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Essential oils - tips for easy blending

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.

Essential Oil Recipes - create your own

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.

Aromatherapy Blends - blend your own essential oils

October 5th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Love essential oils and aromatherapy? You can easily learn how to make your own aromatherapy blends for many uses, including stress relief.

Aromatherapy blends are recipes: simple proportions of various oils and liquids. For example, to create an anxiety relief blend, a user might add in 3 drops of clary sage and 1 each of lemon and lavender. The final amount used could be twice that or ten times that, depending on the application.

The blended oils are then added to a carrier oil, like grapeseed or light olive oil, and used in a massage, or for skin care.

To mix the aromatherapy blends together, multiply each ingredient by the same number to keep the proportions the same. Place the drops of oil into a vial or glass jar and roll between your two hands instead of shaking. Blends can be combined to achieve various effects.

To get an anxiety relief bath oil combination, users would simply mix the anxiety relief and bath oil blends together. The whole process takes less than a minute, though it’s recommended that users make only small quantities of the substances at a time to preserve the quality of the proportions. Too much of one thing can be as bad as too little of another, and the entire blend might have undesirable odors.

Essential oils can be found in many stores, as well as online.

For ten or twenty dollars, enthusiasts have enough materials to create a year’s amount of blends, making aromatherapy even more affordable than before. Instead of having an excess of blends that they never use, users can make the products they need on the spot in just a few seconds with little effort.

Not only can they save hundreds of dollars each year, but they will never have to throw away blends that they don’t use or have found they don’t like. These blends can be added to many different products, such as hand cream and bath oil to create an entrancing aroma that will ease the worst stresses.

Aromatherapy enthusiasts owe it to themselves to learn the secrets of making their own mixtures. They’ll save big money, have ideas for timeless gifts for holidays, and know how to relax themselves anywhere. Aromatherapy blends help make a healthier life.

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