Happy Veteran’s Day!  To all those who have served or are serving, if you want any sample smells with your order, just drop me an e-mail letting me know and I’ll include them at no charge.  Just my way of saying, thank you for all you do.  (Before you ask, no you don’t have to have served or be serving the US military, I will honor your service to other countries as well.)  This offer expires at the end of the year 2009.

A quick welcome to all our new subscribers who signed up at the USU Wellness Fair!  If you had a compass scan done and haven’t received your copy via e-mail, drop us a line or check your spam box.  It seems some of you haven’t received your scan results.

Tonight’s oil training call topic is, I am New to Essential Oils, How do I Use Them?  The call is at 7:00 pm MST, phone number is 605-475-6415 pin 1035455#

Live classes: We are currently working on getting a location to teach some classes in Logan, Utah.  (If you know of a room for a good price give us a call 208-852-2295).  We will let you know as soon as we have a room when we’ll be there and what topics we’ll be teaching.

Dana Clay Young will be teaching tomorrow night (Thursday) from 7-9:00 pm in American Fork at the Quality Inn, exit 276 the topic will be Living A Healthy Life & Increasing Your Energy w/ Be Young EO and again Saturday from 9:30 am – 6:00 pm at the Be Young offices in Nephi (2087 S Main, behind Subway, off South Nephi exit).  Dana will be there part of the day for this one.  The class will cover the PAT (Physical Aromatic Tcouh), feet and backs.  Both classes are free.  Contact us if you are new and need a referral number or if you’re going to the PAT class and need to know which oils you should bring.  Dana will be in Houston, TX next week!

Attached you will find three articles.  The first is on antioxidants and comes from Dana Clay Young.  The second one is also from Dana and is on Essential oils as Antibiotics and Antivirals.  The third article is by yours truly and is the information sheet on Ravensara (at last!)  These will also all be on the website in the library section.  www.TracesEtc.com

On sale through November 18:

Ravensara regular $75.00, sale $67.50

Thyme (one of the oils that when diffused wipes out bacteria and viruses) regular $27.00, sale $24.30

Orange (an excellent oil to use to disinfect when cleaning, or to diffuse to disinfect the air and create a calming and uplifting atmosphere that strengthens the immune system, also a good one to add to your water to help you hydrate). Regular $17.00, sale $15.30

Remember, spice orders are due November 16.

Get your orders placed at www.TracesEtc.com or learn more about any of these oils by visiting the library section of our website.

A quick note to all of you who have been patiently awaiting your Harvest blend.  They are still waiting for labels, but had the oil, so I got Be Young to send me the bottles of Harvest and put on my own labels for you.  They’re not snazzy, but they will make it so you can have your oil!!!  I will be shipping the Harvest out to you tomorrow (assuming you ordered through us).

As always, we welcome your questions, feel free to contact us and we will do our best to help you.  I know I’m behind right now, that’s a good thing, it means you’re eager to learn and to use the oils to help increase your health!  If you haven’t heard back from me you can e-mail again to make sure your e-mail didn’t get lost, but I am about two days behind on e-mails, so be patient with me.

TTFN
Penny
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Teaching you about the very best in essential oils and how to create better health for yourself and your family. http://www.TracesEtc.com

Happy Wednesday!  Note, I did not say that yesterday, and I should have because I thought yesterday was Wednesday.  For those of you who followed my example and tried to access the oil training call, I apologize.  It is, however, on tonight (always on Wednesdays, for those of us who know what day it is LOL), 7:00 pm Mountain time, phone number 1-605-475-6415, pin 1035455#.  The topic is Mineral Makeup and I also think that there will be a guest speaker, RaNelle Wallace.  (After recovering from devastating injuries suffered in a plane accident that resulted in an NDE, RaNelle Wallace turned outward to community service for fulfillment. As a recipient of numerous commendations, including special recognition from President Ronald Reagan, RaNelle used her newfound celebrity to take her message of love and endurance to the public as a professional speaker. She has also appeared on television and in major magazines and newspapers across the country.)

Okay, new from us.  I’ve always enjoyed herbs and have spent many hours and much time in classes studying herbs.  I’ve even designed my own tinctures using herbs and it wasn’t a big step to go from herbs to essential oils (a more potent form of herbs).  Often, when I get hit with a question regarding a challenge or an oil I fall back on my herbal background for the answer.  I’ve had some people complain over the years because I don’t give them the right recipe when they want to make something I made.  My conclusion is a) I’m not really good at following recipes so when I made it up and wrote it down for you I really did forget something b) you cheated and used inferior products.  Many people today realize that butter really is better for you and tastes better than margarine, and they will go ahead and use butter.  Same with olive oil and vegetable oil.  But, what many people don’t realize is that the spices in your cupboard make a difference, too.

