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  • Written by Adrian Falk

With Pantone announcing recently its colour of the year for 2022 being Very Peri, we hand-picked all things for your bath, body, and home to make sure you’re on trend for the year ahead. Here’s our picks from Young Living, the world leader in essential oils.
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Lavender Essential Oil

Find your happy place with this lovely sweet oil. Steam distilled from the flowering tops, this shrub-like plant is part of the mint family and calms the mind, body and soul. Referred to as “blue gold,” this floral and herbaceous oil was featured in Ancient Roman bathing rituals. It is believed to support a good night’s sleep. Known as the Father of modern aromatherapy, René-Maurice Gattefossé, an early 20th century French chemist was said to discover the soothing and refreshing effects of Lavender when the wonder oil helped with healing a burn.
  • Relaxing and refreshing scent.
  • Perfect for baths and bedtime rituals.
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Lavender Calming Bath Bombs

Young Living Lavender Calming Bath Bombs are a fun, fizzy way to unwind. Lavender essential oil—renowned for its soothing and calming aroma—makes the Lavender Calming Bath Bomb perfect for unwinding after a long day.

Vegan friendly, made without colourants, synthetic preservatives, or animal-derived ingredients, making them some of the best bath bombs you can get your hands on!
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Lavender Volume Shampoo

Lavender Volume Shampoo™ gently cleanses and volumizes fine hair while nourishing and restoring balance. Long known for its ability to improve the appearance of hair and skin, lavender oil works its fragrant magic to enhance the natural beauty of your hair. Added botanical extracts, vitamins, and essential oils remove buildup that comes from commercially sold hair products while maximising body. Renewing and invigorating, Lavender Volume Shampoo contains MSM, a sulphur compound that is known for strengthening hair.
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Lavender Volume Conditioner


Lavender Volume Conditioner™ gently conditions and volumizes fine hair. A fabulous follow-up to Lavender Volume Shampoo, it is formulated with MSM, milk protein, and vitamins to strengthen limp and weak hair. Essential oils are added to ensure that nutrients penetrate the hair follicle and leave the hair clean and perfumed.
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Forgiveness

Savour the scent of the sweet and spicy essential oil blend Forgiveness. Transform your everyday routine by dabbing this fragrance on your neckline, letting go of the past and embracing positive new adventures. You may like to rub a drop or two (diluting if needed) onto your chest, enjoying the notes of Frankincense, Rose and Geranium. Capturing precious Rose, believed to open up the heart chakra, linked to unconditional love, self-compassion and self-nurturing.
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Grounding

Refresh your senses with Grounding essential oil blend. Simply add a few drops into a spray bottle filled with water, lightly spritzing hair and body for an instant pick-me-up. Combining notes of White Fir, Juniper and Ylang Ylang for an enriching experience. You may like to dab onto your pulse points and neckline to rebalance, relax and restore the senses—particularly when you are on the go and need a moment of calm.
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Clary Sage

This garden-fresh scent is warming and deeply relaxing. Transport your senses with this soothing and calming oil, refreshing the mind, body and soul. Ideal for adding to body butter before bedtime for buttery soft skin. Clary sage is a biennial herb with lilac flowers that typically appear in spring. Enhance motivation and positivity with this balancing oil. For a signature scent, you may like to combine with Lavender, Geranium or Sandalwood.
  • Soothing and calming.
  • Blend into body butter.
  • Works well with Lavender, Geranium or Sandalwood.
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Valor Roll-On

Valor is one of the original blends formulated by D. Gary Young and is a long-standing member favourite. Each essential oil in the blend was carefully selected for its unique aromatic and topical benefits: Frankincense for its uplifting, earthy aroma, and skin-smoothing properties; Black Spruce for its grounded, woodsy fragrance; Blue Tansy for its inspiring aromatic profile; Geranium for its sweet, floral fragrance; and Camphor Wood for its skin-benefiting properties and strong, herbaceous scent.
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Lavender Hand & Body Lotion

Bring life back to your skin with this all-natural lightweight moisturiser infused with skin-loving lavender essential oil. Added nutrients such as wolfberry seed and jojoba oils fortify your skin's natural moisture barrier to maintain long-lasting hydration.
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Lavender Foaming Hand Soap

Lavender Foaming Hand Soap, part of Young Living’s Lavender Signature Series, is a gentle, cleansing addition to our all-natural product line-up. Refreshing and rejuvenating to even the most sensitive skin, just a small amount of this fragrant soap cleanses and conditions your skin without leaving it dry or irritated. Infused with lavender essential oil, Lavender Foaming Hand Soap is a household favourite.


Liquid hand soaps are a big trend in the personal care industry, particularly those with antibacterial properties; however, some can contain harsh chemicals and fragrances, leaving many searching for a natural, safer alternative. Lavender Foaming Hand Soap is formulated with natural ingredients, and has been dermatologist tested and found to be safe for all skin types, including sensitive skin.
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Valor Bar Soap

Infused with our Valor blend and other naturally-derived botanicals, Valor moisturising soap cleanses the skin and promises an inspiring aroma. Containing ingredients such as Frankincense essential oil, which promises an uplifting, earthy aroma alongside skin-soothing properties, Black Spruce, which imparts a grounded, woody fragrance, and Blue Tansy which promises an inspiring, aromatic profile, this 100 percent vegetable-based formula guarantees a gorgeous creamy lather and super soft skin while still maintaining your skin’s natural moisture barrier.
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Bar Soap: Lavender Oatmeal

With a relaxing floral scent and luxuriously creamy lather, our Lavender Oatmeal Bar Soap leaves skin feeling soft, smooth, and refreshed.

Oats offer gentle exfoliation, and remove excess oil, while moisturising ingredients such as coconut, jojoba, palm oil, and wolfberry seed oil — plus five pure essential oils — prevent over-drying.

With its 100 percent vegetable-based formula, this bar is both gluten free and vegan friendly. It’s also made without synthetic dyes or colourants, parabens, petrochemicals, and sulphates, so it’s gentle enough for all skin types.
For more information on Young Living, please visit www.youngliving.com.au

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