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I'm a Weight Watchers girl. I love the new program, the meetings, and the app!  The scan feature is so convenient! If you are a Young Living person you know their items don't have scan codes, and most are not in the app.  Here is a list of a few of the most used Young Living nutritional items with their Weight Watchers Smart Points (WWSP). Wolfberry Crisp Bar, Chocolate Coated - 4 WWSP per bar Slique  Bar - 7 WWSP per bar Slique Shake - 7 WWSP per packet Slique Shake made with almond milk - 8 WWSP  NingXia Juice - 1 WWSP per oz. (a packet has 2 oz- 2 WWSP) Pure Protein Complete, Chocolate - 4 WWSP per 2 scoops Pure Protein Complete, Vanilla - 4 WWSP per 2 scoops Balance Complete - 7 WWSP per 2 scoops Einkorn Rotini - 2 WWSP per 1/2 cup (uncooked) Einkorn Granola - 5 WWSP per 1/3 cup  Blue Agave - 1 WWSP per 1 tsp There are more items but I haven't found the nutritional information for them yet. I will post them when I find the information. 

This weekend a friend and I did a "make and take" class with a twist. While I helped with the projects, she did Itovi scans.  We had six ladies attend and it went smoothly with a few at each station and one being scanned.  Here are the creation stations: Purification room spray (in the kitchen) Thieves foaming hand soap Fruit and cheese trays, plus fruit infused water (it's still in the fridge) pitcher with fresh fruit and ice. I also get out my Ningxia bottle during the party and offer it to any who want to try. It is such an amazing juice that supports our whole system.  Peppermint sugar scrub in the dining room. Lavender bath salt in the dining room. I put a dish towel at each station because life is messy. I also set up a little demo of what to do with your empties, my foaming pods and a few products to try like the lavender lotion.  The top bags are the door prizes. A thieves cleaner (diluted in a spr

When I was a kid, my mom (or was it my big sis?) would take the bar soap ends and melt them into liquid soap or combine them to make a bigger bar.  I love the Young Living bar soap and got the great idea while in the shower to try turning it into a liquid soap for my foaming dispensers. Foaming soap dispensers use so little soap and are a great way to stretch your dollar and pricey castile soap.  I shaved off .5 oz off of my peppermint cedarwood bar soap. Yes, I weighed it. I chopped it into small pieces and put it in my pyrex 2 cup measure. Then I poured 3 oz. water over the soap and microwaved it. Please, not hate over the microwave. We still use ours, especially for things like this.  I did 30 seconds and stirred. It took many short re-heatings to get it all dissolved but it was soft and lovely and smelled amazing. Next time I think I will do the double boiler method because I can control the heat and not have to transfer it in and out over and over and over...

I always say how much I love a DIY! It's true!  Today I tested some recipes for foaming pods to use in the toilet and dishwasher.   (Scroll to the bottom for my cleaning results and cost breakdown if you want to know how well they worked before trying the recipe.) The first recipe is for the toilet pods.  Recipe:  1 cup baking soda 1/4 cup citric acid (I got mine at Amazon) 1 cap of Thieves Household Cleaner (THC) 1 tiny squirt of Thieves dish liquid Mix the baking soda and citric acid first.  Then very slowly add the Thieves cleaner. I mean slow! If you dump it in you will fizz up your mixture and it won't work. You may get a bit of fizz when drizzling but it will be minor. Once the cap is empty squirt a tiny amount of dish soap. This helps binds. It will look dry and crumbly but hold together when pressed. Then I pressed them into a silicone mold I have used for bath bombs. An ice tray would work, but the flexible molds are best bec