In the spirit of the do-it-yourself-er and as a salute to the ‘too-frugal-to-buy-it-already-made’, here is how I make my own version of Young Living’s Purification® blend. Their Purification® blend is very nice, but I believe I can achieve a finished product that is just as excellent and save money, too.
I call my version ‘Clean and Fresh’.
The diffuser in the picture above is the one we use. It is fantastic since you can set it for a specific run time or to a heavy, medium or light mist. It comes with 2 amber “quick change” atomizer bottles.
Purification® is simply a blend of essential oils that are known for their specific properties. Anyone willing to research and learn more can make an excellent alternative if you know the properties you desire and a general ratio for mixing. For this one, consider using from the disinfecting essential oils I’ve listed below.
The Properties:
Lemon‘s benefits – antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antirheumatic, anti-malarial, antiparasitic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, detoxifying, digestive, diuretic, laxative, calming, yet stimulating. Uses include: purifying properties in kitchen, bath, and sickroom when used in a diffuser
or in a disinfectant blend.
Rosemary‘s benefits – analgesic, anti-arthritic, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-parasitic, antiseptic, astringent, decongestant, digestive, diuretic, expectorant, fungicidal, restorative, stimulant, tonic. Uses include: calms stress, but stimulates the mind and reflexes, improves memory; fights headaches, migraines, mental fatigue; improves intestinal infections, eases colitis, gas, liver disorders and jaundice; relieves muscle and joint pain; reduces water retention during menstruation; easing congestion in asthma, bronchitis, sinus and whooping cough.
Lavender‘s benefits – analgesic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiseptic, antispasmodic, deodorant, diuretic, insecticide, sedative, stimulant. Uses include: calming; safe sleep aid; all manners of pain control; regenerates tissues; stops itching and reduces swelling of insect bites and bee stings; works wonders for minor and first degree burns and sunburn to heal fast; reduces scarring; stops bleeding, cleans wounds and kills bacteria in cuts; use topically on eczema and dermatitis; alleviates the symptoms of motion sickness; helps alleviate the symptoms many airborne allergies. Many more too numerous to mention here.
Tea Tree‘s benefits – analgesic, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiparasitic, antiseptic, antiviral, decongestant, deodorant, expectorant, fungicidal, immune stimulant, insecticide. Uses include: a wonderful toothpaste and mouthwash ingredient; heals cold sores/herpes; freshens laundry; treats ringworm; a topical pain reliever; effective on lice; eliminates your dog’s fleas; an effective whole room airborne disinfectant if used in a diffuser or homemade household cleaner; rids of fungus and fungal infections if persistent; soothes cuts, wounds, and minor burns.
Purification® Essential Oil Ingredients:
25 drops lemon essential oil
20 drops rosemary essential oil
20 drops tea tree (aka melaleuca) essential oil
15 drops lavender essential oil
Mix all essential oils together in a dark glass bottle for use in many applications.
The above recipe makes a lovely blend and does not need to be exact; this is just what I do and I like these proportions. Other essential oils that are disinfectant and anti-insect in nature are cloves, lemongrass, citronella and elemi (‘poor man’s frankincense’) among others.
How to use this Purification® Blend:
Diffuse the blend into a sickroom for 15 to 30 minutes every 3 to 4 hours
Add 3-5 drops to your laundry wash cycle – non-staining
Add 2-3 drops of the blend into nebulizer or a pan of simmering water on the stove to neutralize smell of pets, stale smoke and kitchen smells
Add 10-15 drops to 32 oz of water and apply in a spray application to disinfect and cleanse surfaces and freshen face and neck on a hot day or sheets
Mix 3-5 drops in a 1/2 tsp. carrier oil and apply to skin or bandaid
Put on cotton balls in air vents for purifying total room air and repelling insects at home or at work
Caution: NOT to be taken by mouth as tea tree is not for internal use. Keep all essential oils out of reach of children.
The Cost:
Remember, there are 300 drops in 1/2 oz. You can make a lot of batches with this small stash:
1/2 oz. lemon ess. oil is $5.50 (using Plant Therapy prices)
1/2 oz. rosemary ess. oil is $5.25
1/2 oz. lavender is $10.25
1/2 oz. tea tree is $5.75
Purchased from Young Living, the customer price for one bottle (1/2 oz.) of Purification® is $24.67.
