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We would be excited to have you join our team! Thieves Oil provides powerful support for the health and wellness of your family. Our family uses this oil, from our youngest to our oldest, and we love it! Lemon essential oil contains properties that are supportive of the immune system. There is no right or wrong way to start testing different notes together.
First determine what scents you already like. What candles have you purchased in the past that drew you in? Were they nature-inspired? Start with those oils. Then, add a few drops of a different note to the strip and inhale deeply. Add another drop of another note and repeat. If you want a long-lasting oil blend, allow your strip to sit a while minutes before coming back to smell it. Does it still have an aroma or have all the oils evaporated off?
You need to be able to balance out the notes so that the aroma lasts as long as possible. A popular blending ratio is which is 3 parts top note oils, 5 parts middle note oils and 2 parts base note oils. The best way is subjective.
Each person has different methods of using essential oils. The idea is to inhale them through your nose so they reach the olfactory nerve. Another way is to use a diffuser , you can also apply topically or directly to your skin , or you can ingest them but this method has many skeptics because of safety concerns. Make sure to use a carrier oil too.
You could try using equal amounts of each and see how it turns out for you. The problem I find with that is that the stronger scents will tend to overpower the lighter scents because too much was used.
For example if you were to blend lavender and patchouli and you used equal amounts, your blend is probably not going to smell as good as if you used more lavender than patchouli because patchouli is very strong and it can smell bad if too much is used. The smell of top note oils tend to diminish before the base note oils.
This is probably because base note oils tend to be very resinous which lasts longer. I hope this has answered your questions and not confused you more. I like all my homemade products to smell good so I always consider blending this way, even for my medicinal products.
Thanks again! Thank you Meagan! It was helpful in learning how to mix and test essential oils. Susan M. I have mixed rosehip oil with emu oil and used that on my face. I am trying to treat my eczema and redness on my face. Please recommend me oils and oils to blend if you know any good ones! Thank you. Hi Diana. This essential oil blend will then be added to the carrier oil s of your choice like those you mentioned in your comment.
If you wanna learn more about blending essential oils based on their therapeutic properties and have them smell good too, check out this post I wrote on how to create therapeutic essential oil blends in 7 steps. Hope this helps some! Thanks for your comment! Once you dilute the essential oils in a carrier oil you can apply that via a cotton ball or your hands… whatever you prefer.
I recently took a class at my university on the use of essential oils and my professor mentioned that in rare cases peppermint can be extremely dangerous in children under 6. Please follow the link bleow for more information about this under the Special Considerations section. I also link to my posts on EO safety which addresses age related concerns.
Thanks for the link though!! Thanks for this wonderful post! I am just getting into making my own natural body products and I will be using essential oils in them.
Greatly appreciated! My children and I this weekend created some blends for their new atomizing diffusers for their rooms. I saw a post that said something about the need to use a carrier oil for diffusing.
Am I causing more harm than good? From my understanding, you use straight EOs dropped in distilled water for atomizing diffusers. Im zeyad fome kuwait state , i just read the all information you wrote my qustions is Im just mixing essential oils arabic but what i dont understand is we mg in our mixing example for 50 mg bottel. What is the best thing that i mixed it with the essential oils to keep the smill stay long time on clothes? Are you wanting to know how much of the essential oil you add to the alcohol?
As far as how to get it to stay on your clothes for a long time, that too will depend on the blend and the strength. Remember the base note oil is the one that will linger the longest. Also, the dilution percentage will matter.
The stronger the dilution, the more it will smell. Hope that helps more! I just happened upon your site and I really like it. Everything is researched and well written. While I agree that a low cost essential oil will usually indicate an adulteration, there are many smaller companies that have pure essential oils with reasonable prices.
I also really enjoyed your information on blending. First, I would like to say thank you for all your time and hard work you put into this article. It seems you have done a lot of hard work and a good job for us all to take into consideration. I would like to know if you have to rest it 24 hours if you are going to be putting it in an oil burner or a diffuser? I would be mixing something for calming and concentration.
I homeschool and my DD needs something to help her stay focused and my patience is being test greatly right now. It just helps the scents mix together better. Hope that helps. Do you apply it to a specific part of the body? Any help? Sure Dorie. For school, the best bet is to dilute the EO blend in a carrier oil like jojoba oil and put it in a 1 oz. Simply rub a little bit on the insides of the wrist, behind the ears, the temple area, or the neck and you should be able to absorb it into the skin slowly as well as smell it for a bit.
