Last weekend we made candles. Jacob really wanted to make them, and I wanted to experiment with some of my essential oils.

The past 2 weeks I’ve been enjoying Oil Camp. It was a 2-week Facebook group to help me learn more about essential oils. I’ve really enjoyed it and learned a lot! I’ve been using essential oils for several months now and honestly, I don’t really think I knew all the different uses and benefits of them. What I’ve learned is that I only know the tip of the iceberg on what I could learn. As a family, we’ve been slowly moving into a much more holistic lifestyle. We have an organic garden, I make a lot of our cleaning supplies, I cook more from scratch and less from a box, and we’ve been using essential oils. Mostly diffusing them, but I’ve learned so many new ways to incorporate them into our lives over the past few weeks.

So for about a month or so Jacob has been asking about candle making. And he wanted to use some of my essential oil blends in the candles. Last weekend we finally made time to make the 4 candles in the above picture. The 3 tea-light sized candles were made in paper cups. We spilled a lot of wax since we did not have the cups set up correctly. One is Holiday Joy – a cinnamon blend, one is Lavender – which is relaxing, and one is Cheer – an uplifting blend. The candle in the mason jar contains Terrashield which has insect repellent qualities. Jacob really enjoyed making them and I’m glad he suggested this activity for us to do! He really wanted to make a candle for his Grammy who is very ill.

Shameless plug – if you have any questions on essential oils or would like to try them please let me know! I’m happy to share my enjoyment of doTerra Oils. This past week I’ve been using Terrashield and Lavender at my camp job to help cut down on my mosquito bites and to help me work with a difficult staff member. I really do think my oils have helped me to maintain a calm demeanor for my young campers and have assisted my bug spray in keeping my insect bites to a minimum.