Aromatherapy Recipes - Part 15

Soothing Summer Body Spray

1 Tablespoon witch hazel
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon cucumber extract
1 cup water

For a refreshing cool feeling, make an after show spray by combining all the ingredients. Place in a pump spray bottle.

Homemade Hair Gel

½ to 1 teaspoon unflavoured gelatine
1 cup warm water

Dissolve gelatine in 1 cup warm water. Keep refrigerated and use as you would a purchased gel.

Deodorant Body Splash

4oz vinegar
3 teaspoon vodka
9 drops grapefruit essential oil
5 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops lemon essential oil
3 drops peppermint essential oil
4 drops rosemary essential oil
6 drops sage essential oil

Add to 2 cups purified water. Blend the oils together, add them to the vodka, and shake well. Let settle for half an hour, then add the vinegar and shake well. Pour mixture into 2 cups purified water and shake well. Finally, pass the liquid through a paper coffee filter. The longer you leave the essential oils in the vodka and vinegar mix before adding to the water, the stronger the scent will be.

Solid Cologne

3 parts carrier oil (sweet almond or jojoba)
2 parts beeswax
1 part essential oil of your choice

Melt the beeswax, add the carrier oil, then the essential oil. You might want to let the mixture cool a bit before add the essential oil, so it doesn’t dissipate from the heat. Pour into the tins and let cool completely before capping. Always use a Pyrex measuring cup to melt the stuff so you can pour it in the containers.

Homemade Scented Hair Gel

1 cup water
2 Tablespoon flax seed
2 drops scented oil of your choice

Combine water and seeds in a small saucepan.
Bring to the boil then remove from heat.
Allow to set for a half an hour.
Strain through fine colander.
When completely cooled, add scented oil.

Oily Hair Treatment

½ teaspoon aloe vera gel (squeeze gel out of aloe vera plant)
1 Tablespoon lemon juice

Blend ingredient together with ¼ cup of your regular hair shampoo. Wash hair then rinse well.

Hot Oil Hair Treatment

2 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Tablespoon honey

Combine oil and honey in small plastic sandwich bag.
Fill a coffee cup with water and heat until almost boiling.
Dip sandwich bag in water just until oil is warmed.
Apply warm oil to dry hair, working from scalp to tips.
Cover your head with a shower cap and leave for 15 minutes.
Wash hair as usual.

Notes: while hair is conditioning, hop in the shower or bath. The warmer the oil stays, the better it works.

Glitter Dust

¼ cup aloe vera gel
1 teaspoon glycerine
¼ teaspoon fine polyester glitter (any colour)
5 drops essential oil of your choice
1 drop food colouring (your choice)

Mix aloe and glycerine in a small bowl. Stir in glitter, essential oil and colour. It is ready to use immediately.

Basic Body Balm

¼ cup beeswax pellets
¼ cup carrier oil

Pour oil into enamel coated pan, add grated beeswax.
Stir on medium low heat until melted.
Remove from heat and allow to cool sightly.
If consistency is too thin, add more beeswax; if too thick, add more oil. When you have your desired consistency.
Stir with a wooden or plastic spoon. (you won’t be using it for cooking again).
Pour into containers.
Add your essential oils, and stir well again.
To use the balms, rub on bottoms of feet, back of neck, inside wrists and or temples.

Light Hand Cream

This is a light cream to use on hands or face.

1oz emulsifying wax
½oz cocoa butter
3 teaspoon carrier oil
1 teaspoon glycerine
12oz rose water (or purified water with a teaspoon of vitamin C powder stirred in for preservative)

Warm rose water and glycerine.
Melt wax and cocoa butter in a double boiler. Take off heat and add water and glycerine.
Beat until thick. If using a beater, you may have to finish up by hand.

Unscented Moisture Cream

2 Tablespoons carnauba wax
1 Tablespoon white beeswax
½ cup apricot kernel oil
6oz jar

Over low heat, melt the wax and oil in a double boiler. Stir. Remove from heat and pour into jar.
If you want to make this a scented cream, simply add two drops of your favourite essential oil to the mixture as it cools, before you pour it into the jar. Beware of using essential oils with photo toxic properties.

