Tension Be Gone
By Terri Bonin
Staring at your computer for hours or listening to kids whine after a long day can bring on nasty symptoms like light and sound sensitivity, a tight neck, and a stiff jaw. With enough triggers, these minor irritations can send most people’s tolerance over the edge. For times like these, create a roll-on chocked-full of essential oils that provide relief.
Here’s the Tame your throbbing head recipe…
DIY head tension roll-on
Tame your throbbing head with the convenience of a roll-on featuring Young Living’s pure essential oils. Keep this tension buster in your purse, glovebox, or on your bedside table for when you’re about to lose it!
Ingredients:
- Empty 10 ml roller bottle
- 20 drops Peppermint essential oil
- 20 drops M-Grain™ essential oil
- 10 drops Rosemary essential oil
- V-6™ Vegetable Oil Complex
Instructions:
1. Add the essential oils to the clean and empty roller bottle.
2. Fill the remainder of the bottle with V-6.
YL tip: You can also make your head tension roll-on with a 5 or 15 ml empty essential oil bottle and a roller top. Follow our instructions for cleaning the bottle thoroughly and adjust the recipe to create the proper ratios of essential oils to a carrier oil for the bottle size you are using. If you’re using a 5 ml bottle, take out 5 oil drops from each of the ingredients above. Add 5 oil drops to each if you’re using a 15 ml bottle. Voila! Easy-peasy.
To use:
1. Tighten the lid and shake the bottle to mix the oils together (give it a good 30 minutes to blend).
2. Roll directly onto your temples, forehead, neck, and crown of your head at the first sign of tension. Avoid applying near your eyes.
3. Rub the oil in gently with your fingertips for a soothing massage.
What’s in it?
It’s a pain in the neck—or head (see what I did there?)—to find natural ingredients that provide relief. Save all that effort for something else and use a DIY head tension roll-on that’s packed with pure essential oils plus Young Living’s vegetable oil complex.
Peppermint essential oil
Peppermint essential oil is here to lend a helping hand for neck and head tension! With its constituents of menthol and menthyl acetate, this peppy oil leaves a cooling sensation when applied to your tense neck and head.
M-Grain essential oil blend
Chill out with M-Grain when things get tense! This blend features Basil, Marjoram, Lavender, Roman Chamomile, Peppermint, and Helichrysum essential oils that leave a bright, tingling sensation when paired with a gentle massage.
Rosemary essential oil
Invite the fresh, invigorating scent of Rosemary essential oil when you roll on the head tension balm. Constituents eucalyptol and alpha-pinene feel and smell great when you massage the balm into your temples, neck, and forehead.
V-6 Enhanced Vegetable Oil Complex
As a carrier oil, V-6 Vegetable Oil Complex dilutes the essential oils so the roll-on is ready to go at a moment’s notice. Featuring several oils—including coconut, sesame seed, and grape seed—this Young Living carrier oil completes any roll-on recipe and this is one I do NOT run out of!
Happy tension releasing!
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~ Terri
Meet Terri Bonin, the author of 31 Days to Fit, 14 Days to Ignite Your Marriage, and Live, Laugh, Love, and Laundry. Terri’s 23-year union with her favorite dentist (her husband), has been prosperous in their prolific production of 10 darling children. She also holds a degree in nutritional counseling which seems to be most frequently used to persuade her children to eat their greens. Terri’s secret pleasure is sneaking away from juggling the daily tasks, homeschooling, and dating her husband to escape to her office to write for her own enjoyment. As you can imagine she has a LOT to write about!
*Disclaimer: The information above is based on my research and personal use of Young Living Essential Oils. I am not a doctor. Statements, products, and techniques mentioned have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
