Balance
This weeks Unplugged theme is Balance. Molly immediately thought about making a balance scale and I immediately thought about finding balance in my life. Something I constantly struggle with.
I often use essential oils around our house. Adding tea tree oil to cleaning supplies, eucalyptus to a pot of hot water for a steam tent, lavender and chamomile to soothing baths. We also have a few aromatherapy spritzers. One is a “sleepy time” spray and the other is a “to get jazzed up” in the words of Ginger. We love to spray these, they smell so good. So when thinking of blance I thought it would be nice for the girls to each make their own spritzer made up of scents of their choice. So we went to Earth Elements
and began the daunting task of smelling and sniffing many different essential oils. I thought they should choose the scents that specifically are for balancing but realized that whatever they found appealing would act as a balance for them.
Molly ended up with a grapefruit, lemon, tangerine spray and Ginger with a grapefruit and peppermint mix.
It was great fun and fairly inexpensive-about $5 each. It was really empowering for them to choose what they liked best and couldn’t wait to share their spritzers with everyone in the family-dogs included!
Tags: baths, chamomile, cleaning supplies, earth elements, essential oils, grapefruit, lavender, peppermint, photos, scents, sleepy time, spritzer, spritzers, steam tent, tea tree oil
I wish we had a store like that, but living in the middle of nowhere, I didn’t even know there was such a thing! How interesting that both your girls chose grapefruit.
As always, a wonderful idea. Thanks for joining in!
When I heard about the fire in Grandview over the weekend, I panicked at the thought that Earth Elements might be among the damaged. That place is a treasure.
Maya-I meant to add to the post that if you have a health food store or Whole Foods near by, they too have essential oils and samples you can smell before purchasing. Only it would be more pricey as you would have to purchase the whole bottle of oil-or several!
I too love Earth Elelments and sort of forgot about it. I haven’t been there in ages! Yours and Dans names came up at our Mother Artist Mtg last night-we are planning Kidz Arts and will be contacting you guys for some sound and stage help and some PR soon. Just a heads up. Thanks!!!
Great idea for “balance”!
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