Sue Hardman

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Lemon Water & Lemon Oil 

The History Lemons

Lemons originated in the North West region of India over 2,500 years ago. Drinking lemon water is a morning ritual rooted in the ancient science of Ayurveda which used lemon water to help loosen “ama”, or toxins, and to stimulate digestion.

The Ancient Greeks used lemons to preserve food and purify water. 

Lemons were then later introduced into Spain, then North Africa, then later to wider Europe, and then, in 1493, brought by Christopher Columbus in seed form to the Americas.

Probably most famously, in 1747 Scottish physician James Lind used lemons and lemon water to treat scurvy amongst sailors suffering from Vitamin C deficiency (even though Vitamin C was not the known cause at the time).

One of the best things you can do is drink lemon juice and water, and it’s far easier than making that celery juice.

It might just be the simplest, cheapest, and fastest morning ritual you can do for your long-term health (and waistline). Both Lemon or Lime Water both offer powerful benefits of drinking first thing in the morning.

Lemon Water

Is a gentle yet effective way to support and detox your liver, kidneys, and colon, and help to alkalise your body. It assists in breaking up mucus and provides energy via enzymes, vitamin C, potassium, and trace minerals.  Use fresh, ripe lemons, not prepared lemon juice. Make lemon water simply by squeezing the juice of ½ a lemon into a glass of water.

Flush Out Toxins & Stimulate Your Liver

While you’re sleeping your liver is collecting toxins for release the next day. Drinking lemon water in the morning helps to support the liver function and to flush out toxins whilst also giving the liver the hydration it needs to operate more efficiently. Two birds, one stone.

Animal studies show citric acid (Vitamin C) helps to protect liver function and prevent oxidative damage helping to support your liver’s role in detoxification.

Lemons (and limes) contain micro mineral salts which help protect your liver’s immune system.

Drinking lemon juice and water helps to loosen and disperse the fat cells within the liver because of the special combination of vitamin C and calcium present in lemons and limes, which bind together and enter into the liver.

For Glowing Skin & Anti-Aging

Lemons contain the antioxidant Vitamin C, that helps reduce free radical damage for fresh looking skin and slowing down the aging process. Vitamin C, helps the body to produce collagen, essential to smoothing out fine lines on the face.

In the, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition research suggests that regularly consuming vitamin C leads to younger looking skin with fewer wrinkles. 

Helps To Hydrate, Alkalise & Balance Your PH

Adding freshly squeezed lemon juice to water, helps water to travel more deeply into your tissues and cells and carry the essential nutrients and compounds you need in order to thrive.

According to the acid / alkaline theory of health, our modern diet contains too many acid-forming foods (sugar, dairy, meat, refined carbohydrates, chemical additives etc..) and not enough alkaline forming foods (greens, vegetables, low sugar fruits, etc..) which can result in a net ‘acid’ environment in the blood.

When examined under a microscope, the cells of an acidic blood sample are said to be thick, sticky, and do not operate with efficiency. They don’t carry oxygen as well, they lose some of their electric charge, and appear to become less efficient at eliminating waste and taking on nutrients. This may lead to depleted immunity and increased illness or disease.

Research is starting to show how an alkaline diet may be beneficial for relieving chronic pain, boosting bone health, and protecting against disease and how an alkaline diet could enhance cancer treatment effectiveness. 

The solution? Eat more alkaline foods (and relax more). Turns out that lemon water, although considered acidic, actually has an alkalising effect on the body, helping to balance your body’s pH and optimise overall health.

Drinking lemon juice in water can break down the enamel on your teeth over time. This is easy to overcome, however, by simply drinking a small amount of fresh water after your lemon water or by using a straw.

Why use Lemon essential oil?

Lemon essential oil contains “d-limonene”, key to lemon essential oil’s healing power, extracted from the lemon rind and the richest sources of d-limonene, this is found in all of the citrus essential oils.

?? Lemon ?? essential oil is a widely used and known for its cleansing attributes. Limonene and b-pinene are two main components that give this volatile oil its cleansing properties.


Study’s show that it supports immunity.

This is one essential oil that I use every single day. It’s a powerful detoxification oil that I add to my water throughout the day. 

This super versatile oil also boost immunity and supports digestive function. This one oil is considered a Swiss-Army-knife oil and can boost your health in many different ways:-

Here Are the Top Benefits for Lemon Essential Oil:

  • Supports digestive function, reverses liver and pancreas damage
  • Boosts immunity and cleanses the body
  • Improves mood, decrease anxiety, promote restful sleep
  • Contains powerful antioxidant properties for weight loss
  • Offers non-toxic green cleaning abilities
  • Acts as a food preservative

To give you something you can use TODAY, here’s are of some the most practical recipes for lemon oil...

