for anti-allergy and building immunity, keeping skin, hair and nails healthy.
• Sweet almond carrier oil is useful for dry, itchy skin and for cooling skin.

BCALM organic pure essential oils

More Tips & Tricks: 

• Diffuser: Add 5-8 drops to 100ml cool water in your diffuser. Or use with other BCALM organic pure essential oils, to blend some magic depending on your mood! Start with our signature day or night scent for inspiration. Wellbeing need sets
• Pillow talk: A few drops of oil on your pillow will help relax and help you drift off to sleep
• Quick fix: A few deep inhalations from the bottle can help when you are at work, in the car or anytime you need a quick break.
• Inhalation: Place 3-4 drops on a tissue and breathe deeply for maximum benefits or place in a bowl of hot water and inhale. Some oxide rich oils are irritants to asthmatics, the eucalyptus family, tea-tree and some of the tree oils. Please speak with a clinical aromatherapist if you have asthma or a respiratory condition. Asthmatics must not use the water inhalation method. Our diffuser keyring for inhalation or Bamboo reusable inhaler
• Shower: Add 2-3 drops to the corner of the shower and enjoy the benefits of steam inhalation.
• Bath: Add 2-3 drops (or more) diluted in a carrier oil or salts (like our bath brew). The BCALM bath brew is filled with rose buds, lavender, orange peel, epsom and pink himalayan salt. Stir the water to disperse the blend and relax in the bath for at least 10 minutes. For children under the age of 12, use 2-3 drops of essential oils. Do not drop neat essential oils neat into a bath of water.

• Topically: Mix a 15 drops with 5ml carrier oil (sweet almond recommended) in our rollerball and apply to wrists, chest or back of the neck. Can aid healing of bruises if applied twice a day to the area. For a headache place on the neck, temples and hairline to help. Face Oil 9/18 EO drops in 15ml carrier oil or Body Oil 15/30 EO drops in 150 ml carrier oil.  
• Hand or foot bath: Add 2 drops to a bowl of water.
• Compress: Add 2 drops to a bowl of water. For treating inflammation or to cool down use cold to room temperature water. For aching tight muscles use warm to hot water. Agitate a face cloth in the water, wring out excess moisture and apply cloth to the affected area. Repeat two or three times as the compress cools down or warms up.
• Steam Treatment: Add 2 drops of essential oil to a bowl of steaming hot water. Place your face close to the bowl and cover the back of your head and bowl with a towel to trap the aromatic vapours. Caution due to risk of burns or scalding and keep eyes covered during treatment.
• Disinfectant – 200ml water into a spray bottle, 10 drops of tea-tree and 5 drops of lemon oil, shake to blend

Immunity boosting soup

Ingredients

• 2 sweet potatoes, roughly chopped (1.6kg approx)
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 onion
• finger of ginger
• 1.5 Tbs garam masala
• 2 tsps turmeric
• 2 Tbs ghee
• 1 cup spring onion, roughly chopped
• 1/4 cup coriander root and stem, washed and finely chopped
• 1/2 cup basmati rice
• 1 cups red lentils
• 2 tbs vegetable stock
• 1.5 litre water
• 1/2 coconut block
• 1 cup of plain unsweetened yoghurt (coconut yoghurt works a treat!)
• 2 tsps honey (optional, only if you feel the flavour balance of sweet, spicy and salty is off)
• Juice of 1 lime.
• Spring onion, yoghurt and coriander to serve

Directions

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Place the chopped potatoes, onion, ginger, whole garlic cloves (skin on) ghee in a pan. It’s fine for it to be a little crowded. Roast for 30 minutes. Remove and then add garlic the garam masala and the turmeric in the baking dish and toss well to combine. Remove after another 10 minutes.

Can now do the rest on the hob! add the lentils, rice cook, stir so all coated and the spices with the heat have managed to release their super power and then add the stock and water as well as the coconut block. Cook for 45 minutes.

Take off the heat and use a stick blender to puree until smooth. Cook for a further 10 minutes and then puree again with the stick blender while adding the yoghurt spoonful by spoonful. Add the lime juice and stir to combine. Taste to check seasoning.

Serve with crusty bread and a swirl of yoghurt and some finely sliced coriander and spring onion.

Enjoy!

Sending Healthy Wishes

Becky x

Safety guide on oils

Pure plant power is powerful, if any concerns please read our safety guide

There are some family members and our pets that may need oils to be more diluted. 

Babies and young children, pregnant and breast-feeding mothers, the frail and the elderly. Topical applications need to be at much lower dilutions, as low a 1% (1 drop in 10ml of carrier oil) and not all essential oils are recommended.

Please see our faq here and if you unsure always take advise from a clinical aromatherapist for best practise. 

Download your FREE Essential Oil guide with blending notes pages for you to have a play and come up with the magic of your own blend. Happy Blending 

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Reference details: Health Line image Eucalyptus and Peppermint for children use