Just For Fun

So I thought it would be fun to hear from you all this week. I want to know what you would like to read about, learn about and watch. I will ask you a series of questions below and you can just leave a comment with your answer.

1- What would you like to read on the blog?

2- What would you like to learn about in a Facebook class?

3- What would you like to see coming from the Vimeo channel?

4- Is anything in particular that you would like to see as a whole from the Thoughts From Oakdale sites?

5- Would you be interested in listening to a podcast from Thoughts From Oakdale?
 
I can't wait to hear from you all! Thanks for reading and watching Thoughts From Oakdale.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Product Review: Cowgirl Dirt Makeup

   Cowgirl Dirt makeup is a mineral makeup company that was started and is owned by Christians. I have known about them for about 2 years and it wasn't till about last month that I was able to try their products. My skin is fairly sensitive, so whenever I wear regular makeup my face gets rashes along my temples. I wanted to see how my skin would react to mineral makeup. After wearing Cowgirl Dirt's foundation and eye shadow for a whole day I hardly knew it was on and there was no rash! I highly recommend there products! They are a little expensive, but are totally worth every penny. 

Garlic

Garlic is an absolutely amazing herb! Not only it staple in good cooking, but it has some pretty great medicinal properties. I have used homemade garlic oil to help get rid of the hiccups and it worked really well. Garlic helps fight colds, earache, eye infections, clear acne, control asthma and much more. Just include garlic in your cooking or make your own garlic oil.

To make your own garlic oil: Finely chop 1 head of garlic, put the chopped garlic in a container that has a lid, cover garlic with olive oil, close lid to jar. Shake mixture 2x daily for 10 days. Then strain garlic chunks out of oil. It is now ready to use.

Hope you enjoy!

Soli Deo Gloria!

Almond Oil

       I  haven't had anyone ask me about almond oil yet, but I thought I better write a post about it. It's not an essential oil. It is included in some of the blends as a carrier oil, because of how abrasive some of the oils in that blend are. As some of you may remember Coconut Oil is another carrier oil. What you use carrier oils for is if an oil is to strong for your skin, simply add the same amount of drops of that EO to an equal part of the carrier oil. Almond oil does not have a very strong smell, so if you prefer something more mellow then Almond oil is for. Otherwise Coconut oil is better for you.
       Almond oil isn't bad for you, it just isn't as healthy as Coconut oil is. You can use Almond oil as a face moisturizer, you can cook with it, basically all the same things that you can do with Coconut oil you can do with Almond oil.

   So another almond product that I really like is Marzipan. It's so sweet though that a little will do for a very long time. Plus Marzipan is mentioned in one of my favorite Jane Austen Book/Movie. But that's not why I like it.

    Be sure to read my post about Coconut oil from a few months ago. I really enjoyed the  Essential Oils 101 Class yesterday! I really enjoyed the discussion that happened at the end. It was very awesome!

Soli Deo Gloria!