Wanda's Essentials

08/02/2025

Let’s put this one to bed for good!

The oft-debunked and tired story of lavender and gynecomastia is fearmongering leveraging pseudoscience at its best. I'm frequently asked about this from concerned parents, so often that I have a detailed blog debunking this: https://authorscott.com/the-real-risk-of-lavender-and-other-essential-oils-for-the-hormone-system/.

08/01/2025

When you purchase Hope you’re giving someone Hope!

Help us recognize World Day against Trafficking in Persons by purchasing doTERRA Hope Touch. When you buy doTERRA Hope Touch you create a brighter future in two ways:

1. Give yourself a distinct personal fragrance, which includes Cedarwood, Wild Orange, Lemon, Petitgrain, Lemon Petitgrain, Pink Pepper, Bergamot, Sandalwood, Vetiver, and Magnolia essential oils, along with two kinds of Jasmine: steam-distilled essential oil and absolute.

2. Bring hope to the world—$10 from each doTERRA Hope Touch purchase is donated to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation to support projects like combatting human trafficking and exploitation.

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07/29/2025

Listen while one of our owners tells us why DoTerra cares so much about purity and what it means to us!

04/29/2025

I am loving DoTerra’s VMG+ and here’s why…

04/28/2025

Loving the natural options for those awful seasonal stresses! Who else uses Triease?

If I run out I make gelcaps with Lavender, Lemon & Peppermint. You can just drop the oils under your tongue or put them in a glass of water but that’s not my favorite taste sensation😜

04/16/2025

Who’s ready for a Sale?!?!?

🌸 SPRING SALE ALERT 🌸

From April 17–25 (or while supplies last!), 20+ of your favorite doTERRA essentials are 20% OFF — including oils, supplements, and outdoor must-haves!

✨ Think TerraShield, Lavender, Peppermint, MetaPWR Advantage, Breathe Drops & more!

🛒 Oils: Limit 4 per order | Supplements: Limit 2 per order

04/03/2025

03/31/2025

Not all essential oils are created equal! Here’s a rebuttal to a huge influencer’s statements that essential oils are harmful. 80-90% of essential oils on the market are adulterated. Many of this guys statements are true regarding those adulterated oils but not true of pure oils. Sadly the govt agencies allow companies to claim purity if they have just 1 drop of pure oils in the bottles. It’s so important to insist on transparency from companies selling essential oils. They must allow you to be able to see their testing results and the types of testing they actually do on their products. Never, ever, ever buy essential oils from Walmart or even Amazon. Sellers from Amazon can do whatever they want to the bottles labeled from reputable eo producers…then they sell it at an unbelievable price…that’s your first sign it isn’t pure. It takes a LOT of plant material to distill a pure oil. Some of these plants require extensive treatment just to get it to the distiller and then distilled at the perfect temperature and for the perfect amount of time to get the highest chemical constituent levels. This is why they aren’t cheap. It costs a lot to produce them and each has its own requirements so one price can’t cover them all. Do your own research-did you know Pub-med.com is open to anyone? You can follow the research shown there.

02/24/2025

I’ve heard many opinions as to the safety of internall ingesting essential oils. DoTerra and Dr Johnson shares the same educated opinion. Most that share the opposite opinion get their thoughts from a book written by a nurse years ago who worked in a clinic who used eo’s topically and in diffusion but never ingesting. Her book’s focus was with the usages she practiced in that clinic. She mentioned once that she recommended the first 2 models of usage but couldn’t recommend internal use because she didn’t have experience with this. Others took her words and built a usage model on her experience while leaving a negative thought on internal.
Here we have an educated practice along with safety perameters.

I use eo’s internally with ease and to great effect, however I always tell those with fears about it to just use oils in the way they are comfortable.

I posted the contents of Dr Johnson’s blog post below to make it easier for you to find.

I’ve spent 12,000+ hours researching essential oils, hold a Doctorate in Naturopathy, and am a Certified Clinical Master Aromatherapist. My deep dive into essential oil chemistry has led me to weigh the benefits vs. risks carefully, which is why I confidently teach safe internal use when appropriate.

That said, if you’re not comfortable ingesting essential oils, I respect that—just as I ask others not to force their fears onto those who make informed choices. Let’s embrace knowledge, science, and personal choice in natural health.

Read more in my latest blog about this topic.
https://authorscott.com/ingesting-essential-oils-separating-fact-from-fiction-with-science-and-tradition-round-two/

01/21/2025

I’m feeling aggravated right now! Since yesterday my FaceBook feed is filled with rap/hiphop/nfl/football/sports feeds and sexual innuendo posts! None of those things live in my world. They are not things I’ve liked or tagged. Just suddenly all this garbage. What happened? I’ve been enjoying family/cheese making/breadmaking/great nutrition/chicken/AWANA/Bible/homesteading family type posts. The last 2 days I’ve had to search for posts I want to see from my friends by going to their pages. Is our favorite fb guy pitching a fit by messing with algorithms since he’s promised not to censor or have I been near people that love these. While I’ve seen lots of posts celebrating the red dye good news now I’m getting posts about people chowing down on super unhealthy garbage foods. What’s going on???

Breathing deeply to relieve the irritation of it all. Where’s the homemade bread posts?

06/15/2024

BOGO’s are Coming! BOGO’s are coming…June 17-21!