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Essential oils - tips for easy blending

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

Blending essential oils is lots of fun, and it can mean that you get precisely the therapeutic results you want.

Here are some tips to get you started:

1. Set aside some time to create your essential oil blend; ensure that you have some privacy, so that you can think, and smell, and focus on what you’re creating;

2. Wash bottles and other utensils so that they’re clean. Never put a new blend into a bottle which contains another blend - oils become rancid over time;

3. Write down your blends in an aromatherapy notebook. This notebook will become very valuable. For example, you may mix a backache or sleep blend for a friend, which the friend loves. When she asks you for some more of the blend months later, you’ll know you have all the details in your blending notebook;

4. My preference is to add the essential oils first, and then add the carrier oil - choose a method which works for you;

5. Label each blend as soon as you create it. I’ve left bottles to label “later” and then forgot exactly which blend it was;

6. All your blends will evolve. A blend may smell considerably different in 24 hours, and will have settled into mellowness within a couple of weeks.