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Homemade Cough Drops (Heart-Shaped + Honey + Chamomile + Lemon)

February 1, 2016 By Jennifer 39 Comments

Homemade Cough Drops
When you have a toddler with a cold and want to give them something homemade with love to help ease their symptoms, what do you do? Well, you make homemade cough drops and you make them heart-shaped of course! This was definitely way easier than I thought to make these and I’m so excited to share these with you today.

If you would have asked me a few years back if I would have attempted something like this, the answer would have been a resounding “NO”, but not these days. These days I am attempting to try new things that would have once seemed overwhelming or impossible, and definitely not worth my time. But, this is MOST DEFINITELY worth my time and worth sharing with you today. I love my little munchkins and I love making things from the heart to help them feel better when they are sick. What better way to do that than with these cute, heart-shaped homemade honey lozenges?

You only need a few inexpensive items to make these and a little patience, You need about a half hour of uninterrupted time – which a busy mom of three like me has plenty of – to watch the honey boil and reach the right temperature. That’s it! These came out perfect and the kids love them!

Thank you to WIKIHOW for helping me with this recipe, they had a few options and some great instructions to help me on my way!

4.7 from 15 reviews
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Homemade Honey Lozenges (Heart-Shaped + Honey + Chamomile + Lemon)
 
Try this homemade heart-shaped lozenge drops recipe the next time you need something to soothe a cold or sore throat.
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups honey
  • 1 cup strong herbal tea (I used chamomile lavender)
  • 4-6 drops lemon essential oil
  • Candy Thermometer
  • Silicone Candy Molds
Instructions
  1. To make a tea, a two tea bags into one cup of water in a saucepan. Heat the water and tea bags to a simmer on high heat, then cover and reduce the heat. Let the tea steep for 15 to 20 minutes over the lowest heat. Reserve ½ cup of the tea for the cough drops.
  2. Combine all of the ingredients for the cough drops and heat them. Start by putting the ½ cup of herbal tea into a saucepan, then add 1.5 cups of honey. Use a medium to medium-high heat to heat up the ingredients. Stir constantly to make sure all the ingredients are mixed. Clip a candy thermometer on the side of the pan to monitor the temperature. Check the temperature of the liquid frequently. You will want it to get to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit. This will allow the liquid to harden into lozenges as it cools. The mixture may get slightly foamy as it heats up. If this occurs, give the cough drop liquid a stir.You will be able to tell once the mixture gets near to the correct temperature as it will thicken. This process generally takes about 30 minutes. Once the liquid is at a temperature of 300 degrees, remove it from the heat.
  3. Next add your essential oils and stir. I used lemon essential oil. (4-6 drops)
  4. Transfer the hot mixture into a Pyrex measuring cup to pour it into your silicone molds. Pour slowly and carefully. Pour the hot liquid into the silicone candy mold. Allow the cough drops to harden and cool in the candy molds before storing. Try not to disturb the cough drops as they cool. Once they have cooled, crack the cough drops out of the molds. Coat the cough drops in powdered stevia, erythritol, or powdered sugar.
  5. You can store these in single layers between wax paper in the refrigerator for about 3 weeks.
  6. You can also freeze them between layers of wax paper. If you choose to do so, they will last for several months. I stored these in a glass mason jar in the refrigerator.
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I’m so happy I was able to share this with you and show you how easy it is to make homemade honey lozenges. I hope you enjoyed this post and I would love to hear your thoughts.

What natural remedies do you make at home? Have you ever made your own lozenges?

XOXO,

Jennifer

*I buy therapeutic grade essential oils HERE.

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Filed Under: Natural Home Tagged With: essential oils, homemade, homemade honey lozenges, honey

Holiday Essential Oil Diffuser Blends

December 13, 2015 By Jennifer 27 Comments

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The holiday season is in full swing and it’s the perfect time to enjoy diffusing and blending essential oils that will help get us into the spirit of the season. There are definitely certain smells that remind us of the holidays and these holiday essential oil diffuser blends are a natural way to spread delightful aromas throughout your home. Candy canes, sugar cookies and warm chai lattes, evergreens and the smell of gingerbread men baking in the oven, are just a few of the holiday aromas that bring back memories and will get you and your family in the holiday mood!

This Peppermint Surprise Holiday Diffuser Blend is just wonderful! It smells just like Candy Canes and the scent is fresh and uplifting. It will also help you get through the holiday craziness with ease.

Peppermint Surprise

Ah, the smell of homemade Christmas cookies baking in the oven, who doesn’t love that? This Christmas Cookie Holiday Diffuser Blend is one you definitely want to try! It is one of my favorites right now.

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Gingerbread is one of the sweetest smells of Christmas. This Gingerbread Man Holiday Diffuser Blend will make your holiday complete with its warm and calming scent.