Total for 4 essential (1/2 oz.) Plant Therapy oils to make many bottles of my version = $26.75. That is $2.00 more for 4 times more volume of oils. Also, the oils individually have many other valuable uses besides antimicrobial disinfection in a prepper’s medicine chest.
Update: the bottle sizes have changed slightly to 1/3 oz. (from 1/2 oz.) and the prices for both YL and Plant Therapy have gone up since I wrote this, but the savings are still in line.
Do the math!
I have used essential oils for years and am familiar with many of the companies out there; I am not one to just buy exclusively from one essential oil company and have grown to trust Plant Therapy, Aura Cacia, NOW Foods, DoTerra and Young Living essential oils. I just don’t want to pay higher prices than necessary. I also want effective medicine, so my go-to lately has been Plant Therapy.
Since I’m always interested in being prepared for any difficult eventuality, I was happy to learn that essential oils keep for many years when tightly sealed and stored in an amber or cobalt glass bottle in a cool, dark place.
Right now, we are using my favorite diffuser to help mitigate the last traces of mold with my own ‘Robber’ blend, based on YL’s Thieves®. We had to cut out damp, molding drywall in our bedroom after a leak from a shower in an adjoining room. Icky job!!
It can help with mold, but I don’t think it kills mold as some say.
Safety of many EOs:
Many essential oils are tremendously antibacterial, anti-infectious, and antiseptic, yet completely harmless to healthy tissue. In fact, in most cases, they are highly beneficial to healthy tissue – a rare combination. Also, bacterial cannot outsmart essential oils and develop resistance.
“Essential oils are especially valuable as antiseptics because their aggression toward microbial germs is matched by their total harmlessness toward tissue.” ~Jean Valnet, M.D., French surgeon who employed therapeutic essential oils in battlefield situations during WWII.
Jill @ Jills Home Remedies
Thanks for sharing your recipe! I would really like to put my own blends together also and save lots of money. This is on my mental to-do list! 🙂
Christy C
Another gold mine post! I really need to get on board with the essential oils. Thank you for sharing! It is wonderful to receive information from someone you can trust!
Hugs for a beautiful day and Lord’s day tomorrow!!!!
Linda S
Thank you for this recipe! I have been using YL’s purification oil and have been very pleased. Recently I told my husband that I’d like to mix my own to use as a cleaner and air purifier. And mix a batch of thieves/robber before the winter season of colds and sickness sets in. I appreciate the thoroughness of your research and all the tips you share with us!
Jacqueline
Thank you, Linda, and I enjoy teaching it so much, too. Maybe a few people will forego the flu shots and make this instead 🙂 Blessings to you and your loved ones!
Elizabeth Carey
Wonderful information! Thank you for taking the time to research and share with us. I am currently using Purification from YL, but’s a small bottle and won’t last long while diffusing. The only item I need to get is Rosemary and it looks like I’m set!
Also, a friend (iamthatlady.com) recently shared a post about adding one drop of Frankincense, Thieves, Peppermint and Lemon to your favorite cup of tea as a cough or sore throat remediation. It worked wonders! I haven’t had a cold for a year and a half, but last night I started feeling poorly. I made the tea, added the drops and just bringing up to my nose helped clear my sinuses. I got up in the middle of the night and simply added the oils to some hot water because I didn’t want to wait for the tea. Again, it really helped and today I feel like I’m already on the mend! Hope this is helpful too… Blessings!
Jacqueline
That IS helpful! I will do that as I also love Frankincense and it’s properties. I purchased a small amount of elemi *poor man’s frankincense* and use it regularly. Thanks for sharing that, Elizabeth! Praying all’s well there in the Carey household!
Cheyanna Rose
Love this. I can’t wait to try it. We use lots of EO’s here. We use it to diffuse, in soaps and cleaners, etc.
Jacqueline
I hope you can do it, and you may have some of the oils already on hand. It has saved us from lots of sickness. Sending love to you and your household! 🙂
Toni
Yay for do-it-yourself-ers! Smartest folks around, I say. 😉
Love the purification blend. I sure need to get one mixed up. We’re just recovering from an early cold season bout with that sneaky germ. I always use de-germing wipes on shopping carts, but it got to me anyway. Thank you for sharing your recipe!
Have a wonderful week!
Jacqueline
You are welcome, Toni! I hope you bounce back quickly and don’t get a cold again this winter! Have fun sewing on your beautiful old Singer!
Thanks!