Hope that helps!! Let me know if you have any other questions! I would like to mix an oil to help with pigmentation. If you follow the links in the post to the AromaWeb. Hope that helps you some! I really appreciate your honesty related to EO companies. Great information!! I am new to all this but am going to try and start mixing up some of my own blends soon and was wondering about letting the mixture rest. Or does it matter either way!? Definitely with the lid on Katy.
If you let EOs sit with the lid off they will dry up and evaporate. Is it usually considered 1 top note, 2 middle notes, and 1 base? Or does it just depend on what oils are used? Any info would be helpful! Hello Meagan! I found you while searching for information about essential oils. You have a really neat site and with tons of great and valuable information that helps me a lot.
I have been using essential oils for some time now, specially for cleaning around my home and for room sprays. My question for you is, Can I use jasmine absolute in jojoba oil for scent my wax?
And what will be the ratio for blending in 6oz of soy wax? Would the rule apply the same for blending essential oils for candles?
Looking forward to your answer, it would really help me a lot. Thank you Meagan. Hey Gabriela! You need the concentrated oil. Hope that helps… some! Best of luck on your fabric though! Hi Meagan, thank you, this was really helpful. Are there any essential oils you particularly enjoy using in the bath? I almost always give my kids baths in the evening same goes for me as a way to relax before bed so we use a lot of relaxing oils like lavender and chamomile or grounding oils like patchouli and vetiver.
Citrus oils mostly, but there are others that work great in those blends too like mint oils. Best of luck with your bath melts. They look wonderful! I am enjoying learning about essential oils and am appreciating them so much!
Thank you for this article. I do have a question for you … How do I choose and use a diffuser? I am currently using my old scentsy burner — water with a few drops of essential oil — as a diffuser, but it evaporates so quickly and the scent is so light.
What do you suggest for longer lasting air diffusion? Hi Cari. I use it often and it works great. However, I have heard others say that the cheaper ones work just as well. I know Plant Therapy carries diffusers, and I think they have some really great ones that are lower priced. Hi Meagan, Thanks for sharing, you really broke the process down in an easy to understand way. Wish I had the oils you used in the example so I could try it out. All the oils she let us smell seemed more fragrant than my EG EOs, I was wondering if you ever noticed that and what may be the reason.
Do what works for you and you feel is best. Everyone is welcome here. I just what has worked best for me. I hope this answers your question Jessica and is helpful to you! Thanks for your info Meaghan. It was very helpful. I have to say that I love, love essential oils. I did so much research and have used them for years. More than a year ago I decided to give Young Living a try after much research and even though I have tried other companies I have to say that I absolutely love Young Living.
I know there are other great companies out there because I have used them. However Young Living is absolutely a wonderful company and their oils are amazing. I totally trust them and I have had such success with them health wise. I am a member of their Blue Spruce Club and everything I ever want to know about how to use essential oils is there. I love Thieves, YLs blend. It is amazing for everything. I still use other oils but YL is my favourite!
Thanks for sharing! I love this post! Just found it via Google. I am wanting to make a room spray today and the only oils I have on hand are eucalyptus, patchouli and tea tree oil.
Any recommendations? Will these even go well together? Just read the post again and take each of the oils through the blending steps to see if they are a good fit.
Hi there — Im new to oils… maybe someone already asked this… but is it ok to mix oils from other companies — for example — lavender from Young Living with peppermint from doTerra? Could you provide any advice. Thanks, Avery useful information on blending essential oils, hope would be successful in creating blends of my choice. Do you know what might have happened? Dear Megan Thank you so much for your wonderful information.
Regarding your spray using vodka, water and essential oils — could you please give me the ratios? To Diana April 20 — doTerra have two beautiful blends you may love.
Immortelle contains frankincense, sandalwood, lavender, myrrh, helichrysum and rose. Whisper contains patchouli, bergamot, sandalwood, rose, jasmine,, cinnamon bark, cistus, vetiver, ylang ylang, geranium, cocoa bean extract and vanilla bean extract. I hope this helps. Hope that helps Lynley! Hello, Meagan. I am finding it extremely helpful. Thank you very much. Cheers, Ardith. Glad it was helpful Ardith!
You are unbiased and honest which is fantastic. Keep up the great work! Kind Regards Donna. This may have been discussed in some of the comments…I did not read them all. I have read to put a drop of essential oil on a white sheet of paper and put aside for 24 hours.
Is this a reliable test? And, is there an expiration date on oils…I have some with an exp date. I always put a sticker on the bottle the day I opened it. Thank you,. And yes, most aromatherapists do say that EOs expire. I think they last longer if you store them correctly, but I think their therapeutic properties wane over time.