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The unmistakable aroma of a fresh cut Christmas tree will always get me in the holiday spirit. Try this Christmas Tree Holiday Diffuser Blend especially if you have an artificial tree to fill your home with this wonderful holiday scent.

Christmas Tree!

There’s nothing like cozying up to the fire with a Warm Chai Latte. Try this Holiday Diffuser Blend for a relaxing and soothing experience.

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These holiday essential oil diffuser blends will allow you to enjoy the smells of the season without the use of synthetically perfumed candles. Diffusing pure essential oils at home during the holiday season is a natural way to enjoy those seasonal aromas and bring a smile to your face at the same time!

Haven’t tried essential oils yet? Well I’ve got something special for you today! I’m giving away ONE bottle of Young Living’s Christmas Spirit Essential Oil. Please enter giveaway below!

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Interested in learning more about essential oils? Please visit my essential oil page for more info HERE. Please don’t hesitate to email me with any questions you have as well! purethymeblog (at) gmail.com

Happy Holidays!

Jennifer

Filed Under: Essential Oils, Natural Home Tagged With: diffuser blends, essential oils, holiday essential oil diffuser blends, na

Homemade Shea Butter Hand Cream

July 15, 2015 By Jennifer 16 Comments

Homemade Shea Butter Hand Cream Recipe with Ylang Ylang and Lavender Essential Oils

This homemade shea butter hand cream is amazing! It has the super-moisturizing power of pure raw shea butter. I also added coconut oil and infused it with ylang ylang and lavender essential oils. The scent is light and pleasant. I personally do not like heavily scented products – especially synthetic ones – instant headache from that over here. This is all-natural in every way and the perfect addition to your beauty regimen. I made this to go along with my Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub and it’s made my summer skin glow!

I am so happy to be experimenting with making my homemade beauty products. It’s something I always wanted to do, but I was a bit intimidated by it. I thought it would be too difficult – which it isn’t at all – and I thought it would be too expensive – which it also isn’t. I’m actually saving money! If you could see how big a smile I have on my face you would be smiling too! Once you start making your own homemade beauty products, I promise you will feel exactly the way I feel right now!

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Homemade Shea Butter Hand Cream
Author: Jennifer Strohmeyer
Recipe type: Homemade Beauty
Serves: 4 ounces
 
This luxurious hand cream combines the healing powers of pure raw shea butter and coconut oil. It is infused with ylang ylang and lavender essential oils to sooth, relax and uplift your spirit.
Ingredients
  • 4 oz pure raw shea butter
  • 1 tbsp fractionated coconut oil
  • 1 tsp arrowroot powder
  • 20 drops ylang ylang essential oil
  • 10 drops lavender essential oil
Instructions
  1. Gently melt the shea butter over the stove using a double boiler. If you don't have one, just fill a saucepan with a couple inches of water, then fit an oven-safe bowl over the top.
  2. Remove from heat and stir the coconut oil into the shea butter.
  3. Place the mixture in the fridge to cool for 30 minutes, or until half-way solidified again.
  4. With a hand-mixer, beat the shea butter until light and fluffy. Mix in arrowroot powder and essential oils and blend until nice and creamy. Place in a 4 oz glass jar with lid. Use as often as needed.
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Go ahead and pamper yourself with this one – you deserve it!

Ready to get your hands on some essential oils right now? Check out my Essential Oil page to learn more about an awesome sale and the freebies that I’m offering this month!!!! Read more HERE. And always, always feel free to contact me with any questions! =)

xoxo,

Jennifer

Here are all the cool things you need to make my recipe!

This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive compensation. Thanks for supporting Pure Thyme!

 

Filed Under: Natural Home Tagged With: diy, DIY beauty, essential oils, homemade hand lotion

Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub

June 20, 2015 By Jennifer 20 Comments

Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub

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This Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub is such a great recipe if you really need a good cleaning scrub for your hands. I use this all year round and it is fabulous and makes my hands so soft! Himalayan pink salt is one of the purest salts, derived from ancient sea salt mines, and is prized for its therapeutic properties on the skin. The minerals nourish, replenish and aide in detoxing the skin. This scrub also nourishes the skin with moisturizing coconut and jojoba oils, plus the scent of lavender and lemon essential oils is calming and relaxing.

Lavender Essential Oil is one of my favorites oils. It is so versatile and smells amazing! It’s the perfect oil to use in homemade beauty recipes.

lavenderLemon oil has been widely used in skin care throughout history. It has rejuvenating properties that increase the luster of dulling skin. I know my hands need a little brightening up, after hours gardening, or doing dishes – I’m always getting my hands dirty playing with my kiddos! So, this is just what I need and if this sounds familiar, I bet you need this too. 😉

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In just a few minutes you can whip up this lightly scented salt scrub, it’s so easy to make. Keep it next to your sink and use when you are needing a little pampering.  I love this hand scrub and can’t wait to make a super moisturizing hand cream to compliment it next.

