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Make Your Own Infused Oil

Extracting essential oils from plant material is not easy! It isn’t very practical or cost-effective to try to get your own pure essential oils at home. However, you can make infused oils easily in a month or less. You can use just about any aromatic herb to make an infused oil. Try lavender, chamomile, peppermint or spearmint, rosemary, basil, or lemon balm. Pick the healthiest looking leaves and/or flowers you can find on a warm, sunny morning after the dew has evaporated — this is when the scent (and essential oil) is at its highest. If you want to use … Continue reading →

Essential Oils: Geranium

Don’t get too excited — chances are that geranium in your garden isn’t going to be the cure for what ails you. There are more than six hundred different varieties of scented geranium. South African rose geranium is the main source for geranium essential oil. Geranium (or rose geranium) wasn’t distilled into essential oil form until the nineteenth century, making it a relative latecomer to aromatherapy. Geranium essential oil has a rose-like scent, and is often used in making synthetic rose oil and diluting or stretching true rose oil. The essential oil itself is a deep green in color and … Continue reading →

One More Mother’s Day Craft

Since Mother’s Day is supposed to be Mom’s day off, maybe she’d like to kick back and relax in a nice, warm, bubble bath. You can make a special homemade bubble bath solution for Mom and package it yourself. What a great gift. Mom will really love it when she learns that you made it yourself! Items Needed: 3/4 cup distilled water 1-cup baby shampoo (it’s incredibly mild so a good choice) 1 teaspoon liquid glycerin Plastic bottle with lid Ribbon Decal, permanent marker *Optional: 4 drops of citrus scented essential oil (mood lifting) 2-4 drops of almond oil (not … Continue reading →

Ten MORE Things to do With Essential Oils

1. Make your own potpourri. Gather dried flowers, pinecones, dried leaves, whatever you like! Arrange them in a bowl, add a few drops of your favorite essential oil, and stir. You will need to add more oil occasionally to refresh the scent. Try orange and cinnamon for a nice fall scent, or lemon and lavender for spring freshness. 2. Clear kitchen odors easily! If you can boil water, you can fill your home with your favorite scents. Fill a small pot with water and a few drops of your favorite essential oil. Heating the water will release the scent to … Continue reading →

Everyday Aromatherapy

Before I started working with essential oils and studying the different properties of herbs, I thought aromatherapy was just a bunch of junk. I mean really… smelling different things can make you feel differently? But our sense of smell is one of our strongest senses. Smell triggers so many memories, and such strong reactions. How about the scent of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies? That makes me think of being a kid, especially at the holidays. Fresh tomatoes? Brings me right to summer, especially when mom used to have a garden and we would sneak tomatoes off the vine to eat … Continue reading →