The Giving Essence Review & Giveaway!

The Giving Essence is a wonderful online store that specializes in creating and selling natural herbal products. The Giving Essence strives to offer the highest quality herbs at the lowest possible prices, without compromising quality. While looking through this store, you will find a wide variety of items that are great for the entire family: Essential Oils, Dried Herbs, Lip Balms, Essentials Sprays, and the popular Peppermint Stick.

Diane, owner of The Giving Essence, offered to tell me a bit about her store:
“The Giving Essence opened for business just a few short months ago, and there are many changes and new products in the works. We're working on sprucing up the site, adding new balms, sprays, and more. I started the store because I'd been making many of these products for my family for years. The room sprays are all I've used for quite sometime, as a way of freshening my home without all those chemicals. I've never liked taking headache medicines, etc. so that's where the Peppermint Stick came in. And I have a wonderful balm I've been making for a few years now that I'll be excited to share soon too!”

For more information on all natural, chemical free living with a bit of herbal wisdom, be sure to check out Diane’s blog, dkMommy Spot. dkMommy Spot offers wonderful articles, in addition to giveaways for great eco-friendly prizes on a regular basis!

Review
When Diane contacted me about doing a giveaway, I was really excited that I was going to have a chance to try something from her new store (I have been eyeing it up for awhile). Diane offered to send me a Peppermint Stick Headache & Stress Eraser to review. Since I have headaches quite often (several times/week), I thought this would be a great natural alternative to medication. Because of my headaches, I often take Tylenol or Advil to deal with the symptoms. After taking medications time after time, I am starting to worry about the long-term effects that this could have on my body. Because of this, I often try to suffer through the pain while attempting to rehydrate myself until the headache subsides.

Here is what The Giving Essence says about the Peppermint Stick:
“Headache got you down? Give stress, tensions and nasty headaches the heave-ho with our Peppermint Stick Headache & Stress Eraser. All-natural high quality essential oil of peppermint is used in traditional folk medicine and aromatherapy as a stress, headache, and depression reliever. Our pretty little roll-on bottle makes it easy to take the relief with you wherever you go. Rub it on your temples, forehead, or neck for quick relief. And the scent? Heavenly. The Giving Essence has spent considerable time choosing just the right oil. You’ll never want to be without your Peppermint Stick again!”

I happened to receive my Peppermint Stick at the perfect time…I was in the middle of a headache. I hadn’t taken any medication so I immediately gave it a try. When I took the lid of the Peppermint Stick I immediately noticed it’s fabulous smell. I joke to my boyfriend that it makes me smell like a candy cane (which I absolutely love by the way). The roll-on applicator tube makes this product extremely easy to apply and small enough to carry around with you in your purse, backpack, diaper bag, car, etc. After I applied the Peppermint Stick to my temples and the back of my neck, I started to feel relief of my headache within 5 minutes! I was extremely impressed with how fast it worked. A couple days later, I had another headache and tried the Peppermint Stick again…with the same results. I am so happy I have been able to find a product that is natural, reasonably priced and works just as well, if not better than over-the-counter (OTC) medication.

Overall, I am completely in love with this new product; it is something that I would suggest to anyone. I will definitely be talking to some of my friends and family about this nifty product. Try it yourself! You won’t be disappointed!

What can you win? One winner will receive a Peppermint Stick Headache & Stress Eraser from The Giving Essence.

To enter, visit The Giving Essence, take a look around, then, come back here and tell me the name of the item you’d most like to try. This question must be answered to gain an entry in the giveaway.

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This giveaway will end on Saturday, January 31st at 11:59pm (Central Standard Time). After the giveaway has ended, the winner will be picked randomly using random.org. EMAIL RULES: In order to win, you must provide a valid email. I will be notifying the winner by email only. Please make sure your blog profile includes your email address and make sure that it is visible. If you do not have a blogger account, please make sure you have included your email address in your post. If there is no email address provided, to contact the winner, another person will be chosen. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the winning email notification with their complete mailing address (I will be forwarding all this information to the sponsor), If this information is not received within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is open to residents of Canada and the US!

Good Luck!

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