Essential Oils

Essential oils smell great, reduce stress, treat fungal infections, and help you sleep. They are concentrated extractions from plants. A process called distillation turns the “essence” of a plant into a liquefied form for many medicinal and recreational uses.

Essential oils can make a positive impact on your health and well-being as long as you use them in a safe way.

Sleep & Stress

It has been estimated that 43% of people who have stress and anxiety use some form of alternative therapy to help relieve their symptoms (Source).

Regarding aromatherapy, initial studies have been quite positive. Many have shown that the smell of some essential oils can work alongside traditional therapy to treat anxiety and stress (Source, Source, Source).

Headaches and migraines

In the ’90s, two small studies found that dabbing a peppermint oil and ethanol mixture on participants’ foreheads

Can also

• Boost mood.

• Improve job performance through reduced stress and increased attentiveness.

• Improve sleep.

• Kill bacteria, funguses and viruses.

• Reduce anxiety and pain.

• Reduce inflammation.

• Reduce nausea.

• Relieve headaches.

How to find quality essential oils

The most important thing to consider when shopping for essential oils is product quality. But figuring out which oils are the best is challenging, since there's no government agency in the U.S. that provides a grading system or certification for essential oils. A big problem? Many companies claim their essential oils are "therapeutic grade," but that's just a marketing term.

The Essential Oils we use are not tested on animals, pure, and tested for pesticides. We take pride in using the highest quality ingredients to help aid your relief.

Check out our products below with pure essential oils:

Mini Bath Bomb

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Roll On Bundle

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What exactly is a Salve?

Every day we get the same question. What is a salve?

The definition of a Salve is an ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection. Commonly salves are to heal wounds and used to soothe and heal skin conditions. Some salves are antimicrobial; others are for muscle ache, bruising, and blood flow. Salves are sold in wide-top jars, and are applied with the finger, massaging the product directly into affected tissue.

Salves are not formulated with water, which makes them more occlusive than creams and lotions. A salve is a thick ointment that stays on the top of the skin but also penetrates more deeply into the skin. They are great for very dry skin types or for treating specific patches of skin.

Before drug stores and modern medicine, there were herbal salves made by herbalists and botanists using beneficial roots, berries, leaves, bark, flowers, and seeds. Salves are great item to add to your medicine cabinet for natural relief.

On our journey to natural ingredients, salves were the first product we tried to make and instantly fell in love. We use all our salves daily.

Try them today:

CBD Salve Bundle

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Sun + Moon Salve Bundle

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4 Healthy Habits to Get Your Beauty Sleep

Sleep. Something we all need but rarely get. It is said that humans may spend about a third of their life sleeping, but day to day it can feel like we never have enough. Lack of sleep doesn’t just make you grouchy. Sleep is linked to heart health, the immune system, memory, and even weight management. If anything does the body good, it’s sleep.

The road to good sleep doesn’t start when your head hits the pillow. The sleep-wake cycle is one of the systems in your body that is a circadian rhythm. It is a 24-hour internal clock that takes cues from your daily routine and your environment. Everything you do from the oat milk latte you have in the morning to the doom scrolling you do at night are all signals your body watches out for so it knows it's time for bed. Here are 4 healthy habits to promote a good night’s sleep:

Start the day with CBD

I mean, coffee is great and all, but have you tried CBD in the morning? A breakfast fruit smoothie with a few drops of CBD tincture can help you start your day focused and energized. The more you get done at the beginning of your day, the more time you’ll have to get yourself prepared for rest at night. For parents in Orange County, CBD is essential for family fun days as we head into summer vacation.

Reduce TV and phone use

Easier said than done, but the days of falling asleep to episodes of Friends have to come to an end. When it’s time to sleep, the devices have to go off too. Watch that last episode, finish learning that TikTok dance, then put it away. Just because you’re falling asleep to Phoebe singing “smelly cat” doesn’t mean that you should keep it on for white noise to fall asleep. They have machines for that now that are much more pleasant and effective.

Take a calming bath

After a long day, it’s good to decompress. Having a relaxing nightly routine can really help rest both the body and mind. We’ll let you in on a little secret we have here in San Clemente for sleep and skin care—CBD. Draw a bath before bed with a CBD bath salt and follow it up with a CBD Sleep Balm. You can water two plants with one hose by adding CBD to your nightly ritual—great sleep and glowing skin.

Create your own sanctuary for rest

When people talk about the bedroom, let’s be honest, many of us don’t immediately think about sleep. But to get good sleep, you need to establish your room as a place of rest. Your bed shouldn’t be the place you review the events of the day or count your worries. Just because it’s a laptop doesn’t mean it has to be on your lap, and especially not in your bed. Create a space to make sleep come easy. Turn the lights down, close those curtains, keep that TV off (yes, we said it twice), reduce any noise, and focus on resting.

Beauty sleep is within your reach. The more sleep you get, the less stressed you’ll feel throughout the day. It only takes a few small improvements to see positive changes in your overall sleep. Building healthy habits goes a long way and getting the right tools, like CBD, can help maintain those habits. Stop by the Made from Dirt wellness store in San Clemente today to get the CBD sleep products you need to get your routine on track.