Emotions and Drainage Pathways – Vibrant Blue Oils

• Physical tension: muscle tension or tightness, aches, or pain
• Fatigue: Feeling tired, sluggish, low energy, or fatigue without a clear cause
• Chronic stress or anxiety: Feeling anxious or stressed without an apparent reason or cause
• Difficulty concentrating: Struggling to focus, memory issues, or feeling spaced out and distracted
• Restlessness and Agitation: Feeling jumpy, restless, fidgety
• Sleep Issues: Sleeping too much or too little, including insomnia or sleep deprivation
• Dulled Senses: Feeling detached or disconnected from your life, thoughts, and feelings, or others
• Lethargy or low motivation: feeling of heaviness or tiredness

Emotional Symptoms:

• Anxiety or Overwhelm: Feeling overwhelmed by having to make decisions. Everything seems heavier, harder, or more intense
• Depression: Sadness, loneliness or apathy, tearing up or crying easily
• Unexplained mood swings: Fluctuations in mood without clear triggers, like feeling very sad or irritable for no reason
• Overreacting or reacting disproportionately: Irritability, overreacting in anger, or intense emotional responses to minor events
• Seeking constant distractions or perpetual busyness: Engaging in excessive work, continuous motion, achievement, multitasking, or frenzied action, hobbies, or other activities to avoid feeling
• Emotional numbing: Feeling emotionally detached or disconnected from your feelings, including interest in things you used to enjoy
• Perpetual pursuit of self-improvement: Achievement fueled by the angst of feeling not good enough
• Difficulty accepting compliments: You may struggle to receive praise, celebrate your achievements, or downplay compliments, feeling unworthy of recognition
• Trouble asking for what you need: Suppressing personal needs or struggling to ask for what you need because you feel that you don’t matter, and your needs don’t matter. You may not prioritize your desires, so you struggle to identify and assert what you want or need, and as a result, you may not accept help
• Poor Boundaries: You may have difficulty respecting your space, time, or energy, or want to withdraw from loved ones

Essential Oils for Drainage Pathways

Essential oils help keep plants healthy by facilitating the movement of vital fluids and energy within them. They transport water from the roots to the leaves and perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy, flush toxins like viruses and heavy metals, and prevent stagnation.

They perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy and prevent stagnation. For example, essential oils help open drainage pathways, such as those in the lymphatic and circulatory systems, to improve the flow of energy and toxins through the blood, into the detoxification organs, and then out of the body. Similarly, if your liver becomes stagnant, from physical toxins, stress, or anxiety, it impedes detoxification. Essential oils are a powerful tool to help shift stagnation and improve the flow of energy and toxins through the liver and gallbladder.

Essential oils can also resonate with the frequency of healthy organ tissue and send safety signals to the body, heart, and brain, allowing you to gently release and transmute trapped emotions that may be contributing to physical congestion and stagnation. Essential oils can help shift your body into alignment, allowing toxins to flow out of your body rather than backing up in your bloodstream. More specifically, topically applying essential oils to specific points on the skin can activate energy flow directly and quickly, stimulating the liver and gallbladder to help toxins flow out of the body instead of back into the bloodstream.

Many essential oils have been found to have anesthetic properties, which helps explain their value in supporting drainage pathways. (Study) Science magazine reported that certain types of anesthetics, or substances that reduce sensitivity to pain, dramatically increase the space between cells, allowing fluid to flow more easily and helping wash the brain. Studies have verified the sedative and anesthetic properties of essential oils like clove, eucalyptus, lavender, fennel, black pepper, and peppermint. (Study) For example, the administration of clove oil, which is high in the constituent eugenol, dramatically decreased the time required for the induction of anesthesia. Similarly, both fenchone, a constituent of fennel essential oil, and linalool, a naturally occurring constituent in lavender oil, have acute local analgesic effects.

Essential Oils to Support Emotional Drainage Pathways

Your Drainage pathways refer to your body’s pathways of elimination, or the pathways that the body uses to move fluids around and out of the body. It’s the pathway by which metabolic waste, toxins, and pathogens flow out of your body.

To leave your body, waste, toxins, and pathogens flow from the cell to the fascia, to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood, processed through the liver, then eliminated via the gall bladder, carrying them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with your bowel movements.

