Favorite Fall Essential Oil Blends

It isn't fall if your house doesn't smell like fall right?! About a year and a half ago I started diffusing in our home. After putting out a candle and watching the smoke fill the space, I had this weird instinct that there's no way that can be good for our newborn babies little lungs... or ours. It was one of those weird mom feelings I had shortly after having Lola. I started doing some research and found out that those instincts were so true! Here's what I found:

• Anything that releases smoke decreases the air quality.

• Many times the air quality in our homes is worse than the air quality outside. Scary.

• The World Health Organizations states that 92% of the world population lives in places where the air quality exceeds The WHO limits. Air pollution takes a toll especially on women, children and the elderly populations.

• Most candles are made with paraffin wax (so consider soy or beeswax candles if you must burn candles) which is a petroleum waste product that is chemically bleached. When this product burns it creates a highly toxic benzene and toluene (both carcinogens) and then you absorb those toxins through your skin and and inhaled into your lungs.

Candles are so bad for us but I LOVED burning candles. That was the definition of cozy to me. I loved the glow and the smell. No judgement if you burn candles at all! I am really big on if you know better you can do better even if that means making smarter choices on what candles you burn.

After doing some research I discovered essential oils. I knew about essential oils and my family sometimes used them but I really associated them with massages than making a home feel cozy and smell good. A blogger I follow had just gotten into Young Living so I bought a Starter Kit from her and the rest is literally history. I diffuse every single day now and I had no idea that these oils that smell so good would be so life-changing for our health. Now when I go somewhere that has a burning candle it actually smells really bad (like chemicals) to me and I tend to get headaches from the toxins they are releasing because I'm not used to it anymore. So crazy how that works!

Here are a few of my favorite fall oils:

• bergamot

• cassia

• cardamon

• cinnamon bark

• copaiba

• cedarwood

• christmas spirit

• citrus fresh

• clove

• exodus II

• gathering

• gratitude

• ginger

• Idaho blue spruce

• northern lights

• nutmeg

• orange

• pine

• stress away

• thieves

• vetiver

and here are a few of my favorite fall blends:

Pumpkin

3 stress away or vanilla

3 clove

2 nutmeg

2 cinnamon bark

Autumn Woods

2 cedarwood

2 bergamot

2 nutmeg

2 patchouli

Spiced Cider

6 orange

2 nutmeg

2 clove

2 ginger

If you don't have oils but wanted to get started diffusing I would suggest grabbing a premium starter kit here. It comes with a diffuser and twelve oils! You can get started diffusing right away and add oils to your collection each month! You can learn more about the starter kit here.