Okay, but even if essential oils were edible, which they are not, companies charge an arm and a leg for tiny bottles of half-synthetic essential oils. Wouldn’t it be cheaper in the end to just buy a bottle of extract if all you’re going to do is use it for flavorings? Because you’re just tossing your health and your stomach lining away if this is what you’re doing with your DoTerra.
*screeches*
Y’all are missing the fact that OP is promoting a pyramid scheme which makes this even more reprehensible
what the hell are you all talking about? peppermint essential oil is edible, and it tastes great in hot chocolate
Umm, it’s super duper not though.
maybe it isn’t that safe, but i only use one to two drops and that goes a long way in flavor. i just don’t understand how this cant be edible as ive never felt sick from eating it.
Because the toxin build up to your internals isn’t going to kill you instantly. It’s not poison, it’s toxic. Yes, toxic. Even a single drop, diluted, is waaaaay too many chemicals for your body to process. So it nopes out and filters them. Putting additional strain on your kidney and liver. And that’s of you’re lucky enough to skip the chemical burns.
If you like peppermint, buy a fucking plant. Or extract, that is actually meant to be ingested.
Like, do you all hate yourselves so much that you just don’t care? I don’t get it.
@biologyweeps have you ever heard of people trying to bake with essential oils?
Well I certainly have now….
Please don’t bake with essential oils, these things are not food safe and were never intended to go through food. The processing that food goes through (baking, the chemical interactions inside the food, etc) can influence what the essential oil is doing in there.
There are oils safe for human consumption, which are usually diluted down to safe levels so that you can use them as flavouring. They’re usually not sold as essential oils because they’re not in fact that, as they are strongly diluted. Use those if you want to flavour your things. Not…whatever the hell this is. Please.
Decades of screaming to white people “FLAVOR YOUR FOOD” and THIS is what we come up with lmaoo
“If someone swallows an essential oil, or a product containing essential oils, use the webPOISONCONTROL® online tool for guidance or call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 right away. Poison Control will help you figure out if this could be dangerous and will tell you exactly what to do.”
Food grade flavoring oils exist and are wonderful, but these sure ain’t them. There are certain times you cannot use extracts for flavor, like when you are flavoring chocolate. Extracts will seize and ruin your chocolate and it will never set right. Food grade oils are perfect for this, and tend to be more powerful than extracts for other flavoring purposes; I use lemon oils to make lemon cheesecake, and orange oil to make orange chocolates. They are SO good, and you only need a teensy bit to flavor anything. However, “food grade” is the key term here. FOOD GRADE. Essential oils are NOT sufficient or safe for consumption. You can order food grade oils online, or find them in most cake supply or craft stores. They’re pretty cheap, so you can make all the minty chocolates you want SAFELY without getting drafted into some crazy pyramid scheme.
If you are an adult who identifies with the concept of Gifted Kid Syndrome and:
You have an unusually intense reaction to the concept of rejection, whether personal, professional, or academic
You have consistent trouble meeting deadlines
You have big dreams and ambitions that are completely achievable, but you consistently can’t take steps toward achieving them and you don’t know why
You procrastinate, like a lot
You like video games, like a lot
You switch seemingly at random between binge watching your favorite shows for absurd lengths of time or not being able to sit down and focus on them unless you’re doing something else at the same time
You cannot for the life of you keep your living area clean and organized
You struggle with substance dependencies, whether with alcohol, tobacco, weed, harder drugs, or even just caffeine
You struggle with texting/calling/emailing back, even for people you care about deeply and/or even for important deadlines
Please, please, please consider seeking out an ADHD evaluation.
I’m not a psychiatrist or any kind of a medical professional, but personally I can’t help but notice how many elements of what I was perceiving as personal failures before my diagnosis stem directly from my executive dysfunction. Meds and an adequate support system can make a world of difference!
Just some advice from your friendly neighborhood nonbinary-mom-friend blogger!
…these are all seriously signs of ADHD?
You’re kidding
Not even a little bit.
Wait, all of these are ADHD things? I got a diagnosis as a kid, but I thought my procrastination, trouble with deadlines, clutter problems, issues with calling/emailing people back, and caffeine dependency were all just me being a lazy failure…
I will never understand LGBT+ people who eat Chik-Fil-A like “but their nugs are so gooooood” “but that lemonade” “but those fries though” shut up they’ve been actively donating to anti LGBT+ hate groups and conversion therapy groups for years what kind of bullshit
I admit I enjoyed their food greatly before I started boycotting them, but there’s no chicken sandwich worth that moral toll. Besides, recipes can be hacked.