I ran out of cinnamon the other day.  I generally order mine in from a company that is organic and kosher, but I didn’t have time to wait for the mail so I just picked up some at the store.  Whoa!  Folks did I learn something!  It doesn’t smell the same, it doesn’t taste the same, it doesn’t look the same, and it doesn’t cook up the same!  Wow!  This could be part of why people tell me I didn’t tell them right on a recipe.  I did some research and discovered that spices really can make a huge difference.  For example, if you get real cinnamon powder, the cassia kind that is still fresh enough to have its natural essential oil in it, it will actually help activate your yeast and help those cinnamon rolls plump up!

We love a drink mix that I have developed.  We drink it all winter long to warm up.  I call it Breathe Well, or you may have seen it as Russian Refresher (that’s the original recipe title, I changed it enough over the years I had to change the title).  I used to not give out the recipe, but then I had a list too long of people that I had to make it for every year for Christmas so I started giving out the recipe.  Then I had people complain that it didn’t help their coughs and colds and immune system as well.  I had no clue why not and just told them to add a drop of Spice for Life to their mug.  Now, I know what the problem was!  I buy these fresh, organic, lovely spices and that’s what I use.  I’m betting they’re buying their spices at the grocery store!

This brings me to my point.  We will be doing a special order in October, November, and January for spices.  All the pertinent information is attached and you can go ahead and order off the website.  I will also post the recipe for Breathe Well on the website.  Let me know if you have any questions!

TTFN
Penny
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Teaching you about the very best in essential oils and how to create better health for yourself and your family. http://www.TracesEtc.com

I love fall.  I love the cooler weather, I love the changing colors, I love the harvest season, I love all the yummy smells of cooking.  Boy, though, it definitely seems to be the busiest time of year for me!  So… I’ve been busy, busy, busy and this newsletter shows it.

First, don’t forget tonight’s oil call.  The phone number is 605-475-6415, pin 1035455# (that’s a new phone number, by the way, they changed it a couple of weeks ago).  Additionally (insert drumroll here) they have almost all of the past oil calls in the back office (for those of you who are members).  And, this is cool, they are labeled with the date and topic!  That makes it so much easier to find what you’re interested in!

Some calendar updates…. Dana will be speaking at (see our website www.TracesEtc.com under classes then Where’s Dana, or the calendar in your back office for more information):

Fort Collins, CO, October 16-17

Denver, CO, October 19

Colorado Springs, CO, October 20

Alamosa, CO, October 22

Santa Fe, NM, October 23-24

Branson, MI, November 5-7

On to the newsletter, finally we have (September and) October’s newsletter done :-)  It is attached and on the website at www.TracesEtc.com.  It discusses sore throats, runny noses, sinus congestion, and coughing (heard anything about any of those topics lately? LOL)  We also have a recipe for a Hand Sanitizer using essential oils (as discussed by Dana in his Back to School call) and we have some made up for you on the website!

On sale through October:

Economy Diffuser, regular $64.00, sale $57.00

Hand Sanitizer, 8 oz pump bottle, regular $18.95, sale $17.00

Spice for Life, regular $36.00, sale $32.40

Guardian, regular $60.00, sale $54.00

Defence, regular $26.00, sale $23.40

Eucalyptus, regular $17.00, sale $15.30

Breathe, regular $28.00, sale $25.20

Remember, you can join Be Young and get even better prices!  Contact us if you don’t know how!

Get your oils, diffuser, and hand sanitizer today at www.TracesEtc.com

Just a quick note, we were talking about the hand sanitizer today, we’ve been using one for the past couple of weeks.   It really does make your hands smoother and a side effect I’ve noticed as the storms have been rolling in and I’ve been working hard to get the harvest done is that my hands don’t ache from the work.  If I notice they’re getting rough around the edges and getting cranky from all the work I just go put some of the hand sanitizer on and the ache goes away and the rough cuticles clean up.  Nice side effect!

Health articles attached or just added to the website www.TracesEtc.com:

Why Choose Be Young Essential Oils (this is from Dana, if you didn’t get it and want to know how to sign up for his newsletter e-mail me).

Coughs article has been updated

How to Lose Weight article has been updated

Bath salts—how to make your own (new!)

(see, I told you I had been busy)

That’s it for now, I’m off to update the website with everything I’m e-mailing out to you now :-)

We are starting some new classes, review the newsletter and it lists some, let us know if you are interested.  As always, keep the questions coming (I think I’m all caught up except for one!).

