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Using essential oils to fragrance your home

July 22nd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

There are many ways you can use essential oils to fragrance your home, and make it more welcoming. Suitable oils for creating a wonderful atmosphere in your home include: pine, orange, lemon, and lavender.

Light rings
Light rings are usually made of ceramic; they fit over a light bulb in a lamp. Add four or five drops of oil to the ceramic ring. As the ring warms, the oils diffuse into the air. Tip: don’t drip oils onto a hot lightbulb - you could start a fire.

Candles
You can buy candles which are infused with essential oils. You can also make essential oil candles at home. As the candle burns, the oils are diffused.

Water sprays
Add one drop of oil per 100 mls of water in a spray bottle or plant mister. Shake well, and spray around the room.

Incense
Incense is available in many fragrances and varieties, from sticks to cones and coils. Read the labels to ensure that natural fragrances are used. Some of the fragrances are synthetic, and can cause headaches.

Essential oil burners
“Burners” are widely available. They have a receptacle for water above a cavity with a small night light candle. Add a five drops of essential oil to a couple of table spoons of water, and light the candle.

Cotton wool balls
Drop essential oils onto a couple of cotton wool balls and rest them on a radiator, or tuck them under a cushion cover. You can also slip the balls into a bowl of potpourri.

Buying An Aromatherapy Diffuser - or using a home-made one

July 20th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Want to add the lovely scent of essential oils to your office, or bedroom? You can use an aromatherapy diffuser to scent any room you wish.

The simplest type of home-made diffuser is a small dish with several tablespoons of water to which you add four or five drops of your favorite essential oil. As the water evaporates, the oils scent the air. You can buy ceramic diffusers which work on the same principle - they have space for a small candle underneath the water/ oil holder.

Commercial aromatherapy diffusers

Aromatherapy diffusers work a lot like a humidifier.  A humidifier is a device that you add water to and the humidifier turns the water into steam and distributes that vaporized water to a designated area.  People usually use humidifiers in cooler climates because the cold can sometimes cause the air to be very dry which can cause homes, and skin, to start cracking.  Aromatherapy diffusers run on the same basic concept.  You put in scented essential oil and the diffuser vaporizes that oil and distributes it in a designated area.

Aromatherapy is the practice of altering your environment by adding scents to it that are supposed to relax you or just make your general surroundings more pleasant.  Aromatherapy diffusers are the more popular devices used to distribute those scents.  There are a wide variety of diffusers that can either give you a constant distribution of scent or a timed-release distribution designed to last over a long period of time.  Aromatherapy diffusers come in all shapes and sizes to met any need.

The Variety Of Aromatherapy Diffusers

Aromatherapy has become extremely popular in recent years as an alternative way to relieve stress and address other concerns that a person may have.  Since aromatherapy is something you could theoretically do anywhere you are, it stands to reason that there is an aromatherapy diffuser designed for any occasion. 

For example, there are portable car diffusers that you can plug into your car lighter and have your aromatherapy with you while you drive.  I guess it beats the evergreen tree hanging from your rear view mirror.

Going beyond the car lighter model, the aromatherapy diffuser is designed to fit your specific need as far as room size and strength of scent are concerned.  There are personal sized diffusers that can fit in a workspace like a cubicle or a desk all the way up to industrial sized diffusers that are designed to offer constant aromatherapy to a large room or hall.  In between you have diffusers that are designed to cover just about any scenario you may need for your aromatherapy needs.

An aromatherapy diffuser is a device used to distribute aromatherapy scents to a designated area for a designated amount of time.  Some of them can keep the aroma going constantly and others can offer intermittent blasts of the aromatherapy scent.  They have diffusers small enough for your car and also big enough to fill your house with aromatherapy.  Whatever your need is there is a diffuser out there that can do the job for you.

Essential oils I love to diffuse include: orange, pine, sandalwood, and bergamot. You can create your own diffuser blends, to create any mood you wish.

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