Ditch and Switch!

Hey Y'all!

Today I want to talk about one of the easiest ways to get started with Young Living essential oils. Cleaning products! Have you seen the Facebook article that has been going around talking about cleaning yourself into cancer? Scary right? Very! Thinking about how we clean and what we use to clean, we usually have one goal... get it clean! Kill those germs, get the smell out, keep my family safe. But yet we are learning that the very chemicals that we are using are actually not as good for us as we thought.

There are lots of articles out there that you can google and see exactly what I am talking about. So I'm gonna leave it to you to do that reading. What I want to focus on is how easy it can be to ditch and switch. Really it's 3 easy steps. You ready? Here we go!

1. You are going to need the app called "Think Dirty". You can get it from your smartphones app store. Get it downloaded.

2. Pick a cabinet that you keep cleaning supplies in. Open it and scan 3 bottles. Take a look at that score. 1 is awesomeness and 10 is well horrible.



3. Replace that with a thieves based cleaner. Don't have any? NOT A PROBLEM! I have samples that I am sending out for you to try for a week. Fill out this form and I'll get a sample in the mail to you.

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Thieves Household line

Let's talk about all things Thieves...

Thieves is a blend that has been around forever and thanks to Young Living's founder D.Gary Young it is making a comeback. Check this out from the Young Living blog:

So it's not surprising at all that Young Living would use what they know about the essential oil blend to create products that we can use to detoxify our homes. Use the Thieves oil on the bottoms of your feet, cup a drop in your hands, or diffuse this spicy warm scent. Or use the Thieves Line of cleaning products.


My favorite is the Thieves Household cleaner that comes in 2 sizes.  The largest size is 64 oz. and as a Wholesale Member, you would pay $85.25.  This sounds like a lot, but it is NOT and here is why – the 64 oz. bottle makes 128, spray bottles in 30 oz. sprayers.  This means each 30 oz. bottle is .67 cents!  What!?! Shut the front door!

  The smaller bottle, which is what I keep in my classroom,  is 14.4 fl oz. and as a Wholesale Member it is $22.00.  This size makes 29,  of those 30 oz. spray bottles.   Y'all for $1.32 each I have enough cleaner for 29 YEARS in my classroom. For real, I used it daily and only use 1 spray bottle a year. Talk about a steal!  

Check out some of the dilution ratios that Young Living recommends that we’ve used:

• Light degreasing 60:1
• Medium degreasing 30:1
• Heavy degreasing 15:1
• Floors 100:1
• Walls 30:1
• Upholstery, fabrics and carpet spotting 40:1
• Carpet 100:1
• Glass 320:1
• Pots and pans 100:1
• Hand cleaner 1:1

Now I usually don't mix up a lot of different bottles. I go with 1 capful for each 30 oz of water I use. I have mixed in a glass measuring cup or in the bottle. I will say that you need to put the cleaner concentrate in to the container first and add the water slowly so that it doesn't bubble up too much. 

Yep there is a laundry soap too!! This is new to me but I LOVE it. Every time I open the bottle I think of that commercial where the gal talks about "blue goo" in her cleaner playing tricks on her eyes. There is no blue goo here! Now I have an HE washer so the 64 loads actually doubles for me because I only have to use 1/4 of a cap. Buh bye orange box! 

These were the first two items in the thieves household line that I was introduced to but there are more. There is a veggie wash, hand soap, spray, waterless purifier, toothpaste... the list goes on and on! 

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