Green Cleaning with Lemon Essential Oil

Lemon essential oil (Citrus limon) is a natural cleanser and has many household uses and health benefits. dōTERRA's lemon essential oil is the highest quality available on the market--it is cold pressed from the rinds of lemons grown in Italy. Italian lemons are much larger and sweeter than domestic lemons, and higher in limonene as well.

Lemon essential oil boosts the effectiveness of cleaning with natural products and leaves a fresh, clean scent around your home. Why switch from off-the shelf products with ingredients like bleach and ammonia? Because those cleaners can irritate your eyes, airways, skin, and nervous system, and they also pollute and contaminate your indoor air and the streams they wash into.

Lemon essential oil will give you all the deep cleaning power you want, plus it is ALL-NATURAL, SAFE, AFFORDABLE, and leaves an UPLIFTING aroma in your home. Below are some recipes to deodorize, disinfect, degrease, polish, and brighten your home with lemon essential oil.

Furniture Polish:

• Add 4-5 drops lemon essential oil to a small amount of olive oil. (Olive oil is a natural oil that helps to nourish and polish wood.
  
• Mix, apply lightly to furniture, and buff for a nice shine.

Basic Household Disinfectant:

• Fill a spray bottle with water and a squirt of plant-based liquid soap
• Add 5-10 drops each of lemon, lavender, and white fir essential oils
• Shake well and apply to all surfaces

Floor Cleaner:

• Pour 1/4 cup distilled white vinegar to a bucket of water (1 gallon)
  
• Add 10-20 drops lemon essential oil
• Add 3 drops oregano essential oil

Mold & Mildew Spray

• Pour 2 cups distilled white vinegar into a spray bottle
• Add 2 drops lemon essential oil and 2 drops melaleuca essential oil
• Shake well and spray on infected area

Window Cleaner

• 1 cup distilled white vinegar
• 10-15 drops lemon essential oil
• water
• Mix well in a spray bottle, apply to windows, and wipe
  

Many Uses for Marjoram Essential Oil

Sweet Marjoram Essential Oil is indigenous to the Mediterranean region: Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. It was known to the Greeks and Romans as a symbol of happiness. The ancient Greeks used marjoram in cosmetics, fragrances and medicines; Greek physicians also used it as an antidote to poison. In 16th century Europe, sweet marjoram was used in bags to scent the bath water and for washing. In Egypt, it was known for its healing properties and was also anciently used to aid grieving.

dōTERRA sources its sweet Marjoram Essential Oil from Egypt. Many use marjoram for alleviating migraines, arthritis, headaches, respiratory infections, sinusitis, insomnia, anxiety, nervous depression, asthma, bronchitis, colds, constipation, flatulence, grief, menstrual difficulties (including PMT) and stress.

Other Uses of Marjoram
Sweet marjoram oil is also used as a fragrance ingredient in perfumes, cosmetics, soaps and detergents; it is also found in meats, sauces, and seasonings.

Culinary Uses of Marjoram

When cooking with marjoram essential oil, remember that doTERRA oils are in their purest form, which makes them very concentrated. Only a tiny amount is needed to flavor meats, sauces, or seasonings. When substituting marjoram essential oil for the dried or fresh herb, begin with the toothpick method. Dip a toothpick in the oil and swirl into the sauce until the desired taste is achieved. For larger quantities, one drop of the oil will add plenty of flavor.

Recent News about Marjoram

A recently published article in Martha Stewart's Whole Living refers to Marjoram Essential Oil's ability to treat eczema. Eczema is a chronic, inflammatory skin disorder. Although eczema is not contagious, it is very common—estimates are that more than 15 million people in the United States have eczema. One clinical study evaluating essential oils for treating children with eczema concluded that massage with essential oils was effective in improving the dry, scaly skin lesions. The essential oils most often chosen by the mothers in the study included sweet marjoram, frankincense, German chamomile, myrrh, thyme, benzoin, spike lavender, and Litsea cubeba.

This Mother's Day, Give Mom a Taste of the Sweet Life!

