Hey Everyone!! New podcast up for you all today! We always need to have the conversation about safely using essential oils. This serves as a great reminder that we have these powerful and therapeutic tools at our fingertips, so using them safely is key!

On today's podcast, we discuss:

• How to avoid adulterated oils
• Where NOT to use essential oils
• Proper dilution of essential oils
• "Warm" or "hot" essential oils and their use
• Patch testing
• Essential oils in pregnancy
• Essential oils and prescription medications
• Internal use of essential oils

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Here are the show notes for today's podcast:

Intro:                            00:00                Welcome to essential oil healthcare radio. I am frank, I am a certified physician assistant and I'm Jackie Ritz. I'm an herbalist and lover of essential oils and we would love to bring to you this podcast about herbs, essential oils, supplements, all these ways that you can live a natural life. So stay tuned and listen to us and we'll be bringing to you lots of content on essential

Intro:                            00:21                Oils, using herbs, using natural remedies to take care of yourself and your family.

Frank:                           00:36                Hey everyone, Frank and Jackie Ritz. There was such an oil, healthcare radio and today we are going to talk about essential oils, safety, boring. You should probably tell everybody exactly how you feel. Sorry, I don't really like talking about this. That's, that's that internal monologue by the way that you're supposed to keep that,

Jackie:                          00:55                oh sorry.

Frank:                           00:56                But anyway, in really is critical that we make sure that we talk about essential oils safety. The reason why is because there are people who are pretty wild west out there and we've seen some pretty wild things that people are doing with essential oils and it kind of makes us cringe because essential oils absolutely have a place in health and wellness and they need to be utilized with prudent understanding. That way we can make sure that we are using them in the capacity in which they are designed. That way we can make sure that they're safe and effective. Before we start all of this, I want to make sure that what you started off with a disclaimer is that not all essential oils are the same. Make sure you do your research on the type of essential oils that you're considering to purchase because there are some that are chock full of a lot of different ingredients that you may not necessarily care for and those things may in fact harm you or caused problems. The other thing I don't want to make sure that I say is that just like the rest of the time that we're on our podcast, we're not here to diagnose or treat or prevent o...