I have oily tips and tricks for you, but the best thing about it all is… a sense of peace. There is so much comfort in having simple, effective tools for wellness for our families and little ones.
How Young Can I Begin?
You can start using oils on your little ones anytime! Just use a tiny bit. For newborns, rub one drop of oil in your hands until no oil is visible, then rub your hands onto baby’s feet, legs, arms, etc. The residue is enough!
Many choose to dilute oils for children. The bigger fat molecules of a carrier oil slow down absorption rate.
We apply oils undiluted to the bottom of feet, spine, etc. depending on needs, age, and the oils used! You have the freedom to choose!
When diluting oils for topical use, add them to a carrier oil (like organic coconut oil or Young Living's V-6), apply directly to the skin OR make a roller blend!
Dilution Suggestions by Age:
Newborn-1 year: 1/8 labeled concentration
2-6: 1/4 labeled concentration
7-11: 1/2 labeled concentration
12+: full labeled concentration
Love an “easy button”? The Seedlings Line is perfect for your newborns and babies. KidScents Oils & products are ready to go for ages 2+. And don’t forget that diffusing is a gentle way to introduce oils!
2. Nourishing the Body
Let’s jump right into the HARD STUFF. Feeding kids! We all want to give them the things their bodies need. Still, viewpoints are varied and factors are many!
Perfect meals rich in every key vitamin three times a day is simply an impossible goal.
However, we CAN choose a few nutritional easy buttons. These simple & delicious supplements make a good foundation, whatever else we may fit in or miss!
NingXia Red: 1-2 oz per day equals body and brain building blocks it would take pounds of produce to achieve
KidScents MightyVites: a full spectrum of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients necessary for healthy development
KidScents MightyZyme: supports digestion and absorption of nutrients
More food tips from seasoned mamas:
Exposing and re-exposing kids to good food is crucial. Try putting out a bowl of cut veggies when kids are hungry before meals!
Kids watch YOU eating, so model a diet rich in vegetables, good fats, and lots of water!
Help your kids connect what they eat with how they FEEL.
3. Nurturing the Emotions
Every day kids are learning and having new experiences, which means a lot of emotional processing! Encourage them by providing a safe place to communicate feelings without judgment. Show vulnerability, that you are learning and seeking healthy support yourself! You don’t have to be perfect to model emotional health.
Essential oils can play a key role in emotional processing. Smell can send messages to the body about well-being, memories, or danger without requiring us to figure it out first. This is perfect for kids (or anyone!) Specific components like sesquiterpenes can also help the brain delete bad information in cellular memory.
Simply put, essential oils can work with the brain to clear pathways, move out unwanted sludge, and release creativity and joy!
Try these favorites:
Peace & Calming - relax the body and calm emotions
Valor - great for calming the fight/flight/freeze response
Stress Away - for a happy and positive attitude
Frankincense - earthy & uplifting, for grounding and connectedness
4. Your Skin as the Window to Your Health
Sometimes skin is clear and clean, sometimes it’s a volcanic eruption of discomfort and problems, showing that under the surface the body is crying for help!
Younger and younger we see kids needing skin help. They need us to avoid the toxins invading them, help support their guts with proper nutrition, and to find alternatives that work WITH their bodies instead of against them when all is not well.
Eczema is one of the most frequent concerns. While it can be multi-layered and somewhat individual, there are lots of natural ways to help!
Diet: wheat, dairy, and processed foods may cause inflammation that shows up as skin issues (not belly issues!). Consider an elimination diet.
Hydration: plenty of clean water is essential! Adding minerals (from NingXia Red and KidScents MightyVites) will help too!
Supplements: SulfurZyme powder, MightyPro and NingXia Red.
Topical help: YL’s Rose Ointment is a mainstay for all things skin. Use it to dilute Melrose or Purification essential oil and apply.
5. Finding Focus
Little minds are creative, excited, and almost always jumping from one new experience to the next. And that’s great!
But what about the times when they do need to hone in on a book, a lesson, or something a teacher is saying? Oils are your BEST FRIEND in helping kids gather their scattered thoughts (and yours too!)
Diffusers - use wherever your kids are doing school work or trying to sleep or read. Smells can do so much to help keep them on track!
Diffuser Bracelets and Necklaces - a fun, easy way to wear a favorite focus blend, they can also bring comfort in overwhelming, stimulating scenarios.
