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Essential Oil Recipes - create your own

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

With many hundreds of essential oils available, you can find oils to enhance your physical, emotional and environmental well-being.

Knowing how to create your own essential oil blends is a useful skill. Once you become familiar with the properties of the oils, you will find yourself creating recipes for your own needs, and those of your friends and family.

You may find that a recipe you develop for a friend’s arthritis, for example, helps her more than over-the-counter medicine for example, and your blend of oils is completely drug free.

Creating your own essential oil recipes can be a lot of fun for many people, like playing or listening to music. With your first essential oil recipes, stick with just three oils until you get the hang of it. Otherwise, they’ll clash. Also, considering the price of some essential oils, it’ll be a lot cheaper.

There are three kinds of oils that you need in your mix to make it the most effective. These types of essential oils are called “notes”. You need a top note, and a middle note, and a base note. You can also make some good essential oil recipes with one top note and two middles. Experiment and see what works best for you. Note what scents bring about what kind of feelings brought up in you. It’s safer to blend essential oils with a carrier oil like olive or jojoba than just to use the pure essential oils if you mean to put the oil on your body. It’s also a lot less expensive! When burning oils for their scent alone, it is best to use the pure essential oils.

Top Notes

Top notes are like the lead vocals of an essential oil recipe. They are usually the first thing you notice. They also don’t last too long, letting the other notes take over. Many fruity and floral scents fall into this category. Common top note essential oils are lemon, bergamot, eucalyptus and orange.

Middle Notes

Middle notes are like the guitars in a band. They are more subtle than top notes and tend to last a lot longer. Spicy, floral and herbal kind of essential oils tend to fall into this category. Some are listed as middle notes OR base notes, depending on what aromatherapy book you read. Smell them and determine for yourself how long the scent lasts in your essential oil recipes. Common middle note oils are lavender, geranium, patchouli, rose and rosemary.
Base Notes

Base note scents are the percussion and rhythm of the scent band. They provide the beat that the rest of the band has to follow. The base note oils linger the longest in you essential oil recipes. Many spicy and woody scents fall into this category. Common base note oils are sandalwood, cypress, frankincense and myrrh. Some also list patchouli and even rose in this category.