The fragrance of doTerra essential oils can create waves of uplifting moods and positive emotions, and when some essential oils are used internally, they can even bring soothing effect or improve your health and wellness. Let us discover and learn about doTERRA’s Top 10 Essential Oils, their multiple uses and benefits.
1 Lemon (Citrus limon)
It’s known as one of the top-selling doTerra essential oil that doTERRA offer because of its cleansing, purifying and refreshing properties.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Cleanses and purifies the air and surfaces. Just add Lemon oil to a small spray bottle of water to clean tables, counter-tops, wooden furniture and other surfaces in your house, workplace or anywhere else.
- Helps fight seasonal respiratory discomfort such as dry nose when taken internally.
- Naturally cleanses the body and helps in digestion.
- Brings uplifting, positive aroma when used as diffuser.
- Ideal to use as flavor booster. Add a drop of Lemon oil anytime you are cooking with lemon juice to enhance and give richer flavor. It can also be added to soothing teas, put a drop of Lemon oil to warm water, herbal tea and natural honey.
2 Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
This doTerra favorite essential oil with light and floral scent has been used for centuries. It’s good for skin, improves mood and perfect for a peaceful sleep. It’s well acknowledged as “the calming oil”.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Popularly used to soothe skin irritation and produce skins care products. You can use a few drops of Lavender oil to make skin moisturizers, clay mask and other beauty skin products that can reduce appearance of skin imperfections. It’s really suitable for all skin types.
- When use as diffuser, it lessens the feelings of stress, tension and also helps a person to have a good and restful sleep. You can add a few drops of Lavender oil to you pillows or bedding so you can inhale its aroma before sleeping or apply it on to the bottoms of your feet as a part of a relaxing bedtime ritual. You can also add it to your bath soap or bath water to reap it’s relaxing aroma.
- Adds delicious flavor when used in cooking. It’s often used marmalades, citrus salads, baked goods, desserts and more.
3 Peppermint (Mentha piperita)
We love doTerra peppermint oil because of its multiuse. Peppermint essential oil is smooth, sweet oil with high menthol content. It can be used to add flavor to a drink, dessert, bring cooling effect, has breath-freshening ability, and tummy calmer. Indeed, it has a rich history of culinary, oral, and digestive uses.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Promotes healthy respiratory function and clear breathing when taken internally.
- Supports digestive health and acts a tummy calmer.
- Gives relaxing and cool down effect on your overworked feet when combined with cold compress. Also, you can add in peppermint essential oil to a spray bottle of water and use to break away from summer heat.
- Surely helps make your breath fresh when mixed with Lemon and water as mouthwash.
- When use as diffuser, it has several benefits such as revitalizes your lungs, increases alertness, controls one’s appetite or feel full faster, and also relieves tension and stress.
- Used for preparing and cooking delicious desserts, smoothies, hot tea, and other food and drinks.
- Helps repel bugs naturally.
4 Melaleuca (Melaleuca quinquenervia)
Its common name is “Tea Tree oil” and has over 92 different compounds and limitless applications and is best used for cooling, cleansing and purifying benefits to support a healthy skin.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Used to help relieve skin irritations. It’s also ideal to use as a natural face cleanser and toner.
- Appropriate for hair care because of its topical cleansing, rejuvenating, and purifying properties.
- When used as diffuser, it’s not all about fragrant aroma but cleans the air and has revitalizing effect which can boost your alertness.
- Use this essential oil for taking care of your fingernails and toenails.
5 Oregano (Origanum vulgare)
It’s identified as a potent and powerful doTerra’s essential oil and has been used since ages. Its key chemical components are Carvacrol, a phenol that possesses antioxidant properties when ingested. Caution should be taken when inhaling or diffusing it and its best to use only one to two drops of Oregano essential oil.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Helps maintain healthy immune system, healthy digestion and respiratory function when taken internally.
- Acts as a powerful cleansing agent, and offers powerful antioxidants
- Serve as popular ingredient for various foods, hot tea and other type of drinks because of its flavor, scent and healthy benefits.
6 Frankincense (Boswellia)
Frankincense has amazing benefits and it’s distinguished as one of the most high-quality and precious essential doTerra oils. Its gentle and beautifying properties are used to invigorate skin’s appearance and promote feelings of peace, relaxation, overall spiritual and emotional wellness when diffused.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Helps nourish and reduce skin’s imperfections when applied topically.
- Brings soothing and relaxing effect when used as massage oil for your exhausted hands or feet and supports muscle relief.
- Uplifts disposition, calms mood swings, relieves anxious feelings and improve concentration, when used as diffuser.
7 On Guard (Protective Blend)
On Guard is one of doTerra’s best-selling blends which supports healthy immune function and contains cleansing properties. This blend is composed of Wild Orange, Clove, Cinnamon, Eucalyptus, and Rosemary essential oils.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Supports healthy immune and respiratory function when taken internally.
- Boosts body’s natural antioxidant defenses
- Used as cleaning material at home.
- When used as diffuser it fights terrible odors, freshen the air and bear invigorating and uplifting mood.
- Boosts Immune System by adding a few drops of On Guard to your water, juice or smoothie.
- Acts as protective mouth rinse and helps soothe irritated gums.
8 DigestZen (Digestive Blend)
It’s usually called “Tummy Tamer” blend and is a combination of Ginger, Fennel, and Coriander. It has supports healthy digestion, soothe stomachaches, motion sickness and maintain complete digestive health.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Naturally soothes upset stomach, indigestion, motion sickness and help maintain healthy digestive system.
- Brings calming and comforting effect on the skin, head or temples to relieve stress and tension.
- Has cooling and soothing effect when massaged on your tummy or other parts of your body.
9 Breathe (Respiratory Blend)
It’s a remarkable doTerra essential oil blend composed of Laurel Leaf, Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Melaleuca, Lemon, Cardamom, Ravintsara, and Ravensara. Breathe essential oil’s refreshing aroma creates feelings of clear, easy breathing. Also, it can be applied topically to the chest, back, or bottom of feet, or diffused at nighttime to calm the senses and promote a restful sleep.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Sustains feelings of clear airways and easy breathing.
- When use as diffuser, promotes a peaceful and restful sleep.
- Helps minimize the effects of seasonal threats.
- Bring invigorating feelings and enhance breathing during exercise or physical activities.
- Helps improve your concentration, alertness and makes you feel relaxed when smelled or used as diffuser.
10 Deep Blue (Soothing Blend)
This natural doTerra oil blend is perfect for a soothing massage after a long day of work. Wintergreen, Camphor, Peppermint, Ylang Ylang, Helichrysum, Blue Tansy, Blue Chamomile, and Osmanthus work together to soothe and cool. It’s one of the most useful essential oils for people who work long hours on computer.
Primary Benefits and Uses:
- Soothing and cooling oil blend perfect for your tired fingers, wrists, shoulders, feet, knees, neck, back or other body parts.
- Used to create comfort and relaxing feeling during massage.
- Help promote long term muscle, joint and bone health.
- Promotes and maintains normal inflammatory response in cells.
- Aids muscle cramps and brings cooling and warming sensation to joint and bone pain.
This completes the list of Top 10 doTERRA Essential oils.
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