CAUTIONARY NOTE: Do Not Ingest Just Any Essential Oils UNLESS they are PURE and approved for internal use.

Apple Cider Vinegar Tea DIY Recipe - Supports Weight Loss

Promotes healthy digestion, boosts immunity, helps detoxify your body, enhances energy

Ingredients: 

  • 10oz Hot Water
  • 1/2 Tbl honey (preferably local)
  • 1/2 Tbl Organic Apple Cider vinegar
  • 1 drop doTerra Slim & sassy essential oil 
  • 1 drop doTerra Lemon essential oil 
  • Fresh grated ginger

Mix all together and enjoy hot or cold. It also tastes great without the ginger if preferred.

Helps To Boost Your Mood in your diffuser 

Move over coffee… or have it after your lemon water! the scent alone of a lemon (we’ve all seen the rind emit a soothing lemon-scented mist when squeezed) has been shown to improve mood and reduce stress.

Lemon essential oil has the same effects! A single drop smells like an entire sliced Lemon, and if you put from 6 to 10 drops in your diffuser, it can fill the air in your kitchen with that bright, inspiring aroma. 

The negative emotions that lemon support the mental & emotional fields of adults and kids alike.


Move From feeling:
Confused to....       clarity
Unfocused to....    focused
Guilty to .....             happy 
Disengaged to.  energised

Diffuse or breathe in, apply to wrists or temples, take 1-2 drops under the tongue, in a capsule or in water.

For Seasonal Discomfort

By combining Lemon, Lavender, and Peppermint essential oils, you can ease the suffering from seasonla disordes and discomfort.

doTerra LEMON essential oil naturally clears the nasal passages and rids your body of unwanted toxins. 

doTerra LAVENDER essential oil works as a powerful, natural antihistamine to relieve itch and swelling from environmental irritants while calming and soothing your mind and body. Win-win!

doTerra PEPPERMINT essential oil opens up airways, allowing you to breathe more freely and clearly while giving you a boost of natural energy without relying on caffeine. (Spearmint essential oil can be easily subbed in for kiddos under age 11 who may not do well with the high menthol content in Peppermint

Here’s a quick recipe that’s age specific (for safety!) to get you started:

 THE Seasonal Discomfort Essential  Blend Recipe
10 mL rollerball bottle

1-5 Years Old
 (2% Dilution)

  • 2 drops Lavender
  • 1 drop Lemon
  • 1 drop Spearmint
  • Fractionated coconut oil (FCO)

6-11 Years Old (5% Dilution)

  • 5 drops Lavender
  • 3 drops Lemon
  • 2 drops Spearmint
  • FCO

 12-17 Years Old (10% Dilution)

  • 7 drops Lavender
  • 7 drops Lemon
  • 6 drops Peppermint
  • FCO

For adults, a 50:50 ratio of oils or stronger to carrier can be used.

Directions: Add essential oils to rollerball bottle and top off blend with a carrier oil of choice (fractionated coconut oil is recommended). Roll the blend behind the ears and on the back of your neck; also try on the bottoms of the feet and up and down the back. 

WHY WASH YOUR FRUIT & VEG

We’ve all had to become far more conscious around removing pesticides, 'germs' and bacteria, including from the fruit and veg we’re consuming. 

Another very good reason to wash your fresh food thoroughly is to remove any pesticide residue. Simply rinsing your produce with water, will remove dirt - but it’s not going to remove oil-based pesticides.

Pesticides, if consumed play a huge role in hormone disruption, cause gut issues and weight gain (think obesogens).

If you can eat organic is optimal, if it's not  available I recommend soaking your fresh food.


Citrus oil's like lemon remove pesticides due to the monoterpenes, specifically d-limonene, which has the ability to dissolve petroleum oils among other things. Lemon and orange oils have particularly high concentrations of d-limonene.


You can either make a spray or soak you veg in water. Whatever works for you!

Food will stay fresh for longer, strawberries, raspberries, black & blueberries keep far longer in my fridge, where normally they’d waste in 2-3 days.

 Often these soft fruits go off quite quickly due to the growth of mild spores. True story!!

FRESHEN & CLEAN YOUR KITCHEN

Lemon is one of the most commonly used fragrances in store-bought cleaning products because it smells clean. Real lemon oil neutralises odours and removes the cause. 

Did you know that lemon essential oil is also anti-sticky? Use Lemon oil to get tape or sticker residue off of anything,

Lemon will also cuts grease, freshens laundry, disinfects and polishes silver.

Lemon essential oil to clean your kitchen surfaces, sponges & your cutting boards.

