Aromatherapy Recipes - Part 12

Enchanted Perfume

2 cups distilled water
3 Tablespoon vodka
5 drops everlasting essential oil
10 drops peony essential oil
10 drops sandalwood essential oil

Mix all the ingredients together, shake well. Place in a dark coloured bottle. Then allow the perfume to settle for at least 12 hours. Store in a cool dry area.

Solid Perfume—Recipe 2

1 Tablespoon grated beeswax
4 Tablespoon sweet almond oil
1 teaspoon essential oil of your choice
1 capsule vitamin E

Melt beeswax in an enamel or glass pan over boiling water. Add sweet almond oil. Let all the mixture to cool slightly before adding the oils of your choice. Fill a clean, dry glass jars with the solid perfume.

A Wiccan Potion for Attracting Love

For women to wear
1oz sweet almond oil
6 drops sandalwood essential oil
3 drops ylang ylang essential oil
3 drops ginger
2 drops patchouli essential oil

Based Perfume Oil

¾ teaspoon jojoba oil
30 drops essential or fragrance oil of choice

Fill a sterilized ½oz glass bottle with ¾ teaspoon jojoba oil. Add essential or fragrance oil and blend completely.

Oriental Nights Perfume

4 drops sandalwood essential oil
4 drops musk essential oil
3 drops frankincense essential oil
2 teaspoon jojoba oil

Mix all the ingredients together and shake well. Allow perfume to settle for at least 12 hours. Store in a cool dry place.

Cologne

This cologne is scented with essential oils

125ml vodka
150ml dark glass bottle
Jojoba oil
Selection of essential oil

Pour the vodka into the bottle and add 2 teaspoon jojoba oil.
Add up to 40 drops of essential oil in the proportions that you have worked out following the instructions. Cover and shake well.
Sniff to test. Correct if necessary, adding only one extra drop of oil at a time. Use within 6 months.

D-I-Y Massage Oil

One of the most pleasurable ways to nourish skin is to massage in vegetable oil or nut oil. To really enjoy this nourishing treat, why not make a bottle of your own massage oil.

In a small bowl, mix:
600ml of oil (use sweet almond oil) with
5 drops orange essential oil
5 drops cedarwood essential oil
5 drops lavender essential oil

It is best to store your massage oil in an opaque glass jar with a tightly fitted lid. This will prevent light and air reaching the contents, which can cause deterioration. Re-usable brown and blue jars and bottles can be brought, or you can save and wash empty glass jars from cosmetics that you have acquired.
Always label your bottle immediately after filling it, especially if you are making more than one product at a time. It is easy to forget which is which when confronted with a mass of anonymous bottles.
Massage oils make great, cheap presents. Use plain sticky labels or Christmas labels or your own homemade labels, and decorate.
It is also a good idea to include the date you made the product. Add a “Not To Be Swallowed” Warning.

Lip Balm—Recipe 1

Mason jar
Medium sized pot and spoons
Pure beeswax
Olive oil
Flavour extract
Food colouring
Small, empty containers

Boil 1 cup of water in a pot. While it heats, put a chunk of beeswax, about the amount of 1 Tablespoon, into a wide-mouthed mason jar and add 3 Tablespoon of olive oil. Then, carefully placed the jar in the boiling water and stir it with a spoon until the beeswax melts.
When it’s all liquidly, carefully remove the jar from the water using oven mitts. Now it’s time to choose a flavour and colour.
For flavour, you can choose any yummy extract from your grocery store! Lemon, orange, cinnamon, almond, vanilla ... Add ¼ teaspoon (you can make fun flavour combinations, to: cherry-vanilla, banana-coconut, citrus burst).
Next, add a few drops of food colouring and stir the lip balm until it begins to cool. You’ll suddenly see it begin to thicken and the colour will really start to show up.
Spoon the balm into small glass jars. You can recycle old, empty ones (be sure to clean them first with hot soap and water).
Give the containers a tap as you fill them, to get rid of air bubbles. If the balm gets too hard, just place the jar back in the hot water for 1 minute o two to soften it up!
Leave the containers open while they cool completely. Then, decorate them by gluing on material, coloured paper, ribbon or stickers!

Exotic Aftershave

3 Tablespoon witch hazel
5 Tablespoon cider vinegar
5 Tablespoons orange flower water
15 drops bergamot essential oil
10 drops lemon essential oil
8 drops neroli essential oil

Combine all the ingredients into a bottle, shake well. Set aside for 1 week. Shake once a day. Store in a cool dark place.

Kitchen Sink Scrub

½ cup baking soda
⅛ cup vinegar
5 drops lemon essential oil
5 drops orange essential oil

Combine all ingredients.