JES
Hi Jacqueline! 🙂 Thank you for taking the time to link with us this week! Your posts are always a blessing! I am excited to make this blend as I have all the ingredients! I do buy the pre-packed “thieves” which you shared in your link but will also try your recipe to save some $… I noticed the doTERRA version we have uses orange essential oil instead of lemon like your recipe so that is always an alternative if you run out of one or the other. Essential oils have been such a help to us! If you only knew our last household health drama (wound)… All I can say is with much prayer and drops of Frankincense essential oil, God healed… Sending a big hug your way!
Jacqueline
JES,
Aren’t EOs awesome? But not moreso than the good Lord and Creator of them 🙂 I shudder to think of all the nasty wounds that the Lord has healed for us…I can about imagine knowing we both are on a farm! I am thankful it is healed now through God’s extravagant goodness and the knowledge He gave you! Glad you will be making ‘Clean and Pure’ 😉
Love,
Jacqueline
Tauna
Great recipe! We use a different brand of essential oils but can easily replicate this with what we have on hand. Thanks!
Jacqueline
You are welcome, Tauna! It gives me a lot of peace of mind.
Blessings!
Tanya
Congratulations on being featured on Wake-Up Wednesday.
Check it out here- http://tanyaanurag.blogspot.com/2014/10/before-we-party-wuw-linky-party.html
Jacqueline
Thank you, Tanya!! I appreciate it 🙂
Melissa Willis
Thanks for the recipes!!!!! I’m just learning how to use essential oils. I was introduced this past fall to them by my sister in law. They can be expensive! So I’m trying to find the most efficient and effective way to help my family get through this winter flu and congestion going round. Thanks once again. GOD BLESS! 🙂
Jacqueline
You are very welcome, Melissa. They have helped us a bunch; we alternate Thieves and Purification in the diffuser.
Stay well and God bless you all!
Holly S
Thank you for this recipe! I have been thinking about getting a bottle of Purification oil, but have so far balked at the price; I am new to essential oils and have a lot to learn, and I am definitely not comfortable with trying to come up with my own blends. But I am definitely going to try making up some of this!
Jacqueline
Holly,
Thanks for stopping by! It is a solid recipe, and we use it A LOT! It will help bring down the spread of germs in a family if used regularly in bathroom and kitchen. Blessings!
Katie
I love this blend! I can’t wait to try and make it myself! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Cheryl ann
Thank you so much for sharing these recipes! I have made this recipe before and hubby loves it!!!! We can’t survive without it.
Jacqueline
Yay! I’m so glad you are enjoying it so much, Cheryl Ann 🙂 Thanks for sharing your story with us here. You know you can play around with what you add to some degree, too.
God’s blessings to you all!
Lori Pouncey
you are absolutely a life saver,I have been looking for simple, easy, and low ingredients recipe for a “knock off” version of Purification because I just can not afford to pay Young living’s prices on my single mom budget! Plus, it is a lot more fun to make it yourself anyway! I am so glad I found your site, many great wonderful reads and I am just getting started, Thank you 🙂
Patricia
Thanks for this! I stumbled upon a blog discussing how to make homemade body wipes and it called for a few drops of purification essential oil, which we don’t have here. Now I know how to make my own, thanks to your post. 🙂
Jacqueline
Yes, Patricia, it is what I use in my homemade wipes! I also add a drop or 2 of Thieves and a very small amount of (hot) coconut oil when making them. I wish I had the recipe in my head… 🙂 Have fun!
Glenda B.
First let me say thank you for sharing your recipe for the purification blend. I have been wanting this one for awhile now but I refuse to be sucked into the extremely high prices YL charges. I do have a question though. I have dogs & cats. The research I have done on what oils can’t be used on or around them says that Tea Tree Oil is very toxic to both of them. My question is, what other essential oil can I use that is the same or similar to Tea Tree Oil? What other essential oil or oils can I use to replace tea tree oil? Again thank you for sharing a great recipe. God bless.
Jacqueline
Glenda, that is a good question since you have pets. I normally would think lavender, but since it is already in the blend, I would look to eucalyptus, clove or cinnamon. All three are in the Thieves blend and are great antimicrobials in their own right. I hope that helps! 😀
Alvino Cooper
Thank you so much for answering the call and writing your blog! I have been using your blend for the past two years, and as an installer for the world’s largest telecommunications company I find myself in some very viral environments on a regular basis. I have yet to become sick since using the blend! I am sharing it with my church home group also. A great big thanks to you coming from Georgia!
Jacqueline
That makes my day, Alvino!!!! Glad to be of service 🙂