Cutting boards can hold onto a lot of unwelcome germs. Wash your cutting board in hot, soapy water.

Put 2 drops of Lemon essential oil directly onto the surface and use a paper towel to rub it all over. You can also your Lemon Sponge Spray on your cutting board. 

You can just put two or three drops of Lemon essential oil on your kitchen sponge and let it sit. That’s it! This is great to do overnight. Or make a sponge spray.

Lemon Sponge Spray

  • 30 ml water
  • 18 drops Lemon essential oil 

Shake before using, to disperse the Lemon essential oil in the water. Every time you’re finished using your kitchen sponge, give it a few sprays.

(Lemon essential oil may lighten the colour of some wooden or bamboo cutting boards)



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Toxins – 5 Ways To Reduce Them In Your Home

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So you’ve heard about detoxing your body to eliminate internal toxins but what about your home?

The common household and body-care products we use are increasingly being found to have negative health effects on the nervous, immune, reproductive systems, endocrine, cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

The average home contains 500-1,000 chemicals, many of which we are unable to see, smell or taste. Making your home healthier and greener doesn’t have to be expensive, or overwhelming.

Just a few changes can improve the health of your home and everyone in it.

Taking more care to reduce our exposure to external toxins, by detoxing our living space allows the body’s own detoxification to function more efficiently.

Strengthening your body’s resilience to the daily onslaught of toxins impacts your health.

Here are a few ways you can you cut down your exposure to these chemicals and other potential household risks.

Mistake ♯ 1. Plastic bottles, containers and wrap. Plastic releases chemicals that are hormone disruptors, according to many studies.

What to do instead: If you use a lot of bottled water consider this, they’re no good for the environment and bad for your health. Try replacing your plastic for glassware or heavy duty plastic water bottles which are designed to be safely used, again and again. Avoid putting hot or acidic food in plastic, and never microwave them.

Mistake ♯ 2. Even if you live in a place where drinking water is considered good the following contaminants are not usually removed – chlorine, E. coli, pesticides.

What to do instead: Filtered tap water is a better choice than tap water. Simply filtering your tap water can remove lots of these pollutants. A simple jug water filter system may be all you need for drinkable water. There are also filters that attach to a tap or to the plumbing system.

It’s a ‘better safe than sorry’ approach.” You’ll also cut down on waste in landfills by not buying – and then tossing – plastic bottles.

Mistake ♯ 3. Skip antibacterial soap, new research has also shown that triclosan, the main ingredient in antibacterial soap, has the potential to affect sex hormones and interfere with the nervous system.

Antibacterial products contain harsh chemicals like triclosan, which has been linked to liver toxicity and ends up in water sources.

What to do instead: Studies show washing your hands with plain soap is just as effective or try making your own antibacterial spray using tea tree and lavender essential oils they have powerful antibacterial and antiviral properties.

Some researchers believe that the quest for hyper-cleanliness may have led to weakened immune systems, and possibly to more cases of asthma and allergies.

Mistake ♯ 4. Indoor air quality can be worse than outdoors, let your home “breathe.” Open your windows as often as you can, open your curtains and let in the sunlight, a natural antibacterial agent.

Plants that remove toxins in your homeWhat to do instead: Use natures air purifiers – plants.

While most plants take away oxygen at night, the snake plant (or Mother-In-Laws Tongue) gives off oxygen at night, it is extremely low maintenance, tolerant of irregular watering and less lighting, and has the potential to absorb airborne chemicals.

Mistake ♯ 5. Wearing outdoor shoes around your home, particularly relevant if you have a lot of carpets or small children crawling on the floor.

What to do instead: Leave your shoes at the door so that you’re not spreading outdoor pollutants and additional toxins throughout the house. Go barefoot or wear slippers. Place floor mats vertically by your entryways to wipe your shoes. This way more dirt and residue from your shoes stays on the mat. This is the easiest thing you can do, and costs you nothing.

Something else to consider: Is your body trying to tell you something? Do you often look & feel tired, have dark circles under your eyes, or wake up feeling sluggish?

Because Toxins are unavoidable, maybe your body needs a cleanse. So every once in a while it’s a good idea remove them with the structure and support of a fresh food detox!

 

If you’re struggling with any kind of hormone imbalance, tiredness, low energy or wanting to lose your excess weight. I’ve  put together a FREE guide for you, so you can start to learn how and why specific foods, and drinks, can help you have more energy and lose weight naturally. 

You’ll find it is easy to add these ingredients into your diet on a daily basis – get your downloadable guide here

In fact, at the end, I’m going to share one simple recipe you can make in under five minutes that incorporates all of these foods.

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