 TTFN
Penny
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Teaching you about the very best in essential oils and how to create better health for yourself and your family. http://www.TracesEtc.com

Happy Wednesday!  Wow, it seems like forever since I e-mailed, and I really only missed one week.  We’ve been hard at work processing the fruits of our garden.  I want to report, this spring I sprayed all of our fruit trees with Lavender (10-15 drops lavender, a squirt of dish soap, and a gallon of water, all in a little spray thingy I bought at Family Dollar).  Anyway, I sprayed them all because the Lavender is supposed to stop diseases and many of our neighbors had contracted blight.  We love our little orchard (we have pears, peaches, cherries, nectarines, apples, and plums).  I ran out of spray when I got to the last tree, an Asian pear tree.  It showed no sign of disease and I didn’t go refill the bottle (I had already refilled it half a dozen times).  We have now picked everything but our apples and all the fruit was pretty much bug free (lavender also stops the worms from hatching out and getting in the fruit) except, you guessed it, the Asian pear.  I threw probably half of the crop to the cows.  Everything else had no to very little bugs.  I ran into a couple of worms in the pears, but those are also the tallest trees and I’m guessing I didn’t get them sprayed all the way up to the top.  Additionally, we lost no trees to the blight!  There’s you a different testimonial for the oils :-)

H1N1 has hit our area, has it hit yours?  The oils do work.  I have worked with several people who have had the Swine flu and I am not sick.  I did have a couple of days that I felt low on energy, I increased my oil usage and did some soaks and that was the extent of it.  My dad had what we assume was the Swine flu, he didn’t go to the doctor, but he had all the symptoms.  He went fishing and forgot his oils (he usually carries at least Spice for Life with him), he was sick when he came home.  We dosed him up with the usual for an illness, Spice for Life, Defence, and Guardian, added in some Di-gest because he felt queezy, sent him to bed, expected him to be all better in the morning.  He wasn’t, but he felt good enough to go to work.  We hit him hard when he came home, he now had a cough to go with it so we added in Breathe and Oregano.  He had 4-5 doses of everything before bed.  Again he went to work the next day, not feeling as well as he should have, but not losing ground.  So that night we hit him hard again, adding in Thyme and Ravensara.  The next day he felt better and went to work.  We hit him hard again that night and he’s been fine ever since.  Usually with the oils we can knock anything out pretty much overnight, we’re sure he would have been in the hospital without them.  Mom and I, needless to say, got really exposed.  We just upped our use of Spice for Life, Defence, and Guardian and added in Eucalyptus (I also added Oregano, mom didn’t) and we didn’t get it, just had some days we felt pretty low in energy.  So, the moral of the story is, use your oils and use them well.  I’ve got a diffuser going most days since then in addition to our regular oil use and we haven’t had any other problems with anyone getting sick.  (Also keeps those annoying little fruit flies at bay while we process our produce.)

This week’s article is an updated one on Weight Loss.  I hope you enjoy refreshing your memory.  These things really do work, and losing weight with the assistance of the essential oils and Be Slim meal replacements will also boost your immune system, a bonus during the upcoming flu season.

On sale through September 30:

Diffusers—you really should have one!  Economy diffuser, regular $57.00, sale $51.30.  If you’re thinking about Christmas already and want 5 or more (or get some friends together and split an order) contact us and we’ll give you an additional $5.00 off each one.

Breathe blend—keep those lungs in good shape!  Regular $28.00, sale $25.20

Orange—helps with weight loss and is a marvelous disinfectant, use it to clean all those surfaces if you have someone in your house who is sick!  Regular $17.00, Sale $15.30

Be Slim meal replacement (any flavor—come in chocolate, vanilla, raspberry, and vegan vanilla).  Regular $75.00, sale $67.50

Masaji is back in stock!!!  Those of you who have orders already placed, we're waiting for our first shipment due in any day and then we'll get your orders out!

Stop by www.TracesEtc.com to order yours today!  Or go to www.BeYoungEO.com/TracesEtc to sign up and get member pricing!

As always, we love to hear from you, drop us a line with your health questions.  We are currently working on putting together a class in the Ogden or Bountiful, UT area.  Let us know if you are interested.

Dana and Dr. Oberlaender will be in Fort Collins, CO October 16-17.  I’ll get more info about that on our website shortly.

Tonight’s oil call will be on the Roman Chamomile, 7:00 pm Mountain time, phone number is 1-605-475-6400, pin 1035455#

TTFN
Penny
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Teaching you about the very best in essential oils and how to create better health for yourself and your family. http://www.TracesEtc.com

Dana Clay Young teaching in American Fork

Quality Inn & Suites

712 S. Utah Valley Drive

Thursday, Sept 10

6:30 – 7:30 pm Open House

Samples, Questions, Scans, Testimonials

New Essential Oils!

