Placebo, placebo, gazebo. If you still haven't seen IT you need to get to your local cinema STAT.
Essential oils. Do I hate them? No. Do I love them? Kinda. Do I think they work like the people who make money off them and anti-pharm people* insist they do? No, it's a placebo folks!
*I hate how big pharma has such a large hold on things in the world but we need them for some pretty major things and I cannot kick them in the nuts.
I desperately needed sleep and so did Piper so I finally broke down and bought the Young Living starter kit because of how many people (i.e. rich blogger moms and hippies) swear by them. Guys, almost to this day I can still count the number of times Piper has slept through the night. I refuse to comment how things are currently going because you all know how well the universe works. Did I think oils were going to fix the problem over night? No. I mean, deep down I hoped they would because of the miracles I kept hearing from others. Did I think that after a few days or maybe up to a few weeks we would see a change? ABSOILUTELY. Har har.
I'm telling you. People claim that you can rub oils on your belly to cure and aid in digestion. WHAT. Natural things like lavender that have been around forever are things that I was looking at. Peppermint oil for nausea? SURE, you're actually ingesting it and my tried and true BFF when it comes to an upset stomach is "spicy gum". Can you actually imagine how sick we would be all the time if our bodies absorbed everything that came into contact with our skin? Likely we'd be ill, and even more likely we'd be dead.
Who know who else is dead? The pilgrims and settlers that lived before us but died due to their diseases and other 'simple' illnesses that could not be cured by burning tree bark infused with patchouli in their living room. Don't even try to bring up Native American witch doctors because I know what they could be capable of but the pilgrims literally ruined that for them.
Could you guess by this point that the lavender and other mixes didn't work on Piper? We went through an entire bottle of lavender with no improvements.
So then I tried them for other things. Household cleaners are the other major use I see people boasting about. But at the end of the day coconut oil and a few drops of oil are not going to get rid of any nasty flu germs or salmonella off your counter top after preparing chicken fajitas for dinner. Same with carpet deodorizer. We had an unfortunate incident with one of our cats peeing in the house. The carpet has since been removed and replaced with hardwood, but all the mixtures I tried failed. And when you think about it, and no matter how many times Brendon said it, you are not breaking down what caused the odor but simply masking it. Yeeeeuck and it didn't even do that.
But you know what? They make the house smell great. I love having them simply for air fresheners. A damn expensive air freshener, but hey. I've already went and bought them and there is nothing I can do about it now. Will I be buying more? Yeah, an off brand version from Amazon if I feel so inclined.
A sad and oily tale.
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