Focus faves:
Lemon - uplifting, cheery, studied for its effects on memory retention
Peppermint - awakens senses, stimulates the brain
GeneYus - an excellent pre-diluted blend made especially for young minds as they focus and create. A heavy hitter for school days at any age and great applied to the back of the neck!
Vetiver - an earthy oil that has been studied for helping little brains to gather and focus!
6. Feeding the Brain
Is your brain starving?
Studies have shown that unless we are carefully maintaining a balanced diet with high quality fats and proteins, the brain is left running on fumes resulting in brain fog, scattered focus, and trouble learning.
3 simple, easy habits to feed our brains each day:
NingXia Red: Boosts overall health, decreases stress, improves sleep, decreases unhealthy inflammation, improves focus + immunity, and more!
MindWise: Its sweet, berry flavor is great with Ningxia Red! MindWise adds healthy fats through exotic sacha inchi nut oil and MCTs. It also features ALCAR, GPC, bioidentical CoQ10, and vitamin D3, supporting normal memory function and overall cognitive + cardiovascular health.
Pure Protein Complete (Vanilla Spice/Chocolate Deluxe): Delicious, easy nutrition for kids – hello smoothies! 25 grams of protein per serving from a blend of cow + goat whey, pea protein, egg white protein, and organic hemp seed, plus a full range of amino acids, enzymes, and ancient peat + apple extract.
7. Diffusing for All Ages
Are you ready for the easiest health hack there ever was??
Say hello to a lovely diffuser and some essential oils. This stuff is clinically proven to improve brain function, stimulate creativity, and shift our moods and emotions. We all know that kids are not always super cooperative when it comes to our great health initiatives. We are doing big and great things for their bodies but they don’t necessarily WANT to swallow, apply, or try… well, anything.
This is where oils are HUGE for mamas. Game-changing, even.
Right there in the room with our kids, whether little ones, teens, or grown-ups, we can send puffs of delicious smelling oils right up into their noses. They don’t have to lift a finger, or do a thing.
Try one of these or let your creativity flow and create your own blends together!
Good Morning, Sunshine!
4 drops Peppermint
3 drops Lemon
2 drops Citrus Fresh
Homework Time!
3 drops Raven
4 drops Lemon
1 drop Frankincense
You Can Do This!
4 drops Valor
3 drops Stress Away
2 drops Lavender
8. Bathtime Routines
Oh, the routine. We love it, and… sometimes it’s hard!
BUT. Kids thrive on routine. The same activities, places, people, and SMELLS help them feel safe + secure (ie. repetitive routines like bath time + bedtime!)
In our home, we carefully evaluate the products going on and in growing and developing bodies. Things like endocrine disrupting ingredients are not welcome!
We DON’T want:
Synthetics
Fragrance/perfume
Low quality oils/essences
Mineral oils
Artificial colorings
Toxic or unnecessary ingredients
We DO want simple, safe and easy options!
KidScents Shampoo: effectively + gently cleanse without causing irritation.
KidScents Lotion: gently moisturize + soften sensitive skin.
YL Bath & Shower Gel Base: add fave oils like Lavender, or Stress Away to this unscented base!
DIY Bath Salts: in a handful of epsom salt or magnesium flakes, add a few drops of essential oil (like Peace & Calming, Lavender or Frankincense!), and add to bath water. Soothe skin, calm emotions, and feel amazing!
9. Restful Sleep
Ohhh the life-changing magic of sleep. So sweet and yet so elusive sometimes as parents.
Essential oils to the rescue again! Those same benefits that help calm emotions and focus on a task can now work with the body to promote a good night’s sleep. They help our wound-up little ones settle down and lay their heads on the pillows.
We have diffusers in every bedroom in our home. Science has shown us tremendous benefits of diffusing before and during sleep (improved memory, sharper brain function, more creativity)!
Restful Routines:
Diffuse and apply your favorite sleepy oils at bedtime. (SleepyIze, Lavender, Frankincense, Vetiver, Cedarwood, etc.)
Make a simple pillow spray with 10 drops Peace & Calming and water to spritz on pillows, blankets, lovies - a great way to wind down bodies and minds.
Diffuse and/or apply Frankincense - used for centuries to calm the mind.
As often as possible, spend about 20 minutes calming (applying oils, reading, talking about the day, etc.) before turning out the light.
10. Simple Remedies for Head, Ears, Throat & Tummies
Having oils on hand and simple ways to use them empowers us to be ready when needs arise!
