Valor is an essential oil blend from Young Living meant to bring balance and alignment to your emotions. It is grounding and inspires feelings of courage and confidence. Valor is a truly unique blend of black spruce, frankincense, blue tansy and rosewood. Valor can be applied topically, diffused and even used as a perfume or cologne! In this post I’m sharing a recipe for making your own Valor blend. This valor essential oil blend recipe takes minutes to make and I’ve included a recipe for a roll on for on the go use!
As an avid essential oil user, I diffuse daily. I enjoy simply diffusing lavender but also love to make my own blends. I began my essential oil journey at Young Living and loved many of their blends. Once I got further into my essential oil journey I moved on from YL due to the obligation to buy monthly, slow shipping times and the high cost of each oil. While many essential oil companies have duplicated YL’s famous blends, being the DIYer that I am, I like to make them myself. Plus, I am unfamiliar with Valor blend being available from other companies.
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What is Valor Essential Oil Blend?
Valor is a lovely blend of essential oils meant to inspire confidence and can be helpful in aligining chakras. Black spruce, blue tansy, frankincense and rosewood are an aromatic blend that come together for a sweet herbaceous scent perfect for diffusing. Valor has been called “liquid courage” because it is said to give you courage and bravery when applied or inhaled. Valor is a very gentle blend of oils and can be applied to most sensitive skin. Many people believe in the power of this essential oil blend and love the scent so much that they wear it as a perfume or cologne. I will say, valor is a strong scent and lasts most of the day.
According to Young Living:
Originally formulated by Young Living Founder D. Gary Young, Valor blend is a long-standing member favorite. Its one-of-a-kind formula was inspired by historical writings about Roman soldiers who were said to apply plant extracts and botanicals to inspire courage and confidence before going into battle.
Each Young Living essential oil in the blend was carefully selected for its unique aromatic and topical benefits: Frankincense for its uplifting, earthy aroma and skin-loving properties; Black Spruce for its grounded, woodsy aroma; Blue Tansy for its inspiring aromatic profile; and now Rosewood for its soothing and relaxing aroma.
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Valor Ingredients:
- Black Spruce is clarifying and releasing. It can help with strongholds and emotional blockages. It is a grounding and balancing essential oil. It is also used in my Christmas Spirit Blend recipe.
- Frankincense stimulates the limbic part of the brain helping you to focus on the positives and reduce negative thoughts and feelings. It is a powerful holy oil yet very gentle.
- Blue Tansy is a rare and powerful oil. It is deep blue hence its name and when used without dilution can stain the skin. Blue Tansy has a very strong scent. It can be helpful with calming anger issues and strengthening self control.
- Rosewood is also a grounding oil that promotes relaxation.
Valor Oil Benefits:
- Helps you achieve a grounded environment for relaxation.
- Valor blend has skin-benefiting properties and is gentle when applied to the skin.
- Has a manly, earthy scent and many men wear Valor as a non-toxic cologne.
- Helps align the mind, body and soul.
How to Use Valor:
Valor has many aromatic uses and can be inhaled or diffused throughout the day. It’s therapeutic effects have been known to be quite powerful.
- Apply Valor blend to the bottoms of your feet and/or the back of your neck to help prepare you for bedtime.
- Help bring balance and calmness by applying to the bottoms of your feet and back of your neck at the end of a challenging day.
- Use as a roll on to encourage confidence or prepare for challenging situations.
- Recharge throughout the day by directly inhaling Valor blend or massaging it onto your neck, chest, hands, or wrists.
- Diffuse while working to help tackle work’s biggest tasks.
- Can be helpful in breaking strongholds of the mind.
- Inhale to induce a positive attitude.
- Use with a carrier oil for the ultimate relaxing experience in massage therapy!
- Apply drops of Valor to a diffuser necklace to experience feelings of confidence all day.
- Add to homemade cleaners to enhance cleansing action as well as boost feelings of courage throughout the day!
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What You’ll Need to Make Valor Blend or Valor Roll On :
Materials
- 30 drops spruce essential oil
- 14 drops frankincense essential oil
- 12 drops blue tansy essential oil
- 4 drops rosewood essential oil or ho wood essential oil
- 20 drops carrier oil
Tools
- 5 ml essential oil glass bottle
Instructions
- Add all essential oils into a 5 ml glass bottle.
- Top off with a carrier oil such as sweet almond oil, fractionated coconut oil or grapeseed oil.
- Replace the dropper and gently roll between your hands to mix the oils.
Notes
- This oil may be used topically or diffused.
- To diffuse, add 4-10 drops to a diffuser. Fill diffuser with filtered water to the appropriate water line and turn on diffuser.
Materials
- 15 drops black spruce essential oil
- 7 drops frankincense essential oil
- 6 drops blue tansy essential oil
- 2 drops rosewood essential oil or ho wood essential oil
- Top off with carrier oil
Tools
- 10 ml glass roll on bottle
Instructions
- Add essential oils to the roll on bottle.
- Top off with a carrier oil such as sweet almond oil, fractionated coconut oil or grapeseed oil.
- Replace the roller and cap and gently roll bottle inbetween your hands to incorporate the oils together.
Notes
- Apply roll on to the bottoms of your feet and back of your neck to balance, align and calm.
- Apply to your neck or wrists throughout the day as a cologne to boost confidence.
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Cost Per Bottle Breakdown:
Valor retails for $58.55 on the Young Living website. On Amazon you can buy Valor for $64.41. I am basing this recipe off Plant Therapy’s prices. Each bottle of homemade Valor will cost you around $13.20. You will only be able to make 2 bottles of Valor if you buy the 2.5 ml bottle I have linked but you will have lots product left from the other ingredients for other projects.
A note on Rosewood Essential Oil: I happened to have a very old bottle of Rosewood from Spark Naturals. However, none of my essential oil companies of choice offer rosewood anymore. I believe it is difficult to source. At one point, Young Living could no longer find a viable source and changed from rosewood to geranium. I read that ho wood essential oil is a suitable substitution for rosewood. I did find a couple of cheap rosewood options on Amazon but I recommend going with a higher quality ho wood essential oil.
- 10 ml Black Spruce: $11.99
- 10 ml Frankincense: $9.49
- 2.5 ml Blue Tansy: $16.99
- 10 ml Ho Wood: $10.99
- 16 oz. Fractionated Coconut Oil: $9.99
- 10 5 ml glass bottle: $8.99
- TOTAL cost of ingredients: $68.44
- Cost Per Bottle of DIY Valor: $13.22
There are 160 drops in 10 ml and there are 30 drops in 2.5 ml
How many bottles of Valor can you make from each essential Oil?
- Black Spruce: 5
- Frankincense :11
- Blue tansy: 2
- Ho Wood: 40
Making your own Valor essential oil blend is quite cost effective!! If you’re looking to make more than 5 bottles of Valor or would like to make a larger amount for yourself, Plant Therapy has a 5 ml Blue Tansy oil for $25.99 and a 10 ml for $37.99.
I love the scent of this Valor essential oil blend recipe and now that I’ve made the roll on, my husband carry’s it in his car. Not all Young Living dupes are cost effective to make your own but Valor certainly is. Let me know if you make it and how you use it!
xx, Jenni
