🍁 STEP AWAY FROM THE SCENTED CANDLE 🍁
While essential oils support health, candles are harmful to your health. They contribute to indoor air pollution and are considered as dangerous as second-hand smoke.
Candles contain harmful ingredients including petroleum and toxins like cancer-causing Toluene and Benzene.
Fragrance in scented candles can cause damage to lungs, brain and the central nervous system.
When we use essential oils, they do not introduce hormone-disrupting chemicals into our home. Hormones impact body development, organ function, emotional balance, sex-drive, and more.
No, pure essential oils like those from Young Living, are the exact opposite. YL doesn't even use pesticides or herbicides on their farms. While other EO co's spend X to fumigate their plants with toxic chemicals, YL invests x each year to weed their fields BY HAND, and use EO's to naturally manage pests. YL's heart is on protecting its crops and us.
And what does aromatherapy do for us? Why--beyond the obvious importance of eliminating dangerous toxins from our living environment--is diffusing so healthy and helpful?
Studies show that when therapeutic essential oils are inhaled, they can reach every cell in our body within 20 minutes. Imagine the physical impact, and on our feelings, in particular.
Our sense of smell is directly connected to the limbic system in the brain. Also known as the emotional control center, the limbic lobe (connected to the olfactory system in the nose), plays a big role in memory, behavior and emotions.
When odor molecules attach to odor receptors, the body responds by sending electrical impulses into the brain. This causes different physiological responses depending on the aroma detected.
Aromas impact our bodies before we're even concsciously aware of it. They can set the mood or atmosphere in any environment while uplifting, de-stressing and supporting emotional balance. They can trigger our memories and calm our feelings.
YL has been a game-changer for this anxious momma, and I used to make my own candles, friends. And when I say I made my own, I'm talking on a grand scale! I had so much equipment and molds and colors and scents. I even recycled and re-poured the fancy home store candles! But, oils are better, safer, and I'll never look back!
*info credit to my girl, Steffie Beckering
