Aromatherapy Recipes - Part 7

Feeling the Burn Mist

25 drops lavender essential oil
17 drops chamomile essential oil
5 drops geranium essential oil
2 liquid vitamin E
2oz aloe vera juice

Mix all ingredients, apply as needed.

All over Body Oil

6 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops petitgrain essential oil
1 drop ylang ylang essential oil
25ml grapeseed oil

Blend all ingredients into a clean glass jar. Shake well before each use.

Massage Oil for Baby

4oz of oil (olive, sweet almond oil, apricot or sunflower)
5 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops orange essential oil

Pour your ingredients right into the bottle your going to use to dispense the massage oils. Just give good shake to blend the oils and you’re all set. If you want a truly heavenly oil use rose essential oil in place of lavender and orange essential oil.

Hair Shampoo & Conditioner

Dry Hair:
125mls shampoo and/or conditioner base
6 drops rosemary essential oil
6 drops cedarwood essential oil
6 drops ylang ylang essential oil
2ml vitamin E

Normal Hair:
125mls shampoo and/or conditioner base
10 drops geranium essential oil
5 drops clary sage essential oil
2ml vitamin E

Oily Hair:
125mls shampoo and/or conditioner base
5 drops eucalyptus essential oil
5 drops lemon essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
2ml vitamin E

Place shampoo/conditioner in a bowl.
Add vitamin E and mix thoroughly.
Leave mixture to settle for 20-30 minutes.
Add essential oils and mix thoroughly.

To Use:
Use as you would normally do.

After Sun Soothing Spray

35 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops peppermint essential oil

Mix oils in spray bottle with 2oz distilled water.
Store in fridge for a really soothing spray.
Shake before use.

Solid perfume—Recipe 1

Makes 80g

With this solid perfume you can add your favourite smelling essential oils and not have to have alcohol sprayed on your body.

50g coconut oil
25g beeswax
8ml essential oil (scent of your choice)

Heat beeswax and coconut oil together.
Wait for mixture to cool down and then pour in essential oils, and mix well until oils are totally mixed. (if mixture cools too quickly then put container in bowl of hot water).
Then pour mixture into jars immediately.
When mixture has cooled in containers put lids on.

To Use:
Put on your wrists and neck.
Since this perfume does not contain alcohol, then it will not be drying for your neck. It would also be an excellent way to put lavender essential oil, if you are proned to headaches—just add lavender essential oil to your base and use on your neck and temples, this way the lavender essential oil will not be overpowering.

Lavender Bath Fizz

Makes over 2 cups of bath fizz.

1 cup sodium bicarbonate
¼ cup citric acid
3 Tablespoon cornflour
½ cup sea salt
Handful of gently crushed dried lavender buds
2ml (40 drops) lavender essential oil

Combine all the above ingredients and pack into a jar.
It is really important to keep these ingredients extremely dry or the fizzing will take place without you.

To Use:
You can choose how much to use per bath, you will probably need a filter in the drain to catch the lavender buds.

Cleopatra’s Milk Bath

Makes over 3 cups

2 cups powdered milk
½ cup bicarb soda
½ cup Epsom salt
½ cup honey
20 drops geranium essential oil
10 drops ylang ylang essential oil
10 drops mandarin essential oil
Handful of rose petals

Mix together powdered milk, bicarb soda and Epsom salts.
Heat honey just a little bit and add essential oils and mix thoroughly.
Then combine dry ingredients with honey mixture.
Once the mixture is well combined, then add a handful of rose petals.

To Use:
You can choose how much to use per bath you will probably need a filter in the drain to catch the rose petals.

Energizing Bath Salts

1 cup Epsom salts
1 cup coarse salt
10—20 drops green food colouring
6 drops eucalyptus essential oil
10 drops rosemary essential oil
15 drops peppermint essential oil

Mix salts in large bowl. In smaller bowl take ¼ - ½ cup salt mixture and add food colouring and oils. Mix well. Add back into rest of salt mixture.

Lip Gloss

2 teaspoon beeswax
7 teaspoons castor oil or jojoba or sweet almond oil
1 teaspoon honey
5 drops of an essential oil such as lemon, peppermint, orange, lime, tangerine

Melt the oil and beeswax together in a little pan over low heat until the beeswax is melted.
Take off the stove and then add in your honey, and whisk it all together. When the mixture is nearly cool add in your essential oil, mix it up again and then pour into your lip balm containers.
Since this comes out to be more like a gloss you can always add more beeswax to it so that it is a little more harder. Maybe another ½ teaspoon would do it.

Refreshing Facial Toner / Mist

Add the following essential oils to 2oz of distilled water.

6 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop sage essential oil
1 drop chamomile essential oil
4 drops lemon essential oil

Pour into a spray mist bottle, essential oils and water will separate; so shake the bottle vigorously before spritzing this refreshing blend onto clean skin.

Cuticle Care

1oz jojoba oil
1oz sweet almond oil
6 drops clary sage essential oil
6 drops lavender essential oil
3 drops geranium essential oil
3 drops rosemary essential oil
3 drops lemon essential oil

Blend oil well. Then apply a drop to each fingernail, massage into and around nail and cuticle at bedtime. Apply especially after your hands have been exposed to water, dirt and harsh chemicals.

Rosewater

1 cup rose petals
½ cup rose petals
1½ cup water

Simmer rose petals in water for 10 minutes. Strain. Preserve with alcohol or just refrigerate without preserving. Store up to 1 week in the fridge.

Citrus Body Splash

1 cup water
6 drops orange essential oil
6 drops bergamot essential oil
6 drops lemon essential oil
1 Tablespoon witch hazel

Mix the ingredients together. Pour a small amount into your hand. Massage your face with cleanser, then rinse. Store in an airtight container in the fridge. It will last up to 10 days.