Natural Diaper Rash Ointment

1oz calendula oil
½oz avocado oil
½oz sweet almond oil

In a 2oz bottle, mix the above carrier oils together. This natural blend will soothe the skin, heal and calm any inflammation. Apply directly to affected areas.

Baby Bottom Balm

1 cup calendula oil
1oz beeswax
1oz mango butter
8 drops lavender essential oil
¼ lavender glimmer mica

Heat calendula oil, beeswax until melted. Mix the mica into the essential oil until it has no clumps. Stir the coloured lavender oil to the slightly cooled oil/butter mixture and pour into jars or deodorant containers. Apply to baby’s bottom in between diaper changes. Also great for cheeks and drool drenched chins!

Diaper Ointment

16oz sweet almond oil
8oz Shea butter
8oz jojoba oil
4.5oz virgin coconut oil
4.5oz beeswax
2 drops calendula absolute

Mix oils, butter and beeswax together in double boiler until wax and butter is melted. Then add the calendula and stir. Add1% tea tree, lavender and chamomile essential oils (combined volume). Pour into jars.

Herbal Baby Balm

1 cup calendula or camelina oil
3 Tablespoon dried lavender
1 Tablespoon dried calendula
1 Tablespoon dried rose petals
1 teaspoon dried chamomile
2 Tablespoon vitamin E oil
1½ teaspoon jojoba oil
4 drops lavender essential oil
8 Tablespoon beeswax

Grind the herbs into a powder using a clean coffee grinder or blender. Warm oil in top of a double boiler pot; add the powdered herbs and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes to 1 hour to allow the healing properties of the herbs to fully release in the oil. Place remaining oils in a glass bowl. Place a coffee filter inside a wire strainer, hold over glass bowl, and pour the warm herb oil through the strainer into the bowl. Melt the beeswax in the top of a double boiler, add slowly to the oil and herb mixture while whisking with a whisk or egg beater. Continue whisking until the mixture is thick and creamy. Store in 2—4oz containers. If you plan to store balm longer than 3 months, keep refrigerated.

Sweet Dreams Baby Lotion

1½ cup aloe vera gel
1½ teaspoon lanolin
1½ teaspoon vitamin E oil
⅓ cup virgin coconut oil
1oz pure beeswax (white), filtered
¾ cup camelina oil
1½ teaspoon essential oil (optional) 2 Tablespoon lavender powder
1½ teaspoon chamomile powder

In a blender, mix aloe gel, lanolin, vitamin E oil. Using a glass container, melt coconut oil and beeswax until fully melted. Gently stir in camelina oil. Slowly pour oils into blender on low. At this point oils will thicken and turn white. Stop blender and add essential oil, if used. Blend gently in short bursts. Do Not over blend. Add lavender and chamomile powders, blend gently until incorporated. While mixture is still warm, pour into containers. This mixture will thicken quickly as it cools. This lotion doesn’t leave oily feeling to skin and absorbs well. Great as a massage lotion for baby.

Makes approximately 2½ cups.

Peace Cologne for Men

3 drops bergamot essential oil
2 drops frankincense essential oil
3 drops cedarwood essential oil
300ml vodka

Pour the alcohol into a bottle or jar. Add the oils and shake well. Leave for 1 week. Don’t forget to try and make your own scents as well, after all you’re unique...shouldn't your cologne be too? And don’t forget to give it a name.

Diaper Wipes
Combine ¼ cup of aloe gel, 1 cup water, 3 drops lavender essential oil, 2 drops tea tree oil. Mix well and pour over homemade wipes. Reusable flannel cloths or a roll of paper towel cut in half works well. This is an antibacterial, soothing solution without the harsh chemicals and alcohol often found in commercial wipes.

Belly Balm—Stretch Mark Prevention Oil

It is smooth, moisturizing and it can really help with itching that often becomes present when the skin starts stretching.

In a double boiler melt
1 cup coconut oil
¼ cup cocoa butter
⅛ cup apricot, almond or grapeseed oil or ⅛ cup Shea butter or mango butter
10—20 drops sandalwood essential oil
15 drops patchouli essential oil
15 drops sweet orange essential oil

When the oils are all melted, allow it to cool and add the essential oils, and pour into another container for the mixture to be stored in.

Labour Mists

In a 4oz spray bottle almost fill it with distilled water.

Add
20 drops grapefruit essential oil
15 drops sweet orange essential oil
10 drops spearmint essential oil

Shake well and mist labor room, or you can make a compress using a wet cloth and misting the cloth, apply to forehead or the labouring mum’s back. This mist is great for dad too.