In addition to physical toxins, suppressed or repressed emotions can congest the tissues of the drainage pathways, impeding your ability to release physical, mental, and emotional debris. The following essential oils may help support the emotional and energetic factors that can support healthy drainage pathways.

Essential oils can be powerful tools to help you work through your emotions and release repressed grief, sadness, fear, anger, and shame. Your sense of smell links directly to the emotional control center of your brain, known as the amygdala, where emotions and emotional memories are stored.

Your sense of smell is the only one of your five senses that is directly linked to this unconscious area of your brain, known as your limbic lobe, making the sense of smell and the tool of essential oils the most direct path to healing emotions like blame, shame, and guilt.

Essential oils inhaled through the nasal passages enable immediate access to the regions of the brain that house these intense emotions, allowing you to integrate and release them. The word “emotion” can translate as “energy-in-motion.” Emotion is the experience of energy moving through your body. This emotional energy operates at a higher speed than thought, and essential oils can help us clear the energetic residue of blame, so it doesn’t remain in our thought patterns and negatively impact our energy field or health.

It’s fascinating to realize that our emotions are not just abstract feelings, but they also produce physical energy. When you release these emotions, you may experience physical detoxification symptoms, such as nausea, fatigue, flu-like symptoms, headaches, joint and muscle pain, as well as emotional symptoms, including sadness or anger.

By learning to process and release these emotional toxins as part of the detoxification process, you can ensure the smooth progress of your physical detox.

Drainage Funnel

The drainage funnel in your body refers to the order in which the body moves fluids to remove toxins. Cellular waste products flow into organs and tissues, then into the lymphatic system, and subsequently into the liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts, before being ultimately expelled from the body through the colon.

To leave the body, toxins or pathogens flow from the cell to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood. They are then processed through the liver and eliminated via the gallbladder, which carries them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with the bowel movements. Any congestion or stagnation in these drainage pathways can compromise your ability to detoxify, which is where essential oils for drainage pathways—often working from the bottom up—can be beneficial.

Fascia Release™ to help release toxins from the cells

At the very top of the drainage funnel are cells that release toxins into the extracellular matrix, also known as the fascia. Fascia is the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body, including every cell and tissue.

When we hold onto past hurts, grievances, or negative experiences, it often manifests in the body as a block of tension in the fascia, especially in the back and neck. This contributes to constriction and stagnation in the fascia, which may impede the cells’ ability to release toxins and cellular waste products, including pollutants, heavy metals, mold, and glyphosate. Toxins that linger in your cells may contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction and fatigue, draining energy that may impact your ability to detoxify.

Essential oils are a powerful tool to help “unwind” your fascia, allowing your mind and body to move out of a “frozen” or traumatized state. This gentle release of restrictions enables your body to function without needing to protect itself. Essential oils can help emotionally signal your body that you’re “safe” and physically remove restrictions, rehydrate the fascia, restore elasticity, and widen the space between the fibers to improve circulation and help blood and oxygen flow smoothly around the body again.

Fascia Release™ also helps support the fluid dynamics of the fascial system, releasing adhesions and fascial restrictions, increasing circulation, reducing tissue swelling, and expanding the space around your physical body. Releasing fascial constriction in the back of the body, specifically between the shoulder blades at the back of the heart, helps physically release fascial constrictions and adhesions around the heart, which may facilitate the healthy flow of emotional energy. As you know, fascia lies just below the skin, so topically applying essential oils onto the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia. The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances, such as essential oils, which easily penetrate the layers of restricted fascia. This creates warmth to break up congestion, increases circulation, lymphatic drainage, and mobilizes adhered tissue, allowing cells to release toxins more easily.

The essential oils in Fascia Release™ are uniquely formulated to simultaneously work on physical and psychological levels, working quickly to break down inflamed, fibrous tissue, removing toxins while unraveling deeply held tensions, constrictions and energetic blockages in your tissues to reduce pain, improve blood and lymphatic circulation and release fear, repressed emotions, and tension held in the body (organs, muscles, tendons, bones and joints) or the mind. To release fascia and support healthy drainage, liberally apply Fascia Release™ around the jaw/neck/face, back of heart, hips, and any areas of constriction.

