make your own Homemade Body Products with Essential oils and natural ingredients

WHERE DO I GET THE INGREDIENTS FROM?

While there are many great companies that sell products, I tend to look for those who sell organic ingredients.

As for the Essential Oils, personally I only use Young Living Essential Oils but there are other companies that sell Essential Oils. However, be careful to only use therapeutic grade or 100% pure essential oils for your body products! Check with the company about the quality of the essential oil prior to your purchase.

I find there is no sense in making your own body product without preservatives only to include ingredients that may be treated with pesticides or essential oils that are diluted with a base oil or are of low quality.

Below is a list of some companies that came either recommended out of the books that I used or the Saponifier Magazine (for soap making -- a section on that will be coming soon) or that I used myself to order supplies from:

Ingredients

Camden-Grey Essential Oils, Inc.

Mountain Rose Herbs

Wholesale Soap Making & Toiletry Supplies

Essential Wholesale

Containers

Sunburst Bottle

SKS

Essential Oils

Young Living Essential Oils - see also below

Primavera

Flower Essences

Flower Vision Research

Since I am living in the US but you may not live in the US, here are some keywords that I can recommend for your search:

• Organic carrier oil

• Base oils for cream making

• Therapeutic grade essential oils

• Flower Essences

• Bach Flower Essences

When using these keywords, you will find websites that carry most of the ingredients you need to start making your creams, including essential oils but like I mentioned, please be careful to get a good quality essential oil.

YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS

I love these oils and am glad that I was introduced to them. I have tried out many different companies and finally settled for Young Living Essential Oils (YLEO), as they are unadulterated, safe to use internally, are pure, and the plants are grown locally and overseas under supervision of Gary Young. The company cares a lot about their product and offers a great wealth of information and support to its distributors and customers alike.

As for the price, I compared several companies and found that all therapeutic grade essential oils or 100% pure essential oils cost just about the same. The better the quality of the oil, the less oil you will need to use in your creams in order for the scent and property to come through.

If you are in doubt that what you find on the market may not be pure essential oils, you may want to check out YLEO. Please visit the following website: Young Living Essential Oils

If you have any questions regarding the YLEOs, please do not hesitate to contact me at anytime. You may already know somebody who is a distributor or you have a store in your neighborhood that you know sells Young Living Essential Oils.

I am an Independent Distributor and you can check out recommended products or search for the entire line here. If you are interested in Young Living Essential Oils please read on, as I will explain the companies purchase options:

1) Customer

This option allows you to order all products to the retail price; you will not accrue any points that later can be redeemed for free products, and you are not bound to any specific order amount. No strings attached.

I started out ordering as a "Customer" until I realized that I needed more and more oils. I then opted for the Independent Distributor where you can purchase the oils to a discount prize.

2) Preferred Customer

This option allows you to collect points that can be redeemed for free products. You would have to have a minimum purchase amount of USD 50.00 per month through the automatic shipment program. Automatic shipment does not mean that you have to get the same oil every month but it means that as long as you change the product order, it will be shipped to you on a prearranged date every month. Let’s say that in January, you would like to get 2 Lavender Oils. These oils will be shipped to you on the prearranged date, e.g. every 1st of the month. Since these oils last you now for a while, you would like to have something different for February. So, you change the order for February to e.g. Thieves products or Orange Oil. That means now that on February 1st, the new product will be shipped to you.

3) Independent Distributor

This option allows you to purchase the Essential Oils and other products to the wholesale price, which brings the price of the essential oils down dramatically. You have to purchase a Start Living Kit for USD 40.00 (one time only!!) and from there on, have to purchase products for USD 50.00 per year. You can also sign up for the automatic shipment program and accrue points that later can be redeemed for free products. Don’t shy away from this option only because it sounds like a pyramid system. It is a pyramid system but you do not have to sell if you do not want to. I personally do not sell any of the oils (just can’t get passed the boundary of selling to family and friends) but I use the products in all my creams and the oils and products make lovely gifts as well.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding signing up, I am more than happy to answer your e-mails or talk to you.