Welcome to class 5.
My name is Melissa Klehammer and we're making a cold and flu inhaler today.
So you need a few ingredients.
First,
You need your inhaler.
I've got a tea tree essential oil.
Lavender,
Or orange.
And frankincense.
Now,
I'm gonna talk about these a little bit before we actually make the inhaler.
So first,
When we.
.
.
Are sick or rather when we kind of start to feel the sickness come on.
Our immune system,
I don't want to say it overreacts,
But we have this big reaction of of swelling,
Of irritation,
And of pressure.
Among other things,
The tea tree oil helps to soothe that histamine response.
So that's a really great strong oil to have.
We have lavender.
Which is just a really.
Gentle soothing oil.
It helps to really release the airways and soothe the nerves.
And then I had mentioned frankincense.
Which is just a really nice heavy oil to create balance.
Now a couple of things and a couple of rules of thumb when we're creating a blend like this.
To kind of relieve congestion and and indications of getting sick.
So we want a strong oil to open and to clear.
I'm using tea tree today,
You could use eucalyptus.
You want a soft oil to calm and to soothe.
Lavender tends to be the top on that list.
Or you could use orange.
I'm going to use orange today.
Because we're inhaling this,
It's going up the nose.
It's a big hit to your system for quick breathing.
Fast relief.
I don't actually love lavender,
So I don't really want to sniff it.
I would rather smell orange,
And that's going to have a similar effect to calm and to soothe.
So you could use lavender or orange.
And then The last rule of thumb for a blend is to round it out with a heavy grounding oil.
Now,
You could use frankincense.
That was an optional oil a couple classes back for our bug spray.
You could use cedarwood,
Which you could have used for the bug spray,
Which we used for class one.
So depending on what you have available to you,
Make your choice.
A couple of things to have.
So I have a little bowl for my whip.
And I have tweezers.
So that I'm not touching it with my hands.
Even though it's clean,
I don't want the oil on my hands.
I want the oil in the inhaler.
Gather your supplies around you.
And we'll begin.
So it's gonna be,
You're not gonna be able to see what I'm doing,
But I'm gonna.
.
.
Drop the oils.
Fold this up.
I'm going to drop the oils.
Along the length of the wick.
Okay,
You could absolutely put your wick in your inhaler.
And then just drop your drops.
Either is fine,
Okay?
So I'm using tea tree,
You could certainly use eucalyptus,
But we're doing seven drops of the strong oil.
Maybe.
Okay,
And then for the soft oil and the heavier,
The grounding oil,
We're doing five each.
So I'm doing five of my orange.
You could certainly do five of your lavender.
And you know,
There's no.
.
.
Exact amount.
If you get a couple extra drops in there,
It's completely fine.
Okay,
And then do your five drops of your heavy oil.
All right,
So if you did this in the bowl,
I've got my tweezers.
I'm just gonna kind of move it around a little bit,
Make sure that any little drops that got in the bowl and not on the wick itself.
And then I'm.
.
.
Getting it in there.
Now,
There's a top or a cap.
That you've got to.
You know,
Kind of push that on a little bit.
And then the other.
Swivels.
And then you take a nice deep breath.
So you're not actually putting it up your nose.
It's just in the opening of the nostril.
Certainly not something you would want to share with someone,
So this one's yours.
Okay so I'm just going to write colds because again my circular labels are small.
If you have a bigger label,
Colds and flu,
Whatever you want to write.
Okay.
All right,
So I've got my cold inhaler.
Before I end this class.
Our next class is to make an allergy inhaler.
However,
This would work just great for allergies because it's going to have,
It's going to reduce the swelling,
The pressure.
It's going to calm.
It's going to ground.
It's going to do all the things for cold and flu.
As it would do for allergies.
However,
This specific allergy inhaler is for mucus.
I and my family,
We have a lot of phlegm and post nasal drip,
So that's why I'm doing a separate allergy inhaler.
So,
I hope you join me,
Even if it's just to watch,
But know that.
.
.
If you're someone who you don't have a lot of oils,
You don't have a lot of supplies,
You don't want to buy anything else.
What you just made will work.
For allergies as for the colds and the flu.
Okay,
So thank you for listening.
Thank you for blending with me.
And I hope to see you for either class six,
Our allergy inhaler,
Or for our last class.
Which is for an after sun spray,
Which doubles for scrape.
So thank you so much for being here.
