Aromatherapy Recipes - Part 3

Bath Salts—Recipe 1

Baby food jars or other small jars
Epsom salt
Food colouring
Fragrance

In a bowl, mix Epsom salts, enough food colouring to colour and enough oil to scent.

Fill a jar with the bath salts.

Make a label and add to the outside of the jar.

Shower Gel

100ml shower gel
15 drops lime essential oil
5 drops rosemary essential oil

Add the essential oil to the shower gel and mix well.

Store in a plastic bottle in the shower.

Basic Lotion Bars

2oz beeswax
1oz almond oil
1oz cocoa butter
Essential oil

Melt beeswax and cocoa butter on the stove in a clean pot. Once melted, remove from heat and add the almond oil. Mix in the essential oil, one drop at a time until it’s reached the desired scent.
Pour the mixture into a mould or even a deodorant tube (for easy, non-messy application) and let it set completely before using.

Stretch Mark (Prevention of appearance)

20ml almond or apricot kernel oil
6 drops mandarin essential oil

Helps to nourish and keep skin tissue supple. Mandarin is the most gentle of the citrus oils for use in skin care during pregnancy.

Morning Sickness (Also Nausea and Travel sickness)

2 drops spearmint essential oil
2 drops ginger essential oil

Use in vaporization or mix with 20ml carrier oil and massaged onto abdomen, these oils bring relief to nausea and digestive upsets.

Scented Hair

2 drops of rosemary, lavender or sandalwood essential oil

Apply 2 drops of your chosen essential oil to the bristles of your hairbrush and brush your hair well. The oils will leave your hair with a wonderful aroma.