Head: Congestion, tension, achiness – oh my! Grab Owie blend or diluted Peppermint + Lavender and gently massage into shoulders, necks, and around temples (avoid eyes, but if it gets in apply coconut oil liberally). Diffuse Peppermint + Lavender to soothe, and consider a bath with epsom salts, Frankincense + Lavender. Congestion? Add Raven or R.C. for airways.
Ears: Swimmer’s ear, teething little ones, pain from colds – grab Owie and/or Copaiba for pain, layered with Purification for immune needs. Roll AROUND the ear + down over lymph nodes. Don’t put oils directly IN ears.
Throats: Dry, sore, scratchy throats – reach for immune support with Thieves, Lemon, + Frankincense! Diffuse, apply, make a mug of echinacea tea with a drop of Lemon. In a roller, apply to the feet, spine + over lymph nodes every hour or so.
Tummies: Roll TummyGize or DigIze onto belly as needed! Take MightyPro for a high quality probiotic.
11. Tools for Teens and Preteens
As our kids grow, their needs shift! Many of the same oils and products we use for younger kids easily transition to older ones. Add in a couple other favorites, and you have a toolbox for actually thriving in pre-teen and teenage years!
EndoFlex
Help them balance out their hormones with this blend that supports the entire endocrine system – thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, and sex hormones. Today's environment and habits strain these areas of their health, so EndoFlex is essential in a daily routine!
Valor and/or Peace & Calming
Great options for pre-teens and teens navigating hormones and big feelings! They make a wonderful daily cologne or perfume for your teens, and their brains will begin to associate the scent with feelings of calm and confidence!
MightyVites or Master Formula
Whether you use chewable MightyVites or switch to Master Formula, getting a high quality multivitamin with minerals and micronutrients gives them the foundation they need for growth!
12. Loyalty Rewards
If you like making life simpler, saving money, getting free products and a good discount, then this is for you! Order your YL favorites via the Loyalty Rewards program to get maximum value for your wellness dollar. You’ll love it.
All it takes is a few minutes to get started!
Step 1: Add products to your cart using the Add to Cart button on the product pages.
Step 2: During checkout, you'll see an option that says, “Would you like to make this your first loyalty order?” Select “Yes” and all items in your cart will process today for loyalty points, and any Loyalty Rewards-eligible items will appear in your My Loyalty Order tab once your order processes. There is no minimum PV required, but at least one item that is eligible for Loyalty Rewards must be in your cart in order to enroll.
Step 3: Manage your items in your My Loyalty Order tab for next month by adding, deleting, or moving items into Saved for Later before your next process date.
13. Premium Starter Bundle & KidScents Bundle
You’re ready to fill your toolkit with things that you can use daily and tools for the bumps in the road. Here are two options I’d recommend:
Option 1: The Premium Starter Bundle
Your introduction to a fresh, new lifestyle free of harsh chemicals and products! This bundle has so many of our favorite, most-used oils!
Desert Mist or Aria diffuser
Frankincense, Lavender, Lemon Vitality, Peppermint Vitality, 5 ml
Citrus Fresh Vitality, DiGize Vitality, Thieves Vitality, PanAway, Peace & Calming, Raven, Stress Away and Valor, 5 ml
2 AromaGlide Roller Fitments
Thieves Spray
10 Thieves Waterless Hand Sanitizer Sachets, 0.1 oz. each
2 NingXia Red Singles
Option 2: KidScents Little Oilers Starter Bundles
Our easy button pre-diluted KidScents oil blends and the cutest diffusers around!
TummyGize, SniffleEase, Owie, SleepyIze, GeneYus, 5 ml
Snowy the Owl or Sprout the Puppy Diffuser - also serves as a nightlight, sound machine and humidifier!
2 roller fitments to add to any oil you like (I recommend TummyGize and Owie!)
14. SHAREYL code
Let’s jump in, friend! Amazing products, fun freebies, and a discount?! Sign. Me. Up.
Use the code SHAREYL to grab your Premium Starter Bundle or KidScents Premium Starter Bundle and any other favorites to get a discount! Plus you can do it on Loyalty Rewards for a discount (and freebies!!) on top of all the other great perks!
You and your family (and even your pets!!) need these health tools in your life, and I’m here with you every step of the way. Everything we talked about today will be available to you so you will have all the tips, tricks, and recipes to give your body and health what it truly needs each and every day.
Please check out the Mama’s Wellness Cabinet Course in the Life Steps App (free for YL customers) for even more information, recipes and tips!
Feel free to message me on IG @theoiydesi for help with ordering or any further questions!
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