Spring is a fantastic time to revitalize your daily life. Why not use essential oils to refresh your spring routine? Essential oils can be a great ally in this seasonal transition, enhancing everything from your diet and exercise routine to your home cleaning and family activities. Here’s how you can integrate essential oils into your spring preparations:

Healthy Eating Habits

EEveryone adapts their eating habits as the seasons change. It happens naturally. The wholesome soups and roasts makes way for fresh, crunchy salads and lively braais here in South Africa.  We have to consciously think about incorporating our pure edible essential oils and blends into our healthy eating habits.  For instance, add essential oils like lemon and peppermint to your cupcake or brownie dough just before baking, or mix our Boost blend into your yogurt or porridge to add flavour.  Our collection of 100% natural essential oils which may be ingested, can help with detoxifying or supporting liver function while others aids digestion. Here is a few examples to incorporate them into your spring recipes:

• Add a drop of Lemon essential oil to a 50/50 mixture of Avocado oil and apple cider vinegar along with some fresh herbs for a refreshing, zesty and healthy dressing for your salads.
• Add a drop of Rosemary essential oil to your usual stokbrood dough recipe along with some dried herbs. The aroma that arises alongside the braai fires will invigorate you.
• Add a drop of Peppermint essential oil to your smoothies. Peppermint can help soothe digestive discomfort and enhance mental clarity.

Use Essential Oils to Refresh Your Spring Routine of Exercise Routines

Let’s just be honest, winter and exercise doesn’t often work out the way we planned.  Spring is the ideal time to boost your motivation and performance.  Use essential oils to refresh your spring routine of exercise!  Diffusing oils like Eucalyptus or Rosemary in your workout space can enhance your focus and energy levels. Some essential oils are known for its respiratory benefits, which can be particularly helpful during physical activities. Here is a few pointers of how to use essential oils to better your exercise routines:

• Diffuse energizing oils in your workout area.  Oils such as Eucalyptus essential oil helps clear the respiratory system, making it easier to breathe during intense activities. Adding a drop Grapefruit of Sweet Orange adds to that energetic positive feeling and can help boost your performance.
• Apply Lavender essential oil added to some Grapeseed oil topically after exercise to soothe sore muscles and promote relaxation.
• Add 1-3 drops of the OilGrow Muscle Rescue Blend to a cup of milk and a cup of Epsom salt to bath in after an exercise session as this will help relax the muscles.  It might also help to keep built up lactic acid in your muscles from causing aching stiffness the next day after a hectic session.

Spring Clean your home

Spring cleaning is an inevitable step in preparing for spring.  It becomes more effective when we add essential oils. Oils like tea tree, lavender, and lemon natural potent antifungal, antiviral and antibacterial agents. These not only help clean surfaces but their tiny volatile molecules also purify the air, which impacts our health.  Here is how to add it to your spring cleaning endeavours:

• Add a few drops of the OilGrow Clean blend to your cleaning solutions such as mopping water or window cleaning water.  Diffuse it too while you’re at it.  The Clean Essential oil Blend has been specifically formulated to clean the air from viral, bacterial and fungal infestations.
• Lavender is also a powerful cleaning agent, while it also promotes relaxation.  This helps make the mammoth task of cleaning less stressful to undertake.
• Get your hands on the OilGrow Spring Cleaning Sample kit – we have wonderful surface cleaning, sanitizing and mould cleaning recipes included with the essential oils to make it. Give it as a spring-gift, why not!
• Cinnamon bark and Lime essential oils make a wonderful combination for cutting through grime and for disinfecting. Use it as a super-surface spray, but also as an uplifting room spray for after the big clean.

Use Essential Oils to Refresh Your Spring Routine of Family Traditions & Activities

A change in family traditions and activities is also part of the new season. Spring brings with it a whole lot more outside activities.  Use essential oils to refresh your spring routine of familial traditions and activities. Doing so will create a positive atmosphere and lasting memories. Smell is so closely related to memories; why not ensure that you connect a certain smell to your spring family traditions.  You’ll thank us for this tip in later years.  Here is a few things to incorporate into your Spring family traditions and activities:

• Make your own home made cooling spray for when you have outside activities.  Take a spray bottle and add all the components for a cooling spray to it. Add 1 part each of ethanol or vodka (for emulsifying the oils), carrier oils with sun-protective properties such as Rosehip or Pomegranate Seed, and distilled water. Add about 5% essential oils. Carrot Seed essential oil is a must because it also protects against harmful UV rays. Add Peppermint  and Lavender essential oils to help with that cooling effect. Use it to spray over the arms and neck areas when the kids start feeling too hot.
• During the spring bedtime routines, to help children wind down effectively, incorporate the OilGrow Baby-zzz massage blend.  Use as an after-bath massage oil or add it to their bath water.
• Make some DIY essential oil-based crafts or products together as a Saturday tradition.  We have an essential oil play-dough kit for making colourful aromatic clay. It’s easy to make so that the whole family can join in the fun.  Take some time out to make 3D animals or flowers with the play-dough.  The kids will start to associate different colours with different aromas. Everyone also benefits from the aromatic qualities and therapeutic properties of the essential oils during play-time.
• Have a Fun Friday essential oil evening with crafts such as making your own candles, bath salts or gelatine soaps. There are kits one can buy online – just get proper therapeutic essential oils to go with it.

All of us want to enhance our overall well-being during the spring season.  It is a time for new and fresh things.  Think of creative ways to use essential oils to refresh your spring routine and enjoy the season’s freshness to its fullest.