5.0 from 7 reviews
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Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub
Author: Jennifer Strohmeyer
Recipe type: Homemade Beauty Recipe
 
Pamper yourself with this lightly scented Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub infused with Lavender and Lemon Essential Oils.
Ingredients
  • 4 oz Pink Himalayan Sea Salt - Fine Grain
  • 1 oz fractionated coconut oil
  • 1 oz jojoba oil
  • 20 drops lavender Essential oil
  • 10 drops lemon essential oil
Instructions
  1. Combine salt, coconut oil and jojoba oil in a mixing bowl.
  2. Mix in essential oils.
  3. Store in a 4oz mason jar with lid.
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Enjoy!

Jennifer

DISCLAIMER: Yep, I gotta say it. So, here it goes! I am not a medical professional. The information shared in this post is not intended to treat, cure, or diagnose any illness, nor is it meant to replace professional medical attention or advice. Advice and testimonies are all based on use of Young Living brand of oils specifically. Use and application of this information is done solely at your own risk.

This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive compensation. Thanks for supporting Pure Thyme!

Filed Under: Essential Oils, Natural Home Tagged With: diy, DIY beauty, lavendar essential oi, lemon essential oil, sea salt scrub

DIY Thieves Household Cleaner

November 11, 2014 By Jennifer 47 Comments

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Since we’ve been using essential oils more and more in our daily lives, I knew I wanted to start making my own homemade products.  A DIY Thieves Household Cleaner was the first thing I wanted to make and it’s so easy. I also love that it’s less expensive to make your own and you can have control over what goes in it. If you’ve followed my blog for long, you know I care about the food we put into our bodies at our house. So it only makes sense for us to take it to the next level and start replacing all the chemicals we are using around the house.

Most of us assume that the products we are using in our home are safe, but that is not the case. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns that cleaning supplies have hidden toxins such as ammonia, lye, and chlorine. These ingredients can cause external irritation, and are harmful if inhaled. You can cut these chemicals by making your own cleaning supplies and that is exactly what I’m starting to do.

Some really cool background info on Thieves. I love this story!

Thieves was created based on research about four thieves in France who covered themselves with cloves, rosemary, and other aromatics while robbing plague victims. In the Late Middle Ages, Europe was devastated by the Bubonic Plague, which killed a third of the human population. Out of this period, a legend emerged of four thieves who were captured and charged with robbing the dead and dying victims. When the thieves were tried, the officials offered a lighter sentence if they would reveal how they didn’t contract the horribly contagious disease.

Thieves Oil, developed by Young Living, is inspired by this story. Thieves essential oil is a proprietary blend of cinnamon, clove, lemon, rosemary, and eucalyptus therapeutic grade essential oils. It smells insanely good!

 

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We started with just diffusing Thieves oil or applying it topically to help support a healthy immune system. I am now also using the amazing Thieves to make this non-toxic spray for all my cleaning tasks around the house. I love it, feel great using it and my house smells incredible! I’m using it to clean counters, clean toddler toys, anything that needs cleaning – Thieves has it covered. Such a versatile essential oil – I’m in love!

The basic Thieves all-purpose spray solution for cleaning around the home is this:

1 drop of thieves essential oil for each ounce of water, or for a stronger solution, 1 drop for every 1/2 ounce of water.

Add the thieves oil first, then add water. It mixes better that way. Shake vigorously before each use. You can use this basic recipe or change it up by adding vinegar or castile soap.

I have a 16 oz bottle I use in the home – like this one:

These are my new favorite glass bottles, I love the blue color and the reusable chalk labels are just SO CUTE!

AND it’s great to have the cleaner in smaller bottles to carry with you. I clean shopping carts, high chairs, toilet seats, basically anything that needs cleaning out there 😉 with these bottles – like these:


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DIY Thieves Household Cleaner
Author: Jennifer Strohmeyer
Recipe type: Non-Toxic All-purpose Cleaner
 
Ingredients
Basic Thieves Cleaner:
  • 1 drop of thieves essential oil for each ounce of water
or
  • 1 drop for every ½ ounce of water (for a stronger solution)
Variation 1: Makes 8 oz.
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup white vinegar
  • 8-16 drops thieves essential oil
Variation 2: Makes 8 oz.
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 teaspoons castile soap
  • 8-16 drops thieves essential oil
Instructions
  1. Pour thieves essential oil into a dark glass spray bottle.
  2. Add remaining ingredients.
  3. Shake well before use.
  4. Store in a cool, dark place.
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Looking to learn more about essential oils or to get a Young Living Essential Oils Starter Kit at a fabulous price? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Click HERE to learn more and get you some Thieves Oil!

XOXO,

Jennifer

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