Just in time for Mother's Day, dōTERRA has put together a Sweet Cooking Oils Collection that is sure to please every chef in the home! This collection is available for a limited time (through the end of May or while supplies last), and includes the following:

5 ml bottles of Wild Orange essential oil, Lemon essential oil, and Cinnamon essential oil beautifully packaged in a black and white gift box, dōTERRA chef’s apron (black), 3 recipes cards, and a Mother’s Day greeting card.

Item # 5001
$53.33 Retail Price
$44.26 Preferred Customer Price
$40.00 Wholesale Price (31 PV)

The Field boys enjoy baking Lemon Muffins! (This recipe, which uses Lemon essential oil, is included in this collection.)

Pick-Me-Up Body Spray with Pure Essential Oils

Need a little pick-me-up? This body spray recipe (originally featured in Body + Soul magazine) is sure to chase the blahs away and help balance your mood.

dōTERRA's CPTG essential oils allow you to surround yourself with nature's subtle fragrances throughout the day. Use this mist on your hair, skin, or home/office environment.

Ingredients:

1 drop dōTERRA Eucalyptus essential oil

2 drops dōTERRA Geranium essential oil

3 drops dōTERRA Peppermint essential oil

To Make the Spray:

1. Fill a clean, dry mini spray bottle with 4 ounces of pure distilled water.

2. Using a dropper, carefully put the selected blend of essential oils directly into the spray bottle.

3. Tightly close the bottle and shake vigorously to combine. Be sure to shake it before each use, as the water and essential oils tend to separate.

Geranium Soothing Body Scrub

Unwind after a demanding day with a relaxing spa experience in your very own home. The sweet, pungent scent of Geranium essential oil is ideal for relieving tension and anxiety.

Try this soothing body scrub with Geranium essential oil, and let us know if Geranium is now your favorite oil for relaxation! (Vote on our blog poll and let your voice be heard.)

Geranium Soothing Body Scrub

2 cups dōTERRA Spa Therapy Bath Salts
3 Tbsp. dōTERRA Fractionated Coconut Oil
5 drops dōTERRA Geranium essential oil

Mix all ingredients together in a cute bowl and stir together (emphasis on the cute bowl--trust me, you'll feel more luxurious soaking in your tub if you have a cute bowl sitting on the side of your tub.)

This is a FABULOUS, rejuvenating body polish that relieves tension, exfoliates, softens the skin, and helps speed up the reproduction of skin cells.

dōTERRA Essential Oils Included in News Story About Healthy Living

Shauna Lake, of KUTV Channel 2 News, recently reported on how to create a home spa to escape from the stresses during these troubled times. Included in the news feature are recipes for using essential oils in home spa treatments. To view the full article, which includes recipes from Health Magazine for feet, hair, and skin treatments, click here.

dōTERRA's essential oils received a cameo appearance on this featured news segment, as shown in the video clip.

Cooking with Lemon Essential Oil

dōTERRA's Lemon essential oil (Citrus limon) has many wonderful therapeutic benefits, but is also great when added to foods and liquids as a natural flavoring.

Our lemon essential oil is cold pressed from the rinds of lemons grown in Italy. Italian lemons are much larger and sweeter than domestic lemons, and higher in limonene as well.



Lemon essential oil can be added as a flavoring to drinking water, or can be added to dessert recipes, poultry, or fish recipes. Lemon essential oil can be substituted in any recipe that calls for lemon juice, lemon extract, or grated lemon zest. Simply substitute one drop lemon essential oil for one teaspoon lemon extract or lemon juice.



Enjoy all the healthful benefits of lemon essential oil plus great taste in the following recipe:



Tilapia Lemon Parmesan
2-1/2 lbs. Tilapia fillets
2-4 tsp. butter, softened
2 drops dōTERRA lemon essential oil


Lemon-Parmesan Sauce
1 cup mayonnaise
4-6 drops dōTERRA lemon essential oil
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Garnish
2 lemons, sliced fresh parsley


Rinse the tilapia fillets in cold water and drain thoroughly.
Top with butter and lemon essential oil.
Broil about 4 inches from the source of heat for approximately 5 to 6 minutes or until the fish is opaque and flakes easily when tested with a fork.
Top each portion with Lemon-Parmesan Sauce; broil 2-3 minutes or until sauce puffs and turns golden brown.
Place fillets on serving plate; garnish with lemon slices and fresh parsley.
Serves: 6