I love to use essential oils and hydrosols for perfume instead of that toxic nastiness that you get on your fingers when turning the page in a magazine for a perfume add. Instead of messing up your endocrine system, giving you headaches, and causing cancer in your body, you can actually help your body out with perfume made from essential oils and hydrosols.
You can make perfume 3 ways, one as a roll on with a carrier oil, 2 as a solid perfume (find my tutorial for that HERE) and 3 as a spray using hydrosols for the carrier instead of alcohol.
I like to keep things simple with rose hydrosol and chamomile oil in a spray bottle, but you can get as complex as you would like. Bellow I have oils in groups to give you ideas.
For a roll on take a bottle with a roll top and drop in your essential oils first. you will want the oils to go probably about 1/8th to 1/3 of the way up. Experiment with just a little first so that you can test out combinations without wasting any oils. Then fill the bottle up the rest of the way with a carrier oil such as almond.
For a spray perfume choose your mixture of oils and add them to a spray bottle with a hydrosol of your choosing. Hydrosols are the water left over from making essential oils, so they still have the smell and small particles of the essential oils suspended in the liquid. You will want to play around with the ratio of oil to hydrosol because every oil has a different strength to it.
You can even use floral waters, like orange blossom and rose water that you can get at the grocery store with extracts like vanilla and almond.
Blend ideas for women:
*Neroli, chamomile, and bergamont are refreshing and relaxing.
*Jasmine, ylang ylang, vanila, cardamom, orange create a romantic scent
*Lavender and vanilla is simple and sweet.
Oil ideas for men: Sandalwood (calms and soothes but also increases testosterone and balances hormones) Frankincense, spruce, fir, cedarwood, vetiver, sage, vanilla, hints of cardamom are nice, basically anything manly. You can go woodsy, or more spicy.
My favorite is sandalwood with frankincense and cedar with a bit of orange and vanilla.
You can put oils in a roll on and use them for various problems that you might be having to rub directly on where you need the oils.
Sore muscles/back pain: Peppermint and clove work marvelously together. You can also add other warming oils like wintergreen, cypress, basil, marjoram, and elemi can be added as well as calming oils like lavender and chamomile.
Endocrine system rosemary, cinnamon, Black pepper, dill, geranium, and frankincense.
Fatigue: Ginger, Peppermint, White Fir, melissa
Help you think: Rosemary, basil, sage/Clary sage, peppermint.
Hot Flashes: Peppermint, Geranium, citrus oils, and Clary Sage.
Low Blood Sugar: Cinnamon, clove, thyme,
Mood: Bergamot, Clary sage, fennel, geranium, lavender, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, sandalwood, blue spruce, ylang ylang, melissa
PMS: bergamot, Clary sage, fennel, geranium, grapefruit, lavender, Roman chamomile, melissa,
Have fun being creative and smelling fabulous!
You can make perfume 3 ways, one as a roll on with a carrier oil, 2 as a solid perfume (find my tutorial for that HERE) and 3 as a spray using hydrosols for the carrier instead of alcohol.
I like to keep things simple with rose hydrosol and chamomile oil in a spray bottle, but you can get as complex as you would like. Bellow I have oils in groups to give you ideas.
For a roll on take a bottle with a roll top and drop in your essential oils first. you will want the oils to go probably about 1/8th to 1/3 of the way up. Experiment with just a little first so that you can test out combinations without wasting any oils. Then fill the bottle up the rest of the way with a carrier oil such as almond.
For a spray perfume choose your mixture of oils and add them to a spray bottle with a hydrosol of your choosing. Hydrosols are the water left over from making essential oils, so they still have the smell and small particles of the essential oils suspended in the liquid. You will want to play around with the ratio of oil to hydrosol because every oil has a different strength to it.
You can even use floral waters, like orange blossom and rose water that you can get at the grocery store with extracts like vanilla and almond.
Blend ideas for women:
*Neroli, chamomile, and bergamont are refreshing and relaxing.
*Jasmine, ylang ylang, vanila, cardamom, orange create a romantic scent
*Lavender and vanilla is simple and sweet.
Oil ideas for men: Sandalwood (calms and soothes but also increases testosterone and balances hormones) Frankincense, spruce, fir, cedarwood, vetiver, sage, vanilla, hints of cardamom are nice, basically anything manly. You can go woodsy, or more spicy.
My favorite is sandalwood with frankincense and cedar with a bit of orange and vanilla.
You can put oils in a roll on and use them for various problems that you might be having to rub directly on where you need the oils.
Sore muscles/back pain: Peppermint and clove work marvelously together. You can also add other warming oils like wintergreen, cypress, basil, marjoram, and elemi can be added as well as calming oils like lavender and chamomile.
Endocrine system rosemary, cinnamon, Black pepper, dill, geranium, and frankincense.
Fatigue: Ginger, Peppermint, White Fir, melissa
Help you think: Rosemary, basil, sage/Clary sage, peppermint.
Hot Flashes: Peppermint, Geranium, citrus oils, and Clary Sage.
Low Blood Sugar: Cinnamon, clove, thyme,
Mood: Bergamot, Clary sage, fennel, geranium, lavender, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, sandalwood, blue spruce, ylang ylang, melissa
PMS: bergamot, Clary sage, fennel, geranium, grapefruit, lavender, Roman chamomile, melissa,
Have fun being creative and smelling fabulous!
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Is there a certain company you buy your oils from?
ReplyDeleteJulia rose is a good place to buy, I get most everything from mountain rose herbs for fragrancing stuff. Im going to have them tested next week to see if they are good enough to use for aromatherapy. Also swiss aramatics and I get some but not many frome young living. I don't like do tera they are not nice and they use fillers. Mountain rose herbs dose have a lady that tests all their oils to make sure they are theraputic grade but I prefer using my julia rose and swiss aramatics until I get my mountain rose herbs tested. Which will be next week and ill let you know if they are good to use internaly because they are a good price and a good company.
DeleteI had my mountain rose oils tested, and they are good for using as fragrances but not internally. Julia rose botanicals are from a Dr. that uses them in his practice and some of their oils are local to my area, and Swiss aromatics are tested and used by my moms chiropractor. Young living is one of the better ones to, I just like Swiss aromatics and Julia rose better company wise for various reasons.
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