Valor is a Young Living essential oil blend designed 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 share a recipe to make your own Valor mix. This essential oil blend recipe takes minutes to make and I’ve included a roll-on recipe for on-the-go!
As an avid essential oil user, I diffuse daily. I like to simply diffuse lavender but I also love to make my own blends. I started my essential oil journey at Young Living and have loved many of their blends. Once I got further into my essential oil journey, I moved on from YL due to having to buy monthly, slow shipping times, and the high cost of each oil. While many essential oil companies have copied YL’s famous blends, being the DIYer that I am, I like to make them myself. Also, I am not familiar with Valor blend being available from other companies.
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What is Valor Essential Oil Blend?
Valor is a wonderful blend of essential oils meant to inspire confidence and can be helpful in aligning the chakras. Black spruce, blue tansy, frankincense and rosewood are an aromatic blend that combine for a sweet herbaceous scent perfect for diffusing. Courage 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 the most sensitive skin. Many people believe in the power of this blend of essential oils and love the scent so much that they wear it as 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, the Valor blend is an old-time member favorite. Its unique formula was inspired by historical texts about Roman soldiers who were said to apply herbal 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 earthy, woody aroma. Blue Tansy for its inspiring aromatic profile. and now Rosewood for its soothing and relaxing scent.
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Valor Ingredients:
- Black Erythralite clarifies and liberates. It can help with strongholds and emotional blocks. It is a grounding and balancing essential oil. It is also used in my Christmas Spirit Blend recipe.
- Incense it stimulates the limbic part of the brain helping you focus on the positive and reduce negative thoughts and feelings. It is a powerful holy oil but very gentle.
- Blue Tansy it is a rare and powerful oil. It is deep blue hence the name and when used undiluted it can stain the skin. Blue Tansy has a very strong scent. It can be helpful in calming anger issues and enhancing self-control.
- Rosewood it is also a grounding oil that promotes relaxation.
Valor Oil Benefits:
- It helps you achieve a grounded environment for relaxation.
- The Valor blend has beneficial properties for the skin and is gentle when applied to the skin.
- It has a masculine, earthy scent and many men wear Valor as a non-toxic cologne.
- It 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. Its healing effects are known to be quite powerful.
- Apply the 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 calm by applying to the bottom of your feet and the back of your neck at the end of a hard day.
- Use it as a roll to encourage confidence or prepare for difficult situations.
- Recharge throughout the day by inhaling the Valor blend directly or massaging it into your neck, chest, arms or wrists.
- Diffuse while you work to help tackle the larger tasks of the job.
- It can help break down the fortresses of the mind.
- Inhale to induce a positive attitude.
- Use with carrier oil for the ultimate relaxing massage therapy experience!
- Add drops of Valor to a diffusion necklace to feel confident all day long.
- Add to homemade cleansers to boost 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 of fir essential oil
- 14 drops of frankincense essential oil
- 12 drops of blue tansy essential oil
- 4 drops rose essential oil or wood essential oil
- 20 drops of carrier oil
Tools
- Glass essential oil bottle 5 ml
Instructions
- Add all essential oils to a 5ml glass bottle.
- Top 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 can be used topically or diffused.
- To diffuse, add 4-10 drops to a diffuser. Fill the diffuser with filtered water to the appropriate water line and turn on the diffuser.
Materials
- 15 drops black spruce essential oil
- 7 drops of frankincense essential oil
- 6 drops of blue tansy essential oil
- 2 drops rose essential oil or wood essential oil
- Top up with carrier oil
Tools
- 10 ml glass roll on bottle
Instructions
- Add essential oils to the roll-on bottle.
- Top with a carrier oil such as sweet almond oil, fractionated coconut oil, or grapeseed oil.
- Replace the roller and cap and gently roll the bottle between your hands to mix the oils together.
Notes
- Roll on the bottom of your feet and the back of your neck for balance, alignment and calmness.
- 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 at Young Living website. On Amazon you can buy Valor for $64.41. I base this recipe on Phytotherapy prices. Each bottle of homemade Valor will set you back about $13.20. You’ll only be able to make 2 bottles of Valor if you buy the 2.5ml bottle I’ve linked, but you’ll have plenty of product from the other ingredients for other projects.
A note about rose essential oil: I happened to have a very old bottle of Rosewood from Spark Naturals. However, none of my essential oil companies of choice now offer rosewood. I believe it is difficult to source. At some point, Young Living could no longer find a sustainable source and switched from rosewood to geranium. I read that ho wood essential oil is a suitable substitute for rosewood. I found some cheap rosewood options on Amazon, but I recommend going with a higher quality ho wood essential oil.
- 10 ml Black Erythralite: $11.99
- 10ml Frankincense: $9.49
- 2.5ml Blue Tansy: $16.99
- 10ml Ho Wood: $10.99
- 16 oz. Fractionated Coconut Oil: $9.99
- 10 5ml glass bottle: $8.99
- TOTAL Cost of ingredients: $68.44
- Cost per bottle of DIY Valor: $13.22
There are 160 drops in 10ml and there are 30 drops in 2.5ml
How many bottles of Valor can you make from each essential oil?
- Black Erythralite: 5
- Frankincense :11
- Blue tansy: 2
- Ho Wood: 40
Making your own Valor essential oil blend is quite affordable!! If you want to make more than 5 bottles of Valor or want to make a larger quantity for yourself, Plant Therapy has 5ml Blue Tansy Oil for $25.99 and a 10ml for $37.99.
I love the scent of this Valor essential oil blend recipe and now that I’ve made the roll my husband has it in his car. Not all of his Young Living dupes are affordable, but Valor certainly is. Let me know if you make it and how you use it!
xx, Jenny
