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What is CPTG?

A lot of my customers, friends and family have been asking “what is CPTG?”, “what does it mean?”, “what is the benefit to me?”. So I am here to help provide some explanation of that.

What is CPTG?

CPTG stands for Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade.

What does it mean?

doTERRA is the only essential oil company that currently is Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG). The CPTG process ensures that within all doTERRA oils there are no added fillers, synthetic ingredients, or harmful contaminants that would reduce their efficacy and effectiveness of the oils. However doTERRA does not just stop there, they even go above and beyond, putting all their products and the packaging through intensive testing to ensure a long and effective shelf-life. This protocol ensures potency, purity, and consistency batch to batch.

For a better explanation check out the video below.

What is the benefit to me?

doTERRA takes their products seriously. By ensuring the CPTG standards are met and the products meet all the testing requirements, it means that you as the consumer are getting the absolute best product that there is with the maximum efficacy and potency to ensure that the oil performs to the highest level.

Want more info on CPTG and the process all the oils go through? Check out the information provided by doTERRA here. 

-Kelsea

 

 

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What is an essential oil?

Getting back to the basics and what essential oils are, this is one of my favourite videos that explains what an essential oil is and how they are harvested. I found not only this video graphically beautiful but also very interesting. Hope you enjoy and happy diffusing!

-Kelsea

 

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From farm to table. 

With it being the end of strawberry season, I had to get out and get some fresh strawberries right from the field. Last night my boyfriend and I headed over to the local strawberry patch and after about an hour we had three heaping baskets of strawberries.


Now I had to figure out what to cook with the strawberries. I love cooking with essential oils, but when cooking with fruit I love combining it with citrus essential oils.

Today I made two different recipes.

Strawberry Freezer Jam

Ingredients 

  • 4 cups of mashed strawberries
  • 4 drops of dōTERRA lemon oil
  • 1 ¾ cups of sugar
  • 1 package of Bernardin Freezer Jam Pectin

Instructions

  1. Mix together sugar and pectin in a bowl. Stir until well mixed.
  2. Add 4 cups of mashed strawberries and 4 drops of dōTERRA lemon oil. Stir for 3 minutes.
  3. Ladle into clean sterilized jars leaving ½ inch headspace. Apply lids. Let stand until thickened (30 minutes)
  4. Serve right away, refrigerate for up to 4 weeks or freeze for longer storage.

Makes 5 250ml sized jars.


Strawberry Lemon Banana Bread

Ingredients 

  • ½ cup of margarine; softened
  • 1 cup of granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 ripe bananas; mashed
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 5 drops of dōTERRA lemon oil (add to taste)
  • 2 cups of mashed strawberries

Instructions 

  1. Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
  2. Grease two 9×5 loaf pans with non-stick spray. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Mix in eggs and mashed bananas.
  5. In separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to banana mixture until combined. Do not over mix.
  6. Beat in dōTERRA lemon oil and mashed strawberries.
  7. Pour into prepared loaf pans.
  8. Bake at 375F for 15 minutes. Drop temperature to 350F and finish baking for 40 minutes or until edges are slightly brown or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  9. Let cool completely before taking out of load pans.
  10. Enjoy!


These recipes were delicious and the lemon oil added a really nice flavour to them!

Hope you enjoy!

-Kelsea

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Welcome.

Growing up essential oils were always a part of our home. Congested? Camphor and eucalyptus oil. Have a pimple? Tea tree oil. Feel a cold coming on? Oregano oil. Can’t sleep? Lavender oil. Sore muscles? Bath with lavender oil. Lice at school? Tea tree oil. Headache? Peppermint oil. And so on.

Regardless of the ailment, growing up essential oils were always what were handed to me first, before traditional medicine. This is a big part of what fostered a big love of essential oils and their multiple benefits for me. When an opportunity came for me to join a company and be able to share my love for essential oils with others while creating some financial freedom for myself it seemed like a no brainer.

Welcome to my blog. Here is where I will share with you some of my favourite uses for essential oils and some of my favourite blends and recipes using essential oils.

Talk soon,

Kelsea