4 Tips For Pampering Yourself Year Round, And Especially On Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day can be a fun and exciting day but it’s also a busy time of year and, in this day and age where many of us are feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, it can be a good excuse to pamper yourself (and be looking and feeling your best for the inevitable photos with the kids).  Beyond the Good Drop Mother’s Day Gift Guide, we have lots of ideas for treating your body and soul to the love it so deeply deserves. So whether you are celebrating with the family or taking a day for yourself, here are 4 tips to pamper your senses with the best, most indulgent plant-based products around.

Got 5 mins? Pamper Your Lips

With four different types of butter, including cocoa butter, mango butter, avocado butter, and shea butter, Young Living’s Savvy Minerals Poppy Seed Lip Scrub leaves your lips smooth and soft. Try this in the morning to give your lip gloss or lipstick a flawless finish. Poppy Seed Lip Scrub gives your lips the TLC they deserve.

Got 10 mins? Pamper Your Face

Polish and prep your skin with this naturally derived exfoliator, Satin Mint Facial Scrub! Made with apricot seed powder, our Satin Facial Scrub gently lifts and removes dry, dead skin cells to reveal bright and even-looking skin. Plus, it has pure Peppermint essential oil for a minty scent and tingly fresh feel. Use it to start the day or to take the day off; whenever you reach for it, you’ll leave a clean, smooth slate for the next step in your skin care regimen. Our residential esthetician, Jamie, over at Dragonfly&Spruce recommends following with Toner to neutralize the PH (see our $ saving toner tip here!) and follow with a Serum that moisturizes deep into the layers of the skin and lock it all in with a silky Moisturizer.

Got 15mins? Pamper Your Feet

Maybe it’s just me, but this is high up on my list of ways to pamper myself. I love it so much I actually leave a spare pumice stone in my carry-on so I always have one with me when I travel! And it’s perfect to combine with the LavaMint Softening Foot Scrub. It’s best after unwinding in a hot bath or relaxing with a foot bath (or just out of the shower), it’ll treat your feet by exfoliating rough, callused skin. The scrub contains four natural exfoliants—black volcanic sand from Iceland, volcanic rock pumice from Italy, diatomaceous earth from the seas of Denmark, and coconut shell powder from France—that reveal soft, silky, healthy-looking skin. The foot scrub also opens up your pores, so applying essential oils on the bottoms of your feet during gives you maximum absorption.

LavaMint contains a unique triple-texture, water-activated formula that uses your body’s heat to transform the cool gel into a milky lotion (yep, you apply it to dry feet!). It’s also rich in emollient and moisturizing properties, with glycerin and squalane to hydrate and condition the skin. The soothing Lavender scent combined with Peppermint’s cooling sensation refreshes and revives tired feet. Stay sandal-ready all year long with this exfoliating foot scrub.  Follow it up with a dab of Rose Ointment on your heels (and elbows!).

Got 60mins? Pamper Your Body

If you are lucky enough to have someone making you breakfast in bed, or otherwise giving you some time to relax, take advantage of the moment and enjoy an indulgent bath with Young Living’s Stress Away Relaxing Bath Bombs or Calming Lavender Bath Bombs.  I had previously used natural bombs from other brands like Lush, but I have to say, hands down, these are way more moisturizing and leave my skin so so soft.  Follow it up with one of our luxurious body lotions (they are so thick and creamy and come in 3 scents) or even the body butter collection (available on ER as of May 1), or full-size Coconut Lime Replenishing Body Butter.

And if by some miracle you have time to pamper feet, face, body, and lips, you’ll be buffed and slathered to perfection ready for that glowy picture-perfect moment that we are all capable of when given a moment to focus on a little self-care.  So help the family out, and take a few moments this week, to drop some hints about what you’d like to do on Mother’s Day, and you’ll be relaxing and luxuriating, and replenishing, and hydrating and calming and just generally feeling pampered all day long.

P.S. And our Australian friends can take advantage of these two amazing Mother’s Day Essential Oil Deals from Young Living and the Good Drop.