In light of the previous post you may get the wrong idea. Let me clarify.
I love smells... the good ones! Every place I go, naturally one of the first things I do is sniff it up. If your faculties are in place and in good working order you can't help but to smell. You can tell a lot about places, people and things by how they smell, right? You smell your food to make sure it isn't spoiled. You smell your baby's tooshie to make sure there's no prize for you. You smell your vehicle to make sure there's no funky sippy cups or dirty diapers accidentally left in there... well, maybe the last one is just me, but you get my point!
Living on a farm affords my sniffer lots of practice. I sometimes gets sensory overload from all the smells. Working with cows always ends up in some bit of poop to deal with. Your either in it or avoiding it, but most certainly at some point you will be smelling it. It honestly isn't that bad compared to the smell of their urine. It must be the nitrogen in it that gets me but I really can't stand the smell of their urine. I will tell you, though, the absolute, most horrible, most disgusting smell on the farm is, to me, chicken poop. I can't even describe it to you! Just thinking about it makes me gag!
So knowing the variety of not so pleasant smells experienced on a farm and keeping in mind my addiction to sniffing places, you can understand my paranoia when it comes to the way my house smells. I remember watching an episode of wife swap where a dairy farm wife swapped places with a city girl-diva type. The diva went on and on and ON about how horrible the farm house smelled. My paranoia meter went through the roof!
Now enter in the wonderful aroma of essential oils. I absolutely love, love, love using essential oils. There is literally an oil for everything! I use oils every single day. Sometimes I am fighting a sickness or sometimes preventing a sickness and sometimes I just want to fill the air with the healing aroma of an essential oil. I clean with oils. We use oils as deodorant. We brush our teeth with the oils. As you can see the essential oils are very versatile. Except for some of the citrus oils, essential oils never go bad. They are safe for the very old to the very young.
I use oils from Young Living. I've spent many years using oils and Young Living is the best. They are the only oils you can actually know where they come from. Young Living has their own farms all over the world, literally! Equador, France, America, Oman.... just to name a few places. All those other oil sellers are just brokers.. DoTerra, Now, Aura Cacia, Mountain Rose... they all buy their oils from different places and then resell them to the consumer. Young Living also has nutritional supplements and other products based on their oils.
The other day we were running errands in town and 2 different people commented on how good we smelled. You know for an old farm girl like me that's a great thing! The paranoia has faded into a memory now that we have our oils. I love walking into our house and rather than smell the slightest hint of dirty kids or animals I am greeted with a wonderful, welcoming, and healthy aroma. My sniffer is happy!
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