Lymph™ for the Lymphatic System

The next step in the drainage funnel is the lymphatic system, a network of vessels, glands, and nodes that works in conjunction with your circulatory system to fight infection and drain fluids from body tissues into the bloodstream, where the liver purifies them. Before returning fluid to the blood, lymph nodes filter out bacteria, toxins, and viruses, allowing immune cells to deal with them.

The primary role of the lymphatic system is to cleanse the body of external toxins and internal cellular waste, as well as damaged proteins. If the lymph becomes congested or stagnant, tissues may swell, resulting in fluid build-up and retention, which significantly compromises your ability to drain and eliminate toxins.

Emotions like fear and sadness may contribute to a sluggish, congested, and stagnant lymphatic system. Emotions are thought to reside in the fluid of your tissues, and your lymphatic system helps support the healthy flow of this fluid throughout your body. Stress, anxiety, old traumas, and unresolved feelings linger in your tissues, energetically impacting the flow of your lymph fluid. Stress, for example, triggers the release of cortisol, which can inhibit lymphatic flow and impair immune function. 

To this end, lymphatic drainage may prompt emotional releases as the process of clearing out physical congestion also helps to process and release emotional blockages. Lymph can help release emotional tension by stimulating the lymphatic system and breaking down blockages that prevent emotions from flowing freely.

To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, apply Lymph™ generously around the sides of the neck, under the armpits, and along the bikini line. Lymph flows more heavily down the left side of the body and can get congested around the left clavicle, so it is good to apply the Lymph™ blend right on the left clavicle bone. If you think about what oils do in plants, they help to move fluid through the plant so that the water gets from the roots up to the leaves, which can be hundreds of feet in the air. That’s what the Lymph™ oil is helping you do. It’s helping you move things.

It can be especially important to apply Lymph™ oil to the clavicles and the sides of the neck, as your neck is the critical intersection where your brain connects with your body. Oxygen, nutrients, and stimuli are carried between the brain and the body through nerves, blood vessels, veins, and the spinal cord, which travel through the spinal canal.

The lack of proper drainage in the neck is often correlated with many adverse detoxification reactions, like headaches, fatigue, brain fog, depression, anxiety, and pain. If toxins are mobilized and don’t leave the body, you will feel worse. Especially if you mobilize toxins in the brain, they can recirculate and potentially relocate to a position where they cause more inflammation and damage.

You can read more about lymph flow and moving lymph with essential oils HERE and HERE. The lymphatic system is an interconnected network of organs and tissues that help to rid the body of waste and toxins.

Circulation™ to Improve Blood Flow

While not a primary detox organ, a healthy circulatory system supports overall detoxification. In addition to your lymphatic system, your circulatory system acts as a drainage pathway, which means improving your circulation helps improve drainage through your bloodstream.

Emotions and circulation are closely linked, with negative emotions such as anger and stress negatively impacting blood vessel function, which can potentially restrict blood flow. When under stress, the body releases hormones that can cause blood vessels to constrict, thereby impeding blood flow and drainage. Natural compounds, such as essential oils, have been shown to enhance circulation and blood flow. For example, essential oils can help relax and improve the health of your blood vessels. This allows more blood to circulate through them, improving your circulation and increasing brain oxygen levels in the process.

Circulation™ blend, in particular, is formulated to support healthy circulation, delivering oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and brain, while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste to the kidneys and liver for elimination. Circulation™ blend contains Black Pepper essential oil, which has been found to enhance circulation by increasing blood flow to the digestive system, thereby helping to boost nutrient absorption. This effect is so pronounced that it is often added to supplement formulations to enhance the supplement’s effectiveness. Apply 2-3 drops to the sides or back of the neck, over the left clavicle, or to the wrists or ankles to promote circulation and significantly accelerate the healing process.

Liver™ and Liver Support™ to Improve Liver Vitality

Next in the drainage funnel are the liver and gallbladder. Your Liver is the most critical drainage area of the body. It filters blood and removes toxins, converting harmful substances into water-soluble compounds that can be excreted through urine or bile. On an emotional level, the liver is connected to anger. Anger that you don’t process and release can get stored in your liver, according to Chinese medicine.

Energetically, your liver is responsible for maintaining harmony and the smooth movement of energy (known as chi) throughout the body, including the smooth transition between feelings and emotions as situations change around us. This liver energy supports your drive, planning, endurance, perseverance, quick, clear intellect, ambition, patience, and organizational abilities.

