Making Your Own Essential Oils
In four days you can make your own essential oils rather than throw
your money away on an essential oil from a store. Oil that you may
not even know for sure is natural or if it is made up of chemicals
and alcohol. Stop trying to play guessing games with manufacturers
who try to dance around the truth about what their products contain.
Four days and you can have all the oils you want for body lotions,
soaps, bath salts and candles.
Making the oil starts with flowers. Most aromatherapy essential oils
are made up of scents from flowers so that may be the best place for
you to start. Begin by picking out a flower that you love. Roses,
lavender and honeysuckle are very popular flowers because their
scent is so strong. A flower with a strong scent is your ally in
this process. You will need an oil base such as grapeseed oil,
cheese cloth to strain the oil/flower mixture, jars for the process
and pretty jars for the final product. You will also need to have a
mallet, storage bags with a zipper, and a funnel to pour the
essential oil into the containers which can later be mixed to make
body lotions, bath salts, soaps and even candles.
Take the flowers and place them in the storage bag. You will take
the mallet and gently tap the bag until the flowers have become
slightly mashed. You do not want them pulverized. The next step is
putting the cheese cloth over one of the empty jars. The crushed
flowers will go into the cheese cloth and you will pour a cup of
grapeseed oil over them. Each day, for three more days, you will
take a fresh batch of flowers (1 cup each time) and keep pouring the
oil back and forth over the cheese cloth. The fourth day you will
have your finished product which you can store in the decorate jars.
Making essential oils is that easy.
Essential oils can be used in a variety of products. Body lotions,
massage oil, bath salts and soap are just the beginning. They also
make incredible gifts and are truly unique in that they are homemade
by you. As you can see the process is remarkably easy. You can make
the essential oil out of flowers or you can use herbs and fruit
peels. All are great ways to capture nature's unique scents.
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