Aromatherapy Recipes - Part 11

For Tired, Sore Muscles and Sporting Injuries
Simply add a little eucalyptus oil to some olive oil and rub into the areas that are affected.

After Bath Splash

4oz vodka
1 teaspoon glycerine
Funnel
30 drops essential oil of choice
Small decorative bottle
Wide mouth jar

Mix all ingredients together in a wide mouth jar. With funnel pour mixture into decorative bottle.

Refreshing Lemon Body Splash

½ cup witch hazel
½ cup bottled spring water
5—8 drops lemon essential oil
8oz glass bottle with a small neck

Make the Splash:
Pour the witch hazel and bottled water in the glass bottle. Attach the cap and shake well.
Add the lemon essential oil, one drop at a time, until it reaches the desired scent strength.
Attach the cap and shake well. Note: shake well before each use.
Care for the Splash:
Keep the bottle tightly closed and away form sunlight when not in use.
If you store the product in your bathroom cabinet, use i within one week. It will last for one month in the fridge.

Aches and Pain Massage oil

1oz peanut oil
4 drops juniper essential oil
6 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops bay oil

Blend essential oils with carrier oil (peanut oil) and apply externally to achy joints or muscles.

After Sun Oil

50ml coconut oil
10ml lavender essential oil
50ml olive oil

Mix together and bottle and shake well before use.

Rich Cream (for very dry skin)

10g white wax, grated
5g castor oil
50g peanut oil
20g distilled or rain water

Melt wax and oils together, remove from heat and beat in distilled water or rain water. Continue to beat until cool and creamy.
Mix together and bottle. Smooth over skin nigh and morning.

Lavender Night Cream

2 Tablespoon avocado oil
2 Tablespoon almond oil
6 Tablespoon lanolin
2 teaspoon lavender essential oil

Put lanolin in a bowl and stand in a pan of hot water. Add avocado and almond oil and beat well. When combined, remove from heat and continue to beat as mixture cools and thickens. Add lavender oil, beat until mixture is thick and creamy. Put into small jars with screw on lids and keep in the fridge.

Cuticle Cream—Recipe 1

Mix together
1 teaspoon lanolin
1 teaspoon apricot kernel oil
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon clear honey

Blend well. Keep in a corked bottle. Soak fingertips in hot soapy water, dry and paint cuticle cream around nails with a brush or cotton bud. Push back the cuticles, leaving cream on skin to dry.

Lanolin Hand Cream

200g lanolin
200g Vaseline
20ml almond oil
20ml rosewater

In top of a double boiler warm lanolin and Vaseline together, while still on low heat, gradually beat in the almond oil and rosewater. Remove from heat and beat with electric mixer for 10 minutes. Leave to cool overnight, next day beat again. Keep in screw-top jars.

Nail Whitener

1 denture tablet
1 cup warm water

Soak fingers (and even toes, if you want) in mix for 10 minutes. Throw mixture away after use.

Elbow Softener
Use this twice a day and the skin on your elbows will soften within a week. After that a weekly treatment should be enough

This is about 1 weeks supply:

4 Tablespoon olive oil
Juice of 1 lemon
1 Tablespoon honey

Pour the ingredients into a sterilised jar, cover and shake vigorously. Shake well before use.
Massage a little into each elbow for about 2 minutes. Rinse off, pat dry and moisturise.

Lemon Hand Cream

1 Tablespoon rosewater
1 Tablespoon glycerine
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1 dessertspoon methylated spirits

Mix together and keep in a labelled, corked bottle.

Basic Hand Lotion

1 dessertspoon honey
1 dessertspoon lemon juice
1 dessertspoon olive oil
1 dessertspoon glycerine

Mix together and keep in a labelled, corked bottle.

Lavender Foot-Rub

Relax and enjoy this wonderful foot-rub or package some for a friend who needs a little pampering and relaxation.

All you need to do is place ¼ cup cider vinegar, ⅓ cup lavender essential oil and ½ cup safflower oil into a double saucepan. Stir the mixture continuously over a low heat until the ingredients have combined. Allow the mixture to cool, then store in large jar.

Lavender Lotion

1oz glycerine
2 teaspoon lavender essential oil

Put ingredients in a clean glass bottle and shake well. Refrigerate.

Cuticle Cream—Recipe 2

Mix ¼ cup sorbolene cream with 1 teaspoon olive oil, such as lavender and a few drops of tea tree oil. Soak fingertips in a bowl of hot, soapy water, then towel dry.
Massage cream around the cuticles and gently push back with a cuticle stick. Allow fingertips to dry.

Oil Free Moisturiser

5 Tablespoon aloe vera gel
1 Tablespoon glycerine
3—10 drops essential oil of your choice

Shake to combine. Add any fragrance you like, if you don’t want to add essential oil you don’t have to add the oil. Try using rose essential oil, which soothes and softens the skin.

After Sun Oil with Tea

Tea cools the skin and helps to maintain a tan. The sesame oil enriches the sun to prevent it from drying.

4 Tablespoon sesame oil
4 Tablespoon strong plain tea
4 Tablespoon coconut oil
4 drops lavender essential oil

Place the sesame and coconut oil in the top of a double boiler or into a bowl set in a saucepan of water. Melt them together.
Beat in the tea.
Remove entirely from the heat and beat in the lavender essential oil.
Transfer the mixture to a sterilized bottle and shake well before use.

Peppermint Lip Balm

2 Tablespoon petroleum jelly
10—14 drops peppermint essential oil
1 teaspoon beeswax

In a small pot, melt the petroleum jelly, and then add beeswax. When melted, remove from heat and add peppermint essential oil. Pour into lip pot and cool.

Lippy

Lippy makes lips kissable soft without being greasy. This recipe makes a lot of lip balm so you can divide it in half or quarters to make less.

1.5oz olive oil
2.5oz jojoba oil
2oz white beeswax
1oz candelilla wax
3.5oz Shea butter

Place all ingredients into heatproof measuring cup in a hot water bath. Do not boil the water completely and wait for solids to melt. Once they have melted, you can remove the measuring cup. Stir.

If you want to add essential oil to provide nice fragrance, you can. This is optional and you might want to add ½ teaspoon of each for a nice scent. Stir to combine.
Pour lippy into glass jars and allow cooling before using. Lippy is a soothingly wonderful treat for kissable soft lips!

Desert Jewel Perfume

7 drops frankincense essential oil
12 drops rosewood essential oil
1 drop ylang ylang essential oil
1oz jojoba oil

Swirl essential oils together and add to the jojoba oil.

Exotic Fragrance Perfume

12 drops patchouli essential oil
2 drops ylang ylang essential oil
3 drops geranium essential oil
1 drop cinnamon leaf or cinnamon bark

Add the blend of these essential oils to 10 millilitres of vodka for perfumes and colognes (oils can also be diluted in vegetable oil).

Spring Fever Solid Perfume

30ml jojoba oil
30ml almond oil
40g beeswax pellets
10 drops bergamot essential oil
5 drops patchouli essential oil
5 drops ylang ylang essential oil

In a double boiler, combine the ingredients and blend over a low heat. Then pour into glass jars.