When your liver energy is balanced, you probably feel kind, benevolent, compassionate, and generous. When your liver is physically or energetically congested or stagnant, you might experience intense feelings of angry outbursts, irritability, resentment, frustration, rage, impatience, jealousy, or even depression.

Anger has a significant impact on liver health. It is seen as a heat-emitting emotion, which can ‘overheat’ the liver and disrupt liver functions, contributing to liver stagnation and decreased efficiency in processing and eliminating toxins.

If the liver is emotionally congested, physical toxins can build up and impede drainage. Your drainage pathways function like a hydraulic system, which means that your liver’s bile duct drainage system needs to flow freely for upstream lymphatic drainage to occur.

Liver Support helps support the release of anger, including frequent irritation, impatience, resentment, or frustration, as well as being critical of yourself or others, control issues, an inability to express your feelings, feelings of not being heard, not feeling loved, or not being recognized or appreciated.

Formulated to help move through and release anger and negative emotions attached to traumatic experiences from the cells of the liver to promote optimal healing. The oils in this blend help the body recognize, work through, and release anger, fear, or frustration caused by traumatic experiences, so they don’t overwhelm you. It allows you to gently release negative emotions, including repressed anger, which can create stagnant energy and impede an organ’s ability to heal. Place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3–7 breaths. It helps you breathe into and work through the emotion. You can also apply it around the ankles, as this is often an area where we hold resistance to moving forward in life and block the ability to receive joy and pleasure. Start at the back of the ankle and apply pressure under the ankle bone, moving around to the front and back under the other ankle bone, all while allowing yourself to release challenging emotions. For more tips on detoxifying emotions, read this article.

Similarly, Body Balance Liver™ helps support optimal health and vitality of the liver. Apply Liver™ directly over the liver (right side beneath the breast) 2-3 times daily. You can also combine Liver™ blend with castor oil—add three drops of Liver™ blend to 1 teaspoon of castor oil and rub it over the liver before bed. Castor oil is notoriously messy, so you can either: (1) cover it with a piece of flannel and plastic wrap and apply heat from a hot water bottle (avoid the electricity of heating pads) for 20-30 minutes, (2) wear a ratty t-shirt and let your body eat work its magic (3) climb into an Epsom salt bath with the castor oil and Liver™ oil and benefit from layering three healing strategies at the same time.

Gall Bladder™ to Improve Bile Flow

Your liver energy works in conjunction with your gallbladder energy. The liver filters toxins from the blood and processes them for elimination by depositing them into bile.

Your gallbladder is responsible for storing, releasing, and concentrating bile, a fluid produced in the liver that carries waste products out of the body. Your liver manufactures bile, and about 80% of the toxins are eliminated into the bile after the liver processes them.

Bile is stored in the gallbladder and released through bile ducts into the small intestine during digestion, where some of it is eliminated through stool, thereby lowering the level of toxins in the body. When our bile becomes too viscous, it doesn’t flow as well, and toxins (especially estrogen) don’t move out of the system and often get reabsorbed.

If gallbladder energy becomes stuck, it can back up into the liver, causing energetic congestion that can block the bile ducts and disrupt the flow of bile energy. When bile ducts get blocked, inflamed, damaged, or narrowed, toxins become stagnant and accumulate in the liver or block upstream drainage pathways. Stagnancy of bile is one of the major contributors to chronic illness and is caused most often by bacteria, viruses, medications, excess estrogen, parasites, and chemical toxins. If bile isn’t flowing, toxic bile acids are released into other organs like the kidneys, lungs, and skin.

Some indicators that the Gall Bladder™ blend might be helpful for you include motion sickness, floating stools, avoiding fatty foods like meat, or if you do eat fatty foods, needing to use the restroom shortly after. Other symptoms may include pain between the shoulder blades and a subtle headache above the eyes. For more information on supporting the gallbladder, read this article.

To support the optimal flow of bile and allow toxins to flow out of the body, apply 2-3 drops of Gall Bladder™ underneath the ribs at the gall bladder (right side, underneath the ribs. If you lean forward, it is easier to apply under the ribs.