Hope that answers your question, and thanks for your comment. Thank you so much for all this wonderful information! I have become passionate about oils and specially blending them and you article was so helpful :. Really enjoyed all the information! What would sandalwood be considered? Woodsy or earthy? In comparison to bergamot would it be a top note or middle note…I am pretty sure it is not a bottom note but I might be wrong? Thanks once again! I believe sandalwood is a base not Annette.
Of course you can combine whatever you like together if you think it smells good. Hope that helps some! Hi, This post is awesome! Thanks for the info for a newbie.
A question that you may or may not be able to help me with. I am trying to make a citrus blend to use in soap.
I think I have the blend of EOs that I want to use. What I am not sure about is diluting it in a carrier oil. How diluted should I make it? Or should I not dilute it at all so it is strong enough to make it through the soap process? Thanks for any help! Hope that helps, and good luck with your soap! I would like to add pure essential oils to beeswax candles. My questions are: Should I add a carrier oil or just the pure essential oils?
Does anyone have a blend they would like to share and how much would I use for a pound of beeswax? Any help is greatly appreciated! I really enjoyed reading this. I found it to be very helpful in understanding EOs and how to blend them by notes and by and by categories. This has been the most in depth I have seen anyone get into usage and blending. I apreciate how positive you are towards all brands of oils. I have bookmarked your page and will be back for more information. If you have any suggestions that would be great.
Thought I found a good one but read some reviews and then decided to not buy as it was older. Man this whole world is a bit daunting!! Thanks so much Michelle. I get a lot of recipes from Vintage Remedies Jessie Hawkins is an aromatherapist and Aromahead an aromatherapy school as well as older books by respected aromatherapists and companies that sell quality essential oils. Good luck!! Wonderful blog site! I just jumped into this EO stuff this week, with little forethought.
I wanted some natural bug repellent solutions for my dogs and my family. Next thing I know, I have ordered lots of ingredients and am finding myself getting to get into this. My husband said if I start stirring a big black couldron and cackling, he will start worrying. I just made my very first blend. For repelling ticks off my dogs. The Neem stinks to high heaven. Would I blend a properly diluted in carrier oil say…Eucalyptus, mixture in with my Neem mixture or simply add some drops of Eucalyptus to the Neem mixture with no additional carrier oil?
Does my question this make sense? Hi Meagan! I just recently purchased 3 oils from Edens garden and I wanted to know if you can combine the ones I purchased or would I need to look and see what is in them first. Im just entering the world of oils and Im a little bit clueless!! What you bought are their synergy blends which is where they take single oils and combine them to create certain effects.
Does that answer your question? Hi could you tell me a fragrance oil to add to Japanese Peppermint and neem oils. I have a few others in the mixture, but these two are the strongest scents.
I want to add another that would give a much more pleasant scent. Please help if you can.. Keep looking and pairing different ones together to find something you like.
I bought Frankencense and thyme…………. All info will be appreciated. Hi IVOR, and thanks for your comment. My best advice would be to Google it and familiarize yourself with what you learn, then find a certified aromatherapist who can help you.
Best of luck! I may have missed this…but how many different oils can you blend in one blend. I have found 8 different oils that are good for hypothyroidism and I put them all together…. You can do as many as you like Erin. Great blog! Quick question for a newbie here: into what are we blending these drops of oils? An empty bottle? A cotton ball? The palm of your hand? A diffuser? Thanks Lisa, and great question. When I blend my EOs I blend them in little bottles like this to test scents.
I currently only have 3, tea tree, lavender and apple. Can you tell me what other oils are good for mixing with the ones I gave! Hey Shelley! Good for you for starting to add EOs to your soaps. I love scented, homemade soaps!
As for what oils to mix with the ones you already have, let me direct you back to the post on blending. It will help you find other EOs to add to the ones you have and to come up with blends that work for your soaps.
Figure out what categories and notes the oils you have are and then work on finding other oils that complement them. You have to get oils and try out different blends and decide on what YOU like. You could replace it with chamomile as many people think chamomile has an apple-like scent. Thanks for your comment, and I hope this has helped you some. I need your help! I need help with my allergies. I believe the dustmites in my house have been causing my itchy eyes and congestion and such in my new place.
I want to be able to spray a mixture around the house, on my clothes that can kill them or lessen there activity. Hey Sarah! My suggestions for you would be to come up with a cleaning routine that keeps your house clean which will help with dust mites as you know and search Google for EO bug blends.
You may also want to work with an aromatherapist if you have more questions.
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