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Deep Blue® Soothing Blend
Deep Blue is a soothing blend of eight essential oils that comfort and cool joints and muscles. Deep Blue is helpful after a long day of work in the yard or a strenuous workout. Massage into your back, legs, and feet.
Usage Tips:
- Apply on feet and knees before and after exercise.
- Perfect for a soothing massage after a long day of house work or a workout.
- Apply to hands and feet after gardening.
- Connect with Grandma by giving her a hand massage with Deep Blue.
- Rub Deep Blue on lower back after a day of heavy lifting at work or during a move.
- Massage Deep Blue with a few drops of FCO (or Deep Blue Touch) onto growing kids’ legs before bedtime.
- After long hours on the computer, try rubbing Deep Blue essential oil blend on your fingers, wrists, shoulders, and neck.
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doTERRA Deep Blue is a powerful essential oil blend that offers immediate soothing effects for skin. Comforting and cooling, Deep Blue is popularly used after activity as part of an after-sports massage. Eight essential oils combine synergistically to create a powerful blend: Blue (German) Chamomile, Wintergreen, Camphor, Peppermint, Ylang Ylang, Helichrysum, Blue Tansy, and Osmanthus. These essential oils provide rejuvenating benefits and provide soothing comfort to the back, legs, and feet.
Wintergreen is a key component of Deep Blue. The primary chemical constituent of Wintergreen essential oil is monoterpene ester methyl salicylate, which is often combined with lotion and used to soothe muscles and joints.
Helichrysum is a rare but powerful essential oil. There are over 600 species of helichrysum throughout the world, but it is primarily Helichrysum italicum that is sourced for its essential oil due to its ability to encourage energy and vitality when applied topically.
Blue Tansy essential oil is used in massage to provide a soothing sensation on affected areas. It is also emotionally calming and beneficial to the skin.
The sweet, floral aroma of Ylang Ylang is prized in the perfume industry. Topical application of this tropical oil encourages feelings of calm and relaxation and reduces the effects of daily stress.
Osmanthus essential oil is used for irritated skin. The pleasing fragrance of Osmanthus also makes it popular in the perfume industry, although it is rare and pricey. It takes approximately 200 pounds of osmanthus flowers to extract a single ounce of Osmanthus essential oil.
The intense cooling sensation of Deep Blue is due in part to the concentration of menthol in Peppermint essential oil. Peppermint is distilled from the flowering tops of the Peppermint plant. Cooling to the skin, Peppermint is helpful for soothing feelings of tension.
Camphor Bark essential oil, distilled from the Cinnamomum camphora tree, is widely used in massage therapy for its ability to soothe affected areas.
Blue Chamomile (or German Chamomile) has a warm, herbal aroma that is calming and soothing.
Apply Deep Blue on your feet and knees, elbows before and after exercise. Massage into your back for relief of exhausted and overworked muscles, such as after planting a garden or moving boxes. Use on your feet before and after big events, such as weddings, to ease foot discomfort from standing. Apply to growing children’s legs for a cooling and soothing effect.
Automobile DIY
Here’s a fun DIY class idea! a car theme. This is for the men as well as the women. There are everyday uses for essential oils that you may not have already thought of. Here are some ideas for some pretty inexpensive DIYs that you …
Yarrow|Pom
Achillea millefolium and Punica granatum doTERRA Yarrow|Pom delivers the topical and internal benefits of blue yarrow essential oil in a base of antioxidant-rich pomegranate seed oil.* This nutritive duo is beautifying to the skin and offers many benefits when taken internally. Usage Tips: Add a …
Safe Containers to Use with Essential Oils
When it comes to the power of essential oils, we sometimes hear concerns about the type of containers to use with liquids and DIY products containing essential oils. While it is true that oil will dissolve some plastics, there are other container options that are completely safe.
Safe Materials
There are several types of containers that are safe to use. These include glass, steel, and a high quality plastic called HDPE or High-Density Polyethylene. Find out more about each material below.
Glass. For any of our DIY recipes, we recommend using glass spray bottles, or glass jars to store scrubs, lotions, etc. This is because glass is impervious to essential oils, and is the perfect container for keeping DIY products fresh. Glass is also really easy to clean after using oils in the container, you only really need to use water and soap to get the residual oils out.
Steel. dōTERRA roll-ons, like those in the dōTERRA Touch® line, have roller balls made of steel. Not only are steel roller balls better quality, they also allow for better control of application. It helps that steel is also impervious to oils and easy to clean. Stainless steel water bottles are an excellent option if you are worried about dropping and breaking a glass bottle.
HDPE. Plastics that are specifically used with essential oils in caps, diffusers, orifices, etc. are made of HDPE, also known as plastics number 2. This very high quality plastic has stronger bonds and longer chain lengths that are not broken up by essential oils. HDPE plastics will not be affected by essential oils.
Dilution Matters
The ratio of dilution matters when it comes to essential oils. The diluted essential oils in DIY projects are highly unlikely to have a high enough concentration to interact with the container. However, it is better to be safe and use glass with DIY products, especially if you plan on storing a homemade cleaner or personal care product for a few weeks or longer.
Similarly, using essential oils in your beverages also highly dilutes the oil.
Resin Identification Codes
Not sure how to tell if your plastic water bottle is safe or not? Plastics have a resin identification code to help you identify which type of plastic a container is made of. In fact, you’ve probably seen it many times—it’s the number surrounded by chasing arrows. There are seven types of plastics currently designated. This system was established in 1988 as more and more people started to participate in recycling.
Other Containers
Some of you may wonder about aluminum containers. We would not anticipate any issues in using essential oils in aluminum containers, such as water bottles. We suggest adding a drop of the oil to the outside of the container to verify that there is no change to the aluminum over the course of a few minutes after the oil is applied.
Another common type of plastic, PET, (plastics number 1) is also resistant to essential oils and can be used safely. But what about the other types of plastic? Some are definitely not a good idea. Many essential oils have compounds in them that dissolve some plastics. For example, Polystyrene (plastic number 6) is easily dissolved by d-limonene in Lemon oil. Lemon oil disrupts the van der Waals forces, causing the polystyrene chains to break apart from one another. But, other plastic containers may work if not reused and if only a small amount of oil is added at a high dilution rate. If you are not sure if a plastic is resistant, perform the same test that you would for aluminum. Add a drop of the oil to the outside of the container and make sure there is no change to the plastic after a few minutes.
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