Parasympathetic® for the Colon

Your colon is the primary drainage pathway, located at the bottom of the digestive tract. If you are constipated and not eliminating waste through regular bowel movements, you will be unable to remove wastes and toxins efficiently. As a result, the rest of the funnel upstream will become backed up and stagnant, requiring the other pathways to compensate. What’s more, anything the body is trying to excrete via the colon is going to sit there longer.

Constipation can be caused by the slowed or delayed transit time of waste matter through the colon, also known as peristalsis. The parasympathetic state of the nervous system activates the “housekeeping wave,” which moves food waste (stool) through the digestive tract. The sympathetic “fight or flight” state routes blood to the external muscles, allowing you to flee an emergency, which decreases motility and constricts sphincters. Conversely, the parasympathetic state of the nervous system activates the “housekeeping wave,” which moves food waste (stool) through the digestive tract.

Extensive research on the health-promoting and health-damaging effects of emotions has found that unprocessed negative emotions are strongly linked to disease and ill health. “The health-deleterious impact of negative emotions” like anger, fear, sadness, grief, anxiety, and depression is implicated in a wide range of diseases, from heart disease and cancer to arthritis and diabetes, and even the common cold. This likely has to do with the fact that emotions activate your “fight or flight” stress response, and unprocessed emotions are always running in the background, keeping your sympathetic nervous system on high alert even when no physical danger is present.

The key to mobilizing and releasing emotional toxins is signaling safety to the body. Your body’s fight-or-flight response can divert energy away from the gut, shutting down your ability to properly digest food and detoxify waste, as your body prioritizes safety in a state of stress. Parasympathetic® calms the nervous system, enabling you to be present in the moment and feel safe enough to release trapped emotions. This sense of embodiment and safety can support emotional detoxification. Clove oil, contained in Parasympathetic®, possesses anti-inflammatory properties that may help rebalance gastrointestinal bacteria and optimize digestion, as well as improve nutrient absorption. Parasympathetic® oil, applied on the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone), can help you drop into the parasympathetic state and improve motility.

Apply the Parasympathetic blend right behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone to help shift your body into a rest and digest state, where it digests, absorbs, and assimilates food, as well as eliminates toxins and waste. Parasympathetic® blend also helps you support your liver’s ability to transform toxic molecules into less toxic ones and help your body eliminate them. Research shows that the limonene found in citrus essential oils, such as Lime in the Parasympathetic® blend, can stimulate the production of glutathione, a key component of healthy drainage and detoxification.

Similarly, the inability to emotionally ‘let go’ can affect your ability to detoxify, as this emotional state is closely linked to your ability to process and eliminate both emotional and physical waste. Learning to release these emotional energies from the body with essential oil blends like Small Intestine™ and Large Intestine™ can be transformative, not just emotionally, but also physically, aiding in the support of healthy drainage pathways.

As you may know, the small intestine plays a critical role in the digestion process, absorbing and assimilating key nutrients while preventing harmful pathogens and toxins from entering the body. On an emotional level, the small intestine plays a similarly discerning role with emotions, helping to understand experiences and determine healthy and appropriate relationships and boundaries. It is also an area where we can hold deep childhood scars of rejection, abandonment, or abuse; negative thoughts fueled by feelings of lack of self-worth, low self‐esteem, loneliness, neglect, and anxieties about survival and success.

Small Intestine™ blend supports the healthy functioning of the small intestine as it sorts and transforms food, feelings, and ideas into useful ingredients for the body and mind. It also helps correct imbalances where you are overly attuned to others’ feelings at the expense of your own. Apply 2-3 drops of Small Intestine™ blend around the belly button in a clockwise direction.

Similarly, your large intestine lets go of those things that don’t serve us. Physically, it eliminates waste after your upper digestive system has extracted all the necessary nutrients from the food you eat. Emotionally, it enables us to release patterns of negative thinking, destructive emotions, and spiritual blockages that hinder us from being our best. Compromised large intestine energy presents as difficulty moving on from difficult situations or holding onto emotions that harm or fail to serve us. This holding on can manifest as an unwillingness to share emotions or be open with others—the phenomenon of “bottling up” emotions for years very often leads to chronic constipation.

The Large Intestine blend eases feelings of loss, heals emotional wounds, fosters a sense of security, and provides a sense of grounding. It motivates us to move forward, assists with transitions or changing course in life, eases feelings of loss, heals emotional wounds, creates a sense of security, and provides a sense of grounding. To help when emotionally stuck, apply 2-3 drops of Large Intestine™ blend over the large intestine, around the ears, or on the bottom of the feet.