Honey Lip Balm

2 Tablespoons olive oil
½ teaspoon honey
¾ teaspoon beeswax—grated
½ teaspoon cocoa butter
Flavoured oil of your choice—to taste
1 vitamin E capsule

In a small saucepan, melt oil, honey, wax and butter over low heat.
Remove from heat and allow to cool for 2 to 3 minutes.
Stir in flavoured and contents of vitamin E capsule.
Pour into containers of your choice.

Basic Massage Oil

6 teaspoons carrier oil of your choice
8 drops essential oil of your choice

Blend ingredients well, warm up oil before doing any massage including your fingertips.

Regular Lip Balm

12g beeswax
12g Shea butter
12g cocoa butter
12g sweet almond oil

Place the wax and butters in a heat proof jug and melt them together. The easiest way is to microwave them for 1 minute then wrap the jug in two tea towels and let it sit to melt. You could also place jug in a double boiler but ensure that no water gets into the jug.
Once melted, add the oil and heat gently to remelt all of the waxes/butters. Remove from heat and add 20 drops of essential oil. Stir to incorporate.
Half fill the container and wait until it sets (goes opaque) but is still warm. Completely fill the container and leave to cool completely before putting the cap on. If you do it this way you won’t get a depression in the middle of the container.
Label and enjoy!

Basic Lip Balm

4oz almond oil
1oz beeswax
1 capsule of vitamin E
Flavouring or essential oil of your choice

Combine almond oil and beeswax. Warm slowly until beeswax is melted. Remove from heat.
Pierce vitamin E capsule and squeeze into the mixture. Add a half teaspoon of flavouring or up to 5 drops of essential oil and mix. Pour into small jars or lip balm tubes and let harden.

Fit for sandles foot bath blend

100ml coconut oil
20 drops mandarin Australian essential oil
10 drops patchouli essential oil
10 drops peppermint Mitcham essential oil

Gently melt the coconut oil in a bowl over hot water. Add the essential oils, and pour into ice cube trays (small cubes are best). Leave to set in the fridge and then add one lock per footbath. Store the unused blocks in a jar in the fridge, as the low melting point of coconut oil could mean your blocks will melt back into a solid mass on hot days if stored in a cupboard.

Refreshing Scented Tissues

A pocket sized packet of tissues
A cotton wool ball
Citrus fresh essential oil blend

Place a few drops of citrus fresh essential oil blend on the cotton wool ball, and place it inside the packet of tissues. Seal (use a piece of sticky tape if you need to) and leave for 24 hours.
Remove the cotton wool and voila! You have scented tissues!

Citrus Zest Dishwashing Liquid

500ml ecol dishwashing liquid
25 drops lime cold pressed essential oil
15 drops bergamot calabrian essential oil
10 drops lemon cold pressed essential oil
5 drops orange Valencia essential oil

Combine the essential oil with the dishwashing liquid in plastic squeeze bottle and shake well to combine.
Recycle an old dishwashing liquid bottle.

Fresh and Lively Toilet Cleaner

250ml ecol dishwashing liquid
250ml distilled water
5ml rosemary Spanish essential oil
5ml lemongrass cochin essential oil

In a plastic bottle, combine the ecol dishwashing liquid with the essential oils and blend thoroughly. Add the distilled water and mix well. This works well in a spray bottle (no touching the toilet) or recycle an old toilet cleaner bottle.

Exotic Orient Room Spray

240ml lavender floral water
10ml essential oil solubiliser
2ml Japanese dragon soap and candle soluble fragrance oil
1ml jasmine fragrance oil

In a glass beaker combine the fragrance oils thoroughly with the solubiliser, and pour into the bottom of a 250ml spray bottle. Pour in the lavender floral water, cap the bottle and shake to combine.
Spray around the home for a pretty floral scent.
Caution! Keep away from painted or varnished surface.