An Easy Way To Make Your Own Essential Oils

There is absolutely no need to be spending your hard earned money by buying essential oils, because making them yourself is a very easy process. All it takes is a little know-how and some basic supplies and you will have the basic essential oil for your body lotions, soaps, candles or bath salts in no time at all. The process is simple enough that your children can do it, with fantastic results. You can give away the things you make, such as pillar candles or massage oils for birthdays, anniversaries or as gifts for special occasions.

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.

Those decorative bottles of essential oils will make the perfect gift for someone on your list. Who would not want such a personal gift from someone they care about? The process is inexpensive, easy and the results are absolutely wonderful. You can always create other things out of the oils such as bath salts, body lotions and even your own personal massage oil. Keep them or give them away. Either way you will be immensely pleased at the results of your aromatherapy hobby.

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Yani Nurachman is editor of website Aromatherapy.eHealthyTips.com. If you are interested to read more articles about Aromatherapy and other Healthy Tips, please feel free to visit the website.

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