Kidney Support™ for Fear

Your kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and removing water-soluble waste products. The kidneys also regulate the balance of fluids in the body, blood pressure (by maintaining a balance of salt and water), and the body’s acid-alkaline balance (pH) by selectively filtering out or retaining various minerals and electrolytes.

Your kidneys are sensitive to emotional upheavals, holding onto feelings of fear and paranoia, which can disrupt their natural filtering and balancing functions. In Chinese medicine, the kidneys are considered the seat of courage and willpower. They control the volume, composition, and pressure of fluids in all the cells. Blood flows through the kidneys at its highest pressure, filtering out toxins and directing nourishing materials to where they are needed. Water is symbolic of the unconscious, our emotions, and of that which we do not understand and that which we fear.

To help dispel fear, assist in feeling safe, and support the kidneys for optimal function, apply 2-3 drops of Kidney Support™ over the kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), the back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes.

Lung Support™ for Grief and the Respiratory System

Your lungs are sponge-like organs located near the backbone on either side of the heart. They function as a fundamental source of life energy, transporting oxygen from the atmosphere into the capillaries so that blood can be oxygenated, as well as an essential channel of elimination, expelling waste gases like carbon dioxide from the body during exhalation.

Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, and remorse can obstruct the ability of the lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic, creating disharmony in the lungs and weakening the lungs’ ability to circulate oxygen throughout the body. When lung function is impaired, it leads to shortness of breath, fatigue, and feelings of melancholy. Sadly, many chronic respiratory diseases and conditions develop after a significant loss or bereavement.

Lung Support™ helps overcome grief and release negative experiences. Apply 2-3 drops over the lungs. A regular and healthy expression of grief can be expressed as sobbing that originates in the depths of the lungs, marked by deep breaths and the expulsion of air with each sob. Allow yourself to exhale any grief as you apply the blend deeply. 

Spleen Support™ for Worry

Your spleen, located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, plays a role in detoxification by filtering the blood and removing harmful substances. It’s part of the lymphatic system, which is responsible for filtering toxins, bacteria, and viruses out of the body. As part of the lymphatic system, the spleen functions as a filter for blood, playing a crucial role in the immune system.

According to Chinese medicine, the Spleen is responsible for housing the body’s thoughts and intentions, as well as for analytical thinking, memory, cognition, intelligence, and ideas. These emotions in their extreme states—such as overthinking, worry, excessive mental and intellectual stimulation, or any activity that requires a lot of mental effort—can create disharmony in the spleen. If you “ruminate” and obsess constantly about life experiences, you are not “transforming” them into positive fuel to motivate taking action and moving forward in life.

Apply 2-3 drops of Spleen Support™ over the spleen (located on the left side of the body, under the breast) or around the earlobes for emotional support.

Skin

Your skin is our largest organ and a major elimination pathway. Sweating is a crucial drainage pathway for certain toxins and metabolic byproducts.

Your sweat glands act as a key channel, helping to support the removal of any toxic overflow from the liver or kidneys. For example, skin reactions like acne, rosacea, psoriasis, or rashes are often an indication that the liver and kidneys are processing more toxins than the body can handle, so your pores will start to sweat out these toxins.

Sweat therapy can be traced back to Native American sweat lodges, Roman baths, Scandinavian saunas, and Turkish baths. Recent research corroborates the benefits, finding toxins like heavy metals in sweat after exercise. Fat-soluble toxins, such as endocrine disruptors like BPA, can also be excreted through the skin via sweat. Supporting the detoxification pathway via the skin can lessen the burden on other detox organs like the liver and the kidneys (which is especially helpful for the kidneys, as they are delicate organs and can be easily damaged by overuse).

My favorite tool for eliminating toxins via sweat therapy is a detox bath with 2 cups of Epsom salt, 1 cup of baking soda, and a few drops of Vibrant Blue Oils Parasympathetic® oil. The clove oil in the Parasympathetic® blend helps to draw toxins out of the skin, thereby lessening the burden on the liver, gallbladder, and kidneys. For more tips on healing baths, read this article or download this FREE guide.

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