7:30 – 9:30 pm Keynote Speaker Dana Clay Young

“Keeping Your Health on Track th Be Young EO!”

Note they will having scans at the open house with the compass.  We have a compass and we really love it.  It helps you determine which essential oils will help you feel better the quickest.  If you don’t make it to this class but would like a compass scan, let us know and we will try to get together with you (let us know where you live).  We will try to get to your area for a class or consultation.  If you make it to the class you can get a scan there.  If you decide you want to get a compass for your business, we would appreciate you putting our name in for referring you as there is a commission on these and we will be glad to follow up with you and help you learn how to use it.

Welcome Wednesday!  (That means Friday’s just around the corner!)

Attached is the Brain Gem info sheet I promised.  There is tons more information on how essential oils work on the call.  Again, if you want a copy of it just place an order and put that you want a copy in the notes section and we’ll include a cd of it.  The attached oil sheet will be on the website in the library by this evening.  www.TracesEtc.com

BRAIN GEM is an oil blend that its creator, Dana Clay Young, believes has the ability to change lives.  If you have challenges with thinking straight, memory, or you’ve had some damage to the brain (stroke, injury, in some cases even if you were born with the challenge) you want to take a serious look at the Brain Gem blend.  If you have tissue that is not regenerating in your body like it’s supposed to, if you have nerve cells that have been damaged, wounds that are slow to heal, scars that need to be reduced, if you just need some regenerating help, you want to give this oil blend a try.  If you have been involved in an injury or have had surgery done, something that puts your body in a state where it needs to speed the healing process, this is the oil blend you want to look at.

Brain Gem is on sale through September 2 for $94.50/ml (but if I were you I’d sign up and get it for member pricing, $90.00, remember, there’s no member fee).  Sign up today by visiting www.BeYoungEO.com/TracesEtc or give us a call at 208-852-2295

Tonight’s essential oil training call topic is Back to School with Oils!  Have no fear… there is no swine here!  The phone number is 1-605-475-6400, pin 1035455#

Many of you have reported a new nasty illness going around.  I know several people who have already contracted it.  Dad came home with it last week, we did the normal stuff on Tuesday night, which usually puts him all well by Wednesday morning.  It didn’t!  It took us three days to knock it out (probably because we didn’t hit it hard enough Tuesday night, not knowing there was a super-nasty going round).  But, he went to work every day and really did quite well in spite of being very tired, having a fever, and coughing.  Mom and I even tried to get it from him, so it’s very contagious!  We found that you had to hit it hard with Defence, Spice for Life, and Raven Sara (those three should easily knock out most things by themselves, having to combine them means it was a nasty bug!)  Anyway, Dad got each in the am, then another dose when he got home from work and one more before going to bed.  I think we could have nabbed it faster if he would have had two more doses while at work, but he didn’t want to deal with that.  Mom and I each applied the oils to our feet or took them internally 4-5 times a day and didn’t get sick, but we sure felt close for a day or two (and hey! Nothing even tried to get me anymore!).

Be the way, the above paragraph answers most of the questions e-mailed this week!  Scary how fast that bug is moving!

On sale through September 2:

Defence blend regular $26.00, sale $23.40

Spice for Life blend regular $36.00, sale $32.40

Raven sara (new!) regular $75.00, sale $67.50

Order yours today online at www.TracesEtc.com or give us a call at 208-852-2295.

A couple of side notes for Be Young members:

We now have our own websites!  www.BeYoungEO.com/(your member number)  You can even customize them, for example, our website is www.BeYoungEO.com/Traces

The Be Young phone number has changed.  It is now 1-435-580-4069.  The old number “works” but you don’t get through, you just get sent to voice mail.  Use the new number and you get through to real people :-)

From: Wendi Bergin <wendi@...>
Subject: [TracesEssentialOils] diffuser
To: TracesEssentialOils@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 5:03 PM

 

Penny--

I'm finally ready to purchase a diffuser.  I think you told me earlier that the $39 diffuser is the one you recommended.  I want to buy some for Christmas gifts.  How many of the extra diffuser pads do you recommend getting?  Which oils should I purchase in preparation for flu season?    Thanks a bunch!

Wendi Bergin

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A Summertime Recipe Interlude

Oh what do you do in the summertime?

When all the garden’s green?

Do you till all the day?

Or let the garden wilt away?

Or havest the whole day through?

Is that what you do?