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Our shift has been a slow, gradual process of not replacing the chemicals as we run out, but instead finding natural, affordable alternatives. Because we used to buy bleach, 409, toilet bowl cleaner, etc. in bulk at Sam's Club, it has taken quite some time to actually run out...hence the reason I say "Natural(ish) Living," we still have a ways to go, but we are learning. During this journey we have discovered three companies we love.
I have to share the most recent uses we've found for a few of our essential oils. I work from home two days a week, Wednesday and Friday. Last Wednesday was not my most successful work from home day…one fifteen minute task took a total of six hours to complete. Finn is teething and only wants to be held, so work was just simply not going to happen while he was up. By noon I had a raging headache, one where I normally wouldn't have hesitated to take 800 milligrams of Tylenol. Instead, I decided to give my Peppermint oil a try.
I had heard about essential oils at various events several times over the last few years, figured it was some new age fad and didn't give it a second thought. The only medication I took on a regular basis was an over-the-counter allergy pill. I told myself there was a lot worse I could be doing and didn't think much about it again...Until I had a baby. All of a sudden it mattered what I was putting in Finn's body. It didn't hit me how much it mattered until I gave him his first dose of infant Tylenol.