Inner Defense Dupe

     If you're like me, you want to find the most cost effective way to get products that you like to use. My husband and I are absolute fans of the inner defense capsules from Young Living. We take them  and follow them 8 hours later with the Life 9 capsules. We have noticed a significant difference in how we feel overall but specifically our immunity. We have made it unscathed from several illnesses that our kids, family and friends have had.    

    The kicker is that in order to get us both a month supply of the inner defense and life 9 we were looking at $150.00 a month. With the cost of everything going up around us it isn't really feasible for us to be spending that monthly. So I began thinking about how could I get the benefits of inner defense without so much of the cost? Thus my investigation began of a way to create my own version of inner defense capsules at a lesser cost, but still as effective. 

    As a nurse I know how to calculate dosages of medication which came in useful in my research of calculating how many drops of essential oils I would need to put into my capsules to equal the mg of essential oils that were on the supplement facts. It took several scratch pieces of paper, and calculating to come up with my final dosing. I've attached my calculations and rationalizations behind how I got to the final dosing measurements. 

    

The supplement facts states that per capsule there is 225mg of Thieves and 405mg of the O3 Super Blend which according the labeling is Oregano, Thyme and Lemongrass. I first needed to find how many mL are in a mg in order to calculate the mL to drops. I then figured how many milligrams to milliliters to drops for the 225mg of Thieves and 405mg of the Super Blend. This allowed me to figure how many drops of each individual oil I needed in my capsules, because I had to create my own blend of the O2 Super Blend.

     I figured up that each Inner Defense capsule should contain 10 drops of pure essential oils and 3 drops of coconut carrier oil. The breakdown of the 10 drops based on my above calculations for milligrams to drops is: 3 drops of coconut carrier oil, 4 drops Thieves, 2 drops Oregano, 2 drops Thyme, and 2 drops of Lemongrass. 

I make these 30 at a time using the vegetable capsules from Young Living, and a board my husband made to help me make multiple capsules at once with ease. We both take these 15 days on and 30 days off, unless we start to feel like we are catching something then we start our 15 days on sooner than 30 days but no sooner than 15 days from the last.